Process Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 212 230
Rank change year-on-year +82 +18 +48
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 2,206 1,726 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.14% 1.78% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.86% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 897 1,441
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,012 £35,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,375 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Process 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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.38%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +86 2,019 £55,000 -8.33% 719
UK excluding London +58 1,508 £50,000 -4.76% 502
Work from Home +51 762 £55,000 -4.35% 318
London +114 600 £70,000 +7.69% 240
Midlands +62 476 £52,500 +5.00% 107
North of England +45 332 £47,500 -5.00% 143
South East -4 317 £45,000 -21.74% 104
West Midlands +53 306 £55,000 +4.76% 72
South West +59 171 £52,396 -0.20% 46
North West +18 164 £47,500 -4.04% 73
East Midlands +32 148 £44,000 -12.00% 35
Yorkshire +55 118 £45,000 -14.29% 38
East of England +19 96 £50,000 -4.76% 54
Scotland -52 70 £55,380 +15.22% 38
North East +43 50 £42,500 -5.56% 35
Northern Ireland +44 24 £37,500 -16.67% 6
Wales +13 24 £42,000 +10.16% 21

Process 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
1 129 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.77%) Confluence
3 17 (0.77%) SAS
4 12 (0.54%) CMS
5 9 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) IBM Notes
7 5 (0.23%) Apache
7 5 (0.23%) IIS
7 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.23%) WordPress
8 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Luigi
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.091%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.091%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.045%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 438 (19.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 310 (14.05%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.27%) Simulink
8 4 (0.18%) InfoPath
8 4 (0.18%) SPSS
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.14%) InDesign
9 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 35 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 15 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.54%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
9 10 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (0.36%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.32%) Primavera
11 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.23%) Fidessa
12 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
13 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
14 3 (0.14%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (9.25%) Azure
2 201 (9.11%) Power Platform
3 139 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (5.26%) AWS
5 83 (3.76%) SaaS
6 61 (2.77%) GCP
7 55 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (1.54%) PowerApps
9 30 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 27 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (1.13%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.00%) Serverless
13 20 (0.91%) Amazon S3
13 20 (0.91%) OCI
13 20 (0.91%) Power Automate
14 16 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (0.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 184 (8.34%) Broadband
2 56 (2.54%) Firewall
3 35 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 30 (1.36%) WAN
5 29 (1.31%) Network Security
6 25 (1.13%) DNS
6 25 (1.13%) LAN
7 18 (0.82%) VPN
8 14 (0.63%) Wireshark
9 13 (0.59%) Internet
10 9 (0.41%) VoIP
11 8 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.32%) Wireless
13 6 (0.27%) DHCP
13 6 (0.27%) HTTP
13 6 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
15 4 (0.18%) FTP
15 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.93%) Power BI
2 76 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.04%) Tableau
5 41 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 23 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 20 (0.91%) MySQL
9 19 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 18 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
11 16 (0.73%) Data Mining
12 15 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.63%) Big Data
14 13 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (0.59%) SAP BW
15 12 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
16 11 (0.50%) Metadata
17 10 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 111 (5.03%) JIRA
2 34 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.45%) Git
4 18 (0.82%) Selenium
5 12 (0.54%) Cucumber
6 9 (0.41%) Postman
6 9 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.36%) Jaeger
7 8 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.36%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.32%) gulp
8 7 (0.32%) WebDriver
9 5 (0.23%) eggPlant
9 5 (0.23%) MSTest
9 5 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.23%) webpack
10 4 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
General
1 811 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 675 (30.60%) Finance
3 416 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (13.06%) Legal
5 247 (11.20%) Marketing
6 222 (10.06%) Banking
7 190 (8.61%) Military
8 186 (8.43%) Advertising
9 154 (6.98%) Law
10 134 (6.07%) Retail
11 106 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
12 104 (4.71%) Manufacturing
13 99 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 79 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
15 67 (3.04%) Public Sector
16 65 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
17 63 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
18 38 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
19 32 (1.45%) Telecoms
20 28 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 496 (22.48%) Analyst
2 373 (16.91%) Lead
3 357 (16.18%) Senior
4 193 (8.75%) Graduate
5 147 (6.66%) Senior Analyst
6 138 (6.26%) Business Analyst
7 105 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 96 (4.35%) IT Manager
9 85 (3.85%) Consultant
10 64 (2.90%) Developer
11 56 (2.54%) Architect
12 52 (2.36%) Data Analyst
13 46 (2.09%) Senior Manager
14 43 (1.95%) Team Leader
15 42 (1.90%) Business Manager
16 38 (1.72%) IT Analyst
17 33 (1.50%) IT Support
18 30 (1.36%) Change Manager
18 30 (1.36%) Data Engineer
18 30 (1.36%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (3.40%) .NET
2 50 (2.27%) REST
3 35 (1.59%) React
4 34 (1.54%) .NET Framework
4 34 (1.54%) Web Services
5 31 (1.41%) HTML
6 29 (1.31%) JSON
6 29 (1.31%) XML
7 21 (0.95%) CSS
8 20 (0.91%) Node.js
9 18 (0.82%) AngularJS
10 17 (0.77%) .NET Core
11 16 (0.73%) SignalR
11 16 (0.73%) WCF
11 16 (0.73%) WF
12 15 (0.68%) FastAPI
12 15 (0.68%) Flask
13 14 (0.63%) Gherkin
14 13 (0.59%) Middleware
14 13 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 285 (12.92%) Onboarding
2 184 (8.34%) Marketing Technology
3 132 (5.98%) Management Information System
4 76 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 39 (1.77%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.31%) Algorithms
7 28 (1.27%) PMI
8 26 (1.18%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.09%) Life Science
9 24 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
13 18 (0.82%) Credit Risk
14 17 (0.77%) Robotics
15 16 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
18 13 (0.59%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 134 (6.07%) Windows
2 52 (2.36%) Linux
3 28 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.04%) Android
6 16 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.54%) Unix
8 5 (0.23%) CentOS
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.18%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.045%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
2 486 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 372 (16.86%) Customer Service
4 352 (15.96%) Agile
5 346 (15.68%) Matrix Organization
6 345 (15.64%) Project Management
7 317 (14.37%) Data Analysis
8 306 (13.87%) Analytics
9 299 (13.55%) Logistics
10 243 (11.02%) Customer Experience
11 239 (10.83%) Business Case
12 231 (10.47%) Performance Metrics
13 223 (10.11%) Data Management
14 222 (10.06%) Data Collection
15 216 (9.79%) Coaching
16 210 (9.52%) Regulatory Change
17 206 (9.34%) Creative Thinking
18 205 (9.29%) Contingency Planning
19 201 (9.11%) Use Case
20 197 (8.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (11.79%) SQL
2 126 (5.71%) Python
3 84 (3.81%) C#
4 59 (2.67%) Java
5 52 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 44 (1.99%) PowerShell
7 36 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 22 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.91%) R
10 17 (0.77%) MATLAB
11 15 (0.68%) Scala
12 13 (0.59%) Bash
13 11 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.45%) VBA
15 7 (0.32%) C++
16 6 (0.27%) C
16 6 (0.27%) Perl
16 6 (0.27%) Ruby
17 5 (0.23%) Groovy
17 5 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 668 (30.28%) Degree
2 70 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 49 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 47 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 42 (1.90%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.09%) CISSP
9 24 (1.09%) PMP
10 23 (1.04%) APMP
10 23 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 21 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.95%) CEH
12 20 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 19 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.77%) MCSE
14 17 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (7.52%) GDPR
2 155 (7.03%) QA
3 119 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 61 (2.77%) SLA
5 34 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 24 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.04%) PMO
8 23 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (0.86%) NIST
10 17 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.54%) ITGC
13 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.45%) CDISC
14 9 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 7 (0.32%) ISO 14001
15 7 (0.32%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.32%) ISO 9002
15 7 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 80 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 39 (1.77%) Docker
3 36 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.32%) Firmware
9 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.045%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (1.09%) Terraform
4 17 (0.77%) Ansible
5 14 (0.63%) Nmap
6 8 (0.36%) Kiali
7 5 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.23%) logstash
8 4 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.14%) SCCM
10 2 (0.091%) Argo
10 2 (0.091%) Autotask
10 2 (0.091%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.091%) Grafana
10 2 (0.091%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.091%) Stealthwatch
11 1 (0.045%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.045%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 374 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 82 (3.72%) SAP
3 69 (3.13%) Oracle
4 61 (2.77%) Google
5 44 (1.99%) VMware
6 43 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.31%) Splunk
8 22 (1.00%) Cisco
9 21 (0.95%) IFS
10 17 (0.77%) Qualys
11 14 (0.63%) IBM
11 14 (0.63%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.63%) Thycotic
12 12 (0.54%) Apple
13 11 (0.50%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.41%) Citrix
15 8 (0.36%) Adobe
15 8 (0.36%) Allen-Bradley
15 8 (0.36%) Workday
16 7 (0.32%) Atlassian