Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Apr 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%	661 9.02%	194
Cybersecurity	9	Up 30 places+30	£60,000	+33.33%	613 8.37%	174
Problem-Solving	10	Down -7 places-7	£43,500	-4.39%	554 7.56%	295
Business Development	13	Up 81 places+81	£40,000	+5.26%	494 6.74%	104
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 11 places+11	£60,000	+12.37%	475 6.48%	171
AI	19	Up 7 places+7	£62,500	+8.75%	420 5.73%	219
Agile	20	Down -15 places-15	£57,500	-4.16%	399 5.44%	202
Mentoring	24	Down -3 places-3	£45,000	-32.07%	370 5.05%	138
Customer Service	26	Down -7 places-7	£32,500	-	352 4.80%	116
DevOps	29	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-11.11%	335 4.57%	149
Business Intelligence	38	Up 13 places+13	£47,500	-7.31%	287 3.92%	87
CI/CD	45	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	-13.04%	240 3.28%	176
Analytics	48	Down -25 places-25	£57,500	+6.09%	222 3.03%	145
Full-Stack Development	53	Up 15 places+15	£60,000	-4.00%	198 2.70%	80
ITIL	55	Down -22 places-22	£37,000	-22.10%	191 2.61%	44
Infrastructure Engineering	56	Up 46 places+46	£55,000	-18.21%	190 2.59%	51
Decision-Making	60	Down -5 places-5	£52,500	-8.69%	180 2.46%	149
Customer Experience	61	Down -8 places-8	£50,999	+10.86%	174 2.37%	36
Project Management	65	Down -50 places-50	£45,000	-18.18%	167 2.28%	96
Test Automation	66	Down -25 places-25	£55,000	-6.38%	166 2.27%	69
Roadmaps	67	Down -17 places-17	£62,172	-4.35%	163 2.22%	88
Collaborative Culture	69	Up 47 places+47	£71,250	+50.00%	158 2.16%	59
Service Delivery	72	Down -12 places-12	£41,750	-26.42%	155 2.12%	38
Machine Learning	77	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-7.69%	148 2.02%	99
Systems Engineering	82	Down -12 places-12	£70,000	+33.07%	141 1.92%	54
Project Delivery	82	Down -19 places-19	£72,500	+26.08%	141 1.92%	80
B2B	83	Up 8 places+8	£35,500	-21.11%	140 1.91%	53
User Experience	83	Down -7 places-7	£50,000	-9.09%	140 1.91%	71
Root Cause Analysis	90	Up 44 places+44	£54,324	+8.64%	131 1.79%	24
Migration	91	Down -2 places-2	£57,500	-8.00%	126 1.72%	75
Process Improvement	92	Up 14 places+14	£44,250	-17.67%	125 1.71%	36
Data Analysis	93	Down -10 places-10	£40,000	-5.88%	124 1.69%	44
Risk Management	94	Down -58 places-58	£67,500	+25.00%	123 1.68%	49
CRM	94	Up 1 place+1	£42,500	-22.72%	123 1.68%	74
Containerisation	95	Down -23 places-23	£55,000	-23.60%	122 1.66%	70
Stakeholder Engagement	97	Up 13 places+13	£65,000	+20.37%	119 1.62%	91
Coaching	98	Down -39 places-39	£47,500	-17.39%	118 1.61%	47
Ethical Hacking	101	Up 55 places+55	£30,500	-54.81%	113 1.54%	9
Infrastructure as Code	107	Down -13 places-13	£63,950	-11.16%	104 1.42%	74
Logistics	108	Up 20 places+20	£40,000	-37.25%	103 1.41%	33
Computer Science	109	Down -75 places-75	£55,000	+59.42%	102 1.39%	50
Stakeholder Management	111	Down -62 places-62	£65,000	+13.04%	99 1.35%	93
ERP	111	Down -32 places-32	£45,000	-14.28%	99 1.35%	60
SDLC	113	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-4.25%	97 1.32%	37
Digital Marketing	116	Up 10 places+10	£55,000	+20.87%	94 1.28%	8
Service Management	117	Down -61 places-61	£37,500	-28.57%	92 1.26%	22
Data Science	117	Down -50 places-50	£60,000	-14.28%	92 1.26%	66
Validation	120	Down -35 places-35	£55,000	-	89 1.21%	80
Technical Leadership	121	Down -28 places-28	£80,000	+11.12%	88 1.20%	58
Cost Control	122	Up 29 places+29	£54,000	+5.98%	87 1.19%	7