Continuous Improvement Jobs in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 60 47
Rank change year-on-year +31 -13 +29
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4,609 2,850 4,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.05% 5.04% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 5.28% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,335 1,617 2,037
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,859 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +41 1,028 £55,000 -15.38% 123
North of England +45 973 £52,500 +5.00% 412
Midlands +12 966 £52,500 - 334
South East +8 746 £52,500 -12.50% 378
West Midlands +16 729 £53,500 +1.90% 219
North West +44 535 £51,325 -2.24% 234
South West +22 460 £52,396 +4.90% 206
Yorkshire +37 328 £60,000 +17.07% 130
East of England -6 240 £55,000 +18.92% 166
East Midlands +14 226 £47,500 -5.00% 115
Wales +54 164 £52,249 +23.42% 55
North East +24 110 £45,000 +20.00% 55
Northern Ireland +47 37 £63,750 +41.67% 24
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 197 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 134 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 93 (2.02%) Confluence
4 90 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 69 (1.50%) Apache
6 35 (0.76%) FileNet
7 26 (0.56%) SAS
8 19 (0.41%) IIS
9 17 (0.37%) Skype for Business
10 11 (0.24%) CMS
11 8 (0.17%) WordPress
12 7 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.13%) Appian
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 5 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.043%) BizTalk Server
16 1 (0.022%) Apache Solr
16 1 (0.022%) Drupal
16 1 (0.022%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 614 (13.32%) Microsoft Office
2 480 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 129 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.91%) AutoCAD
6 38 (0.82%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.20%) Simulink
9 5 (0.11%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.087%) Trello
11 3 (0.065%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.043%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.043%) Revit
13 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.54%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.33%) iTrent
4 14 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 10 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.17%) Magento
7 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.17%) Shopify
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
8 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.087%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (0.087%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.087%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 648 (14.06%) AWS
2 572 (12.41%) Azure
3 294 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 245 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (2.67%) SaaS
6 116 (2.52%) GCP
7 92 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (2.00%) Serverless
8 89 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
9 84 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
10 66 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 56 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
13 55 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
14 50 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
14 50 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 49 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
15 49 (1.06%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 107 (2.32%) Firewall
2 77 (1.67%) WAN
3 68 (1.48%) LAN
4 63 (1.37%) VoIP
5 58 (1.26%) DNS
6 56 (1.22%) SAN
7 51 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (0.91%) VLAN
9 40 (0.87%) Network Security
10 37 (0.80%) Internet
11 36 (0.78%) DHCP
12 32 (0.69%) Broadband
13 27 (0.59%) VPN
14 26 (0.56%) Wireless
15 25 (0.54%) Intranet
16 24 (0.52%) NAS
17 23 (0.50%) TCP/IP
18 20 (0.43%) HTTP
19 19 (0.41%) Skype
20 18 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (6.66%) NoSQL
2 250 (5.42%) Power BI
3 164 (3.56%) Big Data
4 154 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 144 (3.12%) Hadoop
6 95 (2.06%) Apache Hive
7 94 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 84 (1.82%) HBase
9 79 (1.71%) Data Lake
10 76 (1.65%) MySQL
11 72 (1.56%) Tableau
12 51 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
13 50 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 50 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 45 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
15 42 (0.91%) Power Query
16 37 (0.80%) RDBMS
17 36 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 30 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
19 28 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 234 (5.08%) Git
2 202 (4.38%) JIRA
3 157 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.06%) JUnit
5 84 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
6 51 (1.11%) Selenium
7 39 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 30 (0.65%) Android Studio
9 26 (0.56%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.48%) GitLab
11 22 (0.48%) WebDriver
12 21 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
12 21 (0.46%) Protractor
13 19 (0.41%) Maven
14 15 (0.33%) PHPUnit
15 13 (0.28%) Subversion
16 11 (0.24%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.22%) Moq
General
1 1,696 (36.80%) Finance
2 1,679 (36.43%) Social Skills
3 1,045 (22.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,018 (22.09%) Law
5 890 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
6 738 (16.01%) Legal
7 335 (7.27%) Marketing
8 298 (6.47%) Manufacturing
9 293 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
10 279 (6.05%) Influencing Skills
11 256 (5.55%) Banking
12 234 (5.08%) Retail
13 209 (4.53%) Military
14 175 (3.80%) Public Sector
15 147 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (2.54%) Investment Banking
17 101 (2.19%) Telecoms
18 65 (1.41%) Electronics
19 58 (1.26%) Local Government
20 54 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 825 (17.90%) Software Engineer
2 610 (13.23%) Analyst
3 410 (8.90%) Lead
4 404 (8.77%) Developer
5 358 (7.77%) Senior
6 295 (6.40%) Java Engineer
7 289 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
8 277 (6.01%) Graduate
9 204 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
10 193 (4.19%) AWS Software Engineer
11 184 (3.99%) Project Manager
12 152 (3.30%) IT Manager
13 149 (3.23%) Architect
14 148 (3.21%) Data Engineer
15 144 (3.12%) IT Engineer
16 134 (2.91%) Product Analyst
17 132 (2.86%) Full Stack Engineer
18 127 (2.76%) Big Data Engineer
18 127 (2.76%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 126 (2.73%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (6.03%) React
2 267 (5.79%) Spring
3 239 (5.19%) AngularJS
4 226 (4.90%) HTML
5 200 (4.34%) CSS
6 171 (3.71%) .NET
7 167 (3.62%) Node.js
8 147 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 127 (2.76%) JSON
10 118 (2.56%) J2EE
11 113 (2.45%) JMS
12 112 (2.43%) RESTful
13 109 (2.36%) Kafka
14 108 (2.34%) Web Services
15 97 (2.10%) jQuery
16 95 (2.06%) Spring Boot
17 89 (1.93%) XML
18 87 (1.89%) Hibernate
19 65 (1.41%) REST
20 60 (1.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 757 (16.42%) Algorithms
2 424 (9.20%) Onboarding
3 331 (7.18%) Management Information System
4 192 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 186 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 177 (3.84%) Product Ownership
7 87 (1.89%) FMCG
8 80 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 76 (1.65%) Driving Licence
10 75 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 57 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 50 (1.08%) Mobile App
13 46 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 45 (0.98%) Legacy Code
15 44 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (0.91%) Operational Technology
17 37 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (0.80%) NHS
18 31 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
19 30 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 301 (6.53%) Windows
2 163 (3.54%) Linux
3 120 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.52%) Unix
5 85 (1.84%) Android
6 71 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.39%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.28%) Windows 8
11 12 (0.26%) AIX
11 12 (0.26%) VMS
11 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
16 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.065%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,719 (37.30%) Agile
2 1,263 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
3 962 (20.87%) Software Engineering
4 944 (20.48%) CI/CD
5 888 (19.27%) SDLC
6 874 (18.96%) Visualisation
7 744 (16.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 698 (15.14%) Community of Practice
9 685 (14.86%) Machine Learning
9 685 (14.86%) Operational Stability
10 666 (14.45%) Risk Management
11 662 (14.36%) Project Management
12 649 (14.08%) Customer Service
13 414 (8.98%) Data Analysis
14 412 (8.94%) Mentoring
15 406 (8.81%) Coaching
15 406 (8.81%) Process Improvement
16 380 (8.24%) Project Delivery
17 376 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
18 375 (8.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 756 (16.40%) SQL
2 668 (14.49%) Java
3 513 (11.13%) Python
4 323 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 196 (4.25%) C#
6 138 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 127 (2.76%) PL/SQL
8 96 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 70 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 53 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 52 (1.13%) PHP
12 50 (1.08%) Scala
13 48 (1.04%) C
14 36 (0.78%) C++
15 29 (0.63%) VB
16 22 (0.48%) Bash
17 17 (0.37%) R
18 16 (0.35%) Bicep
19 15 (0.33%) MATLAB
20 14 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,203 (26.10%) Degree
2 178 (3.86%) Security Cleared
3 121 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 90 (1.95%) SC Cleared
5 83 (1.80%) PMI Certification
6 80 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.56%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 57 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.24%) PMP
9 52 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (1.13%) HNC
10 49 (1.06%) HND
11 46 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 43 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 40 (0.87%) CISSP
13 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 31 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 30 (0.65%) DV Cleared
16 29 (0.63%) CISM
17 27 (0.59%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (7.18%) QA
2 144 (3.12%) SLA
3 135 (2.93%) GDPR
4 127 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 97 (2.10%) PMO
6 77 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.48%) ISO 9001
8 54 (1.17%) Data Quality
9 43 (0.93%) NIST
10 42 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.69%) ISO 14001
12 21 (0.46%) NEBOSH
13 17 (0.37%) NCSC
14 16 (0.35%) GRC
15 13 (0.28%) IFRS
15 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
16 11 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 197 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 119 (2.58%) Docker
3 99 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (1.82%) HDFS
5 46 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.52%) Firmware
7 23 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.46%) vSphere
9 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) XenApp
12 4 (0.087%) pfSense
13 3 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.043%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.022%) Snort
15 1 (0.022%) Varnish
15 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 186 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 180 (3.91%) Terraform
3 56 (1.22%) Grafana
4 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.78%) SCCM
6 26 (0.56%) Ansible
7 24 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.35%) Functional Safety
9 14 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.26%) Backup Exec
10 12 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.24%) Nagios
12 10 (0.22%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.15%) SCOM
15 5 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.11%) Opsview
Vendors
1 800 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 230 (4.99%) Oracle
3 218 (4.73%) Databricks
4 166 (3.60%) SAP
5 130 (2.82%) VMware
6 111 (2.41%) Google
7 107 (2.32%) Cisco
8 89 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 84 (1.82%) Informatica
10 80 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.19%) Dynatrace
12 54 (1.17%) Cloudera
13 51 (1.11%) Citrix
14 48 (1.04%) Splunk
15 45 (0.98%) Alteryx
16 31 (0.67%) Veeam
17 26 (0.56%) NEC
18 24 (0.52%) Meraki
19 23 (0.50%) Dell
20 20 (0.43%) IBM