The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 24 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 Livingston region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 6 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +1
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 32 1 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 34.04% 1.010% 10.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 36.78% 1.754% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 2
Average salary £36,000 - £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.05% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Livingston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
87 57 191
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 92.55% 57.58% 77.33%
Number of salaries quoted 22 40 108
Average salary £36,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £27,200 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £47,500 £53,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
West Lothian

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 32 (65.31%) SQL
2 30 (61.22%) Oracle
2 30 (61.22%) UNIX
2 30 (61.22%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (61.22%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (61.22%) TDD
3 29 (59.18%) Netezza
4 27 (55.10%) Ab Initio
4 27 (55.10%) ETL
5 26 (53.06%) Informatica
6 23 (46.94%) Degree
7 20 (40.82%) Telecoms
7 20 (40.82%) Finance
8 19 (38.78%) MySQL
9 16 (32.65%) RDBMS
10 14 (28.57%) Teradata
10 14 (28.57%) Banking
10 14 (28.57%) Korn
11 13 (26.53%) Agile Software Development
12 11 (22.45%) Informix
13 10 (20.41%) DataStage
14 9 (18.37%) QuickTest Pro
14 9 (18.37%) XML Schema
14 9 (18.37%) XML
14 9 (18.37%) QA
14 9 (18.37%) Selenium
14 9 (18.37%) FitNesse
14 9 (18.37%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
14 9 (18.37%) Scrum

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 9 (18.37%) XML Schema
1 9 (18.37%) XML
2 4 (8.163%) Middleware
3 3 (6.122%) J2EE
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.082%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (61.22%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (38.78%) MySQL
3 16 (32.65%) RDBMS
4 11 (22.45%) Informix
5 10 (20.41%) DataStage
6 5 (10.20%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) QuickTest Pro
1 9 (18.37%) Selenium
1 9 (18.37%) FitNesse
2 4 (8.163%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 20 (40.82%) Telecoms
1 20 (40.82%) Finance
2 14 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (4.082%) Billing
Job Titles
1 24 (48.98%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Tester
2 9 (18.37%) QA Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Agile Tester
3 8 (16.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 7 (14.29%) ETL Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.163%) Architect
6 4 (8.163%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.122%) Database Developer
7 3 (6.122%) Ab Initio Developer
8 2 (4.082%) Graduate
8 2 (4.082%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.082%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 1 (2.041%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 1 (2.041%) Business Manager
9 1 (2.041%) Analyst
9 1 (2.041%) Test Analyst
9 1 (2.041%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.122%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (61.22%) UNIX
2 2 (4.082%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) Business Intelligence
1 30 (61.22%) TDD
2 27 (55.10%) ETL
3 13 (26.53%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (18.37%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
4 9 (18.37%) Scrum
4 9 (18.37%) Software Testing
4 9 (18.37%) User Stories
5 4 (8.163%) SOA
5 4 (8.163%) UML
5 4 (8.163%) CRM
6 1 (2.041%) Customer Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 32 (65.31%) SQL
2 14 (28.57%) Korn
3 7 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (6.122%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.122%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) QA
2 6 (12.24%) SLA
Vendors
1 30 (61.22%) Oracle
2 29 (59.18%) Netezza
3 27 (55.10%) Ab Initio
4 26 (53.06%) Informatica
5 14 (28.57%) Teradata
6 4 (8.163%) Chordiant
6 4 (8.163%) Genesys
7 2 (4.082%) Business Objects
8 1 (2.041%) Microsoft
Livingston, Lothian, Scotland
As Software Developer your key tasks will include; * Gaining knowledge and experience of a variety of systems, techniques and practices within the functional area, keeping up to date...
British Sky Broadcasting
Posted: 24 May 2013
Livingston, West Lothian
Data Warehouse developer with sound knowledge of RDBMS (Oracle or Teradata or Netezza or MYSQL or Informix), strong SQL as well as Unix scripting / Korn skills and ideally...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £40000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013