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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 23 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 -4
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 439 1,039 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.44% 7.45% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 9.38% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 248 494 291
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,250 £67,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% -

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 6,079 11,072 7,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.13% 79.39% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,743 7,447 4,376
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -16 257 £50,000 -6.54% 730
East Midlands -5 178 £40,000 -17.95% 452
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 48 (10.93%) Confluence
2 14 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.59%) CMS
5 4 (0.91%) Appian
6 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.68%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) MTS
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.19%) Simulink
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.46%) Adobe Captivate
4 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.19%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.37%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.14%) SAP EWM
4 5 (1.14%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite
5 4 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.46%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.23%) Maximo
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 131 (29.84%) Azure
2 88 (20.05%) AWS
3 52 (11.85%) GCP
4 29 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (5.01%) SaaS
6 20 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.56%) Power Platform
7 19 (4.33%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.96%) OCI
9 12 (2.73%) Serverless
10 11 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.82%) IaaS
13 7 (1.59%) GitHub
13 7 (1.59%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.14%) PowerApps
16 4 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.92%) Firewall
2 21 (4.78%) WAN
3 15 (3.42%) LAN
4 9 (2.05%) Network Security
5 8 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.59%) VLAN
6 7 (1.59%) VoIP
6 7 (1.59%) VPN
7 6 (1.37%) DNS
8 5 (1.14%) DHCP
8 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.68%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.68%) Internet
11 2 (0.46%) MPLS
12 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.23%) IPsec
12 1 (0.23%) PBX
12 1 (0.23%) SAN
12 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (16.86%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.87%) Power BI
3 11 (2.51%) Tableau
4 9 (2.05%) MySQL
4 9 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.68%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.68%) Parquet
9 3 (0.68%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.68%) SQL CLR
10 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.46%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (13.67%) JIRA
2 52 (11.85%) GitLab
3 51 (11.62%) Selenium
4 49 (11.16%) Cucumber
5 48 (10.93%) Maven
5 48 (10.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 47 (10.71%) Bitbucket
6 47 (10.71%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.19%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (2.28%) Git
9 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.46%) JUnit
10 2 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.46%) Mocha
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.46%) Postman
11 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.23%) FitNesse
11 1 (0.23%) Subversion
11 1 (0.23%) TestComplete
General
1 155 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 141 (32.12%) Finance
3 99 (22.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (12.98%) Banking
6 37 (8.43%) Marketing
7 31 (7.06%) Public Sector
8 29 (6.61%) Retail
9 22 (5.01%) Manufacturing
10 18 (4.10%) Electronics
11 16 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (3.42%) Aerospace
13 12 (2.73%) Legal
14 9 (2.05%) Games
14 9 (2.05%) Law
15 7 (1.59%) Local Government
15 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.37%) Advertising
16 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.14%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 59 (13.44%) Software Engineer
2 55 (12.53%) Analyst
3 39 (8.88%) Developer
4 31 (7.06%) Lead
5 28 (6.38%) Senior
5 28 (6.38%) Support Engineer
6 20 (4.56%) Consultant
6 20 (4.56%) Technical Engineer
6 20 (4.56%) Technical Support
6 20 (4.56%) Technical Support Engineer
7 16 (3.64%) Junior
8 15 (3.42%) Integration Consultant
8 15 (3.42%) Oracle Consultant
8 15 (3.42%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 15 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (3.42%) Technical Consultant
9 14 (3.19%) Junior Systems Engineer
10 12 (2.73%) Cloud Specialist
10 12 (2.73%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.12%) CSS
2 57 (12.98%) HTML
3 55 (12.53%) React
4 51 (11.62%) Spring
5 49 (11.16%) Hibernate
5 49 (11.16%) Spring Boot
6 48 (10.93%) JPA
7 47 (10.71%) Kafka
7 47 (10.71%) Redux
8 36 (8.20%) .NET
9 9 (2.05%) ASP.NET
10 8 (1.82%) Web Services
11 7 (1.59%) jQuery
11 7 (1.59%) Middleware
11 7 (1.59%) REST
12 5 (1.14%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.14%) EDI
12 5 (1.14%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.91%) SailPoint
14 3 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.67%) Product Ownership
2 52 (11.85%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (7.97%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.10%) e-Learning
4 18 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.59%) FMCG
10 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.37%) NHS
10 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.14%) Pricing Data
12 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.91%) Learning Management System
12 4 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.16%) Windows
2 21 (4.78%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.73%) Linux
4 5 (1.14%) CentOS
4 5 (1.14%) Rocky
4 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (30.07%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (29.61%) Agile
3 78 (17.77%) DevOps
4 75 (17.08%) Project Management
5 67 (15.26%) SDLC
6 66 (15.03%) Software Engineering
7 64 (14.58%) CI/CD
8 61 (13.90%) Test Automation
9 56 (12.76%) TDD
10 55 (12.53%) Microservices
11 54 (12.30%) Clean Code
11 54 (12.30%) Front End Development
12 53 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 52 (11.85%) Performance Optimisation
14 48 (10.93%) Containerisation
14 48 (10.93%) ITIL
15 47 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (10.25%) Mentoring
17 44 (10.02%) Roadmaps
18 40 (9.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 109 (24.83%) SQL
2 69 (15.72%) JavaScript
3 67 (15.26%) Java
4 35 (7.97%) C#
5 24 (5.47%) Python
6 14 (3.19%) MATLAB
7 10 (2.28%) PHP
8 7 (1.59%) C++
8 7 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.46%) Groovy
10 2 (0.46%) R
11 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (20.73%) Degree
2 20 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.51%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.05%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.82%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.37%) CISSP
7 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.14%) HNC
8 5 (1.14%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.91%) CISM
9 4 (0.91%) HND
9 4 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.68%) CRISC
10 3 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (15.03%) QA
2 24 (5.47%) SLA
3 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.82%) PMO
5 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.37%) GDPR
6 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.91%) COBIT
8 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.68%) NCSC
8 3 (0.68%) NIST
8 3 (0.68%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 50 (11.39%) Docker
2 24 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.01%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.59%) Ansible
3 6 (1.37%) Terraform
4 5 (1.14%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 93 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.71%) Solace
3 43 (9.79%) Oracle
4 30 (6.83%) IBM
5 25 (5.69%) VMware
6 23 (5.24%) Cisco
7 15 (3.42%) Dell
7 15 (3.42%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.73%) Juniper
9 12 (2.73%) McAfee
9 12 (2.73%) SAP
10 6 (1.37%) Databricks
10 6 (1.37%) Infor
10 6 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.37%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.37%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.14%) Avaya
11 5 (1.14%) Google
11 5 (1.14%) JDA