Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 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%	2,042 20.26%	365
AI	3	Up 41 places+41	£65,000	-13.33%	1,980 19.64%	449
User Experience	6	Up 61 places+61	£56,100	+2.00%	1,654 16.41%	308
Machine Learning	8	Up 124 places+124	£65,000	-18.75%	1,560 15.48%	319
Web Development	10	Up 132 places+132	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 15.17%	255
Business Development	23	Up 73 places+73	£50,000	+25.00%	669 6.64%	146
Problem-Solving	24	Down -17 places-17	£42,500	-11.45%	665 6.60%	294
Agile	26	Down -23 places-23	£62,500	-3.84%	561 5.57%	227
Mentoring	27	Up 11 places+11	£52,500	-19.23%	553 5.49%	185
Software Engineering	28	Up 6 places+6	£70,000	+7.69%	552 5.48%	141
Continuous Improvement	33	Up 8 places+8	£55,000	-4.34%	482 4.78%	208
Analytics	37	Down -1 place-1	£60,000	+9.09%	392 3.89%	183
Decision-Making	41	Up 13 places+13	£52,500	-12.50%	356 3.53%	176
Stakeholder Management	44	Up 8 places+8	£57,500	-11.53%	345 3.42%	89
Customer Service	45	No change0	£32,000	-1.53%	344 3.41%	98
DevOps	46	Down -7 places-7	£70,000	+0.88%	342 3.39%	149
Business Intelligence	50	Up 3 places+3	£47,000	-10.47%	297 2.95%	98
CI/CD	52	Down -1 place-1	£70,000	-	291 2.89%	145
Coaching	59	Down -12 places-12	£62,499	+14.06%	251 2.49%	71
Project Management	59	Down -19 places-19	£46,000	-16.04%	251 2.49%	99
CRM	60	Up 27 places+27	£40,000	-11.11%	248 2.46%	126
Roadmaps	63	Down -15 places-15	£73,500	+1.37%	226 2.24%	87
Full-Stack Development	69	Up 24 places+24	£67,500	+10.20%	209 2.07%	82
B2B	73	Up 88 places+88	£40,000	-13.51%	203 2.01%	106
ITIL	75	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	-4.25%	195 1.93%	43
Service Delivery	80	Down -43 places-43	£40,000	-20.00%	183 1.82%	51
Stakeholder Engagement	81	Up 58 places+58	£62,500	+21.95%	179 1.78%	70
Infrastructure Engineering	86	Down -3 places-3	£50,000	-	163 1.62%	40
Project Delivery	88	Down -31 places-31	£57,500	+4.54%	161 1.60%	63
ERP	89	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	+10.00%	159 1.58%	66
Collaborative Working	97	Down -6 places-6	£50,000	-	144 1.43%	52
Scrum	97	Down -15 places-15	£67,500	-	144 1.43%	45
Logistics	100	Up 57 places+57	£50,000	-4.76%	135 1.34%	44
Infrastructure as Code	101	Down -2 places-2	£72,500	-	133 1.32%	70
Validation	104	Up 24 places+24	£59,000	+23.73%	127 1.26%	61
Microservices	105	Down -34 places-34	£70,000	-3.44%	125 1.24%	57
Process Improvement	108	Down -36 places-36	£47,271	+0.57%	122 1.21%	47
Customer Experience	113	Down -23 places-23	£36,000	-29.75%	116 1.15%	57
Migration	114	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	+9.09%	113 1.12%	77
Fintech	116	Up 19 places+19	£75,000	+11.11%	111 1.10%	24
Data Governance	117	Up 46 places+46	£54,500	-12.00%	110 1.09%	51
Data Analysis	117	Down -26 places-26	£42,500	+2.68%	110 1.09%	58
Change Management	119	Down -12 places-12	£42,500	-22.72%	107 1.06%	42
Test Automation	119	Down -12 places-12	£60,750	+10.45%	107 1.06%	58
Business Analysis	123	Down -2 places-2	£40,000	-27.27%	103 1.02%	28
Collaborative Culture	123	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	+28.71%	103 1.02%	79
Workflow	124	Up 13 places+13	£45,000	-35.71%	102 1.01%	48
Systems Engineering	125	Down -50 places-50	£48,950	-2.20%	100 0.99%	11
E-Commerce	128	Down -18 places-18	£40,000	-17.94%	97 0.96%	43
TDD	128	Down -32 places-32	£70,000	+7.69%	97 0.96%	48