The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 23 43 40
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -3
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.681% 1.007% 0.831%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.273% 1.818% 1.266%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
Average salary £60,000 £100,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +159.74%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.79% +11.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
176 165 237
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 73.95% 55.37% 65.65%
Number of salaries quoted 124 138 190
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £80,000 £66,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

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

Midlands Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) XHTML
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) OWASP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (20.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CO

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
1 2 (40.00%) XHTML
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) E-Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Financials Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) OWASP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) E-business
2 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle