Process & Methodology Statistics in the North East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Mentoring	6	Up 12 places+12	£45,497	-17.27%	199 10.83%	51
Continuous Improvement	8	Up 17 places+17	£60,000	+7.62%	171 9.31%	56
Cybersecurity	12	Up 35 places+35	£40,000	+5.44%	151 8.22%	43
Business Development	14	Up 25 places+25	£40,000	+14.28%	130 7.08%	32
Problem-Solving	15	Down -13 places-13	£48,472	+7.71%	128 6.97%	81
AI	17	Up 22 places+22	£55,000	-4.34%	121 6.59%	64
Decision-Making	18	Up 35 places+35	£57,500	-23.33%	119 6.48%	38
Project Management	19	Down -14 places-14	£42,417	-22.87%	116 6.31%	35
Agile	22	Down -12 places-12	£55,000	-	109 5.93%	69
DevOps	23	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	-15.38%	108 5.88%	60
Software Engineering	23	Down -10 places-10	£65,000	+18.18%	108 5.88%	37
Coaching	24	Down -8 places-8	£61,538	+28.20%	104 5.66%	25
Project Delivery	31	Up 22 places+22	£40,000	-13.51%	82 4.46%	18
Stakeholder Engagement	32	Up 28 places+28	£53,850	+27.83%	80 4.35%	23
Business Intelligence	33	Up 17 places+17	£48,000	-16.52%	79 4.30%	27
Analytics	36	Up 5 places+5	£40,000	-27.27%	75 4.08%	38
Roadmaps	37	Down -1 place-1	£63,076	-1.27%	74 4.03%	18
Customer Service	43	Down -16 places-16	£28,500	-10.93%	62 3.38%	36
CI/CD	44	Down -11 places-11	£55,100	-15.23%	61 3.32%	62
Customer Experience	45	Up 12 places+12	£40,000	-51.51%	59 3.21%	19
Full-Stack Development	46	Up 7 places+7	£60,000	+17.07%	58 3.16%	26
Change Management	49	Up 7 places+7	£41,500	-17.00%	51 2.78%	12
Process Improvement	50	Down -6 places-6	£60,000	+87.50%	50 2.72%	8
Community of Practice	50	Up 12 places+12	£67,710	+13.93%	50 2.72%	2
ITIL	51	Down -7 places-7	£48,445	+38.41%	49 2.67%	12
Actionable Insight	52	Up 9 places+9	£53,750	+5.39%	47 2.56%	9
Microservices	52	Down -1 place-1	£67,500	+35.00%	47 2.56%	18
Service Delivery	53	Down -5 places-5	£52,500	+0.96%	46 2.50%	12
Fintech	54	Down -2 places-2	£100,000	-	45 2.45%	16
Chemistry	55	Up 3 places+3	-	-	44 2.40%	1
Stakeholder Management	56	Down -14 places-14	£67,110	+34.21%	43 2.34%	18
Commercialisation	57	Down -40 places-40	-	-	42 2.29%
Ethical Hacking	57	New entry-	£30,500	-	42 2.29%	2
Data Analysis	57	Down -6 places-6	£48,897	-24.77%	42 2.29%	11
Business Analysis	58	Down -3 places-3	£40,000	-15.78%	41 2.23%	14
B2B	59	Up 1 place+1	£35,000	-30.00%	40 2.18%	28
Test Automation	60	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-6.78%	39 2.12%	37
CRM	63	Down -8 places-8	£36,000	-6.00%	35 1.91%	30
High Availability	66	Down -15 places-15	£47,500	-17.39%	32 1.74%	10
ERP	67	Down -16 places-16	£36,000	+4.34%	31 1.69%	12
User Experience	67	Down -23 places-23	£50,000	+4.16%	31 1.69%	17
Migration	67	Down -12 places-12	£70,000	+22.80%	31 1.69%	9
Logistics	68	Down -9 places-9	£30,500	-32.22%	30 1.63%	17
Infrastructure Engineering	69	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	+53.84%	29 1.58%	18
Infrastructure as Code	69	Down -18 places-18	£48,445	-15.00%	29 1.58%	37
Containerisation	70	Down -17 places-17	£48,445	-26.61%	28 1.52%	15
Root Cause Analysis	71	Down -25 places-25	£55,536	+11.07%	27 1.47%	13
Computer Science	72	Down -48 places-48	£60,000	+6.19%	26 1.42%	19
Validation	72	Down -13 places-13	£51,500	-9.25%	26 1.42%	16
Commercial Awareness	73	Down -11 places-11	£40,000	-	25 1.36%	10