Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 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%	1,392 10.87%	79
Problem-Solving	6	Down 4 places-4	£46,587	-1.92%	1,128 8.81%	304
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 13 places+13	£53,500	+9.23%	1,097 8.57%	237
AI	10	Down 2 places-2	£65,000	+13.04%	1,033 8.07%	726
Software Engineering	13	Up 16 places+16	£70,000	-	997 7.79%	161
Agile	17	Down 8 places-8	£60,000	-	861 6.72%	206
DevOps	19	Down 6 places-6	£67,500	+3.84%	714 5.58%	138
Stakeholder Management	21	Up 45 places+45	£60,000	+6.66%	689 5.38%	182
Decision-Making	24	Up 28 places+28	£52,500	+10.52%	648 5.06%	148
Mentoring	25	Down 6 places-6	£62,500	+4.16%	643 5.02%	164
Customer Service	27	No change0	£32,000	+10.34%	611 4.77%	131
Cybersecurity	29	Up 34 places+34	£57,250	+27.22%	592 4.62%	191
CI/CD	30	Up 13 places+13	£65,500	+0.76%	576 4.50%	164
Analytics	34	Up 27 places+27	£60,000	+14.28%	487 3.80%	143
Full-Stack Development	39	Up 58 places+58	£70,000	+7.69%	462 3.61%	85
CRM	43	Up 15 places+15	£40,000	+6.66%	425 3.32%	60
Roadmaps	46	Up 26 places+26	£65,576	-2.85%	400 3.12%	104
Stakeholder Engagement	49	Up 53 places+53	£55,000	-3.08%	383 2.99%	76
Infrastructure Engineering	50	Down 26 places-26	£55,000	+2.32%	380 2.97%	47
Coaching	52	Up 20 places+20	£62,788	+11.62%	366 2.86%	117
Collaborative Working	55	Up 53 places+53	£44,000	-2.22%	309 2.41%	64
Validation	56	Up 77 places+77	£55,000	+4.76%	304 2.37%	92
Project Delivery	59	Up 33 places+33	£50,000	-13.04%	298 2.33%	79
ERP	61	Up 1 place+1	£57,500	+15.00%	292 2.28%	47
Business Intelligence	62	Up 5 places+5	£50,000	-	291 2.27%	95
Service Delivery	66	Up 14 places+14	£47,000	+4.44%	281 2.19%	58
Customer Experience	68	Up 57 places+57	£39,361	-1.59%	270 2.11%	64
ITIL	71	Up 5 places+5	£47,500	+18.75%	265 2.07%	59
Infrastructure as Code	72	Up 54 places+54	£70,000	+7.69%	263 2.05%	89
Technical Leadership	75	Up 51 places+51	£75,000	+7.14%	254 1.98%	87
Collaborative Culture	77	Up 47 places+47	£60,000	-	243 1.90%	53
Project Management	78	Down 13 places-13	£51,000	+8.51%	241 1.88%	87
B2B	81	Up 17 places+17	£45,000	+5.88%	236 1.84%	40
Migration	85	Up 14 places+14	£63,500	+19.81%	229 1.79%	58
Workflow	87	Up 39 places+39	£52,000	+22.35%	224 1.75%	50
Platform Engineering	91	Down 52 places-52	£70,000	+5.66%	218 1.70%	40
Risk Management	94	Down 72 places-72	£70,000	+13.82%	208 1.62%	45
Test Automation	95	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	-	207 1.62%	87
Process Improvement	99	Down 14 places-14	£50,000	-	199 1.55%	43
User Experience	100	Down 44 places-44	£51,000	-2.85%	197 1.54%	46
Logistics	101	Up 35 places+35	£55,000	+10.00%	193 1.51%	38
Microservices	106	Down 49 places-49	£80,000	+14.28%	186 1.45%	51
Change Management	107	Down 2 places-2	£46,587	-1.92%	185 1.44%	53
E-Commerce	108	Up 14 places+14	£40,000	-27.27%	184 1.44%	24
Data Analysis	113	Up 19 places+19	£49,000	+17.36%	176 1.37%	40
Digital Transformation Programme	115	Up 62 places+62	£59,000	+2.60%	172 1.34%	32
Data Science	117	Up 27 places+27	£80,750	+37.44%	169 1.32%	57
Data Engineering	117	Down 15 places-15	£75,000	+27.11%	169 1.32%	39
Service Management	119	Up 44 places+44	£41,000	-8.88%	165 1.29%	56
Data Modelling	121	Up 29 places+29	£62,750	+4.58%	163 1.27%	53