Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 39 places+39	£45,000	-18.18%	2,035 20.37%	372
AI	3	Up 40 places+40	£65,000	-13.33%	1,981 19.83%	490
User Experience	6	Up 60 places+60	£56,100	+2.00%	1,654 16.56%	320
Machine Learning	8	Up 129 places+129	£65,000	-18.75%	1,562 15.64%	329
Web Development	10	Up 137 places+137	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 15.31%	252
Problem-Solving	22	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	-11.16%	670 6.71%	324
Business Development	23	Up 81 places+81	£50,000	+25.00%	656 6.57%	149
Agile	25	Down -22 places-22	£62,500	-3.84%	559 5.60%	254
Software Engineering	26	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+7.69%	550 5.51%	149
Mentoring	27	Up 10 places+10	£53,750	-17.30%	548 5.49%	200
Continuous Improvement	32	Up 8 places+8	£55,000	-2.65%	478 4.79%	239
Analytics	37	Down -1 place-1	£60,000	+9.09%	383 3.83%	222
Decision-Making	42	Up 11 places+11	£52,500	-12.50%	354 3.54%	211
Stakeholder Management	44	Up 8 places+8	£57,500	-11.53%	348 3.48%	117
Customer Service	45	No change0	£32,000	-2.06%	347 3.47%	108
DevOps	46	Down -8 places-8	£70,000	+0.88%	343 3.43%	183
Business Intelligence	51	Up 3 places+3	£47,000	-10.47%	301 3.01%	124
CI/CD	52	Down -2 places-2	£70,000	-	294 2.94%	185
Project Management	59	Down -20 places-20	£45,250	-17.41%	254 2.54%	114
Coaching	61	Down -13 places-13	£62,498	+14.06%	251 2.51%	85
CRM	63	Up 30 places+30	£40,000	-13.51%	247 2.47%	140
Roadmaps	65	Down -18 places-18	£73,500	+1.37%	231 2.31%	109
Full-Stack Development	70	Up 30 places+30	£70,000	+14.28%	206 2.06%	73
B2B	74	Up 93 places+93	£40,000	-20.00%	202 2.02%	114
ITIL	77	Down -19 places-19	£45,000	-	193 1.93%	53
Service Delivery	80	Down -45 places-45	£42,500	-15.00%	183 1.83%	59
Stakeholder Engagement	82	Up 63 places+63	£62,500	+21.95%	177 1.77%	82
Infrastructure Engineering	87	Down -2 places-2	£50,000	-	163 1.63%	45
Project Delivery	89	Down -32 places-32	£56,250	+2.27%	161 1.61%	78
ERP	90	Down -13 places-13	£55,000	+9.10%	159 1.59%	82
Scrum	96	Down -10 places-10	£67,500	-	142 1.42%	51
Collaborative Working	96	No change0	£51,772	+3.54%	142 1.42%	60
Infrastructure as Code	98	Up 7 places+7	£72,500	-	135 1.35%	87
Logistics	100	Up 63 places+63	£50,000	-4.76%	133 1.33%	51
Validation	103	Up 31 places+31	£59,000	+23.73%	129 1.29%	62
Process Improvement	107	Down -35 places-35	£45,497	-3.19%	125 1.25%	54
Microservices	108	Down -35 places-35	£70,000	-3.44%	124 1.24%	72
Customer Experience	116	Down -21 places-21	£36,000	-28.00%	115 1.15%	58
Migration	118	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	+4.34%	113 1.13%	86
Fintech	119	Up 20 places+20	£75,000	+11.11%	110 1.10%	34
Data Governance	119	Up 49 places+49	£54,500	-12.00%	110 1.10%	54
Data Analysis	120	Down -25 places-25	£42,500	+2.68%	109 1.09%	58
Change Management	121	Down -8 places-8	£42,500	-22.72%	108 1.08%	49
Test Automation	124	Down -11 places-11	£61,500	+11.81%	105 1.05%	58
Collaborative Culture	125	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+18.18%	104 1.04%	84
Business Analysis	126	Up 1 place+1	£40,000	-27.27%	103 1.03%	34
Systems Engineering	127	Down -45 places-45	£48,000	-4.10%	102 1.02%	11
Workflow	129	Up 12 places+12	£45,000	-35.71%	100 1.00%	54
TDD	132	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	+7.69%	96 0.96%	49
E-Commerce	132	Down -17 places-17	£40,000	-15.78%	96 0.96%	48