Continuous Improvement Jobs in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 66 36
Rank change year-on-year +21 -30 +32
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 247 138 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.72% 4.79% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 4.97% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 77 118 187
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £46,306 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +8.77% +8.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £70,813
90th Percentile £73,000 £85,750 £83,880
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,621 2,779 5,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.34% 96.43% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 1,838 2,720
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £32,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Edinburgh +15 76 £46,000 -29.23% 13
Glasgow +26 59 £52,750 -12.08% 18
Fife -1 29 £42,500 -22.73% 3
South Ayrshire - 24 £40,101 -
Moray - 14 £37,547 -
Lanarkshire +1 10 £52,500 - 3
East Ayrshire - 10 - -
Dundee -1 4 - - 1
Aberdeen +4 3 £65,000 +56.05% 2
Inverclyde -2 3 - -
Stirling -11 3 £45,000 +42.63% 1
West Lothian -38 3 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Ayrshire - 3 - -
Highlands - 2 - - 1
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.62%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.21%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.67%) Simulink
3 10 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.67%) Teamcenter
2 6 (2.43%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.12%) Azure
2 22 (8.91%) AWS
3 16 (6.48%) GCP
4 9 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.24%) Serverless
6 7 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.02%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.62%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.21%) Contentsquare
9 3 (1.21%) OCI
10 2 (0.81%) AWS CodeStar
10 2 (0.81%) Contentful
10 2 (0.81%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) DNS
1 5 (2.02%) Firewall
1 5 (2.02%) VPN
1 5 (2.02%) Wireless
2 3 (1.21%) 5G
2 3 (1.21%) Bluetooth
2 3 (1.21%) GSM
2 3 (1.21%) LTE
2 3 (1.21%) UMTS
2 3 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.81%) LAN
3 2 (0.81%) Network Security
3 2 (0.81%) SAN
3 2 (0.81%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.64%) Power BI
3 6 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.43%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.21%) Tableau
6 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.81%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Power Query
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) Sisense
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 17 (6.88%) Selenium
2 14 (5.67%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.24%) JIRA
5 7 (2.83%) Git
6 3 (1.21%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.21%) GoCD
7 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.67%) Finance
3 42 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.72%) Manufacturing
5 19 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 18 (7.29%) Legal
7 16 (6.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (5.67%) Electronics
9 10 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.43%) Local Government
11 6 (2.43%) Marketing
11 6 (2.43%) Military
11 6 (2.43%) Police
11 6 (2.43%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.62%) Avionics
13 4 (1.62%) Retail
13 4 (1.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (25.10%) Senior
2 38 (15.38%) Lead
3 19 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 17 (6.88%) Engineering Manager
5 16 (6.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 16 (6.48%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (6.07%) Junior
7 14 (5.67%) Junior Systems Engineer
7 14 (5.67%) Test Engineer
8 12 (4.86%) Analyst
8 12 (4.86%) Consultant
8 12 (4.86%) IFS Consultant
8 12 (4.86%) Support Consultant
9 11 (4.45%) Architect
10 10 (4.05%) Development Manager
10 10 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.05%) Technical Support
11 9 (3.64%) IT Manager
12 8 (3.24%) Service Manager
12 8 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.67%) Playwright
2 9 (3.64%) .NET
3 5 (2.02%) YAML
4 4 (1.62%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.62%) OpenCV
4 4 (1.62%) OpenVINO
4 4 (1.62%) Web Services
5 3 (1.21%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.21%) Node.js
5 3 (1.21%) ONNX
5 3 (1.21%) React
5 3 (1.21%) RESTful
6 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.81%) Next.js
7 1 (0.40%) Keras
7 1 (0.40%) Micronaut
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.40%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.50%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.45%) IoT
4 8 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (1.62%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.21%) Satnav
9 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.81%) PKI
10 1 (0.40%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.40%) IPTV
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.40%) MPEG
10 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.29%) Windows
2 9 (3.64%) Linux
3 7 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.81%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (19.43%) Coaching
3 40 (16.19%) Systems Engineering
4 39 (15.79%) Project Management
5 33 (13.36%) Agile
6 30 (12.15%) Mathematics
6 30 (12.15%) Physics
7 25 (10.12%) DevOps
7 25 (10.12%) Strategic Planning
7 25 (10.12%) Test Automation
8 24 (9.72%) Mentoring
9 22 (8.91%) Computer Science
9 22 (8.91%) Decision-Making
9 22 (8.91%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 22 (8.91%) Scrum
10 21 (8.50%) ERP
10 21 (8.50%) Risk Management
11 18 (7.29%) Service Management
12 17 (6.88%) Business Transformation
13 16 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.55%) Python
1 31 (12.55%) SQL
2 17 (6.88%) Java
3 14 (5.67%) MATLAB
4 12 (4.86%) Bash
4 12 (4.86%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.05%) C#
6 7 (2.83%) C++
7 4 (1.62%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.62%) VBA
8 3 (1.21%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) C
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (33.20%) Degree
2 16 (6.48%) Chartered Engineer
3 8 (3.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 6 (2.43%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.43%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.02%) CISM
5 5 (2.02%) CISSP
5 5 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.02%) CRISC
6 4 (1.62%) HNC
6 4 (1.62%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.62%) PMP
7 3 (1.21%) MAPM
7 3 (1.21%) MBCS
8 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.81%) MCSE
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.38%) QA
2 17 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.26%) GMP
4 10 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.24%) ISO 9001
6 6 (2.43%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.43%) NIST
7 2 (0.81%) GRC
7 2 (0.81%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (5.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.86%) Ansible
2 12 (4.86%) Terraform
3 3 (1.21%) Fortio
3 3 (1.21%) Istio
3 3 (1.21%) Kiali
3 3 (1.21%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (9.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.88%) IFS
3 14 (5.67%) IBM
4 7 (2.83%) Google
4 7 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.43%) NEC
6 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.02%) VMware
7 3 (1.21%) Adobe
7 3 (1.21%) Arqiva
7 3 (1.21%) Databricks
7 3 (1.21%) EMC
7 3 (1.21%) Remedy
8 2 (0.81%) Black Duck
8 2 (0.81%) Infor
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle
8 2 (0.81%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) Nintex
9 1 (0.40%) Pega