The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 89 78 59
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 32 31 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.778% 1.875% 2.612%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.383% 2.656% 3.913%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 34
Average salary £50,000 £37,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -3.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,800 £26,800 £29,300
10% offered a salary of more than £76,500 £62,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.79% +11.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1343 1167 920
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.61% 70.60% 66.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1151 1017 783
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 21 (33.87%) ITIL
2 14 (22.58%) HP
2 14 (22.58%) Service Delivery
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
4 12 (19.35%) Degree
5 11 (17.74%) SAN
5 11 (17.74%) Service Management
6 10 (16.13%) NetApp
6 10 (16.13%) EMC
6 10 (16.13%) Brocade
6 10 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 9 (14.52%) SQL
7 9 (14.52%) MS Office
7 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
8 8 (12.90%) Six Sigma
8 8 (12.90%) Project Management
8 8 (12.90%) .NET
8 8 (12.90%) MS Excel
8 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 7 (11.29%) QA
9 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
9 7 (11.29%) MS Exchange
9 7 (11.29%) ISO 9000
9 7 (11.29%) PRINCE2
9 7 (11.29%) Windows
9 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (9.677%) Change Management
10 6 (9.677%) Risk Management
10 6 (9.677%) Scrum

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 8 (12.90%) .NET
2 4 (6.452%) ASP.NET
2 4 (6.452%) Velocity
3 3 (4.839%) XML
4 2 (3.226%) HTML
4 2 (3.226%) CSS
4 2 (3.226%) SOAP
4 2 (3.226%) Web Services
5 1 (1.613%) REST
5 1 (1.613%) jQuery
5 1 (1.613%) WCF
5 1 (1.613%) Ajax
5 1 (1.613%) JSON
5 1 (1.613%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.613%) COM
5 1 (1.613%) XSD
5 1 (1.613%) XSLT
5 1 (1.613%) ASP
5 1 (1.613%) Oracle ADF
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.29%) MS Exchange
2 6 (9.677%) SharePoint
3 5 (8.065%) IBM Notes
4 3 (4.839%) Confluence
5 2 (3.226%) IIS
5 2 (3.226%) Lync
6 1 (1.613%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.613%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.613%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.613%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 9 (14.52%) MS Office
2 8 (12.90%) MS Excel
3 3 (4.839%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.613%) MS Project
4 1 (1.613%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) SAN
2 6 (9.677%) Intranet
3 2 (3.226%) Internet
3 2 (3.226%) Firewall
3 2 (3.226%) LAN
3 2 (3.226%) WAN
3 2 (3.226%) HTTP
3 2 (3.226%) VPN
4 1 (1.613%) SSL
4 1 (1.613%) Wireless
4 1 (1.613%) MPLS
4 1 (1.613%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.065%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.226%) MS Access
2 2 (3.226%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (3.226%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.613%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.613%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.613%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.613%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (6.452%) Subversion
1 4 (6.452%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (4.839%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.839%) Hudson
2 3 (4.839%) JIRA
2 3 (4.839%) Maven
2 3 (4.839%) ClearCase
2 3 (4.839%) Bugzilla
3 2 (3.226%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.613%) JDeveloper
4 1 (1.613%) MSI
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.065%) Legal
4 4 (6.452%) Advertising
5 3 (4.839%) Banking
6 2 (3.226%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.226%) Billing
7 1 (1.613%) Retail
7 1 (1.613%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (8.065%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (8.065%) Analyst
2 5 (8.065%) Services Delivery Manager
2 5 (8.065%) Service Manager
3 4 (6.452%) ScrumMaster
3 4 (6.452%) Database Manager
4 3 (4.839%) Business Manager
4 3 (4.839%) Systems Manager
4 3 (4.839%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.226%) Quality Manager
5 2 (3.226%) Development Manager
5 2 (3.226%) Senior Manager
5 2 (3.226%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (3.226%) Consultant
5 2 (3.226%) Coordinator
5 2 (3.226%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.226%) Team Leader
5 2 (3.226%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (3.226%) Business Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.452%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.226%) PMI
4 1 (1.613%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (1.613%) FMCG
4 1 (1.613%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.613%) E-Learning
4 1 (1.613%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Windows
2 2 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (3.226%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.613%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.613%) Linux
3 1 (1.613%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) ITIL
2 14 (22.58%) Service Delivery
3 11 (17.74%) Service Management
4 8 (12.90%) Six Sigma
4 8 (12.90%) Project Management
5 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
5 7 (11.29%) PRINCE2
5 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.677%) Change Management
6 6 (9.677%) Risk Management
6 6 (9.677%) Scrum
6 6 (9.677%) Capacity Management
6 6 (9.677%) Release Management
6 6 (9.677%) Incident Management
7 5 (8.065%) E-Commerce
7 5 (8.065%) Configuration Management
8 4 (6.452%) Business Continuity
8 4 (6.452%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (6.452%) Test Automation
9 3 (4.839%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) SQL
2 6 (9.677%) VBA
3 5 (8.065%) C#
4 3 (4.839%) VB
5 2 (3.226%) VB.NET
5 2 (3.226%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.226%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.613%) VB6
6 1 (1.613%) Perl
6 1 (1.613%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.613%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Degree
2 6 (9.677%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 5 (8.065%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.839%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.226%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (3.226%) APMP
6 1 (1.613%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.613%) MCITP
6 1 (1.613%) MCSE
6 1 (1.613%) CCNA
6 1 (1.613%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.613%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.613%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.613%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 7 (11.29%) QA
2 7 (11.29%) ISO 9000
3 2 (3.226%) SLA
4 1 (1.613%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.613%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.613%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2 (3.226%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.613%) XenApp
2 1 (1.613%) XenServer
2 1 (1.613%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.613%) vSphere
2 1 (1.613%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.839%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.613%) SCCM
2 1 (1.613%) SCOM
2 1 (1.613%) WSUS
2 1 (1.613%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) HP
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.13%) NetApp
3 10 (16.13%) EMC
3 10 (16.13%) Brocade
4 5 (8.065%) Lotus
5 3 (4.839%) Oracle
6 2 (3.226%) VMware
6 2 (3.226%) Citrix
6 2 (3.226%) NorthgateArinso
7 1 (1.613%) SAP
7 1 (1.613%) Cisco
7 1 (1.613%) Sun
7 1 (1.613%) AppSense
7 1 (1.613%) Baan
7 1 (1.613%) CheckPoint
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Grow the capabilities of the ICT team and create an environment of continuous improvement... Professionally qualified to degree level and / or equivalent... Knowledge of guidance frameworks including ITIL...
Midland Heart
Salary: C£78,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Highly skilled C# ASP.Net Solutions Architect with strong Agile, C#, ASP.Net experience are required by Kyna Associates for an outstanding e-Commerce, online retail client, based...
Kyna Associates
Salary: £45000 - 60000 Per Annum Excellent Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
You will have experience of managing vendors and contracts, within the context of IT Service Delivery... You will also seek continuous improvement in how a wider programme of...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 12 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Promoting the sharing and development of 'best practice' in project management techniques and ensuring 'lessons learned' are captured through effective reflection on project performance... *Reflects regularly on successes...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Skills and Experience: Cisco, ASA, ACE, FortiNet, Juniper, Blue Screen network knowledge and experience in a multi-tenant environment Experience of design document production to support commercial bids...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013