Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 45 places+45	£55,000	-2.65%	1,508 13.77%	216
AI	3	Up 43 places+43	£70,000	+3.70%	1,503 13.73%	393
User Experience	9	Up 30 places+30	£55,000	-4.34%	1,104 10.08%	91
Machine Learning	11	Up 47 places+47	£68,750	+5.76%	1,022 9.34%	134
Web Development	12	Up 170 places+170	£40,000	+1.26%	963 8.80%	25
Business Development	20	Up 102 places+102	£50,000	+25.00%	887 8.10%	258
Problem-Solving	22	Down -15 places-15	£45,000	-4.25%	695 6.35%	370
Software Engineering	24	Down -2 places-2	£67,500	-	648 5.92%	220
Agile	29	Down -28 places-28	£65,000	-	589 5.38%	311
Mentoring	31	Down -2 places-2	£56,100	-16.31%	576 5.26%	251
Continuous Improvement	32	Up 19 places+19	£55,000	+0.91%	563 5.14%	253
Analytics	35	Up 22 places+22	£60,000	+14.28%	476 4.35%	227
DevOps	38	Down -17 places-17	£70,000	-	448 4.09%	177
Decision-Making	40	Up 44 places+44	£55,000	-8.33%	422 3.85%	243
CI/CD	43	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	-	382 3.49%	212
Stakeholder Management	44	Up 38 places+38	£55,000	-12.00%	373 3.41%	190
Customer Service	45	Up 33 places+33	£33,000	+4.76%	367 3.35%	141
Business Intelligence	53	Up 35 places+35	£47,500	-9.52%	319 2.91%	110
CRM	54	Up 65 places+65	£40,000	-5.88%	318 2.90%	167
Full-Stack Development	55	Up 33 places+33	£65,000	-	302 2.76%	100
Roadmaps	57	Up 33 places+33	£68,714	-8.22%	288 2.63%	192
Coaching	65	Up 20 places+20	£62,788	+14.59%	246 2.25%	151
Project Management	68	Up 5 places+5	£52,250	-0.47%	236 2.16%	129
B2B	71	Up 117 places+117	£40,000	-27.27%	227 2.07%	139
Stakeholder Engagement	82	Up 84 places+84	£63,875	+27.75%	201 1.84%	104
ITIL	82	Up 2 places+2	£45,000	-4.07%	201 1.84%	51
Service Delivery	83	Up 8 places+8	£40,000	-20.00%	200 1.83%	61
Infrastructure Engineering	84	Down -40 places-40	£50,000	-3.84%	195 1.78%	51
Logistics	88	Up 89 places+89	£60,000	+71.42%	184 1.68%	53
ERP	89	Up 16 places+16	£57,500	+22.34%	183 1.67%	85
Infrastructure as Code	90	Up 54 places+54	£73,401	+1.24%	178 1.63%	83
Project Delivery	95	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	-1.78%	163 1.49%	106
Validation	96	Up 55 places+55	£55,000	+15.34%	162 1.48%	90
Microservices	97	Down -63 places-63	£75,000	+5.26%	160 1.46%	88
Collaborative Working	103	Up 25 places+25	£50,000	-	153 1.40%	76
Scrum	104	Down -43 places-43	£67,500	-5.26%	152 1.39%	55
Migration	106	Down -6 places-6	£60,000	-	149 1.36%	78
E-Commerce	111	Up 39 places+39	£45,000	-10.00%	140 1.28%	49
Test Automation	114	Down -22 places-22	£60,000	-7.69%	137 1.25%	78
Workflow	115	Up 66 places+66	£45,000	-30.76%	136 1.24%	61
Customer Experience	117	Up 20 places+20	£37,440	+7.34%	132 1.21%	76
Fintech	118	Up 48 places+48	£80,000	+18.51%	131 1.20%	31
Platform Engineering	118	Down -58 places-58	£72,500	+3.57%	131 1.20%	54
Collaborative Culture	120	Up 36 places+36	£60,000	+20.00%	127 1.16%	93
TDD	125	Down -2 places-2	£66,124	-5.53%	119 1.09%	43
Process Improvement	127	Down -21 places-21	£45,000	-4.25%	117 1.07%	57
Data Modelling	128	Up 27 places+27	£64,000	+21.90%	116 1.06%	69
Data Science	129	Up 50 places+50	£75,000	+30.43%	115 1.05%	92
Data Engineering	129	Down -46 places-46	£90,000	+33.33%	115 1.05%	60
Actionable Insight	131	Up 54 places+54	£47,025	-5.95%	112 1.02%	43