Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	7	Up 3 places+3	£65,000	+8.33%	762 9.27%	511
Problem-Solving	9	Down -6 places-6	£44,000	+17.33%	675 8.21%	642
Continuous Improvement	11	Up 12 places+12	£55,000	-4.34%	620 7.54%	502
Business Development	12	Up 28 places+28	£45,000	+18.42%	602 7.33%	175
Cybersecurity	13	Up 15 places+15	£57,500	+28.36%	599 7.29%	329
Agile	14	Down -7 places-7	£57,500	-4.16%	592 7.20%	691
AI	18	Up 3 places+3	£62,500	+4.16%	534 6.50%	719
DevOps	28	Down -3 places-3	£70,000	+2.15%	436 5.31%	289
Mentoring	33	Down -13 places-13	£55,000	+10.00%	388 4.72%	349
CI/CD	35	Up 3 places+3	£60,000	-10.12%	379 4.61%	361
Customer Service	36	Down -23 places-23	£32,500	+3.17%	366 4.45%	140
Infrastructure Engineering	41	Up 54 places+54	£52,500	-8.20%	294 3.58%	83
Business Intelligence	42	Down -1 place-1	£43,500	-20.90%	291 3.54%	133
Full-Stack Development	43	Up 50 places+50	£60,000	-	286 3.48%	111
Decision-Making	47	Up 1 place+1	£52,500	+10.52%	260 3.16%	419
Analytics	48	Down -31 places-31	£60,000	-	252 3.07%	457
Customer Experience	50	Down -8 places-8	£43,525	+24.35%	238 2.90%	197
Stakeholder Engagement	58	Up 63 places+63	£67,500	+12.50%	219 2.66%	150
Project Delivery	60	Up 3 places+3	£62,500	-3.29%	211 2.57%	159
Stakeholder Management	63	Down -10 places-10	£65,000	+4.21%	200 2.43%	338
ITIL	64	Down -28 places-28	£37,939	-5.15%	198 2.41%	116
ERP	64	Down -6 places-6	£50,500	-15.83%	198 2.41%	57
Test Automation	67	Down -20 places-20	£55,000	-8.33%	193 2.35%	161
Collaborative Culture	72	Up 34 places+34	£71,325	+42.65%	185 2.25%	116
Migration	74	Up 28 places+28	£60,000	-	182 2.21%	107
Roadmaps	76	Down -24 places-24	£69,973	+2.11%	180 2.19%	370
Project Management	77	Down -40 places-40	£47,500	-26.92%	178 2.17%	172
Infrastructure as Code	79	Up 39 places+39	£75,000	+3.44%	176 2.14%	212
Containerisation	80	Up 1 place+1	£57,500	-23.33%	174 2.12%	133
Service Delivery	83	No change0	£42,500	-22.72%	167 2.03%	92
CRM	85	Up 2 places+2	£37,500	-25.00%	162 1.97%	139
Coaching	88	Down -13 places-13	£50,000	-13.04%	157 1.91%	180
Root Cause Analysis	92	Up 53 places+53	£52,500	-8.69%	149 1.81%	79
Data Analysis	93	Down -9 places-9	£40,000	-5.88%	148 1.80%	106
Machine Learning	95	Down -35 places-35	£60,000	-12.72%	144 1.75%	355
Technical Leadership	95	Up 15 places+15	£75,000	-	144 1.75%	183
SDLC	99	Down -39 places-39	£56,000	-16.41%	136 1.65%	161
B2B	102	Down -3 places-3	£42,500	+21.42%	133 1.62%	104
Scrum	104	Down -15 places-15	£53,500	-10.83%	130 1.58%	136
User Experience	105	Down -14 places-14	£52,500	-4.54%	127 1.55%	175
Process Improvement	108	Up 20 places+20	£45,000	-14.28%	124 1.51%	95
Systems Engineering	109	Down -33 places-33	£60,500	+15.01%	123 1.50%	96
Data Science	114	Down -40 places-40	£60,000	-20.00%	117 1.42%	249
Collaborative Working	116	Down -36 places-36	£38,738	-41.63%	114 1.39%	98
Computer Science	116	Down -83 places-83	£42,500	+25.92%	114 1.39%	201
Ethical Hacking	117	Up 50 places+50	£32,000	-52.59%	113 1.38%	26
Validation	117	Down -32 places-32	£52,750	+0.28%	113 1.38%	175
Microservices	119	Down -46 places-46	£55,000	-21.71%	109 1.33%	185
Logistics	122	Down -3 places-3	£41,000	-36.92%	104 1.27%	38
Risk Management	124	Down -53 places-53	£67,500	+1.88%	102 1.24%	214