Process & Methodology Statistics in the East Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	5	Up 40 places+40	£51,524	+44.11%	548 12.04%	114
Business Development	6	Up 89 places+89	£50,000	+23.45%	475 10.44%	94
AI	8	Up 34 places+34	£52,500	-16.00%	387 8.50%	128
Problem-Solving	14	Down -9 places-9	£35,000	-9.09%	352 7.73%	172
Mentoring	22	Down -19 places-19	£50,000	-16.66%	264 5.80%	77
Continuous Improvement	23	Up 9 places+9	£47,500	+18.75%	252 5.54%	127
Agile	24	Down -4 places-4	£55,000	-8.33%	229 5.03%	108
Customer Service	27	Down -13 places-13	£28,500	+3.63%	222 4.88%	80
Business Intelligence	28	Up 33 places+33	£47,500	-3.55%	221 4.86%	63
User Experience	32	Up 49 places+49	£45,000	+28.57%	204 4.48%	51
Analytics	33	Up 19 places+19	£50,000	+3.09%	203 4.46%	109
Machine Learning	40	Up 49 places+49	£62,500	-10.71%	176 3.87%	66
CRM	41	Up 11 places+11	£42,500	-	173 3.80%	69
Software Engineering	42	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	+4.00%	171 3.76%	65
Web Development	45	Up 58 places+58	£35,000	-	165 3.63%	51
Process Improvement	60	Up 11 places+11	£32,500	-23.52%	128 2.81%	33
Service Delivery	61	Up 14 places+14	£42,500	-18.66%	127 2.79%	37
DevOps	65	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+7.69%	120 2.64%	54
Roadmaps	67	Down -10 places-10	£75,500	+16.60%	117 2.57%	61
Logistics	69	Down -6 places-6	£50,000	+11.11%	114 2.50%	58
Full-Stack Development	69	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	+15.78%	114 2.50%	45
Decision-Making	70	Down -19 places-19	£54,575	+14.89%	113 2.48%	90
ITIL	71	Down -33 places-33	£42,500	+21.42%	112 2.46%	23
ERP	71	Down -8 places-8	£55,500	+23.33%	112 2.46%	50
B2B	74	Up 13 places+13	£37,500	+21.95%	107 2.35%	47
Ethical Hacking	77	New entry-	£41,779	-	98 2.15%	6
Stakeholder Management	85	Down -23 places-23	£56,250	-6.25%	88 1.93%	54
ITSM	87	Down -34 places-34	£32,500	+12.06%	86 1.89%	18
CI/CD	88	Down -22 places-22	£67,500	+3.84%	85 1.87%	64
E-Commerce	91	Down -8 places-8	£55,000	+46.66%	78 1.71%	24
Project Delivery	92	Down -19 places-19	£55,000	+4.76%	77 1.69%	37
Coaching	94	Down -83 places-83	£38,500	-9.41%	74 1.63%	51
Collaborative Working	94	Down -19 places-19	£42,500	-12.82%	74 1.63%	32
Stakeholder Engagement	95	Up 18 places+18	£60,000	-	70 1.54%	32
Test Automation	96	Down -46 places-46	£60,000	+20.00%	69 1.52%	23
Service Management	101	Down -6 places-6	£35,000	+9.37%	64 1.41%	10
Project Management	104	Down -73 places-73	£55,000	+22.22%	61 1.34%	72
Infrastructure Engineering	104	No change0	£45,000	-14.28%	61 1.34%	13
Customer Experience	105	Down -54 places-54	£50,750	+56.15%	60 1.32%	45
Root Cause Analysis	109	Down -16 places-16	£42,500	+13.33%	56 1.23%	17
Risk Management	110	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-13.33%	55 1.21%	26
Validation	114	Down -102 places-102	£30,000	-41.17%	51 1.12%	38
Collaborative Culture	116	Down -10 places-10	£47,500	+8.57%	49 1.08%	24
Information Security	116	Down -16 places-16	£45,000	-10.00%	49 1.08%	23
Computer Science	117	Down -70 places-70	£27,875	-30.94%	48 1.05%	43
Incident Management	118	Down -36 places-36	£28,500	+14.00%	47 1.03%	11
Infrastructure as Code	120	Down -7 places-7	£67,750	+4.23%	45 0.99%	13
Data Science	120	Down -16 places-16	£53,945	-25.59%	45 0.99%	38
Actionable Insight	120	Down -13 places-13	£51,279	+34.94%	45 0.99%	25
Time Management	123	Down -50 places-50	£27,500	-38.88%	42 0.92%	14