Process & Methodology Statistics in the South East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	5	Up 34 places+34	£50,000	+11.11%	1,854 10.66%	300
Problem-Solving	6	Down -3 places-3	£43,000	+1.17%	1,586 9.12%	1,018
Software Engineering	10	Up 37 places+37	£65,000	-7.14%	1,417 8.15%	318
AI	16	Down -4 places-4	£62,500	+25.00%	1,198 6.89%	687
Continuous Improvement	17	Down -7 places-7	£57,500	+7.47%	1,192 6.85%	735
Cybersecurity	19	Up 12 places+12	£55,000	+10.00%	1,075 6.18%	398
Agile	20	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-7.69%	1,032 5.93%	499
Customer Service	25	Down -4 places-4	£30,000	-6.25%	863 4.96%	468
Decision-Making	29	Up 13 places+13	£55,000	+4.76%	787 4.53%	587
DevOps	34	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	-	708 4.07%	284
Mentoring	36	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	-	672 3.86%	380
CI/CD	37	Up 23 places+23	£65,000	-	622 3.58%	310
CRM	38	Up 19 places+19	£42,500	-	606 3.48%	369
Stakeholder Management	40	No change0	£60,781	-2.75%	590 3.39%	716
Full-Stack Development	45	Up 100 places+100	£60,000	-	560 3.22%	130
Analytics	47	Down -34 places-34	£55,000	-	539 3.10%	477
Project Delivery	50	Up 19 places+19	£47,500	-20.37%	484 2.78%	333
Roadmaps	53	Down -20 places-20	£74,000	-1.33%	460 2.64%	323
Project Management	56	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	-21.73%	444 2.55%	333
Technical Leadership	57	Up 11 places+11	£70,000	-1.47%	440 2.53%	202
ITIL	59	Up 3 places+3	£45,500	+9.63%	437 2.51%	167
Infrastructure Engineering	59	Up 91 places+91	£60,000	+33.33%	437 2.51%	115
Validation	61	Down -20 places-20	£59,490	+13.31%	435 2.50%	294
Logistics	63	Up 90 places+90	£42,500	+13.33%	416 2.39%	159
B2B	64	Up 42 places+42	£45,000	+12.50%	414 2.38%	206
Business Intelligence	67	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-	400 2.30%	283
Service Delivery	69	Up 25 places+25	£47,500	-11.21%	397 2.28%	180
Computer Science	72	Down -43 places-43	£55,000	+12.79%	388 2.23%	150
ERP	77	Down -51 places-51	£60,000	+4.34%	364 2.09%	202
Collaborative Working	82	Down -13 places-13	£48,000	+4.34%	336 1.93%	218
Microservices	85	Up 30 places+30	£65,000	-7.14%	326 1.87%	90
Systems Engineering	91	Up 44 places+44	£65,000	+4.83%	307 1.77%	90
Stakeholder Engagement	93	Down -3 places-3	£60,000	-5.88%	299 1.72%	246
Customer Experience	94	Up 8 places+8	£37,500	+41.50%	298 1.71%	225
Machine Learning	97	Down -62 places-62	£63,750	-10.52%	288 1.66%	210
Service Management	99	Up 18 places+18	£40,000	-26.09%	274 1.58%	141
Change Management	106	Down -13 places-13	£57,500	+5.02%	261 1.50%	154
Test Automation	107	Down -4 places-4	£62,000	+12.72%	260 1.49%	152
Risk Management	109	Down -5 places-5	£70,000	+1.81%	258 1.48%	191
Infrastructure as Code	111	Up 70 places+70	£67,500	-12.90%	253 1.45%	150
Process Improvement	112	Up 2 places+2	£45,000	-10.89%	252 1.45%	221
Migration	122	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	+13.04%	233 1.34%	209
Scrum	124	Up 14 places+14	£62,500	+4.16%	231 1.33%	111
Coaching	127	Down -104 places-104	£57,500	-12.05%	227 1.31%	218
E-Commerce	128	Up 5 places+5	£47,500	+35.71%	226 1.30%	94
User Experience	129	Down -8 places-8	£50,000	-9.09%	225 1.29%	127
Collaborative Culture	130	Down -39 places-39	£60,000	+14.28%	224 1.29%	142
Disaster Recovery	132	Up 60 places+60	£50,000	-	221 1.27%	90
ITSM	133	Up 35 places+35	£40,000	-13.51%	218 1.25%	86
Information Security	137	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	+42.09%	210 1.21%	110