The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank - 39 36
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 0 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford - 0.971% 1.765%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.170% 2.190%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £57,500 £41,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +37.72%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
205 171 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 81.35% 83.01% 80.59%
Number of salaries quoted 199 162 135
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
Bedfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedford Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Bedford region.

Bedford Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Continuous Improvement also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Continuous Improvement.

1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
1 5 (71.43%) Project Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Matrix Management
2 4 (57.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (57.14%) Product Management
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) DSDM
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
3 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
3 1 (14.29%) Debian
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) QMS
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Continuous Improvement also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Project Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Debian
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 1 (14.29%) CentOS
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Project Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Matrix Management
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) DSDM
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Product Management
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
3 1 (14.29%) QMS
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Xen
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) VMware