Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 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%	651 8.95%	170
Cybersecurity	10	Up 24 places+24	£59,250	+31.66%	613 8.43%	161
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£43,500	-5.94%	553 7.60%	296
Business Development	14	Up 76 places+76	£40,000	+5.26%	495 6.80%	116
Continuous Improvement	18	Up 8 places+8	£60,000	+12.37%	470 6.46%	186
AI	20	Up 8 places+8	£62,500	+4.16%	419 5.76%	219
Agile	22	Down -16 places-16	£57,500	-4.16%	398 5.47%	204
Mentoring	25	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	-32.07%	367 5.04%	129
Customer Service	27	Down -7 places-7	£32,500	-6.47%	346 4.76%	112
DevOps	30	Down -16 places-16	£60,000	-9.43%	334 4.59%	137
Business Intelligence	38	Up 9 places+9	£48,000	-6.34%	285 3.92%	76
CI/CD	46	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	-12.44%	237 3.26%	157
Analytics	49	Down -25 places-25	£57,500	+4.54%	222 3.05%	120
Full-Stack Development	55	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	-4.00%	195 2.68%	69
ITIL	56	Down -26 places-26	£37,500	-21.05%	193 2.65%	50
Infrastructure Engineering	57	Up 39 places+39	£55,000	-23.60%	185 2.54%	43
Decision-Making	60	Down -10 places-10	£52,500	-8.20%	178 2.45%	146
Customer Experience	62	Down -13 places-13	£53,300	+15.86%	171 2.35%	33
Project Management	65	Down -50 places-50	£45,000	-18.18%	167 2.30%	86
Test Automation	66	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-6.38%	165 2.27%	65
Roadmaps	67	Down -21 places-21	£61,845	-4.85%	164 2.25%	91
Collaborative Culture	69	Up 42 places+42	£70,000	+42.85%	160 2.20%	56
Service Delivery	73	Down -20 places-20	£41,750	-26.42%	154 2.12%	38
Machine Learning	75	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	-3.15%	150 2.06%	116
B2B	79	Up 6 places+6	£36,000	-20.00%	142 1.95%	55
User Experience	79	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-9.09%	142 1.95%	75
Systems Engineering	79	Down -16 places-16	£70,000	+33.07%	142 1.95%	54
Project Delivery	82	Down -25 places-25	£70,752	+23.04%	139 1.91%	75
Root Cause Analysis	87	Up 41 places+41	£54,150	+8.30%	132 1.81%	20
Migration	89	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-12.00%	128 1.76%	53
Process Improvement	90	Up 11 places+11	£44,250	-17.67%	127 1.75%	40
Data Analysis	91	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	-5.88%	126 1.73%	39
Risk Management	93	Down -61 places-61	£67,500	+25.00%	123 1.69%	45
CRM	93	Down -1 place-1	£42,500	-22.72%	123 1.69%	85
Containerisation	94	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-23.60%	122 1.68%	70
Stakeholder Engagement	99	Up 6 places+6	£65,000	+19.26%	117 1.61%	89
Coaching	100	Down -48 places-48	£47,500	-17.39%	115 1.58%	48
Ethical Hacking	102	Up 48 places+48	£30,500	-54.81%	113 1.55%	9
Computer Science	109	Down -77 places-77	£55,000	+59.42%	104 1.43%	42
Infrastructure as Code	110	Down -23 places-23	£63,225	-12.17%	103 1.42%	67
Logistics	111	Up 10 places+10	£40,000	-37.25%	101 1.39%	34
ERP	112	Down -40 places-40	£45,000	-14.28%	100 1.37%	58
Stakeholder Management	114	Down -70 places-70	£63,750	+10.86%	97 1.33%	84
SDLC	115	Down -27 places-27	£55,000	-4.25%	96 1.32%	42
Digital Marketing	117	Up 3 places+3	£55,000	+20.87%	94 1.29%	7
Service Management	119	Down -68 places-68	£37,500	-28.57%	92 1.26%	27
Data Science	119	Down -58 places-58	£60,000	-14.28%	92 1.26%	59
Information Security	123	Down -24 places-24	£70,000	+8.31%	88 1.21%	30
Technical Leadership	123	Down -34 places-34	£80,000	+11.12%	88 1.21%	57
Validation	124	Down -45 places-45	£55,000	-	87 1.20%	86