Continuous Improvement Jobs in the North West

Continual Improvement
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 80 46
Rank change year-on-year +44 -34 +26
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 528 329 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.01% 4.41% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 4.62% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 371 219 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,150 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,715 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,524 7,115 9,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.87% 95.38% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,367 3,833 5,316
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
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 £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +49 281 £60,000 +0.80% 120
Cheshire 0 94 £43,500 +33.85% 44
Merseyside +53 76 £50,000 +28.21% 23
Lancashire -7 48 £42,500 -12.51% 33
Cumbria +1 27 £70,000 +125.81% 16
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.95%) SAS
3 4 (0.76%) IIS
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.19%) Jetty
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (8.52%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (4.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.14%) AutoCAD
4 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (2.46%) Infor SunSystems
1 13 (2.46%) iTrent
2 9 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.95%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.95%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.76%) SAP APO
5 4 (0.76%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.76%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.76%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.76%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Primavera
6 2 (0.38%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.38%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (19.32%) Azure
2 47 (8.90%) AWS
3 34 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (6.44%) Power Platform
4 29 (5.49%) SaaS
5 25 (4.73%) GitHub
6 14 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (1.89%) Google Play
9 8 (1.52%) GCP
10 7 (1.33%) OCI
10 7 (1.33%) Serverless
11 5 (0.95%) Stripe
12 4 (0.76%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.41%) DNS
2 17 (3.22%) Firewall
3 15 (2.84%) DHCP
4 12 (2.27%) VoIP
5 8 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.33%) PPP
7 6 (1.14%) Broadband
7 6 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.95%) LAN
9 4 (0.76%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.76%) RS-232
9 4 (0.76%) WAN
10 3 (0.57%) HTTP
10 3 (0.57%) MPLS
11 2 (0.38%) BGP
11 2 (0.38%) Network Security
11 2 (0.38%) OSPF
11 2 (0.38%) RIP
11 2 (0.38%) SMS
11 2 (0.38%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.55%) Power BI
3 21 (3.98%) MySQL
4 19 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 18 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (2.84%) Tableau
7 13 (2.46%) BusinessObjects
8 11 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.89%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.95%) MaxDB
11 5 (0.95%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.38%) Looker
13 2 (0.38%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 38 (7.20%) Git
2 17 (3.22%) Bitbucket
3 16 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.65%) PHPUnit
5 11 (2.08%) Visual Studio
6 10 (1.89%) Appium
7 8 (1.52%) JIRA
8 7 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.95%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.95%) Postman
9 5 (0.95%) Selenium
10 4 (0.76%) Subversion
10 4 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.57%) GitLab
12 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.38%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 198 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 118 (22.35%) Finance
3 101 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.83%) Legal
5 50 (9.47%) Retail
6 33 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.55%) Law
8 18 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.84%) Banking
11 14 (2.65%) Marketing
12 12 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Advertising
14 6 (1.14%) Automotive
15 5 (0.95%) Games
16 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (14.02%) Developer
2 70 (13.26%) Analyst
3 58 (10.98%) Senior
4 35 (6.63%) Lead
5 30 (5.68%) Senior Developer
6 28 (5.30%) Project Manager
7 22 (4.17%) Head of IT
8 21 (3.98%) IT Manager
9 18 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (3.03%) Financial Analyst
11 15 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (2.84%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 15 (2.84%) Security Manager
11 15 (2.84%) Support Analyst
12 14 (2.65%) Service Manager
12 14 (2.65%) Software Developer
12 14 (2.65%) Systems Manager
13 13 (2.46%) Architect
13 13 (2.46%) Head of Design
14 12 (2.27%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.68%) .NET
2 28 (5.30%) React
3 27 (5.11%) CSS
4 24 (4.55%) RESTful
5 22 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 18 (3.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 17 (3.22%) HTML
7 17 (3.22%) Laravel
8 15 (2.84%) REST
8 15 (2.84%) Sass
9 14 (2.65%) Tailwind CSS
9 14 (2.65%) Vue
9 14 (2.65%) Web Services
10 10 (1.89%) Android SDK
10 10 (1.89%) JSON
11 7 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.14%) .NET Framework
13 5 (0.95%) BREW
13 5 (0.95%) Node.js
13 5 (0.95%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.11%) Management Information System
2 21 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.46%) Security Posture
5 12 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.52%) NHS
9 7 (1.33%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.33%) Housing Association
10 6 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (0.95%) iPad
11 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.71%) Windows
2 27 (5.11%) Windows Server
3 19 (3.60%) Android
4 18 (3.41%) Linux
5 7 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (21.21%) Agile
3 81 (15.34%) ITIL
4 76 (14.39%) Mentoring
5 71 (13.45%) Decision-Making
6 67 (12.69%) Project Management
7 63 (11.93%) Customer Service
8 56 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 51 (9.66%) DevOps
10 48 (9.09%) Coaching
11 47 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (8.71%) Service Delivery
13 44 (8.33%) Analytics
13 44 (8.33%) Risk Management
14 42 (7.95%) CI/CD
14 42 (7.95%) ERP
15 41 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
15 41 (7.77%) Project Delivery
16 40 (7.58%) SDLC
17 37 (7.01%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.98%) SQL
2 33 (6.25%) Python
3 32 (6.06%) C#
4 30 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.30%) Java
6 23 (4.36%) T-SQL
7 14 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.95%) ABAP
10 4 (0.76%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.57%) PHP
11 3 (0.57%) VB
12 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.38%) Swift
12 2 (0.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) Ada
Qualifications
1 96 (18.18%) Degree
2 22 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.84%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.46%) CISSP
4 13 (2.46%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.89%) HND
8 9 (1.70%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.52%) CISM
9 8 (1.52%) HNC
9 8 (1.52%) PMP
10 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.95%) CCNP
10 5 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (0.76%) CCIE
11 4 (0.76%) CCNA
11 4 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.74%) QA
2 31 (5.87%) SLA
3 28 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.98%) GDPR
5 20 (3.79%) PMO
6 17 (3.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (2.84%) NIST
8 9 (1.70%) ISO 9001
9 8 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.52%) NEBOSH
10 7 (1.33%) COSHH
10 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (1.14%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.76%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
14 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.46%) Docker
3 11 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) Snort
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.03%) Terraform
2 9 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.14%) Ansible
5 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.57%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 138 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.47%) SAP
3 22 (4.17%) Google
4 19 (3.60%) Citrix
5 13 (2.46%) Infor
6 12 (2.27%) Cisco
6 12 (2.27%) Oracle
7 10 (1.89%) Commvault
7 10 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.89%) VMware
8 8 (1.52%) Veeam
9 5 (0.95%) BT
9 5 (0.95%) Facebook
9 5 (0.95%) PayPal
9 5 (0.95%) Sage
9 5 (0.95%) Sybase
9 5 (0.95%) WorldPay
10 4 (0.76%) Databricks
10 4 (0.76%) Dell
10 4 (0.76%) MuleSoft