Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	3	Up 61 places+61	£50,000	+25.00%	1,495 11.54%	184
Problem-Solving	8	Down 6 places-6	£47,500	-2.50%	1,123 8.67%	623
Continuous Improvement	10	Up 14 places+14	£53,500	+9.23%	1,071 8.27%	574
AI	11	Up 2 places+2	£67,472	+12.45%	1,030 7.95%	990
Software Engineering	13	Up 6 places+6	£70,000	-	975 7.53%	490
Agile	17	Down 12 places-12	£60,000	-	846 6.53%	545
DevOps	19	Down 7 places-7	£67,500	+3.84%	734 5.67%	348
Stakeholder Management	21	Up 61 places+61	£60,000	+9.09%	672 5.19%	362
Decision-Making	23	Up 42 places+42	£52,000	+9.47%	653 5.04%	407
Mentoring	24	Down 9 places-9	£63,076	+5.12%	638 4.93%	433
Customer Service	26	Up 13 places+13	£32,000	+10.34%	616 4.76%	162
Cybersecurity	27	Up 30 places+30	£57,808	+26.35%	587 4.53%	356
CI/CD	28	Up 3 places+3	£65,500	+0.76%	586 4.52%	430
Analytics	32	Up 44 places+44	£60,000	+18.81%	515 3.98%	430
Full-Stack Development	37	Up 37 places+37	£70,000	+7.69%	473 3.65%	206
CRM	41	Up 28 places+28	£40,000	+6.66%	441 3.40%	183
Roadmaps	44	Up 44 places+44	£65,000	-3.70%	407 3.14%	382
Stakeholder Engagement	47	Up 74 places+74	£57,500	+3.10%	378 2.92%	166
Coaching	49	Up 42 places+42	£62,500	+14.06%	357 2.76%	263
Infrastructure Engineering	50	Down 20 places-20	£55,000	+10.00%	355 2.74%	121
Validation	54	Up 94 places+94	£54,875	+4.52%	302 2.33%	188
Collaborative Working	55	Up 72 places+72	£44,000	-2.22%	299 2.31%	140
Project Delivery	56	Up 59 places+59	£50,000	-9.09%	297 2.29%	159
Business Intelligence	56	Up 27 places+27	£50,000	-	297 2.29%	238
ERP	57	Up 11 places+11	£57,500	+15.00%	291 2.25%	120
Service Delivery	59	Up 47 places+47	£42,500	-	280 2.16%	134
Infrastructure as Code	63	Up 85 places+85	£70,000	+7.69%	272 2.10%	233
Customer Experience	64	Up 83 places+83	£39,722	-6.53%	268 2.07%	161
ITIL	64	Up 36 places+36	£46,500	+16.25%	268 2.07%	143
B2B	68	Up 56 places+56	£45,000	+2.85%	256 1.98%	127
Technical Leadership	72	Up 71 places+71	£75,000	+7.14%	246 1.90%	229
Collaborative Culture	74	Up 73 places+73	£57,250	-4.58%	242 1.87%	136
Project Management	76	Up 6 places+6	£52,000	+5.58%	240 1.85%	179
Workflow	78	Up 69 places+69	£52,000	+41.84%	236 1.82%	143
Platform Engineering	80	Down 33 places-33	£70,000	+3.70%	233 1.80%	151
Migration	82	Up 13 places+13	£64,500	+22.85%	229 1.77%	151
Logistics	91	Up 58 places+58	£55,000	+10.00%	209 1.61%	65
User Experience	92	Down 66 places-66	£51,000	-7.27%	206 1.59%	168
Test Automation	93	Down 14 places-14	£60,000	-	204 1.58%	235
Risk Management	94	Down 63 places-63	£70,000	+20.68%	203 1.57%	115
Microservices	96	Down 73 places-73	£77,500	+10.71%	200 1.54%	108
E-Commerce	97	Up 41 places+41	£42,500	-22.72%	194 1.50%	70
Process Improvement	99	Up 10 places+10	£50,000	-	187 1.44%	84
Change Management	102	Up 27 places+27	£47,044	-0.96%	183 1.41%	106
Data Analysis	107	Up 50 places+50	£50,000	+14.28%	174 1.34%	97
Data Science	108	Up 57 places+57	£75,000	+27.65%	173 1.34%	168
Machine Learning	109	Down 68 places-68	£75,000	+16.73%	171 1.32%	239
Data Engineering	111	Down 46 places-46	£75,000	+29.31%	168 1.30%	140
Information Security	112	Up 60 places+60	£62,500	+13.63%	166 1.28%	89
Data Modelling	112	Up 59 places+59	£62,500	+4.16%	166 1.28%	144