Process & Methodology Statistics in the East Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	5	Up 52 places+52	£51,500	+44.05%	524 11.56%	83
Business Development	6	Up 98 places+98	£50,000	+36.98%	477 10.52%	84
AI	11	Up 21 places+21	£55,000	-12.00%	362 7.98%	82
Problem-Solving	13	Down -10 places-10	£35,000	-12.50%	350 7.72%	156
Mentoring	20	Down -16 places-16	£49,500	-17.50%	257 5.67%	70
Continuous Improvement	22	Up 17 places+17	£47,500	+18.75%	252 5.56%	124
Agile	23	No change0	£55,000	-8.33%	234 5.16%	109
Customer Service	26	Down -12 places-12	£28,500	+3.63%	222 4.90%	76
Business Intelligence	27	Up 45 places+45	£50,000	-	219 4.83%	55
Analytics	32	Up 29 places+29	£50,000	+3.09%	200 4.41%	92
User Experience	37	Up 55 places+55	£42,500	+21.42%	176 3.88%	17
CRM	38	Up 20 places+20	£42,500	-	175 3.86%	63
Software Engineering	40	Up 3 places+3	£65,000	+4.00%	169 3.73%	54
Machine Learning	48	Down -1 place-1	£52,500	-26.31%	146 3.22%	32
Web Development	53	Up 60 places+60	£35,000	-	132 2.91%	24
Process Improvement	54	Up 31 places+31	£34,500	-18.82%	131 2.89%	30
Service Delivery	56	Up 31 places+31	£42,500	-19.04%	127 2.80%	30
DevOps	58	Down -4 places-4	£70,000	+7.69%	124 2.73%	50
Full-Stack Development	60	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	+15.78%	122 2.69%	47
Decision-Making	62	Down -2 places-2	£53,325	+12.26%	118 2.60%	97
Roadmaps	63	Up 2 places+2	£75,500	+16.60%	116 2.56%	56
Logistics	64	Up 12 places+12	£50,000	+11.11%	115 2.54%	43
ERP	66	Up 5 places+5	£55,500	+23.33%	113 2.49%	50
B2B	67	Up 24 places+24	£37,500	+25.00%	110 2.43%	43
ITIL	68	Down -19 places-19	£42,500	+21.42%	104 2.29%	24
Ethical Hacking	71	New entry-	£41,779	-	98 2.16%	6
CI/CD	77	Down -1 place-1	£67,500	+3.84%	91 2.01%	57
Stakeholder Management	81	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-8.33%	85 1.87%	53
ITSM	82	Down -20 places-20	£32,500	+12.06%	83 1.83%	11
Project Delivery	85	Up 1 place+1	£55,000	+3.28%	77 1.70%	32
E-Commerce	86	Up 2 places+2	£45,000	+16.12%	76 1.68%	19
Collaborative Working	88	Down -6 places-6	£42,500	-10.52%	73 1.61%	34
Stakeholder Engagement	89	Up 33 places+33	£60,000	-	72 1.59%	32
Test Automation	90	Down -30 places-30	£61,250	+25.64%	70 1.54%	21
Coaching	91	Down -81 places-81	£38,500	-9.41%	69 1.52%	45
Service Management	96	Up 7 places+7	£35,000	+9.37%	63 1.39%	7
Infrastructure Engineering	97	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	-14.28%	62 1.37%	16
Project Management	98	Down -58 places-58	£55,000	+29.41%	61 1.35%	60
Customer Experience	99	Down -35 places-35	£50,750	+70.58%	60 1.32%	40
Root Cause Analysis	103	Down -1 place-1	£42,500	+13.33%	56 1.24%	20
Validation	105	Down -93 places-93	£30,000	-41.17%	53 1.17%	38
Risk Management	107	Down -10 places-10	£65,000	-13.33%	51 1.12%	24
Computer Science	107	Down -37 places-37	£28,750	-30.61%	51 1.12%	33
Collaborative Culture	108	Up 6 places+6	£47,500	+8.57%	49 1.08%	27
Information Security	110	Down -2 places-2	£45,000	-10.00%	47 1.04%	11
Incident Management	111	Down -20 places-20	£28,500	+14.00%	46 1.01%	9
Actionable Insight	111	Up 5 places+5	£51,500	+35.52%	46 1.01%	23
Infrastructure as Code	113	Up 6 places+6	£67,750	+4.23%	44 0.97%	15
Data Science	113	Up 1 place+1	£65,000	-13.33%	44 0.97%	36
Time Management	114	Down -31 places-31	£27,500	-37.14%	43 0.95%	14