Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Jun 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%	723 9.13%	164
Problem-Solving	9	Down -6 places-6	£44,000	+17.33%	628 7.93%	259
Cybersecurity	11	Up 19 places+19	£60,000	+33.33%	576 7.28%	158
Continuous Improvement	12	Up 12 places+12	£55,000	-4.34%	566 7.15%	186
Business Development	14	Up 32 places+32	£45,000	+18.42%	544 6.87%	95
Agile	17	Down -11 places-11	£57,500	-4.16%	519 6.56%	197
AI	19	No change0	£62,500	+4.16%	493 6.23%	183
DevOps	29	Down -7 places-7	£68,400	+5.23%	399 5.04%	88
Mentoring	34	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	-4.25%	373 4.71%	119
CI/CD	35	Down -1 place-1	£60,000	-9.43%	349 4.41%	96
Customer Service	36	Down -22 places-22	£32,500	+3.17%	341 4.31%	107
Business Intelligence	43	Up 1 place+1	£43,500	-24.34%	279 3.52%	73
Infrastructure Engineering	44	Up 52 places+52	£55,000	-3.83%	275 3.47%	69
Full-Stack Development	46	Up 38 places+38	£60,000	-2.04%	262 3.31%	56
Decision-Making	48	Down -2 places-2	£52,500	-8.69%	238 3.01%	157
Analytics	49	Down -31 places-31	£60,000	-	237 2.99%	119
Customer Experience	55	Down -14 places-14	£44,551	+22.89%	213 2.69%	29
Stakeholder Engagement	60	Up 55 places+55	£65,000	+8.33%	202 2.55%	85
Project Delivery	63	Down -8 places-8	£62,500	-3.29%	194 2.45%	86
ITIL	65	Down -29 places-29	£41,750	+4.37%	189 2.39%	54
Test Automation	69	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-8.33%	184 2.32%	41
ERP	72	Down -19 places-19	£50,000	-13.04%	177 2.24%	64
Project Management	73	Down -36 places-36	£47,500	-20.83%	174 2.20%	83
Collaborative Culture	74	Up 30 places+30	£72,500	+45.00%	173 2.19%	24
Roadmaps	76	Down -33 places-33	£69,056	+0.77%	171 2.16%	67
Migration	82	Up 20 places+20	£60,500	+0.83%	161 2.03%	44
Service Delivery	83	Down -6 places-6	£42,500	-25.10%	159 2.01%	46
Containerisation	84	Down -6 places-6	£55,000	-26.66%	158 2.00%	39
Root Cause Analysis	87	Up 52 places+52	£50,500	-10.22%	152 1.92%	24
Infrastructure as Code	87	Up 22 places+22	£75,000	+7.14%	152 1.92%	57
Coaching	89	Down -23 places-23	£50,000	-13.04%	150 1.89%	44
Stakeholder Management	89	Down -43 places-43	£65,000	+4.21%	150 1.89%	121
CRM	90	Down -6 places-6	£37,500	-25.00%	144 1.82%	69
Data Analysis	91	Down -15 places-15	£40,000	-5.88%	141 1.78%	46
Technical Leadership	94	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	+11.11%	138 1.74%	64
SDLC	96	Down -43 places-43	£55,000	-8.33%	136 1.72%	30
Machine Learning	98	Down -48 places-48	£60,000	-11.11%	134 1.69%	80
Systems Engineering	99	Down -32 places-32	£60,500	+15.01%	133 1.68%	42
B2B	102	Down -13 places-13	£45,000	-	129 1.63%	38
User Experience	104	Down -27 places-27	£52,500	-4.54%	126 1.59%	38
Process Improvement	110	Up 5 places+5	£45,000	-14.28%	118 1.49%	54
Data Science	110	Down -47 places-47	£60,000	-15.48%	118 1.49%	62
Scrum	114	Down -43 places-43	£55,000	-8.33%	114 1.44%	41
Ethical Hacking	115	Up 43 places+43	£30,500	-54.81%	112 1.41%	16
Computer Science	115	Down -84 places-84	£42,500	+26.86%	112 1.41%	51
Validation	118	Down -46 places-46	£53,000	-3.63%	107 1.35%	87
Risk Management	120	Down -50 places-50	£70,000	+27.27%	104 1.31%	42
Collaborative Working	124	Down -42 places-42	£36,869	-35.88%	98 1.24%	46
Logistics	125	Down -11 places-11	£42,000	-28.81%	96 1.21%	21
Cloud Security	125	Down -9 places-9	£75,000	-	96 1.21%	23