Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	4	Up 44 places+44	£50,000	+25.00%	1,388 10.76%	71
Problem-Solving	6	Down 3 places-3	£46,500	-2.10%	1,130 8.76%	264
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 18 places+18	£53,460	+9.14%	1,105 8.57%	206
AI	10	Down 6 places-6	£65,000	+13.04%	1,038 8.05%	227
Software Engineering	13	Up 20 places+20	£70,000	-	1,008 7.82%	136
Agile	17	Down 7 places-7	£60,000	-	868 6.73%	155
DevOps	19	Down 6 places-6	£67,500	+3.84%	711 5.51%	113
Stakeholder Management	21	Up 51 places+51	£60,000	+4.34%	694 5.38%	149
Decision-Making	23	Up 38 places+38	£52,500	+10.52%	646 5.01%	124
Mentoring	25	Down 4 places-4	£62,500	+4.16%	637 4.94%	150
Customer Service	26	Up 6 places+6	£32,000	+10.34%	608 4.71%	110
Cybersecurity	29	Down 12 places-12	£57,500	+27.77%	595 4.61%	160
CI/CD	30	Up 14 places+14	£65,500	+0.76%	572 4.43%	129
Analytics	35	Up 35 places+35	£60,000	+15.94%	483 3.74%	111
Full-Stack Development	37	Up 67 places+67	£70,000	+7.69%	463 3.59%	53
CRM	42	Up 24 places+24	£40,000	+6.66%	425 3.30%	58
Roadmaps	44	Up 35 places+35	£65,576	-2.85%	401 3.11%	95
Stakeholder Engagement	46	Up 64 places+64	£55,000	-3.08%	389 3.02%	66
Infrastructure Engineering	48	Down 19 places-19	£55,000	+2.32%	377 2.92%	47
Coaching	49	Up 27 places+27	£62,500	+8.69%	369 2.86%	110
Collaborative Working	52	Up 67 places+67	£44,000	-2.22%	308 2.39%	59
Validation	52	Up 87 places+87	£55,000	+4.76%	308 2.39%	76
Project Delivery	54	Up 41 places+41	£50,000	-13.04%	301 2.33%	71
ERP	56	Up 16 places+16	£55,000	+10.00%	293 2.27%	36
Business Intelligence	57	Up 17 places+17	£50,000	-	291 2.26%	71
Service Delivery	62	Up 25 places+25	£47,000	+4.44%	281 2.18%	50
Customer Experience	66	Up 66 places+66	£39,000	-2.50%	268 2.08%	52
ITIL	66	Up 18 places+18	£47,500	+18.75%	268 2.08%	39
Infrastructure as Code	70	Up 63 places+63	£70,000	+7.69%	261 2.02%	69
Technical Leadership	72	Up 60 places+60	£75,000	+6.38%	255 1.98%	81
Project Management	75	Down 4 places-4	£51,000	+13.33%	245 1.90%	63
Collaborative Culture	77	Up 53 places+53	£60,000	-	242 1.88%	44
Migration	79	Up 26 places+26	£62,500	+17.09%	235 1.82%	49
B2B	81	Up 24 places+24	£46,000	+8.23%	233 1.81%	46
Workflow	85	Up 48 places+48	£52,000	+22.35%	221 1.71%	35
Platform Engineering	88	Down 45 places-45	£70,000	+5.66%	218 1.69%	32
Risk Management	90	Down 63 places-63	£68,750	+11.78%	210 1.63%	41
Test Automation	94	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	-	203 1.57%	72
User Experience	96	Down 81 places-81	£51,000	-2.85%	198 1.54%	41
Process Improvement	97	Down 3 places-3	£50,000	-	197 1.53%	37
Logistics	100	Up 44 places+44	£53,500	+7.00%	192 1.49%	35
E-Commerce	103	Up 25 places+25	£40,000	-27.27%	185 1.43%	16
Change Management	104	Up 9 places+9	£46,587	-1.92%	184 1.43%	37
Microservices	105	Down 40 places-40	£81,250	+16.07%	183 1.42%	43
Data Analysis	107	Up 30 places+30	£50,000	+23.45%	178 1.38%	34
Data Science	109	Up 40 places+40	£80,750	+34.58%	172 1.33%	35
Digital Transformation Programme	109	Up 72 places+72	£59,000	+2.60%	172 1.33%	28
Data Engineering	110	Down 1 place-1	£75,000	+25.00%	169 1.31%	32
Service Management	112	Up 55 places+55	£41,000	-8.88%	165 1.28%	47
Machine Learning	113	Down 94 places-94	£72,500	+11.53%	164 1.27%	52