Process & Methodology Statistics in the East Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	2	Up 59 places+59	£50,000	-	805 13.49%	92
Problem-Solving	11	Down -9 places-9	£41,000	+17.14%	528 8.85%	237
Cybersecurity	12	Up 38 places+38	£55,000	+57.14%	510 8.55%	98
Continuous Improvement	14	Up 18 places+18	£55,000	+37.50%	431 7.22%	201
Customer Service	19	Down -3 places-3	£28,500	+3.63%	297 4.98%	136
Software Engineering	20	Up 35 places+35	£55,000	-15.38%	290 4.86%	62
Agile	21	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	-	283 4.74%	82
AI	22	Down -17 places-17	£52,500	-19.23%	276 4.62%	64
Analytics	23	Up 39 places+39	£60,000	+23.71%	271 4.54%	58
Mentoring	24	Down -17 places-17	£44,472	+11.18%	269 4.51%	82
ERP	30	Up 22 places+22	£50,000	+25.00%	232 3.89%	78
Decision-Making	31	Up 35 places+35	£58,015	+45.33%	217 3.64%	106
CRM	32	Up 13 places+13	£40,000	+12.67%	214 3.59%	85
Business Intelligence	36	Up 29 places+29	£50,000	+11.11%	203 3.40%	59
Roadmaps	39	Up 31 places+31	£67,500	+6.29%	197 3.30%	55
Logistics	46	Up 23 places+23	£40,000	+0.60%	172 2.88%	88
DevOps	49	Up 5 places+5	£64,000	+11.30%	166 2.78%	46
Stakeholder Management	51	Up 24 places+24	£57,500	-4.16%	158 2.65%	104
Service Delivery	55	Up 48 places+48	£45,000	+5.88%	141 2.36%	46
Project Delivery	57	Up 42 places+42	£40,500	-32.10%	138 2.31%	58
Full-Stack Development	57	Up 26 places+26	£55,000	+15.78%	138 2.31%	34
ITIL	63	No change0	£50,000	+42.85%	128 2.14%	33
Stakeholder Engagement	64	Up 61 places+61	£58,500	-2.50%	127 2.13%	36
CI/CD	66	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	-7.69%	124 2.08%	26
Infrastructure Engineering	68	Up 40 places+40	£46,500	+32.85%	119 1.99%	15
B2B	69	Up 43 places+43	£35,000	+20.68%	118 1.98%	44
Customer Experience	69	Up 36 places+36	£42,500	+21.42%	118 1.98%	30
Collaborative Working	70	Up 22 places+22	£32,500	-23.52%	116 1.94%	58
E-Commerce	72	Up 37 places+37	£45,000	-5.26%	114 1.91%	24
Process Improvement	73	Up 41 places+41	£45,000	+12.50%	113 1.89%	34
Project Management	74	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	+10.00%	111 1.86%	77
Coaching	76	Down -61 places-61	£52,500	+23.52%	107 1.79%	37
Computer Science	83	No change0	£35,440	-5.49%	98 1.64%	42
Collaborative Culture	84	Up 41 places+41	£61,500	+29.47%	97 1.63%	21
Validation	86	Down -66 places-66	£45,675	+7.47%	91 1.52%	58
Test Automation	87	Down -16 places-16	£57,500	-	89 1.49%	25
Actionable Insight	89	Up 45 places+45	£60,000	+50.15%	87 1.46%	17
Commercial Awareness	91	Up 52 places+52	£45,000	+5.88%	84 1.41%	46
Data Science	97	Up 25 places+25	£70,000	+19.14%	78 1.31%	27
Technical Leadership	98	Up 35 places+35	£67,250	-2.53%	77 1.29%	42
Risk Management	99	Down -5 places-5	£61,250	+0.40%	76 1.27%	23
Line Management	101	Down -11 places-11	£44,472	-31.58%	74 1.24%	34
User Experience	101	Up 15 places+15	£42,500	+15.64%	74 1.24%	15
Ethical Hacking	102	Up 47 places+47	£32,500	-56.66%	73 1.22%	15
Machine Learning	103	Down -84 places-84	£51,250	-21.15%	72 1.21%	26
Service Management	107	Up 13 places+13	£35,000	+22.80%	66 1.11%	24
ITSM	111	Down -18 places-18	£35,000	+22.80%	62 1.04%	9
Security Operations	116	Up 30 places+30	£65,000	+6.33%	57 0.96%	14
Infrastructure as Code	116	Up 16 places+16	£67,500	+3.84%	57 0.96%	13
Root Cause Analysis	116	Down -15 places-15	£55,825	+86.08%	57 0.96%	27