Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	5	Up 31 places+31	£50,000	+25.00%	1,319 10.37%	187
Problem-Solving	6	Up 1 place+1	£46,000	-4.16%	1,141 8.97%	745
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 16 places+16	£52,700	+7.59%	1,128 8.87%	599
AI	8	Down 5 places-5	£65,000	+13.04%	1,054 8.29%	1,019
Software Engineering	10	Up 32 places+32	£70,000	-	1,011 7.95%	463
Agile	16	Up 4 places+4	£60,000	-	872 6.86%	508
DevOps	18	Up 21 places+21	£68,724	+5.72%	723 5.68%	328
Stakeholder Management	19	Up 28 places+28	£60,000	+4.34%	716 5.63%	353
Decision-Making	24	Up 16 places+16	£52,500	+14.13%	646 5.08%	397
Mentoring	25	Up 3 places+3	£62,500	+4.16%	635 4.99%	481
Customer Service	27	No change0	£32,000	+10.34%	606 4.76%	237
Cybersecurity	28	Down 24 places-24	£57,500	+30.68%	597 4.69%	408
CI/CD	30	Up 8 places+8	£65,500	+0.76%	571 4.49%	401
Analytics	36	Up 13 places+13	£55,750	+6.19%	473 3.72%	461
Full-Stack Development	39	Up 58 places+58	£70,000	+7.69%	439 3.45%	174
CRM	44	Up 1 place+1	£42,500	+9.67%	412 3.24%	209
Roadmaps	46	Up 9 places+9	£65,766	-2.56%	404 3.18%	347
Stakeholder Engagement	50	Up 30 places+30	£55,000	-4.34%	387 3.04%	165
Infrastructure Engineering	51	Up 47 places+47	£55,000	+2.32%	376 2.96%	118
Coaching	52	Down 1 place-1	£63,076	+9.69%	369 2.90%	285
Validation	54	Up 70 places+70	£55,000	+2.32%	316 2.48%	203
Collaborative Working	55	Up 37 places+37	£44,000	-2.22%	315 2.48%	153
Project Delivery	56	Up 13 places+13	£50,000	-13.04%	310 2.44%	183
Business Intelligence	59	Down 6 places-6	£50,000	-	293 2.30%	227
Service Delivery	61	Up 2 places+2	£47,500	+5.55%	288 2.26%	152
ERP	62	Down 13 places-13	£55,000	+4.76%	287 2.26%	131
ITIL	66	Down 5 places-5	£47,500	+18.75%	283 2.23%	132
Customer Experience	67	Up 46 places+46	£40,000	-	281 2.21%	171
Infrastructure as Code	71	Up 37 places+37	£70,000	+7.69%	263 2.07%	204
Technical Leadership	71	Up 33 places+33	£75,000	+7.14%	263 2.07%	194
Project Management	76	Down 30 places-30	£51,000	+13.33%	246 1.93%	178
Collaborative Culture	77	Up 31 places+31	£60,000	-	245 1.93%	144
Migration	81	Up 21 places+21	£62,500	+17.92%	237 1.86%	162
B2B	84	Down 7 places-7	£47,000	+10.58%	227 1.78%	144
Risk Management	87	Up 10 places+10	£67,500	+9.75%	220 1.73%	133
Platform Engineering	88	Up 66 places+66	£70,000	+3.70%	216 1.70%	140
Workflow	90	Up 20 places+20	£52,000	+22.35%	214 1.68%	127
Test Automation	91	Up 11 places+11	£60,000	-	210 1.65%	224
Process Improvement	94	Down 24 places-24	£50,000	-	206 1.62%	91
User Experience	98	Down 89 places-89	£53,000	+0.95%	196 1.54%	158
Data Analysis	103	Up 12 places+12	£47,750	+17.90%	187 1.47%	107
Logistics	103	Up 24 places+24	£52,700	+5.40%	187 1.47%	77
Change Management	104	Down 13 places-13	£46,587	-1.92%	186 1.46%	117
Digital Transformation Programme	107	Up 49 places+49	£59,500	+3.47%	180 1.42%	58
E-Commerce	108	Up 6 places+6	£40,000	-25.58%	179 1.41%	69
Microservices	109	Down 34 places-34	£82,500	+17.85%	178 1.40%	133
Data Science	111	Up 18 places+18	£81,500	+35.83%	174 1.37%	176
Data Engineering	113	Up 24 places+24	£75,000	+25.00%	171 1.34%	128
Service Management	113	Up 32 places+32	£41,000	-8.88%	171 1.34%	113
Business Strategy	117	Down 25 places-25	£65,000	+18.18%	165 1.30%	89