Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	8	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+8.33%	671 9.03%	194
Cybersecurity	10	Up 25 places+25	£60,000	+33.33%	624 8.40%	172
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£43,500	-3.33%	555 7.47%	289
Business Development	16	Up 72 places+72	£40,000	+5.26%	494 6.65%	109
Continuous Improvement	18	Up 10 places+10	£60,000	+14.28%	479 6.45%	198
AI	20	Up 5 places+5	£62,500	+8.75%	431 5.80%	255
Agile	21	Down -16 places-16	£57,500	-4.16%	403 5.43%	218
Mentoring	24	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	-30.76%	380 5.12%	139
Customer Service	28	Down -10 places-10	£32,500	-	345 4.65%	100
DevOps	29	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-9.43%	342 4.60%	156
Business Intelligence	37	Up 10 places+10	£47,500	-9.09%	292 3.93%	69
CI/CD	43	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	-13.04%	245 3.30%	178
Analytics	48	Down -26 places-26	£58,750	+8.40%	224 3.02%	132
Full-Stack Development	51	Up 9 places+9	£60,000	-4.00%	200 2.69%	78
Infrastructure Engineering	52	Up 44 places+44	£55,000	-18.21%	197 2.65%	44
ITIL	55	Down -24 places-24	£37,500	-21.05%	193 2.60%	58
Decision-Making	58	Down -6 places-6	£52,500	-8.69%	185 2.49%	166
Customer Experience	59	Down -9 places-9	£53,150	+15.54%	177 2.38%	52
Project Management	62	Down -47 places-47	£45,000	-18.18%	168 2.26%	95
Test Automation	62	Down -23 places-23	£55,000	-8.33%	168 2.26%	68
Roadmaps	63	Down -18 places-18	£62,172	-6.15%	166 2.24%	103
Collaborative Culture	67	Up 42 places+42	£70,000	+47.36%	159 2.14%	62
Service Delivery	70	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	-25.10%	153 2.06%	38
Machine Learning	77	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	-7.69%	144 1.94%	108
B2B	78	Up 7 places+7	£36,000	-20.00%	142 1.91%	55
User Experience	78	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-9.09%	142 1.91%	73
Project Delivery	78	Down -21 places-21	£72,500	+26.08%	142 1.91%	78
Systems Engineering	79	Down -19 places-19	£70,000	+33.07%	141 1.90%	52
Root Cause Analysis	84	Up 43 places+43	£54,150	+8.30%	132 1.78%	33
Process Improvement	86	Up 12 places+12	£44,250	-15.71%	128 1.72%	37
CRM	87	Up 3 places+3	£42,500	-22.72%	127 1.71%	72
Data Analysis	88	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	-5.88%	126 1.70%	43
Risk Management	89	Down -55 places-55	£67,500	+25.00%	125 1.68%	60
Migration	89	Down -5 places-5	£60,000	-5.06%	125 1.68%	65
Containerisation	92	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-23.60%	122 1.64%	65
Stakeholder Engagement	92	Up 11 places+11	£65,000	+20.37%	122 1.64%	98
Ethical Hacking	93	Up 56 places+56	£30,500	-54.81%	120 1.62%	6
Coaching	94	Down -39 places-39	£47,500	-17.39%	119 1.60%	47
Infrastructure as Code	104	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	-9.71%	106 1.43%	79
Logistics	105	Up 16 places+16	£40,000	-37.25%	105 1.41%	31
Computer Science	109	Down -77 places-77	£55,000	+61.76%	101 1.36%	52
ERP	109	Down -38 places-38	£45,000	-14.28%	101 1.36%	62
Stakeholder Management	110	Down -65 places-65	£65,000	+13.04%	100 1.35%	88
SDLC	112	Down -34 places-34	£55,000	-4.25%	97 1.31%	36
Service Management	114	Down -61 places-61	£37,500	-28.57%	94 1.27%	33
Data Science	116	Down -57 places-57	£60,000	-14.28%	92 1.24%	68
Digital Marketing	119	No change0	£55,000	+20.87%	89 1.20%	14
Technical Leadership	119	Down -32 places-32	£80,000	+11.12%	89 1.20%	65
Information Security	121	Down -24 places-24	£70,000	+8.31%	87 1.17%	34
Validation	121	Down -46 places-46	£55,000	+0.91%	87 1.17%	80