The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 72 62 71
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 16 5 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.576% 0.751% 1.170%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.270% 1.144% 1.748%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 10
Average salary £31,000 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.33% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,600 £33,900 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £64,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,375
% change year-on-year
-15.79% +12.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
705 437 572
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 69.46% 65.62% 66.90%
Number of salaries quoted 603 399 505
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
Oxfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Oxford Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 23 (56.10%) Oracle
2 15 (36.59%) Java
3 14 (34.15%) Windows
4 13 (31.71%) MS Excel
4 13 (31.71%) MS Office
4 13 (31.71%) Data Analysis
4 13 (31.71%) Selenium
5 12 (29.27%) QA
5 12 (29.27%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (29.27%) Crystal Reports
5 12 (29.27%) SQL Server
5 12 (29.27%) VB
5 12 (29.27%) VB.NET
5 12 (29.27%) VBA
5 12 (29.27%) .NET
5 12 (29.27%) MS Access
5 12 (29.27%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (29.27%) Publishing
5 12 (29.27%) MongoDB
6 11 (26.83%) Business Transformation
6 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
7 9 (21.95%) SOA
8 8 (19.51%) JUnit
8 8 (19.51%) Refactoring
8 8 (19.51%) PEAR
8 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
8 8 (19.51%) Waterfall
8 8 (19.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (17.07%) HTML5
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 12 (29.27%) .NET
2 7 (17.07%) HTML5
2 7 (17.07%) CSS
3 6 (14.63%) Web Services
3 6 (14.63%) XML
3 6 (14.63%) XML Schema
3 6 (14.63%) Hibernate
3 6 (14.63%) Spring
3 6 (14.63%) JSON
4 5 (12.20%) Memcached
5 4 (9.756%) RESTful
5 4 (9.756%) Ext JS
5 4 (9.756%) Java EE
6 3 (7.317%) RSS
7 2 (4.878%) J2EE
7 2 (4.878%) Django
7 2 (4.878%) CSS3
8 1 (2.439%) Sass
8 1 (2.439%) SCSS
8 1 (2.439%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (2.439%) ESB
3 1 (2.439%) nginx
3 1 (2.439%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.439%) Apache
3 1 (2.439%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.439%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (31.71%) MS Excel
1 13 (31.71%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.878%) LAN
1 2 (4.878%) VoIP
1 2 (4.878%) WLAN
1 2 (4.878%) WAN
1 2 (4.878%) MPLS
1 2 (4.878%) OSPF
1 2 (4.878%) BGP
1 2 (4.878%) EIGRP
1 2 (4.878%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.439%) Firewall
2 1 (2.439%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) Crystal Reports
1 12 (29.27%) SQL Server
1 12 (29.27%) MS Access
1 12 (29.27%) Oracle Reports
1 12 (29.27%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) Hadoop
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 3 (7.317%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.439%) Big Data
4 1 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.439%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Selenium
2 8 (19.51%) JUnit
2 8 (19.51%) PEAR
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.20%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.439%) Ant
General
1 12 (29.27%) Publishing
2 1 (2.439%) Billing
2 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Technical Manager
4 4 (9.756%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.756%) UI Developer
4 4 (9.756%) Capacity Analyst
4 4 (9.756%) Forecast Analyst
4 4 (9.756%) UI Programmer
5 3 (7.317%) Information Analyst
5 3 (7.317%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.317%) MI Analyst
5 3 (7.317%) Software Manager
6 2 (4.878%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.878%) Architect
6 2 (4.878%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (4.878%) Technical Team Leader
6 2 (4.878%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (4.878%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (4.878%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.878%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Taxonomies
1 6 (14.63%) Ontologies
2 5 (12.20%) SaaS
3 1 (2.439%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.439%) Blog
3 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 2 (4.878%) Linux
3 1 (2.439%) UNIX
3 1 (2.439%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Data Analysis
2 12 (29.27%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (26.83%) Business Transformation
3 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) SOA
5 8 (19.51%) Refactoring
5 8 (19.51%) Waterfall
6 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (17.07%) TDD
7 6 (14.63%) RDF
7 6 (14.63%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (14.63%) Performance Improvement
8 5 (12.20%) Regression Testing
9 4 (9.756%) Scrum
9 4 (9.756%) Pair Programming
10 2 (4.878%) E-business
10 2 (4.878%) ITIL
10 2 (4.878%) Problem Management
10 2 (4.878%) Product Management
10 2 (4.878%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Java
2 12 (29.27%) VB
2 12 (29.27%) VB.NET
2 12 (29.27%) VBA
3 7 (17.07%) Ruby
3 7 (17.07%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.20%) Perl
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 1 (2.439%) CoffeeScript
5 1 (2.439%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.439%) C#
5 1 (2.439%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) CCIE
1 2 (4.878%) CCNP
1 2 (4.878%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (4.878%) Degree
2 1 (2.439%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) QA
2 6 (14.63%) Dublin Core
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Oracle
2 2 (4.878%) Cisco
2 2 (4.878%) HP
2 2 (4.878%) Juniper
2 2 (4.878%) Siebel
2 2 (4.878%) F5
3 1 (2.439%) JBoss
3 1 (2.439%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (2.439%) SAP
3 1 (2.439%) Hyperion
Oxford, South East
UI Developer - Developer experienced in agile, to work with the team that are developing next generation SaaS based product.
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 4 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Skills and Experience: Cisco, ASA, ACE, FortiNet, Juniper, Blue Screen network knowledge and experience in a multi-tenant environment Experience of design document production to support commercial bids...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013