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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Problem-Solving	5	Down 1 place-1	£46,000	+2.22%	12,448 10.10%	10,902
Business Development	6	Up 21 places+21	£50,000	+11.11%	11,556 9.37%	2,926
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	-5.17%	11,109 9.01%	7,654
AI	8	Down 2 places-2	£75,000	+7.14%	10,851 8.80%	19,830
Software Engineering	10	Up 20 places+20	£72,500	-3.33%	10,057 8.16%	8,797
Agile	12	Down 4 places-4	£63,500	-5.92%	8,559 6.94%	7,798
Stakeholder Management	20	Up 20 places+20	£67,500	-	7,316 5.94%	5,256
Cybersecurity	24	Down 11 places-11	£60,000	+20.00%	6,987 5.67%	5,592
Decision-Making	27	Up 7 places+7	£57,500	-4.16%	6,638 5.39%	6,374
Mentoring	30	Down 8 places-8	£65,000	+8.33%	6,078 4.93%	6,675
Analytics	31	Down 7 places-7	£66,805	+11.34%	5,823 4.72%	7,808
DevOps	32	Down 7 places-7	£70,000	-	5,795 4.70%	4,712
Customer Service	33	Down 14 places-14	£32,500	+1.95%	5,570 4.52%	2,234
CI/CD	35	Down 3 places-3	£70,000	-3.44%	5,496 4.46%	6,335
Roadmaps	39	No change0	£80,000	+6.66%	5,033 4.08%	8,101
CRM	44	Down 6 places-6	£45,000	+2.85%	4,363 3.54%	3,510
Project Delivery	46	Up 29 places+29	£55,000	-8.33%	3,947 3.20%	2,639
Technical Leadership	50	Up 84 places+84	£75,000	-6.25%	3,616 2.93%	3,460
Coaching	52	Down 3 places-3	£60,000	+14.28%	3,507 2.85%	4,067
Stakeholder Engagement	53	Up 40 places+40	£65,000	-7.14%	3,501 2.84%	2,165
ERP	54	Up 13 places+13	£56,000	-2.60%	3,469 2.81%	2,104
Business Intelligence	60	Down 15 places-15	£55,000	-	3,279 2.66%	2,998
Full-Stack Development	61	Up 67 places+67	£67,500	-3.57%	3,234 2.62%	2,553
Infrastructure Engineering	62	Up 59 places+59	£57,717	-3.80%	3,187 2.59%	1,723
Project Management	63	Down 28 places-28	£55,000	-3.87%	3,162 2.57%	3,003
Service Delivery	65	Up 22 places+22	£52,500	+7.69%	3,078 2.50%	1,904
Validation	67	Up 113 places+113	£59,000	+1.72%	3,005 2.44%	4,378
Collaborative Working	68	Up 50 places+50	£47,500	-4.45%	2,970 2.41%	1,975
ITIL	72	Down 24 places-24	£52,000	+14.29%	2,866 2.33%	1,701
Customer Experience	75	Down 1 place-1	£42,500	+21.42%	2,824 2.29%	2,710
Test Automation	76	Up 31 places+31	£62,500	-3.84%	2,736 2.22%	3,598
B2B	78	Up 6 places+6	£45,000	+8.76%	2,649 2.15%	3,052
Infrastructure as Code	79	Up 53 places+53	£75,000	+1.62%	2,630 2.13%	2,960
Risk Management	80	Down 14 places-14	£72,500	-	2,612 2.12%	2,443
Logistics	82	Up 44 places+44	£50,000	+5.26%	2,539 2.06%	1,354
Machine Learning	84	Down 58 places-58	£79,659	-0.42%	2,509 2.04%	5,457
Migration	87	Down 1 place-1	£65,626	+0.96%	2,490 2.02%	2,760
Process Improvement	95	Up 11 places+11	£52,500	+3.96%	2,303 1.87%	1,535
User Experience	97	Down 64 places-64	£57,500	-	2,278 1.85%	3,022
Computer Science	103	Down 52 places-52	£59,500	+3.47%	2,231 1.81%	4,013
Collaborative Culture	104	Up 29 places+29	£57,500	-	2,230 1.81%	1,970
Microservices	110	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	-	2,103 1.71%	1,851
Data Modelling	118	Down 1 place-1	£70,000	-	1,982 1.61%	2,559
Service Management	119	Up 36 places+36	£48,500	-9.26%	1,948 1.58%	1,459
Information Security	121	Up 32 places+32	£66,000	+1.53%	1,914 1.55%	1,581
Workflow	122	Up 70 places+70	£57,500	-4.56%	1,900 1.54%	2,893
Change Management	123	Down 21 places-21	£60,000	+9.09%	1,898 1.54%	1,641
Commercial Awareness	127	Up 217 places+217	£55,000	+15.78%	1,805 1.46%	889
Data Science	128	Up 23 places+23	£77,500	+10.71%	1,781 1.44%	3,458
Data Engineering	129	Up 38 places+38	£75,000	+6.38%	1,775 1.44%	1,895