Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 34 places+34	£50,000	-9.09%	2,051 19.53%	368
AI	3	Up 48 places+48	£70,000	-5.08%	2,008 19.12%	476
User Experience	6	Up 48 places+48	£57,500	+4.54%	1,662 15.83%	281
Machine Learning	8	Up 95 places+95	£65,000	-17.19%	1,567 14.92%	306
Web Development	10	Up 143 places+143	£40,000	+23.07%	1,530 14.57%	237
Business Development	23	Up 82 places+82	£50,000	+25.00%	732 6.97%	205
Problem-Solving	24	Down -16 places-16	£44,000	-8.02%	665 6.33%	353
Software Engineering	26	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	+4.41%	588 5.60%	160
Agile	27	Down -24 places-24	£63,076	-2.96%	560 5.33%	250
Mentoring	28	Up 9 places+9	£55,000	-15.38%	545 5.19%	197
Continuous Improvement	35	Up 10 places+10	£55,000	-4.34%	492 4.68%	222
Analytics	38	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	+9.09%	418 3.98%	202
DevOps	41	Up 1 place+1	£70,200	+1.17%	376 3.58%	149
Decision-Making	44	Up 14 places+14	£53,250	-11.25%	363 3.46%	212
Stakeholder Management	46	Up 8 places+8	£57,500	-10.01%	348 3.31%	147
Customer Service	48	Up 4 places+4	£32,000	-1.53%	339 3.23%	126
CI/CD	53	Down -5 places-5	£70,000	-	306 2.91%	153
Business Intelligence	55	Up 2 places+2	£47,000	-10.47%	296 2.82%	146
CRM	60	Up 31 places+31	£40,000	-5.88%	261 2.49%	145
Roadmaps	63	Down -9 places-9	£73,500	+1.37%	244 2.32%	117
Project Management	64	Down -18 places-18	£47,500	-12.67%	241 2.29%	139
Coaching	65	Down -14 places-14	£62,500	+14.06%	239 2.28%	97
Full-Stack Development	66	Up 24 places+24	£67,500	+12.50%	232 2.21%	97
B2B	69	Up 99 places+99	£41,000	-18.00%	215 2.05%	132
ITIL	78	Down -16 places-16	£45,497	-4.21%	194 1.85%	54
Stakeholder Engagement	80	Up 66 places+66	£62,500	+25.00%	191 1.82%	78
Service Delivery	82	Down -35 places-35	£40,000	-20.00%	184 1.75%	59
Infrastructure Engineering	88	Up 4 places+4	£50,000	-	165 1.57%	43
Project Delivery	89	Down -26 places-26	£55,000	-	164 1.56%	83
ERP	90	Down -12 places-12	£55,000	+10.00%	162 1.54%	80
Logistics	92	Up 73 places+73	£53,757	+2.39%	157 1.50%	49
Collaborative Working	97	No change0	£51,772	+3.54%	147 1.40%	61
Scrum	97	Down -26 places-26	£67,500	-	147 1.40%	42
Infrastructure as Code	98	Up 12 places+12	£74,651	+2.96%	145 1.38%	71
Microservices	100	Down -44 places-44	£70,000	-3.44%	142 1.35%	64
Validation	104	Up 27 places+27	£58,000	+21.63%	135 1.29%	72
Migration	110	Down -23 places-23	£60,000	+9.09%	121 1.15%	79
Fintech	115	Up 25 places+25	£72,500	+7.40%	116 1.10%	39
Customer Experience	117	Down -18 places-18	£37,440	-25.12%	114 1.09%	65
E-Commerce	118	Up 3 places+3	£45,000	-7.69%	112 1.07%	60
Data Governance	119	Up 52 places+52	£55,000	-4.34%	111 1.06%	48
Process Improvement	120	Down -41 places-41	£45,497	-3.19%	110 1.05%	47
Workflow	120	Up 27 places+27	£45,000	-34.54%	110 1.05%	52
Test Automation	123	Down -25 places-25	£60,750	+10.45%	107 1.02%	64
Collaborative Culture	124	Up 5 places+5	£65,000	+30.00%	106 1.01%	67
Data Science	125	Up 34 places+34	£70,466	+17.44%	104 0.99%	67
Change Management	126	Down -10 places-10	£45,000	-18.18%	103 0.98%	45
TDD	127	Down -21 places-21	£67,500	+3.84%	102 0.97%	34
Data Analysis	127	Down -27 places-27	£42,500	+2.68%	102 0.97%	67
Data Engineering	128	Down -14 places-14	£90,000	+33.33%	100 0.95%	48