Process & Methodology Statistics in the West Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	2	Up 38 places+38	£55,000	+79.85%	1,009 13.19%	206
Problem-Solving	11	Down -9 places-9	£42,500	-5.55%	544 7.11%	378
Cybersecurity	12	Up 11 places+11	£57,500	+4.54%	515 6.73%	156
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 13 places+13	£54,068	+8.13%	497 6.50%	251
AI	15	Down -5 places-5	£55,000	-4.34%	452 5.91%	335
Agile	17	Down -9 places-9	£57,500	-	413 5.40%	298
Mentoring	19	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	-	395 5.16%	177
Analytics	23	Down -1 place-1	£57,500	+7.57%	325 4.25%	197
Business Intelligence	25	Up 11 places+11	£50,000	-9.09%	311 4.07%	126
CRM	34	Down -10 places-10	£45,000	+5.88%	250 3.27%	164
Decision-Making	34	Up 3 places+3	£57,500	+0.05%	250 3.27%	254
Logistics	35	Up 77 places+77	£55,000	+22.22%	248 3.24%	58
ERP	40	Up 15 places+15	£51,250	-5.69%	214 2.80%	100
Software Engineering	41	Down -3 places-3	£67,500	-	213 2.79%	196
Roadmaps	44	Up 12 places+12	£60,000	-8.67%	199 2.60%	148
Customer Service	46	Down -10 places-10	£30,750	+2.50%	197 2.58%	105
Stakeholder Management	47	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	+5.26%	196 2.56%	151
DevOps	49	Down -29 places-29	£65,000	+8.33%	188 2.46%	158
Coaching	50	Up 27 places+27	£63,076	+31.40%	186 2.43%	109
CI/CD	52	Down -1 place-1	£65,000	+8.33%	177 2.31%	164
Service Delivery	53	No change0	£50,000	-8.50%	175 2.29%	70
ITIL	56	Down -6 places-6	£53,000	-3.63%	168 2.20%	38
B2B	60	Up 9 places+9	£40,000	+30.80%	158 2.07%	157
Stakeholder Engagement	64	Up 33 places+33	£57,500	+12.87%	149 1.95%	73
Full-Stack Development	66	Up 27 places+27	£55,000	-12.00%	145 1.90%	117
Project Management	66	Down -45 places-45	£55,000	-	145 1.90%	114
Project Delivery	67	Down -15 places-15	£57,500	+1.76%	142 1.86%	75
Computer Science	72	Down -30 places-30	£40,000	-17.94%	130 1.70%	103
Risk Management	78	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	+3.44%	122 1.60%	51
Customer Experience	79	Up 57 places+57	£47,500	+5.55%	121 1.58%	84
Infrastructure Engineering	79	Up 11 places+11	£52,500	+14.13%	121 1.58%	42
Data Governance	83	Up 33 places+33	£67,000	+11.66%	114 1.49%	51
E-Commerce	86	Up 43 places+43	£52,500	+16.66%	111 1.45%	47
Process Improvement	86	Up 16 places+16	£47,500	-1.04%	111 1.45%	65
User Experience	90	Down -16 places-16	£47,500	-13.63%	105 1.37%	92
Data Modelling	91	Up 11 places+11	£60,358	+0.59%	102 1.33%	79
Collaborative Working	96	Down -37 places-37	£46,042	-18.14%	97 1.27%	66
Business Strategy	97	Up 24 places+24	£70,000	+3.70%	96 1.26%	44
Validation	98	Down -3 places-3	£44,000	-29.60%	95 1.24%	96
Migration	98	Down -41 places-41	£56,400	-13.23%	95 1.24%	81
Ethical Hacking	102	Up 68 places+68	£30,500	-43.19%	89 1.16%	9
Technical Leadership	103	Up 23 places+23	£67,500	-10.00%	88 1.15%	89
Change Management	103	Down -56 places-56	£55,000	+2.44%	88 1.15%	67
Data Analysis	103	Down -19 places-19	£40,000	-24.49%	88 1.15%	57
Collaborative Culture	107	Up 8 places+8	£48,000	+4.34%	84 1.10%	87
Service Management	107	Up 17 places+17	£50,501	-2.17%	84 1.10%	33
Root Cause Analysis	108	Up 26 places+26	£42,500	-5.55%	83 1.09%	51
Test Automation	109	Down -32 places-32	£61,000	-9.62%	82 1.07%	64
ITSM	110	Up 12 places+12	£45,000	-9.79%	81 1.06%	16
Workflow	110	Up 20 places+20	£45,000	-28.00%	81 1.06%	73