Continuous Improvement Jobs in the Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 31 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 488 539 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.08% 5.89% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 6.91% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 201 403 318
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +4.38%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% -5.74% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Continuous Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,501 7,804 9,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 94.37% 85.23% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,541 6,116 5,050
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 March 2025. 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
West Midlands -1 301 £54,344 +1.58% 120
East Midlands +22 185 £40,101 -11.87% 87
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 21 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.82%) Confluence
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 124 (25.41%) Microsoft Office
2 111 (22.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.07%) Simulink
4 13 (2.66%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.64%) Trello
6 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.82%) Maple
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (2.46%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.82%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 95 (19.47%) Azure
2 32 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (6.35%) AWS
4 19 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.48%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.46%) SaaS
7 10 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.84%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.43%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.23%) IaaS
11 4 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.82%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.61%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.61%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (9.43%) Wireless
2 42 (8.61%) 5G
2 42 (8.61%) Bluetooth
2 42 (8.61%) GSM
2 42 (8.61%) LTE
2 42 (8.61%) UMTS
2 42 (8.61%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (2.87%) Firewall
4 11 (2.25%) WAN
5 10 (2.05%) LAN
6 5 (1.02%) DNS
7 4 (0.82%) DHCP
7 4 (0.82%) Internet
7 4 (0.82%) Network Security
7 4 (0.82%) VLAN
7 4 (0.82%) VPN
8 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 3 (0.61%) DSL
8 3 (0.61%) MQTT
8 3 (0.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.66%) Power BI
3 10 (2.05%) MySQL
4 9 (1.84%) Tableau
5 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.23%) Spark SQL
6 4 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.61%) Parquet
7 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (3.28%) JIRA
2 15 (3.07%) Git
3 12 (2.46%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.82%) GitLab
4 4 (0.82%) LSMW
5 3 (0.61%) Selenium
6 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.20%) Mocha
7 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 152 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.50%) Finance
2 61 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (11.27%) Automotive
4 53 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.92%) Manufacturing
6 21 (4.30%) Aerospace
7 20 (4.10%) Law
8 19 (3.89%) Retail
9 18 (3.69%) Electronics
9 18 (3.69%) Legal
10 17 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.28%) Marketing
12 12 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.25%) Billing
13 11 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.25%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.84%) Police
15 8 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 110 (22.54%) Graduate
2 46 (9.43%) Test Engineer
3 42 (8.61%) EMC Engineer
3 42 (8.61%) EMC Test Engineer
4 35 (7.17%) Senior
5 31 (6.35%) Lead
6 29 (5.94%) Developer
7 26 (5.33%) Analyst
8 17 (3.48%) Data Manager
8 17 (3.48%) Head of IT
9 14 (2.87%) Engineering Manager
9 14 (2.87%) Project Manager
10 13 (2.66%) IT Engineer
10 13 (2.66%) Junior
10 13 (2.66%) Product Manager
11 12 (2.46%) Junior Systems Engineer
11 12 (2.46%) Senior Manager
11 12 (2.46%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.25%) Head of Operations
12 11 (2.25%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.97%) .NET
2 6 (1.23%) .NET Framework
2 6 (1.23%) ASP.NET
2 6 (1.23%) CSS
2 6 (1.23%) jQuery
3 5 (1.02%) Entity Framework
4 4 (0.82%) Node.js
5 3 (0.61%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.61%) PySpark
5 3 (0.61%) REST
5 3 (0.61%) XGBoost
6 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.41%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) JSON
6 2 (0.41%) Kendo UI
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.41%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.41%) Web Services
7 1 (0.20%) EDI
7 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.61%) Satnav
2 17 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.46%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.46%) Onboarding
4 9 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.43%) Robotics
5 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.23%) Credit Risk
6 6 (1.23%) FMCG
6 6 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.23%) SCADA
7 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.02%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.82%) PKI
8 4 (0.82%) Replication
8 4 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (0.82%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.30%) Windows
2 11 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.82%) Linux
4 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.20%) CentOS
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Rocky
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (31.15%) Customer Service
2 122 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 119 (24.39%) Process Improvement
4 108 (22.13%) Data Analysis
5 107 (21.93%) Logistics
6 101 (20.70%) Creative Thinking
6 101 (20.70%) Performance Metrics
7 100 (20.49%) Contingency Planning
8 98 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (18.44%) Project Management
10 76 (15.57%) Agile
11 66 (13.52%) Data Management
12 58 (11.89%) Roadmaps
13 53 (10.86%) Test Automation
14 45 (9.22%) ITIL
14 45 (9.22%) Service Delivery
15 43 (8.81%) Test Scripting
16 41 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (8.40%) DevOps
16 41 (8.40%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.22%) SQL
2 32 (6.56%) C#
3 19 (3.89%) Python
4 15 (3.07%) MATLAB
5 12 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.25%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.64%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.23%) Java
8 6 (1.23%) PHP
9 5 (1.02%) C++
10 3 (0.61%) Bash
10 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) Go
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 225 (46.11%) Degree
2 22 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.66%) Azure Certification
4 13 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.05%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.05%) PMP
7 8 (1.64%) Chartered Engineer
8 7 (1.43%) A+ Certification
8 7 (1.43%) CISSP
8 7 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.23%) CCNP
9 6 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.02%) CISM
10 5 (1.02%) CITP
11 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.51%) QA
2 17 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.25%) SLA
5 10 (2.05%) PMO
6 7 (1.43%) COBIT
7 6 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.23%) GDPR
7 6 (1.23%) NIST
8 5 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.02%) ISO 9001
8 5 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.41%) NCSC
11 1 (0.20%) COSO
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) GRC
11 1 (0.20%) ITGC
System Software
1 21 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) Docker
4 2 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.84%) Terraform
2 5 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.41%) Ansible
3 2 (0.41%) Kustomize
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.41%) Nessus
4 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.61%) EMC
3 15 (3.07%) VMware
4 14 (2.87%) IBM
5 12 (2.46%) Cisco
6 8 (1.64%) Dell
6 8 (1.64%) Oracle
6 8 (1.64%) SAP
7 6 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.82%) Commvault
8 4 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.82%) Lotus
8 4 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.61%) Apple
9 3 (0.61%) Citrix
9 3 (0.61%) HP
9 3 (0.61%) QAD
9 3 (0.61%) Siemens
9 3 (0.61%) Splunk
9 3 (0.61%) Veeam