Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 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%	674 9.02%	165
Cybersecurity	10	Up 25 places+25	£57,500	+27.77%	624 8.35%	111
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£43,500	-3.33%	551 7.37%	270
Business Development	15	Up 72 places+72	£40,000	+5.26%	497 6.65%	103
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	+9.09%	485 6.49%	178
AI	20	Up 2 places+2	£62,500	+8.75%	434 5.81%	168
Agile	21	Down -15 places-15	£57,500	-4.16%	405 5.42%	203
Mentoring	24	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	-30.76%	382 5.11%	130
DevOps	28	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-7.69%	345 4.62%	123
Customer Service	29	Down -13 places-13	£32,500	-	344 4.60%	108
Business Intelligence	38	Up 9 places+9	£47,500	-13.63%	292 3.91%	61
CI/CD	41	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	-12.44%	253 3.38%	141
Analytics	48	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	+9.09%	221 2.96%	108
Full-Stack Development	51	Up 12 places+12	£60,000	-4.00%	204 2.73%	57
Infrastructure Engineering	54	Up 44 places+44	£55,000	-12.00%	198 2.65%	37
ITIL	56	Down -28 places-28	£37,500	-16.66%	193 2.58%	49
Decision-Making	59	Down -7 places-7	£52,500	-8.69%	187 2.50%	129
Customer Experience	61	Down -14 places-14	£46,774	+3.94%	180 2.41%	42
Test Automation	62	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-6.38%	174 2.33%	68
Project Management	63	Down -48 places-48	£45,000	-17.43%	173 2.31%	95
Roadmaps	65	Down -20 places-20	£63,950	-1.61%	170 2.27%	91
Collaborative Culture	68	Up 46 places+46	£70,000	+51.35%	161 2.15%	53
Service Delivery	73	Down -17 places-17	£42,500	-25.10%	154 2.06%	30
Project Delivery	76	Down -19 places-19	£70,752	+23.04%	148 1.98%	68
B2B	78	Up 7 places+7	£35,500	-21.11%	145 1.94%	45
Machine Learning	79	Down -21 places-21	£60,000	-9.43%	144 1.93%	68
User Experience	81	Down -10 places-10	£50,000	-9.09%	140 1.87%	51
Systems Engineering	83	Down -23 places-23	£70,000	+33.07%	138 1.85%	56
Root Cause Analysis	86	Up 45 places+45	£53,325	+6.65%	130 1.74%	33
CRM	88	Up 5 places+5	£40,000	-27.27%	128 1.71%	72
Process Improvement	89	Up 12 places+12	£45,000	-14.28%	127 1.70%	37
Coaching	90	Down -39 places-39	£47,500	-17.74%	126 1.69%	47
Risk Management	91	Down -58 places-58	£67,500	+25.00%	124 1.66%	43
Data Analysis	91	Down -11 places-11	£40,000	-5.88%	124 1.66%	40
Stakeholder Engagement	93	Up 12 places+12	£65,000	+20.37%	122 1.63%	90
Containerisation	95	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-23.60%	119 1.59%	44
Ethical Hacking	95	Up 58 places+58	£30,500	-54.81%	119 1.59%	5
Migration	97	Down -9 places-9	£62,500	-	117 1.57%	43
Logistics	106	Up 19 places+19	£40,000	-37.25%	105 1.40%	25
Infrastructure as Code	107	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	-9.71%	104 1.39%	69
ERP	108	Down -35 places-35	£45,000	-14.28%	103 1.38%	55
SDLC	110	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-4.29%	101 1.35%	35
Stakeholder Management	111	Down -65 places-65	£65,000	+13.04%	100 1.34%	68
Computer Science	112	Down -83 places-83	£55,000	+61.76%	99 1.32%	47
Service Management	116	Down -65 places-65	£37,500	-28.57%	95 1.27%	22
Data Science	119	Down -60 places-60	£60,000	-14.28%	92 1.23%	63
Information Security	120	Down -16 places-16	£70,000	+12.00%	91 1.22%	26
Technical Leadership	122	Down -33 places-33	£80,000	+18.51%	89 1.19%	63
Digital Marketing	123	No change0	£55,000	+20.87%	88 1.18%	4
Validation	123	Down -47 places-47	£55,000	+0.91%	88 1.18%	86