Process & Methodology Statistics in Edinburgh

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	5	Up 7 places+7	£100,000	+33.18%	138 11.63%	324
Software Engineering	6	Up 28 places+28	£70,000	+37.25%	125 10.53%	182
Problem-Solving	12	Up 3 places+3	£36,000	+13.38%	88 7.41%	191
Continuous Improvement	13	Down -2 places-2	£63,451	+32.18%	80 6.74%	166
Business Development	14	Up 40 places+40	£40,000	-8.57%	76 6.40%	54
Decision-Making	16	Up 16 places+16	£70,000	+21.73%	71 5.98%	113
Agile	17	Down -13 places-13	£47,500	-20.83%	69 5.81%	164
Cybersecurity	20	Up 19 places+19	£74,830	+36.41%	61 5.14%	67
Coaching	23	Down -21 places-21	£45,000	+36.98%	56 4.72%	115
Customer Service	25	Down -18 places-18	£32,500	-1.06%	54 4.55%	33
Mentoring	27	Down -10 places-10	£57,750	+89.34%	52 4.38%	147
DevOps	31	Down -23 places-23	£60,000	-5.88%	42 3.54%	81
Stakeholder Management	32	Down -10 places-10	£90,000	+33.23%	39 3.29%	93
Collaborative Culture	33	Up 28 places+28	£77,500	-22.50%	38 3.20%	50
Validation	35	Up 23 places+23	£70,000	+16.66%	36 3.03%	93
Analytics	37	Down -17 places-17	£96,250	+60.41%	34 2.86%	126
Roadmaps	38	Down -22 places-22	£100,000	+31.31%	33 2.78%	116
Stakeholder Engagement	40	Up 28 places+28	£74,654	+20.16%	31 2.61%	57
Data Analysis	41	Up 21 places+21	£65,000	+62.50%	30 2.53%	28
CI/CD	41	Down -18 places-18	£95,000	+35.71%	30 2.53%	131
Collaborative Working	41	Up 13 places+13	£28,500	+9.61%	30 2.53%	56
Verification and Validation	42	New entry-	£70,000	-	29 2.44%	19
Ethical Hacking	45	Up 32 places+32	£65,000	+113.11%	26 2.19%	1
Risk Management	45	Down -4 places-4	£84,465	+53.57%	26 2.19%	48
Data Transformation	46	Up 31 places+31	£65,000	-23.52%	25 2.11%	19
Full-Stack Development	46	Up 26 places+26	£60,000	-11.11%	25 2.11%	47
Machine Learning	46	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	-16.40%	25 2.11%	60
Line Management	47	Up 27 places+27	£55,000	+80.32%	24 2.02%	29
Information Security	47	Up 4 places+4	£110,000	+90.66%	24 2.02%	26
Technical Leadership	48	Up 22 places+22	£90,000	+16.12%	23 1.94%	76
Configuration Management	51	Up 13 places+13	-	-	20 1.68%	26
Digital Transformation Programme	51	New entry-	£70,000	-	20 1.68%	25
Infrastructure Engineering	51	Up 11 places+11	£50,000	-7.40%	20 1.68%	25
Systems Engineering	52	Up 23 places+23	-	-	19 1.60%	24
Presales	53	Up 25 places+25	£72,500	-	18 1.52%	26
Business Intelligence	53	Down -20 places-20	£78,750	+65.78%	18 1.52%	45
Infrastructure as Code	54	Down -18 places-18	£77,500	+10.71%	17 1.43%	58
Security Operations	54	New entry-	£90,000	-	17 1.43%	9
Data Architecture	54	Up 1 place+1	£75,000	+23.01%	17 1.43%	36
LLM	54	New entry-	£100,000	-	17 1.43%	49
Data Governance	54	Down -4 places-4	£85,000	+56.13%	17 1.43%	41
Commercial Awareness	54	Up 18 places+18	£32,500	-	17 1.43%	10
Project Delivery	55	Up 4 places+4	£45,000	-30.76%	16 1.35%	43
Platform Engineering	56	Up 13 places+13	£100,000	+5.26%	15 1.26%	44
Data Engineering	57	Up 2 places+2	£75,000	-21.05%	14 1.18%	34
CRM	57	Up 17 places+17	£76,250	+79.41%	14 1.18%	44
Data Science	57	Up 7 places+7	£100,000	+18.52%	14 1.18%	33
Site Reliability Engineering	57	Up 7 places+7	£80,000	+11.26%	14 1.18%	11
Observability	58	Down -21 places-21	£93,750	+33.92%	13 1.10%	53
Generative AI	58	Up 21 places+21	£65,000	-	13 1.10%	38