Process & Methodology Statistics in the West Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	2	Up 33 places+33	£55,000	+79.85%	996 13.11%	132
Problem-Solving	11	Down -9 places-9	£42,500	-8.10%	538 7.08%	246
Cybersecurity	12	Up 7 places+7	£60,000	+6.19%	506 6.66%	84
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 11 places+11	£55,000	+10.00%	485 6.38%	208
AI	15	Down -5 places-5	£55,000	-4.34%	450 5.92%	122
Agile	18	Down -10 places-10	£57,500	-	412 5.42%	142
Mentoring	21	Down -3 places-3	£62,500	+4.16%	388 5.11%	97
Analytics	24	Down -4 places-4	£57,500	+4.54%	322 4.24%	118
Business Intelligence	27	Up 6 places+6	£49,052	-10.81%	309 4.07%	96
Logistics	37	Up 70 places+70	£55,000	+22.22%	248 3.26%	52
CRM	37	Down -15 places-15	£45,000	+5.88%	248 3.26%	123
Decision-Making	38	Down -4 places-4	£57,500	-	244 3.21%	178
ERP	42	Up 11 places+11	£51,250	-4.54%	212 2.79%	76
Software Engineering	43	Down -7 places-7	£67,500	-	211 2.78%	56
Roadmaps	45	Up 9 places+9	£60,000	-8.18%	201 2.65%	59
Customer Service	48	Down -16 places-16	£30,750	+2.50%	195 2.57%	80
Stakeholder Management	49	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	+6.19%	193 2.54%	119
DevOps	50	Down -31 places-31	£65,000	+8.33%	192 2.53%	71
Coaching	52	Up 24 places+24	£63,076	+31.40%	184 2.42%	70
CI/CD	55	Down -6 places-6	£65,000	+8.33%	178 2.34%	56
Service Delivery	58	Down -6 places-6	£50,000	-8.50%	168 2.21%	58
ITIL	61	Down -10 places-10	£52,500	-3.39%	164 2.16%	37
Stakeholder Engagement	65	Up 29 places+29	£57,500	+12.87%	150 1.97%	71
B2B	66	No change0	£40,000	+30.80%	149 1.96%	81
Full-Stack Development	68	Up 22 places+22	£55,000	-12.00%	145 1.91%	16
Project Management	68	Down -48 places-48	£55,000	-	145 1.91%	65
Project Delivery	70	Down -21 places-21	£57,500	+1.76%	140 1.84%	64
Computer Science	74	Down -35 places-35	£41,133	-13.40%	132 1.74%	39
Risk Management	79	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	+4.34%	120 1.58%	29
Infrastructure Engineering	80	Up 10 places+10	£52,500	+14.13%	119 1.57%	31
Customer Experience	81	Up 50 places+50	£47,500	+5.55%	117 1.54%	35
Data Governance	82	Up 29 places+29	£65,000	+8.33%	116 1.53%	30
Process Improvement	86	Up 13 places+13	£47,500	-1.04%	112 1.47%	56
E-Commerce	87	Up 39 places+39	£52,500	+10.52%	111 1.46%	24
User Experience	90	Down -18 places-18	£45,497	-17.27%	106 1.40%	29
Data Modelling	92	Up 6 places+6	£60,715	+1.19%	101 1.33%	44
Collaborative Working	93	Down -36 places-36	£45,000	-18.18%	98 1.29%	55
Business Strategy	93	Up 25 places+25	£71,250	+5.55%	98 1.29%	24
Validation	94	Down -4 places-4	£44,000	-32.30%	97 1.28%	67
Migration	94	Down -38 places-38	£56,400	-11.52%	97 1.28%	58
Ethical Hacking	100	Up 65 places+65	£30,500	-43.19%	89 1.17%	6
Change Management	100	Down -56 places-56	£55,000	+2.44%	89 1.17%	46
Data Analysis	102	Down -23 places-23	£40,000	-25.16%	87 1.15%	43
Technical Leadership	104	Up 16 places+16	£67,000	-10.66%	85 1.12%	53
Test Automation	105	Down -32 places-32	£61,000	-9.62%	84 1.11%	39
Root Cause Analysis	105	Up 24 places+24	£42,500	-5.55%	84 1.11%	40
Service Management	106	Up 14 places+14	£50,501	-2.50%	83 1.09%	41
Collaborative Culture	108	Up 5 places+5	£48,000	+4.34%	81 1.07%	41
Workflow	108	Up 19 places+19	£45,000	-28.00%	81 1.07%	32
ITSM	110	Up 8 places+8	£45,000	-11.18%	79 1.04%	16