Process & Methodology Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	5	Up 21 places+21	£85,000	-8.10%	2,418 11.75%	1,919
Agile	8	Down -5 places-5	£80,000	-5.88%	2,215 10.76%	911
Problem-Solving	12	Down -6 places-6	£70,000	+7.69%	1,892 9.19%	999
Software Engineering	14	Up 5 places+5	£95,000	-5.00%	1,821 8.85%	723
Analytics	15	No change0	£80,000	-3.03%	1,774 8.62%	1,070
Roadmaps	18	Up 2 places+2	£90,000	-	1,512 7.35%	821
CI/CD	20	Down -2 places-2	£85,000	-	1,474 7.16%	689
Business Development	21	Up 44 places+44	£60,000	-20.00%	1,467 7.13%	580
Continuous Improvement	23	Up 12 places+12	£79,000	+12.85%	1,449 7.04%	641
Cybersecurity	24	Up 16 places+16	£70,000	-6.66%	1,440 7.00%	477
DevOps	25	Down -9 places-9	£82,500	-	1,392 6.76%	546
Mentoring	28	Down -1 place-1	£80,000	+3.22%	1,300 6.32%	654
Decision-Making	29	Down -8 places-8	£75,000	-	1,233 5.99%	998
Stakeholder Management	32	Up 2 places+2	£82,500	-	1,168 5.68%	836
Machine Learning	39	Up 31 places+31	£85,000	-2.85%	862 4.19%	665
Full-Stack Development	43	Up 40 places+40	£85,000	+6.25%	815 3.96%	352
Business Intelligence	44	Down -7 places-7	£72,500	-	808 3.93%	421
Computer Science	45	Down -4 places-4	£80,000	+6.66%	807 3.92%	379
Fintech	47	Up 14 places+14	£100,000	+5.26%	801 3.89%	513
Infrastructure as Code	52	Up 37 places+37	£87,500	-2.77%	768 3.73%	264
Stakeholder Engagement	56	Up 88 places+88	£80,000	+3.22%	717 3.48%	414
Microservices	57	Up 5 places+5	£85,000	-	709 3.45%	241
User Experience	59	No change0	£70,000	-	694 3.37%	361
Project Management	61	Down -30 places-30	£70,000	-	671 3.26%	403
Coaching	62	Up 18 places+18	£77,500	+6.89%	653 3.17%	342
Risk Management	63	Down -38 places-38	£90,000	+2.85%	640 3.11%	293
Data Modelling	64	Up 32 places+32	£80,000	+6.66%	635 3.09%	369
Test Automation	66	Up 36 places+36	£80,000	+14.28%	630 3.06%	216
Migration	67	Down -12 places-12	£80,000	-5.88%	627 3.05%	331
CRM	71	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	-	614 2.98%	545
ITIL	74	Down -17 places-17	£67,500	+12.50%	600 2.92%	158
Data Engineering	76	Up 45 places+45	£85,000	-12.82%	582 2.83%	236
Technical Leadership	78	Up 93 places+93	£87,500	-7.89%	571 2.77%	251
Information Security	80	Up 23 places+23	£85,000	+13.33%	552 2.68%	129
Data Governance	81	Up 16 places+16	£82,500	-17.50%	550 2.67%	240
Data Science	83	Up 1 place+1	£80,000	-3.03%	536 2.60%	452
B2B	85	Up 55 places+55	£60,000	-7.69%	531 2.58%	558
Business Strategy	88	Down -38 places-38	£93,500	+3.88%	511 2.48%	200
ERP	88	Up 68 places+68	£77,500	+19.23%	511 2.48%	210
Process Improvement	90	Up 34 places+34	£70,000	-4.60%	505 2.45%	186
Project Delivery	90	Down -2 places-2	£73,000	-5.80%	505 2.45%	306
Collaborative Culture	94	Up 14 places+14	£75,000	-3.22%	490 2.38%	283
Incident Response	95	Up 58 places+58	£86,000	+18.62%	481 2.34%	149
Data Pipeline	96	Up 64 places+64	£80,000	-5.88%	472 2.29%	277
Change Management	97	Down -4 places-4	£75,000	+7.14%	463 2.25%	232
Containerisation	98	Down -11 places-11	£82,500	-8.33%	462 2.25%	190
Workflow	103	Up 51 places+51	£75,000	+15.38%	427 2.08%	385
Observability	106	Up 156 places+156	£87,500	+6.06%	413 2.01%	261
Customer Experience	107	Up 52 places+52	£70,000	+7.69%	410 1.99%	301
Data Architecture	108	Up 93 places+93	£87,500	-12.50%	408 1.98%	156