Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

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
Software Engineering	8	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+8.33%	654 8.97%	199
Cybersecurity	10	Up 26 places+26	£60,000	+33.33%	613 8.41%	173
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£43,500	-5.94%	556 7.63%	299
Business Development	14	Up 80 places+80	£40,000	+5.26%	495 6.79%	106
Continuous Improvement	16	Up 10 places+10	£60,000	+13.32%	474 6.50%	172
AI	18	Up 9 places+9	£62,500	+4.16%	419 5.75%	228
Agile	19	Down -12 places-12	£57,500	-4.16%	398 5.46%	202
Mentoring	21	No change0	£45,000	-30.76%	369 5.06%	136
Customer Service	23	Down -3 places-3	£32,500	-5.79%	350 4.80%	118
DevOps	26	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	-7.69%	334 4.58%	147
Business Intelligence	34	Up 12 places+12	£48,500	-5.36%	287 3.94%	93
CI/CD	42	Down -16 places-16	£60,000	-12.44%	238 3.26%	172
Analytics	45	Down -22 places-22	£57,500	+6.09%	222 3.05%	145
Full-Stack Development	51	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	-4.00%	196 2.69%	75
ITIL	52	Down -21 places-21	£37,250	-21.57%	194 2.66%	48
Infrastructure Engineering	53	Up 50 places+50	£55,000	-23.60%	188 2.58%	53
Decision-Making	56	Down -6 places-6	£52,500	-8.69%	181 2.48%	152
Customer Experience	57	Down -9 places-9	£53,000	+15.21%	173 2.37%	36
Project Management	60	Down -45 places-45	£45,000	-18.18%	167 2.29%	94
Test Automation	60	Down -22 places-22	£55,000	-4.34%	167 2.29%	70
Roadmaps	62	Down -17 places-17	£61,845	-4.85%	164 2.25%	93
Collaborative Culture	64	Up 53 places+53	£70,000	+47.36%	159 2.18%	58
Service Delivery	66	Down -10 places-10	£41,750	-26.42%	156 2.14%	37
Machine Learning	71	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-6.11%	148 2.03%	118
B2B	76	Up 14 places+14	£36,000	-20.00%	141 1.93%	52
Systems Engineering	76	Down -9 places-9	£70,000	+33.07%	141 1.93%	57
User Experience	77	Down -3 places-3	£50,000	-9.09%	140 1.92%	72
Project Delivery	78	Down -20 places-20	£71,626	+24.56%	138 1.89%	79
Root Cause Analysis	81	Up 54 places+54	£54,150	+8.30%	132 1.81%	25
Migration	83	Up 5 places+5	£55,000	-12.00%	128 1.76%	78
Process Improvement	84	Up 23 places+23	£44,250	-17.67%	127 1.74%	36
Data Analysis	86	Down -5 places-5	£40,000	-5.88%	124 1.70%	43
CRM	86	Up 9 places+9	£42,500	-22.72%	124 1.70%	80
Risk Management	87	Down -54 places-54	£67,500	+25.00%	123 1.69%	50
Containerisation	88	Down -20 places-20	£55,000	-23.60%	122 1.67%	71
Stakeholder Engagement	90	Up 21 places+21	£65,000	+20.37%	119 1.63%	89
Coaching	91	Down -38 places-38	£47,500	-17.39%	118 1.62%	47
Ethical Hacking	94	Up 63 places+63	£30,500	-54.81%	113 1.55%	9
Infrastructure as Code	101	Down -7 places-7	£63,225	-12.17%	103 1.41%	70
Computer Science	101	Down -69 places-69	£55,000	+61.76%	103 1.41%	50
Logistics	103	Up 26 places+26	£40,000	-37.25%	101 1.39%	33
ERP	104	Down -27 places-27	£45,000	-14.28%	100 1.37%	65
Stakeholder Management	106	Down -62 places-62	£65,000	+13.04%	98 1.34%	94
SDLC	107	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	-4.25%	97 1.33%	38
Digital Marketing	111	Up 16 places+16	£55,000	+20.87%	93 1.28%	8
Service Management	111	Down -60 places-60	£37,500	-28.57%	93 1.28%	24
Validation	114	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-	90 1.23%	80
Data Science	115	Down -52 places-52	£60,000	-14.28%	89 1.22%	67
Technical Leadership	115	Down -21 places-21	£80,000	+11.12%	89 1.22%	57
Cost Control	117	Up 35 places+35	£54,000	+5.98%	87 1.19%	6