Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	5	Up 65 places+65	£40,000	-20.00%	499 14.91%	52
Cybersecurity	8	Up 33 places+33	£37,000	-32.72%	362 10.82%	68
Continuous Improvement	9	Up 18 places+18	£48,500	-20.15%	324 9.68%	65
Problem-Solving	12	Down -6 places-6	£35,000	-30.00%	301 9.00%	130
Agile	13	Down -10 places-10	£60,000	-11.11%	294 8.79%	87
Mentoring	14	Down -2 places-2	£30,500	-45.84%	289 8.64%	67
Software Engineering	17	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	+4.00%	277 8.28%	69
Coaching	20	Down -1 place-1	£27,000	-60.00%	254 7.59%	35
AI	21	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	+55.55%	253 7.56%	125
DevOps	23	Down -8 places-8	£55,000	-21.42%	202 6.04%	48
Analytics	26	Down -10 places-10	£65,000	-7.14%	189 5.65%	65
CI/CD	27	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	-9.09%	181 5.41%	59
Roadmaps	32	Down -12 places-12	£76,250	+1.66%	155 4.63%	44
Asset Management	33	Up 55 places+55	£53,750	+32.71%	152 4.54%	5
Business Intelligence	36	Up 10 places+10	£55,000	+9.51%	149 4.45%	19
Customer Service	41	Down -13 places-13	£31,000	-20.51%	129 3.86%	53
ITIL	41	Up 23 places+23	£38,000	-15.55%	129 3.86%	22
Telesales	50	Up 59 places+59	£36,500	-18.88%	105 3.14%	17
Test Automation	50	No change0	£61,250	+2.08%	105 3.14%	30
B2B	52	Up 50 places+50	£34,000	+4.61%	103 3.08%	37
Lead Generation	63	Up 47 places+47	£36,500	-18.88%	89 2.66%	17
Customer Experience	67	Down -38 places-38	£39,500	-43.51%	83 2.48%	28
Decision-Making	68	Down -46 places-46	£57,500	-4.16%	82 2.45%	63
Observability	68	Up 36 places+36	£72,500	+16.00%	82 2.45%	14
Emotional Intelligence	69	New entry-	£27,000	-	81 2.42%	3
Ethical Hacking	71	Up 47 places+47	£30,500	-49.16%	79 2.36%	3
ERP	72	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	-28.00%	78 2.33%	19
Data Modelling	73	Down -12 places-12	£70,000	+11.11%	77 2.30%	9
Stakeholder Management	75	Down -64 places-64	£75,000	-	74 2.21%	30
Change Management	78	Down -10 places-10	£30,500	-49.16%	68 2.03%	18
Scrum	79	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	+13.04%	67 2.00%	12
Stakeholder Engagement	80	Up 11 places+11	£47,500	-29.62%	65 1.94%	21
Migration	81	Down -11 places-11	£45,000	-28.00%	64 1.91%	13
Project Management	82	Down -60 places-60	£40,000	-27.27%	63 1.88%	33
Service Delivery	83	Down -34 places-34	£42,000	-25.33%	62 1.85%	21
Event-Driven	86	Up 14 places+14	£49,080	-23.31%	59 1.76%	3
Root Cause Analysis	87	Up 20 places+20	£38,000	-30.90%	58 1.73%	18
OO	89	Down -5 places-5	£37,500	-50.00%	56 1.67%	14
Data Integration	90	Up 5 places+5	£77,500	+34.78%	54 1.61%	3
Technology Roadmap	91	Down -1 place-1	£65,000	-5.36%	53 1.58%	4
Process Improvement	93	Down -4 places-4	£90,000	+63.63%	50 1.49%	7
Infrastructure as Code	93	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-15.49%	50 1.49%	23
Line Management	94	Down -27 places-27	£30,500	-44.54%	48 1.43%	31
User Experience	94	Down -43 places-43	£56,875	-5.20%	48 1.43%	16
Data Governance	94	Up 4 places+4	£90,000	+10.76%	48 1.43%	36
Data Pipeline	94	Up 5 places+5	£65,000	+44.44%	48 1.43%	10
Project Delivery	96	Down -30 places-30	£52,500	-12.50%	46 1.37%	20
Business Strategy	97	Down -39 places-39	£77,500	+10.71%	45 1.34%	13
Collaborative Culture	98	Down -6 places-6	£65,000	+30.00%	44 1.32%	17
Data Engineering	98	Down -8 places-8	£83,750	+45.65%	44 1.32%	14