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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	5	Up 24 places+24	£50,000	+11.11%	12,202 10.04%	626
Problem-Solving	6	Down 2 places-2	£46,000	+2.22%	11,888 9.79%	3,082
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	-4.34%	10,560 8.69%	2,298
AI	8	No change0	£74,000	+5.71%	10,492 8.64%	2,262
Software Engineering	10	Up 14 places+14	£72,500	-3.33%	9,661 7.95%	1,495
Agile	13	Down 7 places-7	£63,076	-6.55%	8,511 7.01%	1,629
Stakeholder Management	22	Up 17 places+17	£67,500	+3.84%	6,848 5.64%	1,604
Cybersecurity	24	Up 10 places+10	£60,000	+14.28%	6,651 5.47%	1,612
Decision-Making	26	Up 7 places+7	£57,500	-4.16%	6,439 5.30%	1,487
Mentoring	30	Down 14 places-14	£65,000	+8.33%	5,862 4.83%	1,333
DevOps	31	Down 11 places-11	£70,000	-	5,821 4.79%	1,056
Analytics	32	Down 11 places-11	£67,500	+12.50%	5,763 4.74%	1,108
CI/CD	33	Down 5 places-5	£70,000	-3.44%	5,533 4.55%	1,206
Customer Service	34	Down 15 places-15	£32,250	+1.16%	5,458 4.49%	929
Roadmaps	40	Down 2 places-2	£80,000	+6.66%	4,878 4.02%	1,159
CRM	44	Down 9 places-9	£45,000	-	4,321 3.56%	683
Project Delivery	46	Up 32 places+32	£55,000	-8.33%	3,705 3.05%	872
Technical Leadership	52	Up 85 places+85	£75,450	-5.68%	3,462 2.85%	923
Stakeholder Engagement	53	Up 47 places+47	£65,500	-6.42%	3,401 2.80%	757
Full-Stack Development	54	Up 52 places+52	£65,000	-7.14%	3,399 2.80%	335
ERP	55	Up 1 place+1	£57,500	+0.87%	3,370 2.77%	537
Coaching	57	Down 20 places-20	£60,000	+19.49%	3,318 2.73%	940
Business Intelligence	60	Down 15 places-15	£55,000	-	3,182 2.62%	644
Infrastructure Engineering	62	Up 55 places+55	£57,500	-4.16%	3,057 2.52%	429
Project Management	63	Down 31 places-31	£55,000	-4.34%	3,030 2.49%	756
Service Delivery	66	Up 29 places+29	£50,000	+1.62%	2,964 2.44%	557
Validation	68	Up 47 places+47	£57,500	+3.79%	2,831 2.33%	1,113
ITIL	69	Down 21 places-21	£52,500	+15.39%	2,822 2.32%	576
Collaborative Working	70	Up 29 places+29	£47,500	-5.00%	2,820 2.32%	610
Customer Experience	71	Up 5 places+5	£42,500	+21.42%	2,741 2.26%	510
B2B	72	Up 26 places+26	£45,000	+7.14%	2,739 2.25%	489
Test Automation	76	Up 15 places+15	£60,261	-7.29%	2,665 2.19%	757
Infrastructure as Code	79	Up 53 places+53	£75,000	+1.62%	2,638 2.17%	636
Machine Learning	82	Down 36 places-36	£75,000	-6.25%	2,515 2.07%	619
Risk Management	84	Down 22 places-22	£72,500	-	2,512 2.07%	497
Logistics	86	Up 49 places+49	£50,000	+5.26%	2,452 2.02%	375
Migration	90	Down 6 places-6	£65,626	-1.31%	2,394 1.97%	639
Collaborative Culture	97	Up 13 places+13	£57,500	-	2,218 1.83%	358
User Experience	98	Down 32 places-32	£55,000	-4.34%	2,216 1.82%	468
Process Improvement	99	Up 14 places+14	£52,500	+5.00%	2,210 1.82%	421
Computer Science	100	Down 50 places-50	£59,761	+3.93%	2,195 1.81%	604
Microservices	104	Down 17 places-17	£72,500	-3.33%	2,143 1.76%	384
Data Modelling	117	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+2.94%	1,948 1.60%	463
Information Security	121	Up 31 places+31	£67,500	+3.84%	1,901 1.56%	280
Workflow	122	Up 72 places+72	£60,000	-	1,879 1.55%	398
Service Management	123	Up 32 places+32	£47,500	-11.13%	1,871 1.54%	489
Change Management	124	Down 19 places-19	£60,000	+9.09%	1,867 1.54%	378
Data Engineering	126	Up 15 places+15	£75,000	+7.14%	1,735 1.43%	302
Data Science	127	Up 23 places+23	£75,000	+5.34%	1,719 1.42%	448
Commercial Awareness	129	Up 190 places+190	£55,000	+15.78%	1,705 1.40%	290