Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 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%	2,027 20.38%	359
AI	3	Up 42 places+42	£62,500	-15.25%	1,978 19.89%	532
User Experience	6	Up 61 places+61	£55,550	+1.00%	1,653 16.62%	310
Machine Learning	8	Up 125 places+125	£65,000	-18.75%	1,560 15.69%	329
Web Development	10	Up 133 places+133	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 15.37%	236
Problem-Solving	22	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	-10.86%	672 6.76%	335
Business Development	23	Up 78 places+78	£50,000	+25.00%	658 6.62%	148
Agile	25	Down -22 places-22	£62,500	-3.84%	566 5.69%	274
Software Engineering	26	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+7.69%	550 5.53%	163
Mentoring	27	Up 12 places+12	£54,500	-16.15%	546 5.49%	203
Continuous Improvement	32	Up 11 places+11	£56,000	-	472 4.75%	248
Analytics	36	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	+9.09%	377 3.79%	288
Decision-Making	41	Up 13 places+13	£52,500	-12.50%	349 3.51%	228
Customer Service	42	Up 5 places+5	£32,000	-2.59%	348 3.50%	111
Stakeholder Management	43	Up 10 places+10	£58,000	-10.76%	343 3.45%	129
DevOps	46	Down -6 places-6	£70,000	+0.88%	337 3.39%	183
CI/CD	49	Up 2 places+2	£70,000	-	294 2.96%	190
Business Intelligence	49	Up 6 places+6	£47,500	-9.52%	294 2.96%	123
Project Management	56	Down -15 places-15	£45,000	-17.87%	256 2.57%	127
Coaching	58	Down -10 places-10	£62,499	+14.06%	249 2.50%	101
CRM	59	Up 34 places+34	£40,000	-15.78%	244 2.45%	139
Roadmaps	62	Down -12 places-12	£73,500	+1.37%	228 2.29%	123
Full-Stack Development	68	Up 30 places+30	£70,000	+12.00%	206 2.07%	67
B2B	69	Up 93 places+93	£40,500	-22.85%	204 2.05%	129
ITIL	72	Down -13 places-13	£45,000	-	195 1.96%	57
Service Delivery	76	Down -39 places-39	£42,500	-15.00%	187 1.88%	62
Stakeholder Engagement	78	Up 67 places+67	£62,500	+18.48%	179 1.80%	87
Infrastructure Engineering	86	Down -2 places-2	£50,000	-	161 1.62%	43
Project Delivery	86	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-	161 1.62%	91
ERP	89	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	+10.00%	157 1.58%	86
Scrum	96	Down -12 places-12	£67,500	-	142 1.43%	53
Collaborative Working	97	Down -2 places-2	£51,772	+3.54%	140 1.41%	68
Infrastructure as Code	100	Up 2 places+2	£74,051	+2.13%	135 1.36%	89
Logistics	102	Up 58 places+58	£50,000	-4.76%	132 1.33%	53
Validation	103	Up 28 places+28	£60,000	+25.83%	130 1.31%	61
Process Improvement	106	Down -32 places-32	£45,497	-3.19%	125 1.26%	54
Microservices	107	Down -33 places-33	£70,000	-3.44%	124 1.25%	75
Customer Experience	112	Down -17 places-17	£36,000	-28.00%	118 1.19%	56
Migration	117	Down -26 places-26	£60,000	+9.09%	110 1.11%	93
Data Governance	117	Up 47 places+47	£55,000	-11.19%	110 1.11%	58
Change Management	118	Down -7 places-7	£42,500	-22.72%	109 1.10%	53
Fintech	119	Up 18 places+18	£75,000	+15.38%	107 1.08%	37
Collaborative Culture	120	Up 3 places+3	£65,000	+18.18%	106 1.07%	83
Data Analysis	120	Down -26 places-26	£42,500	+2.68%	106 1.07%	62
Systems Engineering	121	Down -39 places-39	£48,950	-2.20%	105 1.06%	12
Business Analysis	122	Up 1 place+1	£40,000	-27.27%	103 1.04%	40
Test Automation	123	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	+9.09%	102 1.03%	56
Workflow	126	Up 12 places+12	£45,000	-34.54%	99 1.00%	65
TDD	128	Down -26 places-26	£70,000	+7.69%	97 0.98%	49
E-Commerce	130	Down -18 places-18	£40,000	-15.78%	95 0.96%	46