Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 44 places+44	£55,000	-	1,483 14.46%	163
AI	3	Up 61 places+61	£70,000	-5.08%	1,452 14.16%	317
User Experience	9	Up 29 places+29	£55,000	-	1,090 10.63%	84
Machine Learning	12	Up 55 places+55	£65,000	-15.58%	998 9.73%	120
Web Development	13	Up 168 places+168	£40,000	+11.11%	961 9.37%	29
Business Development	22	Up 108 places+108	£50,000	+25.00%	771 7.52%	200
Problem-Solving	24	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	-5.26%	663 6.47%	367
Software Engineering	26	Down -3 places-3	£67,500	-	602 5.87%	152
Agile	27	Down -26 places-26	£63,076	-2.96%	569 5.55%	259
Mentoring	30	No change0	£56,050	-13.76%	548 5.34%	202
Continuous Improvement	34	Up 15 places+15	£55,000	-2.22%	514 5.01%	231
Analytics	38	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	+9.09%	434 4.23%	198
DevOps	40	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	-	406 3.96%	152
Decision-Making	44	Up 40 places+40	£55,000	-8.33%	371 3.62%	214
Stakeholder Management	46	Up 36 places+36	£55,000	-13.92%	341 3.33%	146
Customer Service	49	Up 25 places+25	£32,500	+3.17%	337 3.29%	127
CI/CD	50	No change0	£70,000	-	330 3.22%	184
Business Intelligence	55	Up 28 places+28	£47,000	-10.47%	304 2.96%	119
CRM	57	Up 62 places+62	£40,000	-5.88%	277 2.70%	156
Full-Stack Development	60	Up 28 places+28	£65,000	+1.96%	267 2.60%	107
Roadmaps	61	Up 26 places+26	£72,500	-3.16%	253 2.47%	131
Project Management	65	Down -3 places-3	£50,000	-4.76%	230 2.24%	138
Coaching	68	Up 11 places+11	£62,500	+14.06%	227 2.21%	97
B2B	70	Up 124 places+124	£41,000	-18.00%	216 2.11%	130
Stakeholder Engagement	79	Up 92 places+92	£62,500	+25.00%	190 1.85%	77
ITIL	80	Up 6 places+6	£45,497	-3.01%	186 1.81%	48
Service Delivery	82	Down -9 places-9	£40,000	-20.04%	182 1.77%	63
Infrastructure Engineering	84	Down -41 places-41	£50,000	-3.84%	175 1.71%	52
Logistics	88	Up 97 places+97	£60,000	+29.72%	168 1.64%	61
ERP	90	Up 16 places+16	£57,500	+21.05%	164 1.60%	61
Project Delivery	91	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	-	161 1.57%	90
Infrastructure as Code	96	Up 50 places+50	£72,000	-0.68%	153 1.49%	88
Scrum	98	Down -43 places-43	£67,500	-1.81%	151 1.47%	47
Collaborative Working	99	Up 27 places+27	£50,000	-	150 1.46%	67
Microservices	101	Down -65 places-65	£70,932	-2.16%	147 1.43%	74
Validation	103	Up 53 places+53	£55,000	+15.34%	145 1.41%	86
E-Commerce	112	Up 38 places+38	£45,000	-10.00%	130 1.27%	57
Migration	114	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	+4.34%	127 1.24%	85
Fintech	115	Up 55 places+55	£75,000	+7.14%	123 1.20%	35
Customer Experience	115	Up 22 places+22	£37,440	-25.12%	123 1.20%	74
Workflow	118	Up 59 places+59	£45,000	-34.54%	120 1.17%	53
Test Automation	118	Down -26 places-26	£60,000	+4.34%	120 1.17%	64
Process Improvement	124	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	-4.25%	111 1.08%	47
Collaborative Culture	125	Up 40 places+40	£61,250	+22.50%	110 1.07%	92
TDD	125	Down -3 places-3	£67,249	-3.93%	110 1.07%	39
Platform Engineering	128	Down -70 places-70	£72,250	+3.21%	107 1.04%	45
Data Science	130	Up 58 places+58	£70,466	+10.31%	105 1.02%	67
Data Governance	131	Up 69 places+69	£55,000	-1.34%	104 1.01%	50
Change Management	134	Up 13 places+13	£50,000	-5.21%	101 0.99%	48
Data Engineering	134	Down -46 places-46	£90,000	+24.13%	101 0.99%	41