Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 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%	2,020 20.49%	132
AI	3	Up 45 places+45	£62,500	-16.66%	1,972 20.00%	245
User Experience	6	Up 64 places+64	£55,000	-	1,652 16.76%	74
Machine Learning	8	Up 131 places+131	£65,000	-18.75%	1,559 15.81%	87
Web Development	10	Up 137 places+137	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 15.51%	15
Problem-Solving	22	Down -16 places-16	£42,500	-11.45%	673 6.83%	331
Business Development	23	Up 82 places+82	£50,000	+25.00%	645 6.54%	142
Agile	25	Down -22 places-22	£62,500	-3.84%	569 5.77%	242
Mentoring	26	Up 13 places+13	£52,500	-19.23%	544 5.52%	196
Software Engineering	27	Up 7 places+7	£70,000	+4.41%	538 5.46%	148
Continuous Improvement	29	Up 14 places+14	£56,000	-	475 4.82%	232
Analytics	36	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	+9.09%	370 3.75%	216
Customer Service	41	Up 5 places+5	£32,000	-2.59%	353 3.58%	108
Decision-Making	42	Up 12 places+12	£52,500	-12.50%	349 3.54%	219
Stakeholder Management	43	Up 9 places+9	£59,000	-9.23%	340 3.45%	123
DevOps	45	Down -5 places-5	£70,000	+0.88%	333 3.38%	176
Business Intelligence	49	Up 7 places+7	£47,500	-9.52%	292 2.96%	136
CI/CD	50	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	-	290 2.94%	182
Project Management	58	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	-17.87%	254 2.58%	123
Coaching	59	Down -12 places-12	£62,498	+14.06%	249 2.53%	89
CRM	60	Up 37 places+37	£40,000	-15.78%	243 2.46%	139
Roadmaps	63	Down -12 places-12	£73,500	-0.41%	226 2.29%	112
B2B	69	Up 98 places+98	£40,000	-23.80%	203 2.06%	119
Full-Stack Development	71	Up 31 places+31	£70,000	+12.00%	201 2.04%	61
ITIL	74	Down -14 places-14	£45,000	-	195 1.98%	60
Service Delivery	77	Down -41 places-41	£42,500	-15.00%	187 1.90%	60
Stakeholder Engagement	79	Up 72 places+72	£62,500	+18.48%	178 1.81%	89
Project Delivery	87	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-	161 1.63%	87
Infrastructure Engineering	89	Up 2 places+2	£50,000	-	159 1.61%	35
ERP	91	Down -8 places-8	£55,000	+10.00%	156 1.58%	83
Scrum	98	Down -11 places-11	£67,500	-	143 1.45%	49
Collaborative Working	99	Down -1 place-1	£50,886	+1.77%	139 1.41%	72
Infrastructure as Code	104	Up 2 places+2	£74,051	+2.13%	133 1.35%	78
Logistics	105	Up 60 places+60	£50,000	-4.76%	129 1.31%	51
Validation	108	Up 30 places+30	£60,000	+25.83%	125 1.27%	61
Process Improvement	109	Down -33 places-33	£45,497	-3.19%	124 1.26%	57
Microservices	110	Down -32 places-32	£70,000	-3.44%	123 1.25%	69
Customer Experience	115	Down -16 places-16	£36,000	-29.75%	118 1.20%	53
Change Management	119	No change0	£42,500	-22.72%	110 1.12%	60
Data Governance	120	Up 49 places+49	£54,500	-12.00%	109 1.11%	61
Migration	121	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	+9.09%	108 1.10%	92
Collaborative Culture	123	Up 7 places+7	£65,000	+22.64%	106 1.08%	81
Systems Engineering	124	Down -35 places-35	£48,950	-2.20%	105 1.07%	11
Data Analysis	124	Down -26 places-26	£42,500	+2.68%	105 1.07%	63
Fintech	125	Up 19 places+19	£80,000	+33.33%	104 1.05%	42
Business Analysis	125	Up 3 places+3	£40,000	-27.27%	104 1.05%	38
Test Automation	127	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	+9.09%	101 1.02%	50
Workflow	131	Up 14 places+14	£45,000	-33.33%	97 0.98%	62
TDD	132	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	+7.69%	96 0.97%	50
E-Commerce	133	Down -17 places-17	£40,000	-15.78%	94 0.95%	44