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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 61 43
Rank change year-on-year +41 -18 +30
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,039 221 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.43% 4.68% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.61% 4.97% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 152 144 127
10th Percentile £33,650 £37,250 £37,850
25th Percentile £40,800 £42,500 £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 £72,813 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,588 £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 6,255 4,450 5,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.28% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,229 2,790
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,440 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,654 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +9.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 29 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 29 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 +63 899 £54,000 +16.76% 40
Edinburgh +2 70 £60,000 -10.54% 19
Aberdeen -9 14 £25,000 -37.50% 24
Dundee -3 11 £40,144 -5.54% 2
Fife - 9 £43,200 - 6
West Lothian -1 8 £72,500 +70.59% 3
Lanarkshire - 5 £41,000 - 14
South Lanarkshire -4 4 £105,000 - 3
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 3
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 (19.54%) Apache Spark
2 66 (6.35%) Apache
3 35 (3.37%) FileNet
4 30 (2.89%) Confluence
5 15 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.58%) SAS
7 5 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 404 (38.88%) AWS
2 66 (6.35%) Azure
3 51 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
3 51 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
3 51 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (4.91%) Amazon EMR
3 51 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
3 51 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (4.91%) Serverless
4 47 (4.52%) GCP
5 44 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
6 35 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 25 (2.41%) Google Play
8 24 (2.31%) BlazeMeter
9 23 (2.21%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.12%) SaaS
11 20 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (1.83%) Datadog
13 14 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.67%) Broadband
1 7 (0.67%) Firewall
1 7 (0.67%) LAN
1 7 (0.67%) NAS
1 7 (0.67%) SAN
1 7 (0.67%) VoIP
1 7 (0.67%) 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
1 287 (27.62%) NoSQL
2 167 (16.07%) Big Data
3 150 (14.44%) Hadoop
4 99 (9.53%) Apache Hive
5 86 (8.28%) HBase
6 52 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 50 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 46 (4.43%) Relational Database
9 43 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (3.75%) Data Lake
11 38 (3.66%) Qlik Sense
12 23 (2.21%) Power BI
13 16 (1.54%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.44%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.35%) MySQL
16 10 (0.96%) Flink
17 9 (0.87%) SQL Server
18 7 (0.67%) Redis
19 6 (0.58%) Tableau
20 4 (0.38%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 113 (10.88%) Jenkins
2 101 (9.72%) Git
3 96 (9.24%) JUnit
4 86 (8.28%) Bitbucket Server
5 59 (5.68%) JIRA
6 30 (2.89%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.41%) Android Studio
8 24 (2.31%) Selenium
9 21 (2.02%) Jasmine
9 21 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (2.02%) Protractor
9 21 (2.02%) WebDriver
10 19 (1.83%) Maven
11 10 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.87%) Gradle
12 9 (0.87%) JMeter
13 7 (0.67%) Moq
14 2 (0.19%) GitLab
15 1 (0.096%) Postman
15 1 (0.096%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 878 (84.50%) Finance
2 850 (81.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 832 (80.08%) Law
4 477 (45.91%) Legal
5 200 (19.25%) Marketing
6 167 (16.07%) Banking
7 149 (14.34%) Social Skills
8 91 (8.76%) Investment Banking
9 56 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (3.66%) Private Banking
11 13 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.15%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Retail
15 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.38%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.19%) Local Government
17 2 (0.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 789 (75.94%) Software Engineer
2 294 (28.30%) Java Engineer
2 294 (28.30%) Java Software Engineer
3 196 (18.86%) AWS Engineer
3 196 (18.86%) AWS Software Engineer
4 133 (12.80%) Big Data Engineer
4 133 (12.80%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 127 (12.22%) Full Stack Engineer
5 127 (12.22%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 122 (11.74%) Data Engineer
7 121 (11.65%) Python Engineer
7 121 (11.65%) Python Software Engineer
8 95 (9.14%) Developer
9 80 (7.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 57 (5.49%) Lead
11 56 (5.39%) Database Developer
11 56 (5.39%) Database Engineer
12 51 (4.91%) Scala Engineer
12 51 (4.91%) Scala Software Engineer
13 38 (3.66%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (23.87%) Spring
2 179 (17.23%) React
3 172 (16.55%) AngularJS
4 120 (11.55%) J2EE
5 119 (11.45%) HTML
6 114 (10.97%) JMS
7 110 (10.59%) Kafka
7 110 (10.59%) Node.js
7 110 (10.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 90 (8.66%) Hibernate
9 88 (8.47%) CSS
9 88 (8.47%) Spring Boot
10 85 (8.18%) JSON
11 82 (7.89%) jQuery
12 62 (5.97%) Web Services
13 48 (4.62%) XML
14 39 (3.75%) HTML5
14 39 (3.75%) JavaBeans
15 38 (3.66%) PySpark
16 36 (3.46%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 743 (71.51%) Algorithms
2 157 (15.11%) Onboarding
3 147 (14.15%) Cloud Native
4 53 (5.10%) Data Structures
5 46 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 43 (4.14%) Legacy Code
7 41 (3.95%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.06%) Private Cloud
11 10 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.87%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.67%) Social Media
14 6 (0.58%) Credit Risk
15 4 (0.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.20%) Unix
2 48 (4.62%) Linux
3 29 (2.79%) Android
4 13 (1.25%) Windows
5 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 901 (86.72%) Agile
2 812 (78.15%) Software Engineering
3 788 (75.84%) Visualisation
4 769 (74.01%) CI/CD
5 734 (70.64%) SDLC
6 679 (65.35%) Operational Stability
7 677 (65.16%) Community of Practice
8 656 (63.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 634 (61.02%) Machine Learning
10 491 (47.26%) Risk Management
11 158 (15.21%) Client Onboarding
12 157 (15.11%) Microservices
13 142 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
14 138 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
15 126 (12.13%) TDD
16 123 (11.84%) KYC
17 122 (11.74%) Test Automation
18 88 (8.47%) Open Source
19 86 (8.28%) Batch Processing
20 84 (8.08%) OO
Programming Languages
1 581 (55.92%) Java
2 425 (40.90%) SQL
3 359 (34.55%) Python
4 127 (12.22%) JavaScript
5 126 (12.13%) PL/SQL
6 79 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 51 (4.91%) Scala
8 30 (2.89%) Kotlin
9 21 (2.02%) C#
10 14 (1.35%) Go
11 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.38%) Swift
14 3 (0.29%) C++
15 2 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.096%) PHP
Qualifications
1 104 (10.01%) 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 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.096%) CCDP
8 1 (0.096%) CCSP
8 1 (0.096%) CISM
8 1 (0.096%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.60%) QA
2 7 (0.67%) ISO 14001
2 7 (0.67%) ISO 9001
3 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (0.38%) PMO
4 2 (0.19%) IFRS
4 2 (0.19%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.096%) GDPR
5 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.096%) NIST
5 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (8.28%) HDFS
2 33 (3.18%) Docker
3 14 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 119 (11.45%) Terraform
2 106 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.33%) Grafana
4 19 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.67%) 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 (17.42%) Databricks
2 127 (12.22%) Oracle
3 86 (8.28%) Informatica
4 56 (5.39%) Cloudera
5 45 (4.33%) Dynatrace
5 45 (4.33%) Microsoft
5 45 (4.33%) Splunk
6 38 (3.66%) Alteryx
7 34 (3.27%) Google
8 14 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.15%) SAP
10 9 (0.87%) Cisco
10 9 (0.87%) TOWER Software
11 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.67%) Mitel
12 7 (0.67%) VMware
13 5 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (0.29%) Citrix
15 2 (0.19%) NEC
16 1 (0.096%) ForgeRock