Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	2	Up 36 places+36	£50,000	-9.09%	2,047 19.47%	170
AI	3	Up 53 places+53	£70,000	-6.66%	2,009 19.10%	306
User Experience	6	Up 38 places+38	£57,500	+4.54%	1,661 15.80%	86
Machine Learning	8	Up 74 places+74	£66,250	-15.60%	1,567 14.90%	112
Web Development	10	Up 146 places+146	£40,000	+23.07%	1,529 14.54%	39
Business Development	23	Up 87 places+87	£50,000	+25.00%	732 6.96%	207
Problem-Solving	24	Down -14 places-14	£44,000	-8.33%	663 6.30%	374
Software Engineering	26	Down -4 places-4	£70,000	+4.41%	585 5.56%	175
Agile	27	Down -25 places-25	£63,076	-2.96%	561 5.33%	253
Mentoring	28	No change0	£55,000	-15.38%	544 5.17%	201
Continuous Improvement	34	Up 8 places+8	£55,000	-4.34%	495 4.71%	225
Analytics	37	Up 8 places+8	£60,000	+9.09%	422 4.01%	211
DevOps	41	Down -4 places-4	£70,400	+1.01%	379 3.60%	157
Decision-Making	44	Up 17 places+17	£55,000	-8.33%	364 3.46%	230
Stakeholder Management	47	Up 12 places+12	£57,500	-10.01%	345 3.28%	153
Customer Service	48	Up 8 places+8	£32,350	-0.46%	339 3.22%	131
CI/CD	52	Down -4 places-4	£70,000	-	309 2.94%	179
Business Intelligence	55	Up 5 places+5	£47,500	-9.52%	298 2.83%	147
CRM	59	Up 38 places+38	£40,000	-5.88%	263 2.50%	143
Roadmaps	64	Down -7 places-7	£73,500	+1.37%	243 2.31%	126
Project Management	65	Down -15 places-15	£47,271	-13.72%	240 2.28%	140
Coaching	67	Down -13 places-13	£62,500	+14.06%	235 2.23%	92
Full-Stack Development	68	Up 10 places+10	£67,500	+10.20%	232 2.21%	105
B2B	71	Up 100 places+100	£41,000	-18.00%	216 2.05%	130
Stakeholder Engagement	79	Up 71 places+71	£62,500	+25.00%	193 1.84%	90
ITIL	80	Down -16 places-16	£45,497	-3.19%	191 1.82%	63
Service Delivery	82	Down -31 places-31	£40,000	-20.00%	185 1.76%	61
Infrastructure Engineering	90	Up 8 places+8	£50,000	-	165 1.57%	48
ERP	92	Down -5 places-5	£55,000	+10.00%	162 1.54%	80
Project Delivery	93	Down -27 places-27	£55,000	-	161 1.53%	81
Logistics	94	Up 74 places+74	£53,757	+2.39%	159 1.51%	45
Scrum	99	Down -41 places-41	£67,500	-	147 1.40%	44
Collaborative Working	100	Up 2 places+2	£50,000	-	146 1.39%	61
Infrastructure as Code	101	Up 15 places+15	£74,651	+2.96%	145 1.38%	82
Microservices	103	Down -62 places-62	£70,000	-3.44%	143 1.36%	74
Validation	106	Up 30 places+30	£58,000	+21.63%	138 1.31%	78
Migration	116	Down -31 places-31	£60,000	+9.09%	123 1.17%	92
Fintech	122	Up 22 places+22	£75,000	+11.11%	117 1.11%	42
Customer Experience	124	Down -18 places-18	£37,440	-25.12%	115 1.09%	68
E-Commerce	125	Up 3 places+3	£45,000	-5.26%	114 1.08%	60
Workflow	126	Up 25 places+25	£45,000	-34.54%	112 1.07%	58
Data Governance	127	Up 47 places+47	£55,000	-4.34%	111 1.06%	54
Process Improvement	127	Down -39 places-39	£45,497	-3.19%	111 1.06%	52
Test Automation	129	Down -46 places-46	£60,750	+10.45%	107 1.02%	69
Collaborative Culture	131	Up 3 places+3	£63,750	+27.50%	105 1.00%	65
Data Science	131	Up 32 places+32	£70,000	+18.14%	105 1.00%	68
TDD	132	Down -37 places-37	£67,500	+3.84%	104 0.99%	36
Change Management	133	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	-18.18%	103 0.98%	55
Data Analysis	134	Down -27 places-27	£42,500	+3.65%	102 0.97%	64
Data Engineering	136	Down -47 places-47	£90,000	+28.57%	99 0.94%	50