The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 22 May 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 78 96 94
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 44 10 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.391% 0.678% 0.691%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.341% 1.015% 1.063%
Number of salaries quoted 43 7 10
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £35,100 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £70,500 £44,600
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +1.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1317 985 1035
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 71.58% 66.82% 65.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1128 885 918
Average salary £44,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.31% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
South East

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford +1 24 £32,500 -13.33%
Wantage - 3 £32,500 -
Abingdon -17 1 £35,000 -44.00%
Bicester - 1 £35,000 -
Witney - 1 £24,000 -
Continuous Improvement
South East

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 33 (37.08%) Oracle
2 29 (32.58%) .NET
3 28 (31.46%) Windows
4 27 (30.34%) SQL Server
4 27 (30.34%) Agile Software Development
5 25 (28.09%) VB
6 24 (26.97%) Java
6 24 (26.97%) QA
7 21 (23.60%) Selenium
8 19 (21.35%) Business Transformation
8 19 (21.35%) VB.NET
9 18 (20.22%) MS Excel
10 17 (19.10%) Web Services
11 16 (17.98%) SQL
11 16 (17.98%) SOA
11 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
11 16 (17.98%) Publishing
11 16 (17.98%) Software Engineering
12 15 (16.85%) MongoDB
13 14 (15.73%) Waterfall
13 14 (15.73%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (14.61%) MS Office
14 13 (14.61%) C#
14 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
14 13 (14.61%) Degree
15 12 (13.48%) Refactoring
15 12 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (13.48%) VBA
15 12 (13.48%) Crystal Reports
15 12 (13.48%) MS Access

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 29 (32.58%) .NET
2 17 (19.10%) Web Services
3 10 (11.24%) Spring
3 10 (11.24%) JSON
3 10 (11.24%) XML Schema
3 10 (11.24%) XML
3 10 (11.24%) Hibernate
4 9 (10.11%) Silverlight
5 8 (8.989%) RESTful
5 8 (8.989%) Java EE
5 8 (8.989%) ASP.NET
6 7 (7.865%) COM
6 7 (7.865%) .NET Framework
7 6 (6.742%) HTML5
7 6 (6.742%) CSS
8 4 (4.494%) Memcached
9 3 (3.371%) WebSphere
9 3 (3.371%) Ext JS
9 3 (3.371%) RSS
10 2 (2.247%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (12.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (11.24%) Amazon SQS
2 10 (11.24%) Amazon AWS
2 10 (11.24%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (5.618%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.371%) ESB
4 3 (3.371%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.371%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.124%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.124%) nginx
5 1 (1.124%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (20.22%) MS Excel
2 13 (14.61%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.618%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.371%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.742%) SMS
2 3 (3.371%) Firewall
3 2 (2.247%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.247%) LAN
3 2 (2.247%) VoIP
3 2 (2.247%) WLAN
3 2 (2.247%) WAN
3 2 (2.247%) MPLS
3 2 (2.247%) OSPF
3 2 (2.247%) BGP
3 2 (2.247%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.124%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.34%) SQL Server
2 15 (16.85%) MongoDB
3 14 (15.73%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (13.48%) Crystal Reports
4 12 (13.48%) MS Access
5 10 (11.24%) Hadoop
5 10 (11.24%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 10 (11.24%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (11.24%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (3.371%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.371%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.124%) Big Data
7 1 (1.124%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) Selenium
2 8 (8.989%) PEAR
2 8 (8.989%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.989%) JUnit
3 4 (4.494%) WebDriver
4 3 (3.371%) TestComplete
4 3 (3.371%) Rational Robot
5 1 (1.124%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.124%) Ant
General
1 16 (17.98%) Publishing
2 8 (8.989%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.494%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (4.494%) Finance
3 4 (4.494%) Retail
4 3 (3.371%) Billing
5 2 (2.247%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Developer
1 23 (25.84%) Analyst
2 9 (10.11%) QA Analyst
3 8 (8.989%) Software Engineer
3 8 (8.989%) Technical Manager
4 6 (6.742%) Applications Developer
4 6 (6.742%) Web Developer
4 6 (6.742%) Software Developer
4 6 (6.742%) Web Applications Developer
4 6 (6.742%) Team Leader
5 5 (5.618%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.494%) Architect
6 4 (4.494%) Consultant
6 4 (4.494%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (4.494%) Senior Web Developer
6 4 (4.494%) Business Consultant
6 4 (4.494%) Senior Web Applications Developer
6 4 (4.494%) Software Manager
6 4 (4.494%) Capacity Analyst
6 4 (4.494%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Open Source
1 10 (11.24%) Taxonomies
1 10 (11.24%) Ontologies
2 9 (10.11%) EPoS
2 9 (10.11%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.865%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.742%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (4.494%) SaaS
6 3 (3.371%) IIBA
7 2 (2.247%) PMI
8 1 (1.124%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.124%) Blog
8 1 (1.124%) FMCG
8 1 (1.124%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.46%) Windows
2 9 (10.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (10.11%) Windows Vista
2 9 (10.11%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.494%) Linux
4 3 (3.371%) UNIX
5 1 (1.124%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (21.35%) Business Transformation
3 16 (17.98%) SOA
3 16 (17.98%) Software Engineering
4 14 (15.73%) Waterfall
5 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
6 12 (13.48%) Refactoring
6 12 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (12.36%) TDD
8 10 (11.24%) RDF
9 9 (10.11%) Scalability Testing
9 9 (10.11%) Integration Testing
9 9 (10.11%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.989%) Scrum
11 7 (7.865%) E-Commerce
11 7 (7.865%) Process Management
12 6 (6.742%) Capacity Planning
12 6 (6.742%) Performance Improvement
12 6 (6.742%) Business Analysis
12 6 (6.742%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.09%) VB
2 24 (26.97%) Java
3 19 (21.35%) VB.NET
4 16 (17.98%) SQL
5 13 (14.61%) C#
6 12 (13.48%) VBA
7 6 (6.742%) Ruby
7 6 (6.742%) Python
7 6 (6.742%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.494%) Perl
9 3 (3.371%) C++
10 1 (1.124%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (1.124%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Degree
2 12 (13.48%) ISEB
3 4 (4.494%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
3 4 (4.494%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 2 (2.247%) CCIE
4 2 (2.247%) CCNP
4 2 (2.247%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.247%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.124%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.97%) QA
2 10 (11.24%) Dublin Core
3 6 (6.742%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.247%) ISO 14001
4 2 (2.247%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 6 (6.742%) SCCM
2 2 (2.247%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 33 (37.08%) Oracle
2 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.865%) Siebel
4 6 (6.742%) SolidWorks
4 6 (6.742%) Symantec
5 5 (5.618%) Hyperion
5 5 (5.618%) IBM
5 5 (5.618%) HP
6 4 (4.494%) Avaya
7 3 (3.371%) PeopleSoft
7 3 (3.371%) JBoss
8 2 (2.247%) Juniper
8 2 (2.247%) Cisco
8 2 (2.247%) F5
9 1 (1.124%) Huawei
9 1 (1.124%) SAP
9 1 (1.124%) Novell
9 1 (1.124%) CA
Didcot, Oxfordshire
Be responsible for the design, functionality, usability and accessibility of the companies portal and associated websites, ensuring that technical continuity is maintained and web standards are met *Design,...
LA International
Salary: £24000 - £34000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Henley-On-Thames, South East
Continuous Improvement Consultant Our client a large financial services company require a proven and capable continuous Improvement consultant to come on board and support both short term and...
Salary: £10000 - £80000 per annum + Bonus/Pension
Posted: 1 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, South East
The working environment is characterised by the need to be responsive to customer needs whilst at the same time there is significant emphasis on working efficiently, and planning...
Easy Web Recruitment
Salary: 40000 - 45000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
e) Continuous improvement of Project Management and delivery process and procedures... j) Quality assurance of final project deliverables... c) Critical thinking and problem solving... DESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE: a)...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 40000 - 45000
Posted: 21 May 2013