Continuous Improvement Jobs in the Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 35 39
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 958 609 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.55% 6.87% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.39% 7.11% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 510 293 402
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,513
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,250 £50,647
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +1.19% +1.29%
75th Percentile £65,938 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,642 £71,250 £78,385
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,206 8,561 10,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.43% 96.55% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7,378 4,406 6,965
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,238 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024. 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 +16 729 £53,500 +1.90% 215
East Midlands +16 218 £47,500 -5.00% 126
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 30 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.77%) Skype for Business
3 10 (1.04%) Confluence
4 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.63%) Appian
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
6 5 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 356 (37.16%) Microsoft Office
2 222 (23.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.52%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.42%) Trello
7 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.21%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.10%) Odoo
4 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 103 (10.75%) Azure
2 50 (5.22%) Power Platform
3 44 (4.59%) AWS
4 39 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (2.19%) SaaS
8 10 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 8 (0.84%) GCP
10 8 (0.84%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.84%) Serverless
10 8 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (0.84%) WhatsApp
11 7 (0.73%) IaaS
11 7 (0.73%) PaaS
11 7 (0.73%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.73%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.55%) WAN
2 28 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
3 25 (2.61%) LAN
4 20 (2.09%) Firewall
5 19 (1.98%) Skype
6 17 (1.77%) VoIP
7 16 (1.67%) DNS
8 14 (1.46%) Network Security
8 14 (1.46%) SAN
8 14 (1.46%) VLAN
9 11 (1.15%) DHCP
10 9 (0.94%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.63%) NAS
11 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.63%) Wireless
12 5 (0.52%) BGP
12 5 (0.52%) HTTP
12 5 (0.52%) MPLS
12 5 (0.52%) OSPF
13 4 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.22%) Power BI
2 22 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.46%) MySQL
4 13 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.04%) Data Mining
5 10 (1.04%) Tableau
6 8 (0.84%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.73%) Power Query
8 5 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.42%) InfluxDB
9 4 (0.42%) Metadata
9 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.42%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.42%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.31%) Big Data
10 3 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (2.92%) Git
2 27 (2.82%) JIRA
3 7 (0.73%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (0.63%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.52%) webpack
6 4 (0.42%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.31%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.31%) sqlmap
8 2 (0.21%) GitLab
9 1 (0.10%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.10%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.10%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 390 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 243 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 186 (19.42%) Finance
4 176 (18.37%) Military
5 150 (15.66%) Influencing Skills
6 148 (15.45%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (7.93%) Retail
8 63 (6.58%) Manufacturing
9 47 (4.91%) Law
10 46 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (4.28%) Legal
12 23 (2.40%) Marketing
13 20 (2.09%) Public Sector
14 19 (1.98%) Automotive
15 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.46%) Environmental Health
17 10 (1.04%) Electronics
17 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.94%) Local Government
19 8 (0.84%) Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (22.44%) Analyst
2 179 (18.68%) Graduate
3 120 (12.53%) Product Analyst
4 116 (12.11%) Sales Analyst
5 67 (6.99%) Lead
6 53 (5.53%) Developer
6 53 (5.53%) Senior
7 40 (4.18%) IT Manager
8 36 (3.76%) IT Engineer
9 35 (3.65%) IT Support
10 34 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 25 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (2.51%) Support Engineer
13 21 (2.19%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.19%) Help Desk Analyst
14 20 (2.09%) Business Manager
14 20 (2.09%) Consultant
15 15 (1.57%) IT Director
15 15 (1.57%) IT Support Specialist
15 15 (1.57%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.03%) .NET
2 24 (2.51%) React
3 17 (1.77%) HTML
3 17 (1.77%) Node.js
4 16 (1.67%) CSS
5 12 (1.25%) RESTful
6 9 (0.94%) .NET Core
6 9 (0.94%) ASP.NET
6 9 (0.94%) Jest
6 9 (0.94%) jQuery
7 8 (0.84%) EDI
8 7 (0.73%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.63%) Next.js
9 6 (0.63%) Redux
9 6 (0.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 6 (0.63%) YAML
10 5 (0.52%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.52%) LAMP
10 5 (0.52%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 184 (19.21%) Onboarding
2 79 (8.25%) Management Information System
3 47 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.51%) Driving Licence
5 20 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 19 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
7 16 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.57%) NHS
9 12 (1.25%) SCADA
10 11 (1.15%) Fat Client
10 11 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.15%) Thin Client
11 10 (1.04%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.94%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.94%) PMI
13 8 (0.84%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.73%) IoT
14 7 (0.73%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.62%) Windows
2 37 (3.86%) Windows 10
3 31 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.51%) Android
5 19 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.77%) Linux
7 15 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.36%) Windows 7
8 13 (1.36%) Windows 8
9 8 (0.84%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) CentOS
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (38.94%) Customer Service
2 299 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
3 226 (23.59%) Process Improvement
4 219 (22.86%) Data Analysis
5 214 (22.34%) Logistics
6 193 (20.15%) Customer Experience
7 186 (19.42%) Creative Thinking
8 182 (19.00%) Project Management
9 180 (18.79%) Performance Metrics
10 177 (18.48%) Agile
11 176 (18.37%) Contingency Planning
12 128 (13.36%) Customer Requirements
13 121 (12.63%) Mathematics
14 86 (8.98%) Project Delivery
15 84 (8.77%) Service Delivery
16 81 (8.46%) DevOps
17 75 (7.83%) Change Management
18 73 (7.62%) Decision-Making
19 71 (7.41%) Analytics
19 71 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.01%) SQL
2 38 (3.97%) JavaScript
3 33 (3.44%) Python
4 29 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.40%) C#
6 12 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (0.84%) Java
7 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.73%) Bicep
8 7 (0.73%) C++
8 7 (0.73%) PHP
8 7 (0.73%) VB
9 6 (0.63%) Kotlin
9 6 (0.63%) R
10 5 (0.52%) Bash
11 3 (0.31%) C
11 3 (0.31%) Dart
11 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 423 (44.15%) Degree
2 20 (2.09%) Security Cleared
3 19 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (1.98%) PMI Certification
4 16 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.46%) CISSP
6 13 (1.36%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.04%) CISM
8 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.04%) PMP
9 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.84%) HNC
10 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.73%) APMG
11 7 (0.73%) CISA
11 7 (0.73%) CRISC
12 6 (0.63%) GIAC
12 6 (0.63%) HND
12 6 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.78%) QA
2 33 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.51%) GDPR
3 24 (2.51%) SLA
4 13 (1.36%) PMO
5 10 (1.04%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (0.52%) NIST
9 4 (0.42%) GRC
9 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.31%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 50 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.88%) Docker
3 18 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.42%) pfSense
5 3 (0.31%) Firmware
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.25%) SCCM
2 12 (1.25%) Terraform
3 6 (0.63%) Functional Safety
4 5 (0.52%) Grafana
5 4 (0.42%) Data Guard
5 4 (0.42%) SCOM
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.10%) Ansible
7 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 169 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.13%) Cisco
3 27 (2.82%) SAP
3 27 (2.82%) VMware
4 25 (2.61%) Google
5 15 (1.57%) Dell
5 15 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.15%) Oracle
7 9 (0.94%) Citrix
8 8 (0.84%) Databricks
8 8 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.84%) HP
8 8 (0.84%) Veeam
9 7 (0.73%) Minitab
9 7 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.73%) SolarWinds
10 6 (0.63%) Zscaler
11 5 (0.52%) Aruba
11 5 (0.52%) Facebook
11 5 (0.52%) Juniper