Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	4	Up 39 places+39	£50,000	+25.00%	1,354 10.54%	170
Problem-Solving	6	Down 1 place-1	£46,000	-3.15%	1,146 8.92%	627
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 20 places+20	£53,076	+8.36%	1,130 8.80%	559
AI	8	Down 5 places-5	£65,000	+13.04%	1,047 8.15%	940
Software Engineering	10	Up 42 places+42	£70,000	-	1,013 7.89%	464
Agile	16	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	-	878 6.84%	483
DevOps	18	Up 7 places+7	£68,724	+5.72%	720 5.61%	305
Stakeholder Management	20	Up 47 places+47	£60,000	+4.34%	712 5.54%	335
Decision-Making	23	Up 28 places+28	£52,500	+11.70%	645 5.02%	359
Mentoring	24	Up 8 places+8	£62,500	+4.16%	641 4.99%	426
Customer Service	26	Up 5 places+5	£32,000	+10.34%	614 4.78%	166
Cybersecurity	27	Down 21 places-21	£57,500	+27.77%	600 4.67%	358
CI/CD	29	Up 18 places+18	£65,500	+0.76%	573 4.46%	405
Analytics	35	Up 33 places+33	£57,500	+13.86%	477 3.71%	402
Full-Stack Development	39	Up 75 places+75	£70,000	+7.69%	445 3.47%	164
CRM	43	Up 15 places+15	£40,000	+3.22%	417 3.25%	185
Roadmaps	45	Up 29 places+29	£65,671	-2.70%	408 3.18%	354
Stakeholder Engagement	48	Up 53 places+53	£55,000	-4.34%	393 3.06%	155
Infrastructure Engineering	50	Down 12 places-12	£55,000	+2.32%	378 2.94%	97
Coaching	51	Up 18 places+18	£62,788	+9.19%	374 2.91%	262
Validation	53	Up 81 places+81	£55,000	+4.76%	319 2.48%	188
Collaborative Working	54	Up 56 places+56	£44,000	-2.22%	316 2.46%	137
Project Delivery	55	Up 37 places+37	£50,000	-13.04%	313 2.44%	160
ERP	58	Up 10 places+10	£55,679	+7.59%	292 2.27%	115
Business Intelligence	58	Up 13 places+13	£50,000	-	292 2.27%	211
Service Delivery	62	Up 21 places+21	£47,000	+4.44%	285 2.22%	123
ITIL	63	Up 17 places+17	£46,970	+17.42%	282 2.20%	119
Customer Experience	64	Up 59 places+59	£39,722	-0.69%	278 2.16%	147
Infrastructure as Code	67	Up 58 places+58	£70,000	+7.69%	267 2.08%	204
Technical Leadership	70	Up 50 places+50	£75,000	+7.14%	262 2.04%	212
Project Management	74	Down 8 places-8	£51,000	+13.33%	245 1.91%	162
Collaborative Culture	74	Up 48 places+48	£60,000	-	245 1.91%	130
Migration	78	Up 37 places+37	£62,500	+17.09%	236 1.84%	154
B2B	81	Up 15 places+15	£47,000	+10.58%	231 1.80%	118
Platform Engineering	85	Down 23 places-23	£70,000	+3.70%	220 1.71%	138
Risk Management	86	Down 49 places-49	£67,500	+9.75%	218 1.70%	120
Workflow	87	Up 39 places+39	£52,000	+22.35%	217 1.69%	124
Test Automation	92	Up 27 places+27	£60,000	-	208 1.62%	230
Process Improvement	94	Down 3 places-3	£50,000	-	205 1.60%	81
User Experience	95	Down 85 places-85	£51,750	-1.42%	203 1.58%	141
Logistics	105	Up 35 places+35	£52,700	+5.40%	189 1.47%	71
Change Management	106	Up 3 places+3	£46,587	-1.92%	186 1.45%	97
Data Analysis	108	Up 21 places+21	£48,000	+12.94%	183 1.43%	84
E-Commerce	110	Up 20 places+20	£40,000	-25.58%	180 1.40%	59
Microservices	110	Down 20 places-20	£82,500	+17.85%	180 1.40%	128
Digital Transformation Programme	111	Up 61 places+61	£59,500	+3.47%	177 1.38%	54
Data Science	112	Up 30 places+30	£82,500	+37.50%	173 1.35%	152
Service Management	113	Up 46 places+46	£41,000	-8.88%	172 1.34%	105
Data Engineering	114	Up 35 places+35	£75,000	+25.00%	171 1.33%	119
Business Strategy	116	Down 8 places-8	£65,000	+18.18%	165 1.28%	84