Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	5	Up 70 places+70	£40,000	-20.00%	496 14.78%	55
Cybersecurity	8	Up 34 places+34	£37,000	-32.72%	364 10.84%	52
Continuous Improvement	9	Up 19 places+19	£48,500	-20.15%	327 9.74%	83
Problem-Solving	10	Down -4 places-4	£35,000	-30.00%	311 9.26%	135
Agile	12	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	-11.11%	296 8.82%	117
Mentoring	13	Down -1 place-1	£30,500	-45.20%	289 8.61%	67
Software Engineering	17	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	+4.00%	275 8.19%	89
Coaching	19	No change0	£27,000	-60.00%	255 7.60%	39
AI	20	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	+55.55%	254 7.57%	120
DevOps	22	Down -6 places-6	£57,500	-17.85%	206 6.14%	61
Analytics	24	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	-7.14%	189 5.63%	51
CI/CD	25	Up 1 place+1	£60,000	-9.09%	185 5.51%	83
Roadmaps	30	Down -10 places-10	£76,250	+1.66%	155 4.62%	54
Asset Management	31	Up 62 places+62	£53,750	+32.71%	153 4.56%	8
Business Intelligence	33	Up 16 places+16	£55,000	+9.51%	150 4.47%	38
ITIL	38	Up 30 places+30	£38,000	-15.55%	130 3.87%	32
Customer Service	39	Down -10 places-10	£30,000	-18.91%	129 3.84%	56
Test Automation	48	Up 5 places+5	£62,500	+4.16%	106 3.16%	37
Telesales	49	Up 66 places+66	£36,500	-18.88%	105 3.13%	16
B2B	50	Up 56 places+56	£34,000	+0.74%	104 3.10%	37
Lead Generation	62	Up 53 places+53	£36,500	-18.88%	89 2.65%	18
Observability	64	Up 46 places+46	£73,801	+13.97%	86 2.56%	19
Decision-Making	66	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	-4.16%	83 2.47%	47
Customer Experience	66	Down -36 places-36	£39,500	-43.51%	83 2.47%	31
Emotional Intelligence	68	New entry-	£27,000	-	81 2.41%	1
Ethical Hacking	69	Up 54 places+54	£30,500	-49.16%	80 2.38%	5
ERP	70	Up 23 places+23	£45,000	-28.00%	79 2.35%	27
Data Modelling	72	Down -6 places-6	£70,000	+11.11%	77 2.29%	23
Stakeholder Management	73	Down -62 places-62	£75,000	-	75 2.23%	35
Change Management	77	Down -4 places-4	£30,500	-49.16%	69 2.06%	24
Migration	79	Down -3 places-3	£45,000	-28.00%	66 1.97%	24
Scrum	79	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	+13.04%	66 1.97%	19
Stakeholder Engagement	80	Up 16 places+16	£47,500	-29.62%	65 1.94%	31
Project Management	82	Down -60 places-60	£40,000	-27.27%	63 1.88%	47
Service Delivery	82	Down -41 places-41	£42,000	-25.33%	63 1.88%	27
Event-Driven	85	Up 20 places+20	£49,080	-23.31%	59 1.76%	6
Root Cause Analysis	86	Up 26 places+26	£38,000	-30.90%	58 1.73%	21
OO	87	Up 2 places+2	£37,500	-50.00%	56 1.67%	25
Data Integration	88	Up 12 places+12	£77,500	+34.78%	54 1.61%	6
Infrastructure as Code	88	Down -3 places-3	£60,000	-15.49%	54 1.61%	31
Technology Roadmap	89	Up 7 places+7	£65,000	-5.36%	53 1.58%	5
Process Improvement	90	Up 4 places+4	£81,250	+47.72%	52 1.55%	11
Line Management	92	Down -20 places-20	£30,500	-44.54%	49 1.46%	6
Project Delivery	93	Down -23 places-23	£52,500	-12.50%	48 1.43%	40
Data Pipeline	93	Up 11 places+11	£65,000	+44.44%	48 1.43%	16
User Experience	93	Down -39 places-39	£56,875	-1.08%	48 1.43%	23
Data Governance	93	Up 10 places+10	£90,000	+10.76%	48 1.43%	17
Business Strategy	94	Down -33 places-33	£77,500	+10.71%	46 1.37%	12
Collaborative Culture	94	Up 4 places+4	£65,000	+30.00%	46 1.37%	20
Data Engineering	96	Down -1 place-1	£83,750	+45.65%	44 1.31%	21