Process & Methodology Statistics in Wales

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	4	Up 22 places+22	£55,000	-	248 14.96%	27
AI	9	Up 30 places+30	£53,171	-17.24%	145 8.75%	48
Continuous Improvement	11	Up 7 places+7	£52,500	+7.65%	134 8.08%	40
Mentoring	13	Up 2 places+2	£52,250	-23.72%	126 7.60%	36
Business Development	13	Up 37 places+37	£40,000	-46.66%	126 7.60%	31
Problem-Solving	16	Down -12 places-12	£42,500	-15.33%	114 6.88%	55
Business Intelligence	23	Up 27 places+27	£39,756	-31.11%	89 5.37%	25
Software Engineering	23	Down -6 places-6	£50,000	-25.92%	89 5.37%	32
Agile	24	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-8.11%	86 5.19%	45
DevOps	31	Down -12 places-12	£53,171	-15.93%	74 4.46%	27
Customer Service	31	Down -9 places-9	£28,000	-16.41%	74 4.46%	18
User Experience	36	Up 19 places+19	£45,000	-14.28%	66 3.98%	8
Service Delivery	40	Down -4 places-4	£60,000	+23.62%	59 3.56%	20
ITIL	43	Down -8 places-8	£61,625	+61.77%	47 2.83%	15
CRM	43	Down -1 place-1	£42,500	+21.42%	47 2.83%	19
Infrastructure Engineering	44	Up 6 places+6	£55,000	+8.79%	46 2.77%	18
CI/CD	44	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	-11.27%	46 2.77%	29
Ethical Hacking	44	New entry-	£33,000	-	46 2.77%	3
Decision-Making	45	Down -6 places-6	£47,500	-11.70%	45 2.71%	33
Test Automation	46	Down -3 places-3	£55,000	+4.57%	44 2.65%	16
Machine Learning	47	Up 3 places+3	£53,171	+9.06%	43 2.59%	7
Stakeholder Engagement	48	Up 2 places+2	£67,586	+17.54%	42 2.53%	9
Coaching	51	Down -8 places-8	£47,500	-20.64%	39 2.35%	16
Customer Experience	53	Up 3 places+3	£47,500	+41.79%	37 2.23%	11
Technical Leadership	54	Down -22 places-22	£67,500	-10.00%	36 2.17%	15
Analytics	54	Down -6 places-6	£40,000	-20.00%	36 2.17%	26
Scrum	56	Down -21 places-21	£52,500	-0.94%	34 2.05%	16
Web Development	56	Down -21 places-21	£72,500	+11.53%	34 2.05%	6
Project Management	58	Down -53 places-53	£42,934	-32.91%	32 1.93%	18
Process Improvement	58	Up 3 places+3	£47,500	-	32 1.93%	8
Migration	59	Down -4 places-4	£62,551	+25.10%	31 1.87%	7
Stakeholder Management	60	Down -6 places-6	£53,171	+5.28%	30 1.81%	19
Project Delivery	60	Down -14 places-14	£55,343	+2.87%	30 1.81%	17
Collaborative Working	61	Down -34 places-34	£45,000	+18.12%	29 1.75%	13
Service Management	61	Down -7 places-7	£52,500	+37.81%	29 1.75%	10
Root Cause Analysis	62	New entry-	£45,000	-	28 1.69%	14
Incident Response	62	Down -10 places-10	£54,085	-1.66%	28 1.69%	8
B2B	63	Down -13 places-13	£35,000	+7.69%	27 1.63%	13
Roadmaps	63	Down -18 places-18	£69,973	+16.89%	27 1.63%	15
IT Strategy	64	Down -10 places-10	£72,500	+11.53%	26 1.57%	1
Computer Science	65	Down -42 places-42	£72,500	+11.53%	25 1.51%	11
Security Operations	66	Down -9 places-9	£24,500	-65.61%	24 1.45%	6
Infrastructure as Code	68	Down -10 places-10	£60,000	-5.13%	22 1.33%	7
ITSM	69	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	-35.71%	21 1.27%	10
Collaborative Culture	70	Down -18 places-18	£72,500	+45.00%	20 1.21%	14
Business Strategy	70	Down -12 places-12	£80,000	+6.66%	20 1.21%	1
PRINCE2	70	Down -10 places-10	£56,258	-12.09%	20 1.21%	7
Acceptance Criteria	71	Down -10 places-10	£41,740	-19.73%	19 1.15%	5
SEO	71	Down -12 places-12	£53,171	-11.38%	19 1.15%	7
Artificial Intelligence Engineering	72	New entry-	-	-	18 1.09%	3