Process & Methodology Statistics in Wales

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	4	Up 25 places+25	£55,000	-	244 15.53%	43
AI	9	Up 29 places+29	£50,300	-19.52%	137 8.72%	46
Continuous Improvement	11	Up 10 places+10	£47,500	-	130 8.28%	40
Mentoring	14	Up 3 places+3	£45,000	-34.30%	121 7.70%	33
Business Development	15	Up 37 places+37	£40,000	-30.43%	120 7.64%	34
Problem-Solving	17	Down -13 places-13	£42,500	-15.00%	116 7.38%	77
Business Intelligence	23	Up 27 places+27	£42,500	-26.36%	85 5.41%	23
Software Engineering	24	Down -6 places-6	£50,000	-25.92%	83 5.28%	25
Agile	27	Down -17 places-17	£55,816	-6.75%	76 4.84%	30
Customer Service	29	Down -1 place-1	£27,000	-22.85%	73 4.65%	28
DevOps	34	Down -15 places-15	£53,171	-15.93%	67 4.26%	28
User Experience	36	Up 18 places+18	£42,934	-18.22%	65 4.14%	11
Service Delivery	41	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	+28.29%	52 3.31%	19
Decision-Making	42	No change0	£45,000	-22.80%	48 3.06%	32
ITIL	45	Down -10 places-10	£61,625	+61.77%	45 2.86%	20
CRM	45	Down -5 places-5	£42,500	+30.76%	45 2.86%	19
CI/CD	46	Down -20 places-20	£58,750	-9.61%	44 2.80%	23
Ethical Hacking	47	New entry-	£33,000	-	43 2.74%	6
Machine Learning	49	No change0	£53,100	+8.36%	41 2.61%	9
Test Automation	51	Down -9 places-9	£55,000	+4.57%	39 2.48%	14
Customer Experience	52	Up 4 places+4	£47,500	+17.28%	38 2.42%	12
Infrastructure Engineering	53	Down -3 places-3	£65,000	+28.58%	37 2.36%	13
Coaching	53	Down -9 places-9	£39,163	-34.57%	37 2.36%	14
Analytics	53	Down -4 places-4	£40,000	-27.27%	37 2.36%	31
Web Development	54	Down -19 places-19	£30,000	-53.84%	35 2.23%	12
Stakeholder Engagement	54	Down -5 places-5	£67,586	+17.54%	35 2.23%	14
Project Management	55	Down -50 places-50	£42,934	-25.33%	34 2.16%	27
Migration	55	Down -1 place-1	£60,000	+20.00%	34 2.16%	11
Process Improvement	55	Up 5 places+5	£52,508	+10.54%	34 2.16%	11
Technical Leadership	58	Down -26 places-26	£67,500	-11.47%	30 1.91%	10
Scrum	59	Down -23 places-23	£42,370	-19.43%	29 1.85%	11
Stakeholder Management	60	Down -7 places-7	£55,008	+8.92%	28 1.78%	18
B2B	60	Down -13 places-13	£35,000	+7.69%	28 1.78%	15
Project Delivery	61	Down -15 places-15	£58,758	+11.72%	27 1.72%	17
Computer Science	62	Down -38 places-38	£72,500	+11.53%	26 1.66%	10
Service Management	63	Down -10 places-10	£52,107	+36.78%	25 1.59%	11
Root Cause Analysis	63	New entry-	£45,000	-	25 1.59%	15
Collaborative Working	63	Down -38 places-38	£45,000	+18.12%	25 1.59%	16
Infrastructure as Code	64	Down -7 places-7	£61,000	-3.55%	24 1.53%	6
Roadmaps	64	Down -19 places-19	£69,973	+25.11%	24 1.53%	13
Incident Response	65	Down -11 places-11	£73,925	-15.51%	23 1.46%	5
IT Strategy	65	Down -12 places-12	£72,500	+11.53%	23 1.46%	3
ITSM	68	Down -8 places-8	£50,000	-28.57%	20 1.27%	9
Business Strategy	68	Down -11 places-11	£80,000	+6.66%	20 1.27%	2
PRINCE2	68	Down -9 places-9	£57,515	-10.13%	20 1.27%	5
Acceptance Criteria	69	Down -9 places-9	£41,740	-19.73%	19 1.21%	3
Vulnerability Management	70	Down -9 places-9	£55,000	-	18 1.15%	2
Data Protection	70	Down -15 places-15	£47,793	-45.37%	18 1.15%	7
Security Operations	71	Down -15 places-15	£25,000	-71.42%	17 1.08%	6
Time Management	71	Down -27 places-27	£39,250	-1.87%	17 1.08%	8