Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 40 places+40	£45,000	-18.18%	2,034 20.41%	383
AI	3	Up 42 places+42	£65,000	-11.86%	1,980 19.87%	508
User Experience	6	Up 61 places+61	£55,550	+1.00%	1,653 16.59%	330
Machine Learning	8	Up 123 places+123	£65,000	-18.75%	1,561 15.66%	339
Web Development	10	Up 131 places+131	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 15.34%	262
Problem-Solving	22	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	-10.86%	668 6.70%	323
Business Development	23	Up 77 places+77	£50,000	+25.00%	658 6.60%	144
Agile	25	Down -22 places-22	£62,500	-3.84%	560 5.62%	264
Software Engineering	26	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+7.69%	553 5.55%	155
Mentoring	27	Up 12 places+12	£55,000	-15.38%	549 5.51%	195
Continuous Improvement	32	Up 11 places+11	£55,126	-1.56%	471 4.73%	241
Analytics	36	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	+9.09%	379 3.80%	233
Decision-Making	42	Up 12 places+12	£52,500	-12.50%	349 3.50%	220
Customer Service	43	Up 4 places+4	£32,000	-2.06%	347 3.48%	107
Stakeholder Management	45	Up 8 places+8	£58,000	-10.76%	342 3.43%	125
DevOps	46	Down -6 places-6	£70,000	+0.88%	338 3.39%	181
Business Intelligence	50	Up 5 places+5	£47,000	-10.47%	298 2.99%	122
CI/CD	51	No change0	£70,000	-	292 2.93%	183
Project Management	57	Down -16 places-16	£45,000	-17.87%	255 2.56%	115
Coaching	60	Down -12 places-12	£62,498	+14.06%	249 2.50%	94
CRM	61	Up 31 places+31	£40,000	-13.51%	246 2.47%	137
Roadmaps	63	Down -13 places-13	£73,500	+1.37%	229 2.30%	116
Full-Stack Development	68	Up 29 places+29	£70,000	+12.00%	208 2.09%	65
B2B	70	Up 90 places+90	£41,000	-21.90%	205 2.06%	118
ITIL	76	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	-	192 1.93%	51
Service Delivery	79	Down -42 places-42	£42,500	-15.00%	185 1.86%	60
Stakeholder Engagement	81	Up 61 places+61	£62,500	+19.04%	179 1.80%	85
Infrastructure Engineering	88	Down -4 places-4	£50,000	-	162 1.63%	45
Project Delivery	89	Down -31 places-31	£56,250	+2.27%	161 1.62%	84
ERP	92	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	+10.00%	158 1.59%	82
Scrum	100	Down -16 places-16	£67,500	-	141 1.42%	53
Collaborative Working	101	Down -7 places-7	£50,886	+1.77%	140 1.40%	63
Infrastructure as Code	104	Down -3 places-3	£73,151	+0.89%	134 1.34%	84
Logistics	105	Up 53 places+53	£50,000	-4.76%	131 1.31%	53
Validation	106	Up 23 places+23	£59,000	+23.73%	129 1.29%	59
Process Improvement	109	Down -36 places-36	£45,497	-3.19%	125 1.25%	53
Microservices	111	Down -38 places-38	£70,000	-3.44%	123 1.23%	71
Customer Experience	117	Down -23 places-23	£36,000	-28.00%	116 1.16%	55
Migration	119	Down -28 places-28	£60,000	+9.09%	111 1.11%	89
Data Governance	120	Up 42 places+42	£55,000	-11.19%	110 1.10%	56
Change Management	121	Down -11 places-11	£42,500	-22.72%	108 1.08%	48
Fintech	121	Up 14 places+14	£77,500	+19.23%	108 1.08%	35
Collaborative Culture	122	Down -1 place-1	£65,000	+18.18%	106 1.06%	80
Data Analysis	122	Down -29 places-29	£42,500	+2.68%	106 1.06%	59
Business Analysis	125	Down -4 places-4	£40,000	-27.27%	103 1.03%	37
Test Automation	125	Down -16 places-16	£60,000	+9.09%	103 1.03%	55
Systems Engineering	128	Down -47 places-47	£48,000	-4.10%	100 1.00%	13
Workflow	129	Up 7 places+7	£45,000	-34.54%	99 0.99%	57
E-Commerce	132	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	-15.78%	95 0.95%	45
Containerisation	132	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	+4.49%	95 0.95%	45