Continuous Improvement Jobs in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 55 40
Rank change year-on-year +35 -15 +28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,032 231 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.37% 4.88% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.55% 5.17% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 153 149 127
10th Percentile £33,800 £37,250 £37,850
25th Percentile £40,800 £44,033 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,380 £60,518 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% +10.03% +12.73%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,168 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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
Glasgow +69 891 £54,000 +16.76% 44
Edinburgh -2 71 £60,000 -10.54% 24
Aberdeen -6 14 £25,000 -37.50% 22
Dundee -2 11 £40,144 -5.54% 2
Fife - 9 £43,200 - 8
West Lothian -1 8 £72,500 +70.59% 4
Lanarkshire - 5 £41,000 - 14
South Lanarkshire -4 4 £105,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 2
North Lanarkshire -9 2 - - 5
Highlands - 2 £41,000 - 1
Perthshire - 2 £35,000 -
Stirling -6 1 £50,000 -44.44% 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £25,000 - 12
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 -
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
1 203 (19.67%) Apache Spark
2 66 (6.40%) Apache
3 34 (3.29%) FileNet
4 31 (3.00%) Confluence
5 16 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.58%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 401 (38.86%) AWS
2 65 (6.30%) Azure
3 51 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
3 51 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
3 51 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (4.94%) Amazon EMR
3 51 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
3 51 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (4.94%) Serverless
4 46 (4.46%) GCP
5 44 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
6 34 (3.29%) Amazon S3
7 24 (2.33%) BlazeMeter
7 24 (2.33%) Google Play
7 24 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 22 (2.13%) SaaS
9 21 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (1.84%) Datadog
11 14 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Broadband
1 7 (0.68%) Firewall
1 7 (0.68%) LAN
1 7 (0.68%) NAS
1 7 (0.68%) SAN
1 7 (0.68%) VoIP
1 7 (0.68%) WAN
2 5 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) IPsec
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (27.71%) NoSQL
2 167 (16.18%) Big Data
3 150 (14.53%) Hadoop
4 99 (9.59%) Apache Hive
5 86 (8.33%) HBase
6 52 (5.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 49 (4.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 46 (4.46%) Relational Database
9 41 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (3.68%) Data Lake
11 37 (3.59%) Qlik Sense
12 24 (2.33%) Power BI
13 16 (1.55%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.45%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.36%) MySQL
16 10 (0.97%) Flink
17 9 (0.87%) SQL Server
18 7 (0.68%) Redis
19 4 (0.39%) Data Hub
19 4 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 114 (11.05%) Jenkins
2 102 (9.88%) Git
3 95 (9.21%) JUnit
4 86 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 60 (5.81%) JIRA
6 30 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.33%) Android Studio
7 24 (2.33%) Selenium
8 21 (2.03%) Jasmine
8 21 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
8 21 (2.03%) Protractor
8 21 (2.03%) WebDriver
9 18 (1.74%) Maven
10 10 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.87%) Gradle
11 9 (0.87%) JMeter
12 7 (0.68%) Moq
13 2 (0.19%) GitLab
13 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.097%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 873 (84.59%) Finance
2 842 (81.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 824 (79.84%) Law
4 474 (45.93%) Legal
5 196 (18.99%) Marketing
6 168 (16.28%) Banking
7 148 (14.34%) Social Skills
8 90 (8.72%) Investment Banking
9 56 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (3.68%) Private Banking
11 13 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.16%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Retail
15 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.19%) Advertising
17 2 (0.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 782 (75.78%) Software Engineer
2 292 (28.29%) Java Engineer
2 292 (28.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 196 (18.99%) AWS Engineer
3 196 (18.99%) AWS Software Engineer
4 133 (12.89%) Big Data Engineer
4 133 (12.89%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 126 (12.21%) Full Stack Engineer
5 126 (12.21%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 119 (11.53%) Data Engineer
7 118 (11.43%) Python Engineer
7 118 (11.43%) Python Software Engineer
8 95 (9.21%) Developer
9 80 (7.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 56 (5.43%) Database Developer
10 56 (5.43%) Database Engineer
11 54 (5.23%) Lead
12 51 (4.94%) Scala Engineer
12 51 (4.94%) Scala Software Engineer
13 39 (3.78%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (23.84%) Spring
2 178 (17.25%) React
3 171 (16.57%) AngularJS
4 119 (11.53%) J2EE
5 118 (11.43%) HTML
6 113 (10.95%) JMS
7 110 (10.66%) Node.js
8 109 (10.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 108 (10.47%) Kafka
10 90 (8.72%) Hibernate
11 88 (8.53%) Spring Boot
12 87 (8.43%) CSS
13 85 (8.24%) JSON
14 81 (7.85%) jQuery
15 62 (6.01%) Web Services
16 48 (4.65%) XML
17 39 (3.78%) HTML5
17 39 (3.78%) JavaBeans
18 37 (3.59%) PySpark
19 36 (3.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 738 (71.51%) Algorithms
2 156 (15.12%) Onboarding
3 145 (14.05%) Cloud Native
4 53 (5.14%) Data Structures
5 45 (4.36%) Product Ownership
6 43 (4.17%) Legacy Code
7 41 (3.97%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.45%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.07%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.87%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.68%) Social Media
16 4 (0.39%) IoT
16 4 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.27%) Unix
2 48 (4.65%) Linux
3 28 (2.71%) Android
4 13 (1.26%) Windows
5 10 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 894 (86.63%) Agile
2 805 (78.00%) Software Engineering
3 780 (75.58%) Visualisation
4 763 (73.93%) CI/CD
5 726 (70.35%) SDLC
6 671 (65.02%) Operational Stability
7 670 (64.92%) Community of Practice
8 649 (62.89%) Artificial Intelligence
9 627 (60.76%) Machine Learning
10 488 (47.29%) Risk Management
11 157 (15.21%) Client Onboarding
11 157 (15.21%) Microservices
12 140 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
13 137 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
14 126 (12.21%) TDD
15 122 (11.82%) KYC
15 122 (11.82%) Test Automation
16 89 (8.62%) Open Source
17 86 (8.33%) Batch Processing
18 83 (8.04%) OO
Programming Languages
1 579 (56.10%) Java
2 424 (41.09%) SQL
3 355 (34.40%) Python
4 126 (12.21%) JavaScript
4 126 (12.21%) PL/SQL
5 78 (7.56%) TypeScript
6 51 (4.94%) Scala
7 29 (2.81%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.03%) C#
9 14 (1.36%) Go
10 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.39%) Swift
13 3 (0.29%) C++
14 2 (0.19%) R
15 1 (0.097%) PHP
Qualifications
1 104 (10.08%) Degree
2 9 (0.87%) DBS Check
3 6 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (0.58%) HND
4 5 (0.48%) A+ Certification
4 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.48%) MCDST
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (0.39%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.29%) CCNP
6 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.19%) JNCIP
7 2 (0.19%) PhD
8 1 (0.097%) CCDP
8 1 (0.097%) CCSP
8 1 (0.097%) CISM
8 1 (0.097%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.62%) QA
2 7 (0.68%) ISO 14001
2 7 (0.68%) ISO 9001
3 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (0.39%) PMO
4 2 (0.19%) IFRS
4 2 (0.19%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.097%) GDPR
5 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.097%) NIST
5 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (8.33%) HDFS
2 34 (3.29%) Docker
3 14 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.097%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 119 (11.53%) Terraform
2 105 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.36%) Grafana
4 19 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.68%) ZABBIX
6 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 181 (17.54%) Databricks
2 125 (12.11%) Oracle
3 86 (8.33%) Informatica
4 56 (5.43%) Cloudera
5 46 (4.46%) Microsoft
6 45 (4.36%) Dynatrace
6 45 (4.36%) Splunk
7 37 (3.59%) Alteryx
8 33 (3.20%) Google
9 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.16%) SAP
11 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.87%) Cisco
11 9 (0.87%) TOWER Software
12 7 (0.68%) Mitel
12 7 (0.68%) VMware
13 5 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (0.29%) Citrix
15 2 (0.19%) NEC
16 1 (0.097%) Salesforce