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 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 29 60 46
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 +29
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4,588 2,876 4,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.08% 5.05% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 5.29% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 1,627 2,035
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 £67,968 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 61,917 54,390 69,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.05% 95.49% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,417 28,631 41,297
10th Percentile £27,250 £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 31 May 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 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
Scotland +43 1,035 £54,500 -13.16% 118
North of England +47 963 £52,500 +5.00% 417
Midlands +11 963 £52,100 +0.43% 324
South East +4 740 £52,500 -12.50% 366
West Midlands +16 728 £53,500 +1.90% 206
North West +44 528 £51,150 -2.57% 239
South West +15 458 £52,396 +2.24% 199
Yorkshire +38 325 £60,000 +20.00% 131
East of England -1 237 £55,000 +22.22% 177
East Midlands +13 224 £47,500 -2.56% 118
Wales +52 162 £51,997 +22.83% 59
North East +24 110 £45,000 +20.00% 53
Northern Ireland +50 35 £67,500 +50.00% 22
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
1 201 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 133 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 93 (2.03%) Confluence
4 90 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 70 (1.53%) Apache
6 35 (0.76%) FileNet
7 26 (0.57%) 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 (0.044%) BizTalk Server
16 1 (0.022%) Apache Solr
16 1 (0.022%) OpenEdge
16 1 (0.022%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 612 (13.34%) Microsoft Office
2 476 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 129 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.92%) AutoCAD
6 38 (0.83%) 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 (0.044%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.044%) 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 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.54%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.33%) iTrent
4 14 (0.31%) 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
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%) Primavera
9 4 (0.087%) ResourceLink
9 4 (0.087%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (0.087%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.087%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.087%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 654 (14.25%) AWS
2 571 (12.45%) Azure
3 293 (6.39%) Power Platform
4 245 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (2.68%) SaaS
6 116 (2.53%) GCP
7 93 (2.03%) Serverless
8 90 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 84 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 67 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 57 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
13 56 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
14 51 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
15 50 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
15 50 (1.09%) Power Automate
16 49 (1.07%) Amazon S3
17 48 (1.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.31%) Firewall
2 77 (1.68%) 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 (0.92%) VLAN
9 40 (0.87%) Network Security
10 37 (0.81%) Internet
11 36 (0.78%) DHCP
12 32 (0.70%) Broadband
13 27 (0.59%) VPN
14 26 (0.57%) Wireless
15 25 (0.54%) Intranet
16 24 (0.52%) NAS
17 23 (0.50%) TCP/IP
18 20 (0.44%) HTTP
19 19 (0.41%) Skype
20 18 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (6.78%) NoSQL
2 249 (5.43%) Power BI
3 169 (3.68%) Big Data
4 154 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 147 (3.20%) Hadoop
6 97 (2.11%) Apache Hive
7 95 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 85 (1.85%) HBase
9 79 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 76 (1.66%) MySQL
11 72 (1.57%) Tableau
12 52 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
13 50 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
13 50 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
14 45 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
15 43 (0.94%) Power Query
16 38 (0.83%) RDBMS
17 36 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 30 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
19 28 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 234 (5.10%) Git
2 203 (4.42%) JIRA
3 158 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.07%) JUnit
5 85 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 51 (1.11%) Selenium
7 39 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 30 (0.65%) Android Studio
9 26 (0.57%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.57%) 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%) Eclipse
General
1 1,681 (36.64%) Finance
2 1,674 (36.49%) Social Skills
3 1,055 (22.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,028 (22.41%) Law
5 890 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
6 742 (16.17%) Legal
7 340 (7.41%) Marketing
8 297 (6.47%) Manufacturing
9 291 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
10 279 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
11 257 (5.60%) Banking
12 234 (5.10%) Retail
13 209 (4.56%) Military
14 175 (3.81%) Public Sector
15 148 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (2.55%) Investment Banking
17 98 (2.14%) Telecoms
18 64 (1.39%) Electronics
19 58 (1.26%) Local Government
20 53 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 833 (18.16%) Software Engineer
2 598 (13.03%) Analyst
3 409 (8.91%) Lead
4 405 (8.83%) Developer
5 356 (7.76%) Senior
6 299 (6.52%) Java Engineer
7 293 (6.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 277 (6.04%) Graduate
9 206 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.25%) AWS Software Engineer
11 183 (3.99%) Project Manager
12 151 (3.29%) IT Manager
13 149 (3.25%) Data Engineer
14 144 (3.14%) IT Engineer
15 139 (3.03%) Architect
16 135 (2.94%) Full Stack Engineer
17 134 (2.92%) Product Analyst
18 130 (2.83%) Big Data Engineer
18 130 (2.83%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 129 (2.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (6.08%) React
2 270 (5.88%) Spring
3 241 (5.25%) AngularJS
4 226 (4.93%) HTML
5 200 (4.36%) CSS
6 171 (3.73%) .NET
7 167 (3.64%) Node.js
8 147 (3.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 127 (2.77%) JSON
10 119 (2.59%) J2EE
11 114 (2.48%) JMS
12 113 (2.46%) RESTful
13 111 (2.42%) Kafka
14 109 (2.38%) Web Services
15 97 (2.11%) jQuery
16 96 (2.09%) Spring Boot
17 90 (1.96%) XML
18 88 (1.92%) Hibernate
19 65 (1.42%) REST
20 60 (1.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 766 (16.70%) Algorithms
2 426 (9.29%) Onboarding
3 332 (7.24%) Management Information System
4 195 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 185 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 177 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 87 (1.90%) FMCG
8 79 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 76 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 76 (1.66%) Driving Licence
10 57 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 50 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 46 (1.00%) Legacy Code
12 46 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
15 37 (0.81%) NHS
16 32 (0.70%) Operational Technology
17 31 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
18 30 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 300 (6.54%) Windows
2 164 (3.57%) Linux
3 119 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 117 (2.55%) Unix
5 85 (1.85%) Android
6 71 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.18%) 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 1,727 (37.64%) Agile
2 1,252 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
3 970 (21.14%) Software Engineering
4 951 (20.73%) CI/CD
5 895 (19.51%) SDLC
6 882 (19.22%) Visualisation
7 750 (16.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 704 (15.34%) Community of Practice
9 692 (15.08%) Operational Stability
10 690 (15.04%) Machine Learning
11 669 (14.58%) Risk Management
12 662 (14.43%) Project Management
13 649 (14.15%) Customer Service
14 415 (9.05%) Data Analysis
15 412 (8.98%) Mentoring
16 406 (8.85%) Coaching
16 406 (8.85%) Process Improvement
17 377 (8.22%) Project Delivery
18 372 (8.11%) DevOps
19 371 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 762 (16.61%) SQL
2 674 (14.69%) Java
3 516 (11.25%) Python
4 324 (7.06%) JavaScript
5 195 (4.25%) C#
6 138 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 129 (2.81%) PL/SQL
8 96 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 70 (1.53%) T-SQL
10 53 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 52 (1.13%) PHP
12 51 (1.11%) Scala
13 47 (1.02%) C
14 35 (0.76%) 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 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,203 (26.22%) Degree
2 178 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 121 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 90 (1.96%) SC Cleared
5 83 (1.81%) PMI Certification
6 80 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.57%) 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 (1.07%) HND
11 45 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 43 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 39 (0.85%) CISSP
15 30 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 30 (0.65%) DV Cleared
16 28 (0.61%) CISM
17 27 (0.59%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (7.17%) QA
2 144 (3.14%) SLA
3 134 (2.92%) GDPR
4 126 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 97 (2.11%) PMO
6 77 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.48%) ISO 9001
8 54 (1.18%) Data Quality
9 42 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (0.92%) NIST
10 32 (0.70%) ISO 14001
11 21 (0.46%) NEBOSH
12 17 (0.37%) NCSC
13 16 (0.35%) GRC
14 13 (0.28%) IFRS
14 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.22%) COSHH
System Software
1 197 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 119 (2.59%) Docker
3 99 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 85 (1.85%) 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 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.022%) Snort
15 1 (0.022%) Varnish
15 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 188 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 181 (3.95%) Terraform
3 56 (1.22%) Grafana
4 43 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.78%) SCCM
6 26 (0.57%) Ansible
7 24 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.35%) Functional Safety
9 14 (0.31%) 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
1 798 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 232 (5.06%) Oracle
3 219 (4.77%) Databricks
4 156 (3.40%) SAP
5 130 (2.83%) VMware
6 111 (2.42%) Google
7 107 (2.33%) Cisco
8 90 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 85 (1.85%) Informatica
10 80 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.20%) Cloudera
11 55 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 51 (1.11%) Citrix
13 48 (1.05%) Splunk
14 45 (0.98%) Alteryx
15 31 (0.68%) Veeam
16 26 (0.57%) NEC
17 24 (0.52%) Meraki
18 23 (0.50%) Dell
19 20 (0.44%) IBM