Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	3	Up 55 places+55	£50,000	+25.00%	1,422 11.01%	106
Problem-Solving	5	Down 4 places-4	£46,587	-2.29%	1,136 8.79%	366
Continuous Improvement	6	Up 17 places+17	£53,460	+9.14%	1,099 8.51%	307
AI	9	Up 4 places+4	£66,250	+10.41%	1,041 8.06%	412
Software Engineering	12	Up 6 places+6	£70,000	+1.81%	991 7.67%	235
Agile	16	Down 10 places-10	£60,000	-	868 6.72%	286
DevOps	18	Down 4 places-4	£67,500	+3.84%	727 5.63%	174
Stakeholder Management	21	Up 56 places+56	£60,000	+9.09%	685 5.30%	227
Decision-Making	23	Up 37 places+37	£52,500	+10.52%	656 5.08%	215
Mentoring	24	Down 9 places-9	£62,500	+4.16%	648 5.02%	233
Customer Service	27	Up 8 places+8	£32,000	+10.34%	607 4.70%	142
Cybersecurity	28	Up 48 places+48	£57,000	+26.66%	591 4.58%	222
CI/CD	30	Up 4 places+4	£65,576	+0.88%	582 4.51%	221
Analytics	34	Up 31 places+31	£60,000	+20.00%	497 3.85%	194
Full-Stack Development	38	Up 47 places+47	£70,000	+7.69%	468 3.62%	101
CRM	42	Up 22 places+22	£40,000	+6.66%	429 3.32%	69
Roadmaps	46	Up 35 places+35	£65,576	-2.85%	399 3.09%	160
Stakeholder Engagement	48	Up 68 places+68	£56,000	-	387 3.00%	93
Infrastructure Engineering	49	Down 18 places-18	£55,000	+2.32%	375 2.90%	61
Coaching	51	Up 31 places+31	£62,500	+13.63%	363 2.81%	166
Collaborative Working	55	Up 71 places+71	£44,000	-2.22%	305 2.36%	80
Validation	57	Up 91 places+91	£55,000	+4.76%	300 2.32%	111
Business Intelligence	58	Up 13 places+13	£50,000	-	299 2.31%	110
Project Delivery	59	Up 48 places+48	£50,000	-13.04%	295 2.28%	98
ERP	61	Up 6 places+6	£57,500	+15.00%	289 2.24%	50
Service Delivery	66	Up 29 places+29	£45,000	-	282 2.18%	76
Customer Experience	67	Up 74 places+74	£39,361	-1.59%	274 2.12%	72
Infrastructure as Code	71	Up 72 places+72	£70,000	+7.69%	268 2.07%	123
ITIL	72	Up 19 places+19	£47,500	+18.75%	266 2.06%	75
Technical Leadership	75	Up 67 places+67	£75,000	+7.14%	254 1.97%	125
Project Management	77	Down 5 places-5	£51,000	+6.95%	245 1.90%	98
Collaborative Culture	78	Up 61 places+61	£57,500	-4.16%	244 1.89%	69
B2B	82	Up 31 places+31	£45,000	+5.88%	238 1.84%	64
Migration	86	Up 11 places+11	£63,500	+19.81%	233 1.80%	79
Workflow	89	Up 52 places+52	£52,000	+22.35%	229 1.77%	57
Platform Engineering	92	Down 47 places-47	£70,000	+5.66%	224 1.73%	62
Risk Management	97	Down 68 places-68	£70,000	+13.82%	208 1.61%	51
Test Automation	99	Down 12 places-12	£60,000	-	205 1.59%	110
User Experience	100	Down 74 places-74	£51,000	-2.85%	202 1.56%	64
Process Improvement	104	Down 6 places-6	£50,000	-	195 1.51%	51
Logistics	105	Up 43 places+43	£55,000	+10.00%	194 1.50%	38
Microservices	107	Down 82 places-82	£80,000	+14.28%	191 1.48%	70
E-Commerce	107	Up 27 places+27	£41,250	-23.25%	191 1.48%	28
Change Management	111	Up 13 places+13	£46,794	-1.48%	186 1.44%	60
Data Analysis	116	Up 30 places+30	£50,000	+17.64%	175 1.35%	51
Data Science	117	Up 43 places+43	£75,013	+27.68%	174 1.35%	78
Data Engineering	119	Down 57 places-57	£75,000	+29.31%	171 1.32%	67
Digital Transformation Programme	120	Up 74 places+74	£59,000	+2.60%	170 1.32%	30
Machine Learning	121	Down 81 places-81	£75,000	+16.73%	168 1.30%	105
Data Modelling	122	Up 43 places+43	£63,000	+5.00%	166 1.29%	78