Process & Methodology Statistics in the West Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Business Development	2	Up 27 places+27	£55,000	+10.00%	1,303 14.77%	152
Continuous Improvement	10	Up 2 places+2	£50,000	-4.76%	752 8.53%	301
Problem-Solving	11	Down -8 places-8	£42,500	-3.40%	719 8.15%	453
AI	14	Down -6 places-6	£62,500	+4.16%	565 6.41%	232
Cybersecurity	17	Up 6 places+6	£55,000	+10.00%	524 5.94%	150
Agile	18	Down -9 places-9	£55,000	-8.33%	471 5.34%	202
Decision-Making	25	Up 14 places+14	£55,000	-	398 4.51%	199
Mentoring	26	Up 9 places+9	£60,500	+5.21%	381 4.32%	179
CRM	28	Down -12 places-12	£45,000	-	353 4.00%	122
ERP	29	Up 11 places+11	£51,300	-2.28%	352 3.99%	112
Analytics	32	Up 5 places+5	£59,250	+7.72%	324 3.67%	162
Stakeholder Management	33	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	-7.17%	314 3.56%	248
Business Intelligence	34	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	+3.77%	310 3.51%	132
Software Engineering	38	Up 22 places+22	£68,403	+3.24%	290 3.29%	82
Customer Service	40	Down -16 places-16	£32,500	+3.17%	285 3.23%	166
Logistics	43	Up 35 places+35	£50,000	+11.11%	255 2.89%	100
DevOps	44	Down -24 places-24	£70,000	+7.69%	251 2.85%	95
CI/CD	46	Up 11 places+11	£65,000	+4.00%	242 2.74%	99
Roadmaps	50	Up 18 places+18	£62,500	-8.08%	222 2.52%	128
Service Delivery	52	Up 32 places+32	£52,000	-0.38%	220 2.49%	82
Project Delivery	54	Up 14 places+14	£55,000	-4.34%	205 2.32%	140
Coaching	57	Up 7 places+7	£67,500	+28.57%	202 2.29%	132
Stakeholder Engagement	61	Up 18 places+18	£57,500	+10.15%	192 2.18%	119
Technical Leadership	65	Up 59 places+59	£68,724	-11.32%	184 2.09%	92
Project Management	66	Down -36 places-36	£52,500	-3.66%	179 2.03%	139
Collaborative Culture	70	Up 39 places+39	£45,625	-15.11%	168 1.90%	35
ITIL	70	Down -19 places-19	£53,688	+0.44%	168 1.90%	41
Full-Stack Development	71	Up 34 places+34	£60,000	-4.00%	166 1.88%	47
Collaborative Working	74	Down -26 places-26	£42,500	-4.00%	159 1.80%	85
B2B	77	Down -27 places-27	£40,000	+30.80%	155 1.76%	64
Risk Management	79	Down -4 places-4	£58,015	-0.82%	151 1.71%	77
Process Improvement	83	Up 5 places+5	£45,000	+5.88%	145 1.64%	69
Validation	84	Up 36 places+36	£48,750	-11.36%	144 1.63%	153
Information Security	91	Up 34 places+34	£55,000	+6.49%	132 1.50%	40
Presales	92	Up 47 places+47	£55,000	-21.42%	131 1.49%	38
E-Commerce	93	Down -2 places-2	£55,000	+22.22%	130 1.47%	34
Infrastructure Engineering	94	Down -13 places-13	£54,344	-16.39%	128 1.45%	44
Customer Experience	95	Down -12 places-12	£45,250	-4.73%	127 1.44%	57
Migration	96	Down -38 places-38	£60,000	-10.44%	123 1.39%	105
Cloud Security	97	Up 1 place+1	£72,500	-	119 1.35%	30
Computer Science	98	Down -32 places-32	£41,192	-15.50%	118 1.34%	54
Service Management	99	Up 22 places+22	£47,500	-2.06%	117 1.33%	44
Disaster Recovery	100	Up 43 places+43	£59,386	+3.28%	116 1.32%	39
Test Automation	101	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-4.34%	115 1.30%	62
Data Governance	101	Up 27 places+27	£61,000	+1.24%	115 1.30%	48
Commercial Awareness	103	Up 51 places+51	£42,500	-	112 1.27%	75
Scrum	103	Up 19 places+19	£60,000	-14.28%	112 1.27%	52
Line Management	104	Up 15 places+15	£66,805	+60.97%	111 1.26%	34
Data Modelling	104	Up 5 places+5	£62,500	-	111 1.26%	80
Data Protection	106	Up 39 places+39	£53,600	-10.66%	108 1.22%	61