Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	6	Up 4 places+4	£65,000	+8.33%	688 9.12%	164
Cybersecurity	10	Up 26 places+26	£57,500	+27.77%	626 8.30%	111
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£43,500	-3.33%	554 7.35%	262
Business Development	16	Up 74 places+74	£40,000	+5.26%	498 6.60%	97
Continuous Improvement	18	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	+9.09%	484 6.42%	171
AI	20	Up 4 places+4	£60,000	+4.40%	437 5.80%	173
Agile	21	Down -15 places-15	£57,500	-4.16%	406 5.38%	214
Mentoring	25	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	-30.76%	381 5.05%	113
DevOps	29	Down -16 places-16	£60,000	-11.11%	345 4.58%	123
Customer Service	32	Down -16 places-16	£32,500	-	341 4.52%	104
Business Intelligence	39	Up 10 places+10	£47,500	-13.63%	293 3.89%	68
CI/CD	43	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	-12.44%	255 3.38%	126
Analytics	50	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	+9.09%	224 2.97%	121
Full-Stack Development	53	Up 9 places+9	£60,000	-4.00%	208 2.76%	59
Infrastructure Engineering	55	Up 48 places+48	£55,000	-12.00%	201 2.67%	42
ITIL	58	Down -29 places-29	£37,500	-16.66%	191 2.53%	42
Decision-Making	59	Down -5 places-5	£52,500	-8.69%	188 2.49%	127
Customer Experience	62	Down -15 places-15	£46,774	+3.94%	182 2.41%	32
Test Automation	63	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-6.38%	175 2.32%	56
Project Management	64	Down -49 places-49	£45,564	-15.62%	174 2.31%	97
Roadmaps	65	Down -21 places-21	£63,225	-2.73%	171 2.27%	78
Collaborative Culture	68	Up 51 places+51	£70,000	+51.35%	162 2.15%	49
Service Delivery	72	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	-25.10%	154 2.04%	31
Project Delivery	76	Down -18 places-18	£72,500	+26.87%	148 1.96%	73
Machine Learning	78	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	-9.43%	145 1.92%	61
B2B	78	Up 10 places+10	£35,500	-21.11%	145 1.92%	46
User Experience	81	Down -10 places-10	£50,000	-9.09%	141 1.87%	50
Systems Engineering	83	Down -24 places-24	£70,000	+33.07%	139 1.84%	54
Root Cause Analysis	86	Up 50 places+50	£53,325	+6.65%	130 1.72%	28
CRM	88	Up 10 places+10	£41,250	-25.00%	127 1.68%	66
Process Improvement	88	Up 17 places+17	£45,000	-14.28%	127 1.68%	35
Coaching	90	Down -37 places-37	£47,500	-17.74%	125 1.66%	45
Risk Management	91	Down -57 places-57	£67,500	+25.00%	124 1.64%	50
Stakeholder Engagement	92	Up 18 places+18	£65,000	+20.37%	123 1.63%	76
Data Analysis	92	Down -10 places-10	£40,000	-5.88%	123 1.63%	51
Migration	95	Down -3 places-3	£65,000	+4.00%	119 1.58%	52
Containerisation	95	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-23.60%	119 1.58%	45
Ethical Hacking	96	Up 62 places+62	£30,500	-54.81%	118 1.56%	5
Logistics	108	Up 23 places+23	£40,000	-37.25%	105 1.39%	27
Infrastructure as Code	109	Down -11 places-11	£65,000	-9.71%	104 1.38%	68
SDLC	109	Down -27 places-27	£55,000	-4.29%	104 1.38%	31
ERP	110	Down -37 places-37	£45,000	-14.28%	103 1.37%	54
Stakeholder Management	112	Down -66 places-66	£65,000	+13.04%	100 1.33%	78
Computer Science	113	Down -83 places-83	£55,000	+62.96%	98 1.30%	40
Service Management	117	Down -64 places-64	£37,500	-28.57%	93 1.23%	23
Data Science	117	Down -58 places-58	£60,000	-14.28%	93 1.23%	56
Information Security	118	Down -10 places-10	£70,000	+12.00%	91 1.21%	28
Technical Leadership	119	Down -27 places-27	£80,000	+18.51%	90 1.19%	64
Digital Marketing	121	Up 10 places+10	£55,000	+15.78%	88 1.17%	4
Validation	121	Down -44 places-44	£55,000	+0.91%	88 1.17%	72