Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 +16
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,853 4,691 9,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.80% 4.76% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 4.98% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,239 2,690 3,831
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,569 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £76,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,125 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 May 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
UK excluding London +33 4,566 £52,500 - 1,881
England +27 4,400 £57,500 -4.17% 2,383
Work from Home +6 1,624 £62,250 +8.26% 806
Scotland +42 1,048 £55,000 -9.12% 140
London +12 1,033 £73,000 +0.69% 740
North of England +43 956 £52,500 +5.00% 445
Midlands +18 952 £52,500 +2.44% 331
South East +5 733 £52,500 -12.50% 542
West Midlands +21 727 £53,500 +1.90% 202
North West +41 523 £51,587 -6.00% 253
South West +9 454 £52,396 -0.20% 195
Yorkshire +39 324 £60,000 +14.29% 135
East of England +2 236 £55,000 +12.82% 202
East Midlands +17 214 £47,500 -5.00% 122
Wales +51 159 £51,997 +16.41% 68
North East +27 109 £45,000 +16.88% 67
Northern Ireland +49 32 £67,500 +50.00% 18
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 215 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 159 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 129 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 126 (2.15%) Confluence
5 82 (1.40%) Apache
6 35 (0.60%) FileNet
6 35 (0.60%) SAS
7 26 (0.44%) CMS
8 21 (0.36%) IIS
9 15 (0.26%) nginx
9 15 (0.26%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 10 (0.17%) WordPress
11 9 (0.15%) Drupal
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.085%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
13 5 (0.085%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.034%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 649 (11.09%) Microsoft Office
2 530 (9.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.15%) Simulink
9 5 (0.085%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.085%) SPSS
10 4 (0.068%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.068%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.068%) Trello
11 3 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.051%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 40 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (0.43%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.27%) iTrent
6 13 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
7 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 10 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.15%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.14%) Magento
10 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.14%) Shopify
11 5 (0.085%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
12 4 (0.068%) HFM
12 4 (0.068%) Hyperion Planning
12 4 (0.068%) ResourceLink
12 4 (0.068%) SAP IS-U
12 4 (0.068%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 912 (15.58%) Azure
2 852 (14.56%) AWS
3 386 (6.59%) Power Platform
4 343 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 201 (3.43%) GCP
6 173 (2.96%) SaaS
7 165 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
9 118 (2.02%) Serverless
10 112 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
11 99 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 79 (1.35%) GitHub
13 78 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 76 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (1.16%) Power Automate
17 67 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 57 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
20 52 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 139 (2.37%) Firewall
2 94 (1.61%) DNS
3 80 (1.37%) WAN
4 74 (1.26%) LAN
5 71 (1.21%) SAN
6 62 (1.06%) VoIP
7 57 (0.97%) Internet
8 54 (0.92%) VPN
9 51 (0.87%) VLAN
9 51 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (0.80%) DHCP
10 47 (0.80%) TCP/IP
11 46 (0.79%) Network Security
12 39 (0.67%) Broadband
13 32 (0.55%) Wireless
14 30 (0.51%) SNMP
15 27 (0.46%) HTTP
15 27 (0.46%) Intranet
16 25 (0.43%) MPLS
17 24 (0.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (6.12%) NoSQL
2 318 (5.43%) Power BI
3 230 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 199 (3.40%) Big Data
5 160 (2.73%) Hadoop
6 120 (2.05%) Relational Database
7 115 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.83%) Apache Hive
9 98 (1.67%) MySQL
10 92 (1.57%) Tableau
11 86 (1.47%) HBase
12 75 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
13 67 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 62 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
15 54 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
16 50 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
17 48 (0.82%) Power Query
18 45 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
19 42 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 41 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 293 (5.01%) JIRA
2 290 (4.95%) Git
3 229 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.67%) JUnit
5 86 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 70 (1.20%) Selenium
7 54 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 42 (0.72%) GitLab
9 34 (0.58%) WebDriver
10 32 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.53%) TeamCity
12 30 (0.51%) Android Studio
13 29 (0.50%) Jasmine
14 27 (0.46%) Visual Studio
15 21 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
15 21 (0.36%) Protractor
16 20 (0.34%) Maven
17 19 (0.32%) Subversion
18 15 (0.26%) Cucumber
18 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,243 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 2,060 (35.20%) Finance
3 1,193 (20.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,136 (19.41%) Law
5 1,120 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
6 835 (14.27%) Legal
7 410 (7.00%) Marketing
8 382 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
9 355 (6.07%) Banking
10 352 (6.01%) Manufacturing
11 328 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
12 270 (4.61%) Retail
13 249 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
14 234 (4.00%) Public Sector
15 214 (3.66%) Military
16 129 (2.20%) Telecoms
17 127 (2.17%) Investment Banking
18 76 (1.30%) Local Government
19 74 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
20 65 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 875 (14.95%) Software Engineer
2 712 (12.16%) Analyst
3 599 (10.23%) Lead
4 591 (10.10%) Senior
5 516 (8.82%) Developer
6 325 (5.55%) Graduate
7 320 (5.47%) Java Engineer
8 306 (5.23%) Java Software Engineer
9 241 (4.12%) Project Manager
10 218 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
11 201 (3.43%) Architect
12 198 (3.38%) IT Engineer
13 197 (3.37%) AWS Software Engineer
14 194 (3.31%) Data Engineer
15 183 (3.13%) IT Manager
16 139 (2.37%) Full Stack Engineer
17 134 (2.29%) Product Analyst
18 133 (2.27%) Big Data Engineer
18 133 (2.27%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 132 (2.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (5.66%) React
2 293 (5.01%) Spring
3 267 (4.56%) AngularJS
4 259 (4.43%) .NET
4 259 (4.43%) HTML
5 229 (3.91%) CSS
6 191 (3.26%) Node.js
7 161 (2.75%) JSON
8 155 (2.65%) Kafka
9 150 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 141 (2.41%) RESTful
11 132 (2.26%) Web Services
12 121 (2.07%) J2EE
13 118 (2.02%) XML
14 114 (1.95%) JMS
15 108 (1.85%) Spring Boot
16 100 (1.71%) REST
17 99 (1.69%) jQuery
18 98 (1.67%) Hibernate
19 76 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 793 (13.55%) Algorithms
2 486 (8.30%) Onboarding
3 392 (6.70%) Management Information System
4 237 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 236 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 228 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 142 (2.43%) FMCG
8 105 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 80 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 73 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 70 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 65 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 59 (1.01%) Clustering
15 59 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 49 (0.84%) Legacy Code
17 45 (0.77%) NHS
18 44 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
18 44 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 428 (7.31%) Windows
2 255 (4.36%) Linux
3 191 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 151 (2.58%) Unix
5 89 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 87 (1.49%) Android
7 56 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 38 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 18 (0.31%) Windows 7
13 15 (0.26%) VMS
13 15 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.22%) AIX
14 13 (0.22%) CentOS
14 13 (0.22%) Windows 8
15 12 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
16 10 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,225 (38.01%) Agile
2 1,665 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
3 1,125 (19.22%) CI/CD
4 1,118 (19.10%) Software Engineering
5 974 (16.64%) SDLC
6 938 (16.03%) Visualisation
7 842 (14.39%) Project Management
8 810 (13.84%) Artificial Intelligence
9 786 (13.43%) Risk Management
10 752 (12.85%) Machine Learning
11 728 (12.44%) Community of Practice
12 714 (12.20%) Customer Service
13 704 (12.03%) Operational Stability
14 644 (11.00%) Mentoring
15 600 (10.25%) DevOps
16 522 (8.92%) Coaching
17 501 (8.56%) Project Delivery
18 487 (8.32%) Process Improvement
19 474 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
20 473 (8.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 957 (16.35%) SQL
2 790 (13.50%) Java
3 688 (11.75%) Python
4 380 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 299 (5.11%) C#
6 189 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 171 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 138 (2.36%) PL/SQL
9 103 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 77 (1.32%) Scala
11 64 (1.09%) Bash
12 62 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 60 (1.03%) PHP
14 51 (0.87%) C
15 41 (0.70%) C++
16 37 (0.63%) Bicep
17 29 (0.50%) VB
18 25 (0.43%) Go
19 24 (0.41%) R
19 24 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,499 (25.61%) Degree
2 215 (3.67%) Security Cleared
3 185 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 126 (2.15%) Master's Degree
5 119 (2.03%) SC Cleared
6 118 (2.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 103 (1.76%) PMI Certification
8 83 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 72 (1.23%) PMP
10 68 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 59 (1.01%) HNC
12 56 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 54 (0.92%) HND
15 53 (0.91%) CISSP
16 38 (0.65%) AWS Certification
17 37 (0.63%) ACCA
17 37 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
18 35 (0.60%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (7.47%) QA
2 161 (2.75%) SLA
3 153 (2.61%) GDPR
4 145 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (1.81%) PMO
6 102 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 84 (1.44%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.25%) ISO 9001
9 65 (1.11%) NIST
10 55 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.60%) ISO 14001
12 34 (0.58%) IFRS
13 27 (0.46%) NEBOSH
14 23 (0.39%) NCSC
15 21 (0.36%) GRC
15 21 (0.36%) PCI DSS
16 17 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.26%) COBIT
18 14 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
18 14 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 289 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 233 (3.98%) Docker
3 133 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.61%) HDFS
5 57 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 42 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (0.55%) vSphere
8 31 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.41%) Firmware
10 18 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.17%) vCloud
12 5 (0.085%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.085%) XenApp
13 4 (0.068%) pfSense
14 3 (0.051%) Ceph
14 3 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.034%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.034%) IAG
15 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 323 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 277 (4.73%) Terraform
3 93 (1.59%) Grafana
4 81 (1.38%) Ansible
5 75 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 44 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 43 (0.73%) SCCM
9 33 (0.56%) Functional Safety
10 25 (0.43%) Puppet
10 25 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (0.36%) Nagios
12 20 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
13 17 (0.29%) NetBackup
14 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
15 14 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 13 (0.22%) FortiGate
17 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
17 12 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
18 10 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,010 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 287 (4.90%) Oracle
3 262 (4.48%) Databricks
4 196 (3.35%) SAP
5 194 (3.31%) VMware
6 148 (2.53%) Google
7 147 (2.51%) Cisco
8 117 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 112 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 86 (1.47%) Informatica
11 65 (1.11%) Citrix
12 64 (1.09%) Cloudera
13 57 (0.97%) Splunk
14 55 (0.94%) Dynatrace
15 52 (0.89%) Alteryx
16 46 (0.79%) Veeam
17 43 (0.73%) HP
18 32 (0.55%) Commvault
19 29 (0.50%) NEC
20 28 (0.48%) Meraki