Process & Methodology Statistics in the East Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	5	Up 37 places+37	£50,000	+36.97%	538 11.99%	103
Business Development	6	Up 86 places+86	£50,000	+23.45%	461 10.27%	94
AI	8	Up 35 places+35	£52,500	-16.00%	385 8.58%	141
Problem-Solving	12	Down -7 places-7	£35,000	-9.09%	350 7.80%	173
Mentoring	21	Down -17 places-17	£48,875	-18.54%	269 5.99%	82
Continuous Improvement	23	Up 9 places+9	£47,500	+18.75%	246 5.48%	138
Agile	26	Down -3 places-3	£55,000	-8.33%	226 5.04%	107
Customer Service	28	Down -14 places-14	£28,500	+3.63%	221 4.92%	82
Business Intelligence	29	Up 29 places+29	£46,445	-3.23%	220 4.90%	68
User Experience	33	Up 46 places+46	£45,000	+28.57%	204 4.55%	62
Analytics	35	Up 12 places+12	£50,000	+3.09%	198 4.41%	112
Machine Learning	42	Up 43 places+43	£57,500	-19.29%	174 3.88%	67
Software Engineering	43	Down -6 places-6	£62,500	-	171 3.81%	66
CRM	45	Up 2 places+2	£42,500	-	168 3.74%	72
Web Development	48	Up 52 places+52	£35,000	-	164 3.65%	38
Process Improvement	64	Up 5 places+5	£32,500	-23.52%	127 2.83%	32
Service Delivery	65	Up 8 places+8	£42,500	-19.04%	126 2.81%	36
Roadmaps	67	Down -13 places-13	£75,000	+15.83%	119 2.65%	65
DevOps	69	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	+7.69%	116 2.58%	53
ITIL	70	Down -34 places-34	£41,250	+17.85%	115 2.56%	38
Logistics	71	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	+11.11%	114 2.54%	67
Full-Stack Development	72	Down -10 places-10	£55,000	+15.78%	113 2.52%	34
ERP	74	Down -14 places-14	£56,000	+24.44%	109 2.43%	76
Decision-Making	76	Down -30 places-30	£54,150	+14.00%	107 2.38%	103
B2B	77	Up 7 places+7	£42,500	+38.21%	105 2.34%	47
Ethical Hacking	79	New entry-	£41,779	-	98 2.18%	1
Stakeholder Management	83	Down -25 places-25	£57,500	-4.16%	90 2.01%	50
ITSM	86	Down -37 places-37	£32,500	+10.16%	86 1.92%	21
CI/CD	89	Down -12 places-12	£67,500	+3.84%	83 1.85%	66
E-Commerce	91	Down -11 places-11	£45,000	+20.00%	81 1.80%	25
Project Delivery	92	Down -20 places-20	£55,000	+7.31%	79 1.76%	36
Coaching	93	Down -82 places-82	£38,500	-9.41%	78 1.74%	54
Collaborative Working	96	Down -23 places-23	£42,500	-15.00%	72 1.60%	32
Test Automation	97	Down -39 places-39	£60,000	+20.00%	69 1.54%	24
Stakeholder Engagement	98	Up 12 places+12	£60,000	-	68 1.52%	51
Service Management	103	Down -12 places-12	£35,000	+10.23%	63 1.40%	13
Infrastructure Engineering	105	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	-14.28%	61 1.36%	18
Customer Experience	107	Down -60 places-60	£49,000	+50.76%	59 1.31%	49
Project Management	108	Down -78 places-78	£55,000	+22.22%	58 1.29%	62
Risk Management	109	Down -22 places-22	£64,359	-14.18%	57 1.27%	26
Root Cause Analysis	109	Down -20 places-20	£35,000	-7.89%	57 1.27%	18
Validation	116	Down -104 places-104	£30,000	-41.17%	50 1.11%	38
Information Security	117	Down -21 places-21	£45,000	-10.00%	49 1.09%	16
Computer Science	118	Down -74 places-74	£27,875	-32.72%	48 1.07%	41
Incident Management	119	Down -40 places-40	£28,500	+14.00%	47 1.05%	11
Collaborative Culture	119	Down -16 places-16	£47,500	+8.57%	47 1.05%	22
Infrastructure as Code	121	Down -11 places-11	£67,500	+3.84%	44 0.98%	18
Data Science	121	Down -21 places-21	£53,945	-28.07%	44 0.98%	35
Actionable Insight	122	Down -18 places-18	£51,058	+34.36%	43 0.96%	32
Presales	123	Down -19 places-19	£70,000	+7.69%	42 0.94%	15