Process & Methodology Statistics in the South West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 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%	672 9.11%	189
Cybersecurity	10	Up 24 places+24	£59,250	+31.66%	610 8.27%	139
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£43,500	-3.33%	558 7.57%	301
Business Development	15	Up 76 places+76	£40,000	+5.26%	496 6.72%	112
Continuous Improvement	18	Up 9 places+9	£60,000	+14.28%	477 6.47%	180
AI	20	Up 4 places+4	£62,500	+8.75%	418 5.67%	204
Agile	21	Down -16 places-16	£57,500	-4.16%	400 5.42%	213
Mentoring	24	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	-30.76%	373 5.06%	139
Customer Service	27	Down -9 places-9	£32,500	-	347 4.70%	105
DevOps	29	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-9.43%	341 4.62%	153
Business Intelligence	39	Up 8 places+8	£47,500	-9.09%	285 3.86%	78
CI/CD	45	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	-13.04%	244 3.31%	175
Analytics	50	Down -28 places-28	£57,500	+6.09%	222 3.01%	128
Full-Stack Development	54	Up 7 places+7	£60,000	-4.00%	201 2.73%	70
Infrastructure Engineering	55	Up 43 places+43	£55,000	-18.21%	197 2.67%	50
ITIL	57	Down -27 places-27	£37,500	-21.05%	191 2.59%	56
Decision-Making	59	Down -7 places-7	£52,500	-8.69%	183 2.48%	157
Customer Experience	60	Down -10 places-10	£50,999	+10.86%	174 2.36%	35
Test Automation	63	Down -25 places-25	£55,000	-8.33%	168 2.28%	68
Project Management	64	Down -49 places-49	£45,000	-18.18%	167 2.26%	88
Roadmaps	65	Down -20 places-20	£61,845	-6.64%	163 2.21%	87
Collaborative Culture	66	Up 46 places+46	£70,000	+47.36%	159 2.16%	63
Service Delivery	69	Down -14 places-14	£42,500	-25.10%	153 2.07%	34
Machine Learning	75	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	-7.69%	146 1.98%	67
B2B	77	Up 9 places+9	£36,000	-20.00%	142 1.93%	54
Systems Engineering	78	Down -17 places-17	£70,000	+33.07%	141 1.91%	57
Project Delivery	78	Down -21 places-21	£72,500	+26.08%	141 1.91%	80
User Experience	79	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-9.09%	140 1.90%	43
Root Cause Analysis	84	Up 46 places+46	£54,150	+8.30%	132 1.79%	22
Process Improvement	86	Up 15 places+15	£44,250	-15.71%	127 1.72%	38
Migration	87	Down -2 places-2	£57,500	-9.02%	126 1.71%	71
Data Analysis	88	Down -13 places-13	£40,000	-5.88%	125 1.69%	43
CRM	88	Up 4 places+4	£42,500	-22.72%	125 1.69%	77
Risk Management	90	Down -57 places-57	£67,500	+25.00%	123 1.67%	55
Containerisation	90	Down -26 places-26	£55,000	-23.60%	123 1.67%	68
Coaching	92	Down -37 places-37	£47,500	-17.39%	119 1.61%	48
Stakeholder Engagement	93	Up 13 places+13	£65,000	+20.37%	118 1.60%	99
Ethical Hacking	97	Up 55 places+55	£30,500	-54.81%	113 1.53%	9
Infrastructure as Code	103	Down -11 places-11	£64,475	-10.44%	105 1.42%	76
Logistics	104	Up 20 places+20	£37,500	-41.17%	104 1.41%	32
Computer Science	107	Down -76 places-76	£55,000	+61.76%	100 1.36%	49
ERP	107	Down -35 places-35	£45,000	-14.28%	100 1.36%	63
Stakeholder Management	109	Down -64 places-64	£65,000	+13.04%	98 1.33%	95
SDLC	110	Down -31 places-31	£55,000	-4.25%	97 1.32%	39
Data Science	113	Down -53 places-53	£60,000	-14.28%	93 1.26%	61
Service Management	114	Down -61 places-61	£37,500	-28.57%	92 1.25%	33
Technical Leadership	116	Down -28 places-28	£80,000	+11.12%	90 1.22%	59
Digital Marketing	116	Up 6 places+6	£55,000	+20.87%	90 1.22%	7
Validation	118	Down -41 places-41	£55,000	+0.91%	88 1.19%	80
Cost Control	119	Up 28 places+28	£54,000	+5.98%	87 1.18%	7