Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 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%	2,023 20.46%	140
AI	3	Up 43 places+43	£62,500	-15.25%	1,975 19.98%	291
User Experience	6	Up 61 places+61	£55,550	+1.00%	1,653 16.72%	85
Machine Learning	8	Up 127 places+127	£65,000	-18.75%	1,560 15.78%	93
Web Development	10	Up 136 places+136	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 15.47%	17
Problem-Solving	22	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	-11.16%	670 6.78%	345
Business Development	23	Up 81 places+81	£50,000	+25.00%	651 6.59%	144
Agile	25	Down -22 places-22	£62,500	-3.84%	566 5.73%	263
Software Engineering	26	Up 9 places+9	£70,000	+6.03%	544 5.50%	162
Mentoring	27	Up 12 places+12	£53,500	-17.69%	542 5.48%	197
Continuous Improvement	31	Up 12 places+12	£56,000	-0.44%	473 4.78%	247
Analytics	36	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	+9.09%	373 3.77%	269
Customer Service	40	Up 7 places+7	£32,000	-2.59%	349 3.53%	116
Decision-Making	40	Up 14 places+14	£52,500	-12.50%	349 3.53%	222
Stakeholder Management	41	Up 12 places+12	£59,000	-9.23%	341 3.45%	134
DevOps	44	Down -4 places-4	£70,000	+0.88%	335 3.39%	178
Business Intelligence	48	Up 7 places+7	£47,250	-10.00%	293 2.96%	137
CI/CD	49	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	-	292 2.95%	197
Project Management	55	Down -14 places-14	£45,000	-17.87%	255 2.58%	124
Coaching	58	Down -10 places-10	£62,499	+14.06%	248 2.51%	96
CRM	59	Up 35 places+35	£40,000	-15.78%	243 2.46%	139
Roadmaps	62	Down -12 places-12	£73,500	+1.37%	227 2.30%	120
Full-Stack Development	68	Up 33 places+33	£70,000	+12.00%	204 2.06%	66
B2B	69	Up 96 places+96	£41,000	-21.90%	203 2.05%	120
ITIL	72	Down -13 places-13	£45,000	-	194 1.96%	56
Service Delivery	76	Down -39 places-39	£42,500	-15.00%	187 1.89%	60
Stakeholder Engagement	78	Up 70 places+70	£62,500	+18.48%	179 1.81%	81
Project Delivery	85	Down -27 places-27	£55,000	-	161 1.63%	92
Infrastructure Engineering	86	Down -1 place-1	£50,000	-	159 1.61%	41
ERP	88	Down -9 places-9	£55,000	+10.00%	157 1.59%	84
Scrum	93	Down -9 places-9	£67,500	-	142 1.44%	51
Collaborative Working	94	Up 2 places+2	£51,772	+3.54%	140 1.42%	66
Infrastructure as Code	98	Up 7 places+7	£74,051	+2.13%	134 1.36%	82
Logistics	99	Up 64 places+64	£50,000	-4.76%	130 1.32%	52
Validation	102	Up 32 places+32	£60,000	+25.83%	126 1.27%	63
Process Improvement	104	Down -30 places-30	£45,497	-3.19%	124 1.25%	58
Microservices	104	Down -31 places-31	£70,000	-3.44%	124 1.25%	75
Customer Experience	110	Down -13 places-13	£36,000	-29.75%	118 1.19%	58
Migration	117	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	+9.09%	110 1.11%	92
Data Governance	117	Up 50 places+50	£55,000	-11.19%	110 1.11%	61
Change Management	117	Down -4 places-4	£42,500	-22.72%	110 1.11%	58
Fintech	119	Up 21 places+21	£77,500	+24.00%	106 1.07%	43
Collaborative Culture	119	Up 7 places+7	£65,000	+18.18%	106 1.07%	82
Systems Engineering	120	Down -38 places-38	£48,950	-2.20%	105 1.06%	12
Data Analysis	120	Down -25 places-25	£42,500	+2.68%	105 1.06%	67
Business Analysis	122	Up 4 places+4	£40,000	-27.27%	103 1.04%	39
Test Automation	123	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	+9.09%	101 1.02%	55
Workflow	127	Up 15 places+15	£45,000	-33.33%	97 0.98%	66
TDD	127	Down -22 places-22	£70,000	+7.69%	97 0.98%	51
E-Commerce	130	Down -15 places-15	£40,000	-17.94%	94 0.95%	49