Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	6	Up 113 places+113	£50,000	+25.00%	1,008 9.45%	183
Problem-Solving	13	Down -6 places-6	£45,000	-3.22%	697 6.54%	338
Software Engineering	14	Up 10 places+10	£70,000	+3.70%	691 6.48%	169
AI	15	Up 33 places+33	£72,500	+11.53%	648 6.08%	308
Cybersecurity	16	Up 35 places+35	£55,000	-	631 5.92%	185
Agile	18	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	-	598 5.61%	246
Continuous Improvement	20	Up 29 places+29	£55,000	+6.80%	587 5.51%	246
Mentoring	22	Up 9 places+9	£57,500	-14.22%	565 5.30%	181
Analytics	25	Up 32 places+32	£60,000	+14.28%	499 4.68%	196
DevOps	27	Down -4 places-4	£70,000	+0.88%	484 4.54%	154
Decision-Making	29	Up 58 places+58	£55,000	+7.32%	450 4.22%	236
CI/CD	31	Up 19 places+19	£70,000	-	402 3.77%	193
Stakeholder Management	33	Up 47 places+47	£55,000	-11.79%	380 3.56%	163
Customer Service	35	Up 39 places+39	£33,750	+7.14%	376 3.53%	153
CRM	40	Up 80 places+80	£40,000	+6.66%	342 3.21%	155
Full-Stack Development	42	Up 44 places+44	£65,000	-	323 3.03%	87
Business Intelligence	43	Up 52 places+52	£50,000	-4.76%	319 2.99%	121
Roadmaps	46	Up 50 places+50	£67,500	-9.84%	305 2.86%	124
Coaching	56	Up 33 places+33	£63,076	+15.11%	249 2.34%	132
B2B	59	Up 138 places+138	£40,000	-5.88%	236 2.21%	137
Project Management	63	Up 18 places+18	£55,000	+8.03%	224 2.10%	92
User Experience	65	Down -27 places-27	£51,750	-5.98%	222 2.08%	85
Service Delivery	70	Up 28 places+28	£40,500	-19.08%	214 2.01%	69
Infrastructure Engineering	73	Down -26 places-26	£47,500	-10.37%	210 1.97%	39
Stakeholder Engagement	77	Up 101 places+101	£65,000	+30.00%	201 1.89%	94
ITIL	78	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	-4.07%	200 1.88%	71
ERP	79	Up 24 places+24	£60,000	+27.65%	198 1.86%	64
Logistics	81	Up 107 places+107	£60,000	+71.42%	195 1.83%	52
Infrastructure as Code	82	Up 72 places+72	£75,000	+3.44%	192 1.80%	68
Validation	88	Up 72 places+72	£55,000	+15.34%	172 1.61%	84
Microservices	90	Down -56 places-56	£75,000	+5.26%	167 1.57%	65
Project Delivery	92	Up 13 places+13	£56,250	+0.44%	164 1.54%	76
Migration	93	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	-	162 1.52%	80
E-Commerce	96	Up 66 places+66	£45,000	-12.19%	155 1.45%	49
Collaborative Working	97	Up 36 places+36	£50,000	-	154 1.44%	76
Scrum	98	Down -33 places-33	£67,500	-10.00%	153 1.43%	38
Test Automation	103	Down -6 places-6	£60,000	-7.69%	145 1.36%	66
Platform Engineering	105	Down -42 places-42	£71,500	+2.14%	143 1.34%	40
Workflow	106	Up 94 places+94	£47,450	-29.70%	142 1.33%	58
Customer Experience	107	Up 40 places+40	£37,440	+6.97%	141 1.32%	65
Fintech	108	Up 69 places+69	£80,000	+14.28%	139 1.30%	41
Machine Learning	109	Down -50 places-50	£70,000	+7.69%	137 1.28%	95
Collaborative Culture	116	Up 52 places+52	£60,000	+20.00%	127 1.19%	70
Data Engineering	119	Down -31 places-31	£90,000	+33.33%	124 1.16%	57
Process Improvement	119	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	-4.25%	124 1.16%	50
TDD	120	Up 5 places+5	£67,500	-	123 1.15%	33
Information Security	121	Up 47 places+47	£74,500	+24.16%	122 1.14%	35
Data Modelling	121	Up 46 places+46	£63,000	+20.00%	122 1.14%	69
Data Science	122	Up 75 places+75	£75,000	+33.33%	121 1.13%	72
Technical Leadership	125	Up 40 places+40	£75,000	-	118 1.11%	68