Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	6	Up 11 places+11	£65,000	+8.33%	994 10.72%	232
Problem-Solving	8	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	+25.00%	824 8.88%	522
Agile	12	Down -4 places-4	£60,000	+4.34%	727 7.84%	290
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 5 places+5	£55,000	+3.77%	707 7.62%	349
Business Development	14	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	+18.42%	693 7.47%	124
AI	15	Up 6 places+6	£67,500	+22.72%	613 6.61%	320
Cybersecurity	18	Up 6 places+6	£55,000	+13.40%	591 6.37%	224
DevOps	22	Up 14 places+14	£71,250	+9.61%	516 5.56%	158
CI/CD	30	Up 9 places+9	£65,000	+6.12%	468 5.05%	184
Customer Service	35	Down -24 places-24	£32,232	+0.72%	426 4.59%	162
Mentoring	36	Down -20 places-20	£57,000	+14.00%	425 4.58%	235
Infrastructure Engineering	38	Up 56 places+56	£55,000	-4.09%	380 4.10%	67
Stakeholder Management	42	Up 13 places+13	£64,000	+6.66%	333 3.59%	257
Decision-Making	43	Up 13 places+13	£55,000	+22.22%	331 3.57%	226
Full-Stack Development	44	Up 61 places+61	£60,000	-	324 3.49%	80
Analytics	47	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	-	296 3.19%	153
Customer Experience	49	Up 2 places+2	£35,000	+16.66%	284 3.06%	78
Business Intelligence	51	Down -19 places-19	£42,500	-15.00%	277 2.99%	88
Project Delivery	62	Up 8 places+8	£57,500	-	235 2.53%	145
Test Automation	62	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	+14.28%	235 2.53%	105
Service Delivery	66	Up 15 places+15	£50,000	+3.09%	225 2.43%	63
Infrastructure as Code	67	Up 47 places+47	£75,000	-	224 2.42%	91
ERP	69	Down -1 place-1	£55,000	-4.34%	222 2.39%	81
Technical Leadership	71	Up 47 places+47	£72,500	+7.40%	219 2.36%	95
Stakeholder Engagement	76	Up 45 places+45	£60,000	-	209 2.25%	117
ITIL	78	Down -41 places-41	£52,500	+31.25%	207 2.23%	73
Migration	79	Up 23 places+23	£63,000	+15.59%	203 2.19%	84
Project Management	80	Down -47 places-47	£52,500	-8.69%	200 2.16%	163
Containerisation	81	Up 12 places+12	£65,000	-13.33%	199 2.15%	77
Roadmaps	82	Down -19 places-19	£70,000	+3.70%	192 2.07%	131
CRM	84	Down -7 places-7	£40,000	-8.57%	187 2.02%	101
Collaborative Working	87	Down -18 places-18	£55,000	-8.33%	181 1.95%	147
Validation	88	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	+4.56%	180 1.94%	152
Coaching	90	Down -10 places-10	£50,000	-9.09%	178 1.92%	185
Collaborative Culture	94	Up 10 places+10	£45,000	-1.63%	170 1.83%	55
Machine Learning	98	Down -8 places-8	£62,500	+4.16%	159 1.71%	94
Scrum	104	Down -6 places-6	£53,500	-10.83%	149 1.61%	70
SDLC	105	Down -41 places-41	£55,000	-12.00%	144 1.55%	71
Systems Engineering	106	Down -17 places-17	£60,500	+15.01%	143 1.54%	45
Process Improvement	106	Up 22 places+22	£45,000	-7.69%	143 1.54%	75
B2B	108	Down -25 places-25	£42,500	+21.42%	141 1.52%	45
User Experience	111	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	+18.22%	138 1.49%	63
Computer Science	112	Down -69 places-69	£42,500	+26.86%	137 1.48%	64
Microservices	117	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	-	130 1.40%	60
Data Pipeline	117	Up 27 places+27	£70,000	+27.27%	130 1.40%	32
Data Science	120	Down -3 places-3	£61,250	-12.50%	126 1.36%	71
Risk Management	120	Down -58 places-58	£67,500	-	126 1.36%	106
Logistics	130	Down -31 places-31	£50,000	+8.10%	110 1.19%	41
Platform Engineering	132	Up 24 places+24	£70,000	-	108 1.16%	52
Cloud Security	133	Up 8 places+8	£75,000	-6.25%	107 1.15%	38