Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	5	Up 62 places+62	£40,000	-20.00%	484 14.64%	56
Cybersecurity	8	Up 39 places+39	£37,000	-32.72%	357 10.80%	61
Continuous Improvement	9	Up 17 places+17	£49,250	-18.92%	350 10.58%	84
Problem-Solving	10	Down -5 places-5	£35,000	-30.00%	318 9.62%	150
Agile	11	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	-11.11%	303 9.16%	111
Coaching	13	Up 5 places+5	£27,000	-60.00%	286 8.65%	35
Mentoring	15	Down -4 places-4	£30,500	-44.54%	281 8.50%	67
Software Engineering	17	Down -11 places-11	£65,000	+4.00%	274 8.29%	75
AI	19	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+55.55%	252 7.62%	93
DevOps	20	Down -6 places-6	£57,500	-17.85%	215 6.50%	63
Analytics	22	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	-7.14%	197 5.96%	50
CI/CD	23	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	-9.09%	195 5.90%	76
Asset Management	27	Up 61 places+61	£53,750	+32.71%	168 5.08%	6
Roadmaps	29	Down -12 places-12	£75,000	-	157 4.75%	45
Business Intelligence	31	Up 17 places+17	£55,000	+9.02%	151 4.57%	47
ITIL	37	Up 28 places+28	£38,000	-15.55%	131 3.96%	29
Customer Service	39	Down -9 places-9	£30,000	-23.07%	126 3.81%	58
Test Automation	43	Up 10 places+10	£62,500	+4.16%	116 3.51%	41
B2B	53	Up 49 places+49	£34,000	+0.74%	99 2.99%	35
Telesales	53	Up 57 places+57	£36,500	-18.88%	99 2.99%	16
Customer Experience	53	Down -24 places-24	£39,500	-39.23%	99 2.99%	31
Observability	61	Up 45 places+45	£73,801	+34.18%	88 2.66%	15
Lead Generation	63	Up 47 places+47	£36,500	-18.88%	84 2.54%	22
Decision-Making	65	Down -43 places-43	£57,500	-4.16%	82 2.48%	43
Data Modelling	65	Down -2 places-2	£78,750	+25.00%	82 2.48%	21
Emotional Intelligence	66	New entry-	£27,000	-	81 2.45%	1
ERP	67	Up 20 places+20	£45,000	-28.00%	80 2.42%	27
Project Management	67	Down -46 places-46	£40,000	-28.88%	80 2.42%	46
Ethical Hacking	70	Up 48 places+48	£30,500	-49.16%	76 2.30%	7
Stakeholder Management	72	Down -62 places-62	£76,750	+2.33%	74 2.24%	44
Change Management	76	Down -7 places-7	£30,500	-49.16%	69 2.09%	26
Migration	77	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	-28.00%	68 2.06%	28
Stakeholder Engagement	77	Up 15 places+15	£47,500	-29.62%	68 2.06%	25
Scrum	78	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	+8.33%	66 2.00%	17
Root Cause Analysis	83	Up 24 places+24	£38,000	-30.90%	60 1.81%	16
Event-Driven	83	Up 16 places+16	£49,080	-23.31%	60 1.81%	7
Service Delivery	83	Down -40 places-40	£42,000	-25.33%	60 1.81%	27
Data Integration	84	Up 11 places+11	£77,500	+34.78%	59 1.78%	9
OO	85	Down -2 places-2	£37,500	-50.00%	58 1.75%	18
Infrastructure as Code	87	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	-14.89%	56 1.69%	20
Technology Roadmap	90	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	-5.36%	53 1.60%	5
Process Improvement	90	Down -4 places-4	£81,250	+47.72%	53 1.60%	12
Line Management	91	Down -24 places-24	£30,500	-44.54%	51 1.54%	8
Data Pipeline	92	Up 7 places+7	£65,000	+44.44%	50 1.51%	10
Data Governance	92	Up 6 places+6	£90,000	+10.76%	50 1.51%	15
Business Strategy	94	Down -35 places-35	£70,000	-	48 1.45%	13
Project Delivery	95	Down -32 places-32	£52,500	-12.50%	47 1.42%	40
Data Engineering	95	Down -5 places-5	£86,250	+50.00%	47 1.42%	16
User Experience	96	Down -42 places-42	£53,750	-6.52%	46 1.39%	20
Collaborative Culture	96	Down -3 places-3	£65,000	+30.00%	46 1.39%	26