Process & Methodology Statistics in Staines

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile	1	No change0	£50,000	-13.04%	56 48.28%	14
CI/CD	7	Up 7 places+7	£50,000	-25.92%	34 29.31%	13
DevOps	8	Down 1 place-1	£55,000	-18.51%	33 28.45%	11
Continuous Improvement	9	Down 1 place-1	£55,000	-18.51%	30 25.86%	14
Stakeholder Management	10	Up 4 places+4	£70,000	+12.00%	29 25.00%	14
User-Centered Design (UCD)	10	Up 7 places+7	£50,000	-9.09%	29 25.00%	3
Mentoring	10	Down 8 places-8	£55,000	-12.00%	29 25.00%	11
Business Development	13	Down 1 place-1	£67,500	+94.24%	24 20.69%	3
User Acceptance Testing	14	No change0	£55,000	-18.51%	21 18.10%	3
Microservices	15	Down 1 place-1	£72,500	+3.57%	20 17.24%
Validation	17	New entry-	£48,000	-	18 15.52%	7
Problem-Solving	17	No change0	£40,000	-51.51%	18 15.52%	27
Operational Acceptance Testing	17	New entry-	£48,000	-	18 15.52%
System Integration Testing	17	New entry-	£48,000	-	18 15.52%	2
Defect Management	19	New entry-	£48,000	-	15 12.93%
AI	20	Down 4 places-4	£57,500	-20.68%	14 12.07%	68
Performance Testing	20	New entry-	£50,000	-	14 12.07%	1
Performance Optimisation	20	New entry-	£72,500	-	14 12.07%	2
Test Scripting	21	Down 9 places-9	£50,000	+17.64%	13 11.21%
Software Testing	22	Down 16 places-16	£48,000	-20.00%	12 10.34%
Decision-Making	22	New entry-	£55,000	-	12 10.34%	21
ITIL	23	Down 5 places-5	£48,000	-41.81%	11 9.48%	5
Digital Transformation Programme	23	Down 4 places-4	£58,750	-30.88%	11 9.48%	2
Scenario Testing	23	New entry-	£48,000	-	11 9.48%
Runbook	23	New entry-	£50,000	-	11 9.48%	4
Disaster Recovery	24	Down 6 places-6	£51,500	-37.57%	10 8.62%	1
MVC	24	Down 9 places-9	£72,500	+31.81%	10 8.62%
Batch Processing	24	New entry-	£44,000	-	10 8.62%
Event-Driven Architecture	24	New entry-	£72,500	-	10 8.62%	3
Programme Delivery	24	New entry-	£50,000	-	10 8.62%
ERP	24	New entry-	£61,250	-	10 8.62%	10
People Management	24	Down 5 places-5	£72,500	+16.00%	10 8.62%	2
Requirements Gathering	24	Down 6 places-6	£57,500	-8.00%	10 8.62%	4
Event-Driven	24	New entry-	£72,500	-	10 8.62%	6
Root Cause Analysis	25	New entry-	£48,000	-	9 7.76%	2
Collaborative Culture	27	Down 9 places-9	£50,000	-7.83%	7 6.03%	1
Infrastructure as Code	27	Down 9 places-9	£62,500	-24.24%	7 6.03%	6
Service Management	28	Down 10 places-10	£48,000	-41.81%	6 5.17%	14
Change Management	28	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 5.17%	4
Test Strategy	28	Down 14 places-14	£60,000	-11.11%	6 5.17%
Scrum	28	Down 21 places-21	£52,500	-16.00%	6 5.17%
Analytics	28	Down 9 places-9	£83,750	-11.84%	6 5.17%	21
Contract Negotiation	28	Down 9 places-9	£67,500	-38.63%	6 5.17%
Stakeholder Engagement	28	Down 10 places-10	£55,000	-37.14%	6 5.17%	3
Release Management	28	New entry-	£48,000	-	6 5.17%
Software Engineering	29	Down 15 places-15	£50,000	-33.33%	5 4.31%	10
System Testing	29	New entry-	£97,500	-	5 4.31%
Code Quality	29	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 4.31%
Budgeting and Forecasting	29	New entry-	£63,500	-	5 4.31%	1
Budgeting	29	New entry-	£63,500	-	5 4.31%	1