Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 34 places+34	£50,000	-9.09%	2,049 19.62%	315
AI	3	Up 48 places+48	£70,000	-5.08%	2,001 19.16%	459
User Experience	6	Up 48 places+48	£57,500	+4.54%	1,661 15.90%	248
Machine Learning	8	Up 95 places+95	£65,000	-17.19%	1,567 15.00%	270
Web Development	10	Up 143 places+143	£40,000	+23.07%	1,530 14.65%	192
Business Development	23	Up 82 places+82	£50,000	+25.00%	722 6.91%	198
Problem-Solving	24	Down -16 places-16	£42,500	-11.16%	660 6.32%	357
Software Engineering	26	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	+4.41%	585 5.60%	181
Agile	27	Down -24 places-24	£63,076	-2.96%	556 5.32%	268
Mentoring	28	Up 9 places+9	£55,000	-15.38%	543 5.20%	202
Continuous Improvement	34	Up 11 places+11	£55,000	-4.34%	489 4.68%	227
Analytics	38	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	+9.09%	412 3.94%	201
DevOps	40	Up 2 places+2	£70,400	+1.46%	370 3.54%	158
Decision-Making	43	Up 15 places+15	£53,250	-11.25%	360 3.45%	212
Stakeholder Management	45	Up 9 places+9	£57,500	-10.01%	347 3.32%	147
Customer Service	46	Up 6 places+6	£32,000	-1.53%	339 3.25%	122
CI/CD	51	Down -3 places-3	£70,000	-	303 2.90%	159
Business Intelligence	53	Up 4 places+4	£47,000	-10.47%	294 2.82%	146
CRM	57	Up 34 places+34	£40,000	-5.88%	261 2.50%	149
Roadmaps	61	Down -7 places-7	£73,500	+1.37%	241 2.31%	115
Project Management	62	Down -16 places-16	£47,271	-13.09%	239 2.29%	132
Coaching	63	Down -12 places-12	£62,500	+14.06%	238 2.28%	106
Full-Stack Development	65	Up 25 places+25	£67,500	+12.50%	229 2.19%	100
B2B	69	Up 99 places+99	£40,500	-19.00%	212 2.03%	135
ITIL	77	Down -15 places-15	£45,497	-4.21%	194 1.86%	56
Stakeholder Engagement	80	Up 66 places+66	£62,500	+25.00%	190 1.82%	83
Service Delivery	82	Down -35 places-35	£40,000	-20.00%	181 1.73%	59
Infrastructure Engineering	91	Up 1 place+1	£50,000	-	164 1.57%	48
Project Delivery	91	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-	164 1.57%	87
ERP	92	Down -14 places-14	£55,000	+10.00%	162 1.55%	76
Logistics	95	Up 70 places+70	£50,014	-4.73%	156 1.49%	48
Collaborative Working	99	Down -2 places-2	£51,772	+3.54%	147 1.41%	64
Scrum	100	Down -29 places-29	£67,500	-	145 1.39%	49
Infrastructure as Code	101	Up 9 places+9	£75,000	+3.44%	144 1.38%	72
Microservices	104	Down -48 places-48	£70,000	-3.44%	139 1.33%	64
Validation	106	Up 25 places+25	£58,000	+21.63%	135 1.29%	73
Migration	114	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	+9.09%	121 1.16%	82
Fintech	119	Up 21 places+21	£72,500	+7.40%	116 1.11%	37
Customer Experience	121	Down -22 places-22	£37,440	-25.12%	114 1.09%	66
E-Commerce	123	Down -2 places-2	£45,000	-7.69%	112 1.07%	60
Data Governance	124	Up 47 places+47	£55,000	-4.34%	111 1.06%	47
Process Improvement	125	Down -46 places-46	£45,497	-3.19%	110 1.05%	47
Workflow	126	Up 21 places+21	£45,000	-34.54%	109 1.04%	54
Test Automation	128	Down -30 places-30	£60,750	+10.45%	107 1.02%	63
Collaborative Culture	131	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	+30.00%	104 1.00%	73
Change Management	132	Down -16 places-16	£45,000	-18.18%	103 0.99%	44
Data Science	132	Up 27 places+27	£70,932	+18.21%	103 0.99%	64
TDD	133	Down -27 places-27	£67,500	+3.84%	102 0.98%	39
Data Analysis	133	Down -33 places-33	£42,500	+2.68%	102 0.98%	64
Data Engineering	136	Down -22 places-22	£90,000	+33.33%	99 0.95%	46