Continuous Improvement Jobs in the South East

Continual Improvement
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +25 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 625 715 827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.54% 4.30% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 5.06% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 340 398 423
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,860 £40,625 £43,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,965 £51,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -13.75% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £85,970 £85,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,538 14,122 14,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.90% 84.88% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,079 9,946 8,294
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,265
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,200 £77,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -12.00% +4.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the South East

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South East.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the South East

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South East

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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
Thames Valley +24 244 £60,000 +29.73% 210
Berkshire +24 152 £62,500 +45.62% 118
Hampshire +32 126 £60,000 - 81
Surrey +65 96 £55,000 +15.18% 66
Buckinghamshire +34 64 £60,000 +14.29% 52
Kent +1 47 £44,500 -1.11% 43
Isle of Wight - 38 £65,000 - 11
West Sussex +18 29 £46,500 -28.46% 29
Oxfordshire -2 28 £57,500 +27.78% 64
East Sussex +49 24 £67,500 +39.18% 27
Middlesex - 23 - - 8
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.80%) Apache Solr
3 5 (0.80%) nginx
4 4 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) CMS
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
1 35 (5.60%) Simulink
2 24 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.44%) Acrobat
4 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.48%) Productboard
7 2 (0.32%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.16%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (5.60%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.32%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.16%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 76 (12.16%) Azure
2 55 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (5.76%) AWS
4 31 (4.96%) Power Platform
5 21 (3.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 19 (3.04%) SaaS
7 14 (2.24%) Google Workspace
8 10 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (1.60%) GCP
9 9 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.28%) GitHub
10 8 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.28%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.12%) Serverless
11 7 (1.12%) Smartsheet
12 6 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.96%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.96%) OCI
12 6 (0.96%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.88%) Firewall
1 18 (2.88%) LAN
1 18 (2.88%) WAN
2 14 (2.24%) SD-WAN
3 11 (1.76%) Intranet
3 11 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.44%) MPLS
5 7 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (1.12%) VPN
6 6 (0.96%) DNS
6 6 (0.96%) NAS
6 6 (0.96%) SAN
6 6 (0.96%) VLAN
7 5 (0.80%) BGP
7 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.80%) IPsec
7 5 (0.80%) OSPF
8 4 (0.64%) Broadband
9 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.48%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.32%) Power BI
2 12 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.76%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.96%) Couchbase
6 6 (0.96%) Metadata
6 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.80%) MySQL
7 5 (0.80%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.48%) Big Data
10 2 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (5.60%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (3.52%) JIRA
3 7 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) Git
4 4 (0.64%) GitLab
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.32%) JUnit
6 2 (0.32%) TestNG
6 2 (0.32%) TestRail
7 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.16%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 310 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 107 (17.12%) Law
3 95 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (12.64%) Finance
5 63 (10.08%) Manufacturing
6 51 (8.16%) Marketing
7 46 (7.36%) Electronics
8 43 (6.88%) Aerospace
9 39 (6.24%) Legal
10 32 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (4.00%) Retail
12 17 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.92%) Advertising
15 9 (1.44%) Military
16 8 (1.28%) Automotive
16 8 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 109 (17.44%) Lead
2 67 (10.72%) Senior
3 55 (8.80%) Analyst
4 49 (7.84%) Architect
5 47 (7.52%) Technical Manager
6 37 (5.92%) Junior
7 36 (5.76%) Systems Engineer
8 35 (5.60%) Junior Systems Engineer
9 29 (4.64%) Team Leader
10 28 (4.48%) Project Manager
11 27 (4.32%) Business Change Analyst
11 27 (4.32%) Change Analyst
11 27 (4.32%) Enterprise Architect
11 27 (4.32%) Product Manager
12 23 (3.68%) Senior Manager
13 22 (3.52%) Salesforce Architect
14 21 (3.36%) Developer
14 21 (3.36%) Support Engineer
15 20 (3.20%) Consultant
16 18 (2.88%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.08%) Middleware
2 21 (3.36%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (3.36%) REST
2 21 (3.36%) SOAP
3 14 (2.24%) XML
4 10 (1.60%) CSS
4 10 (1.60%) HTML
4 10 (1.60%) React
5 6 (0.96%) React Native
5 6 (0.96%) Redux
6 5 (0.80%) .NET
6 5 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.64%) EDI
7 4 (0.64%) Kafka
8 3 (0.48%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.16%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 29 (4.64%) Data Centre
4 26 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.36%) PMI
6 20 (3.20%) Driving Licence
7 19 (3.04%) FMCG
8 15 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
10 11 (1.76%) IoT
11 10 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.60%) Digital Media
11 10 (1.60%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.12%) Housing Association
14 6 (0.96%) Clustering
14 6 (0.96%) Taxonomies
15 5 (0.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.52%) Windows
2 8 (1.28%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.32%) Android
4 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.32%) Linux
4 2 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (40.80%) Problem-Solving
2 152 (24.32%) Agile
3 117 (18.72%) Project Management
4 115 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 104 (16.64%) Strategic Thinking
6 103 (16.48%) Coaching
7 98 (15.68%) Computer Science
8 93 (14.88%) Mentoring
9 92 (14.72%) Change Management
10 89 (14.24%) DevOps
11 80 (12.80%) Service Delivery
12 78 (12.48%) Service Management
13 69 (11.04%) Information Security
14 64 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 63 (10.08%) Process Improvement
16 62 (9.92%) Business Strategy
17 60 (9.60%) Decision-Making
18 59 (9.44%) UML
19 58 (9.28%) Analytics
20 57 (9.12%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.60%) MATLAB
2 29 (4.64%) Python
3 21 (3.36%) Apex Code
4 19 (3.04%) SQL
5 17 (2.72%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.40%) C#
7 12 (1.92%) Ada
7 12 (1.92%) C
7 12 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.96%) Java
9 6 (0.96%) PHP
9 6 (0.96%) R
10 5 (0.80%) Go
11 4 (0.64%) Bash
12 3 (0.48%) C++
12 3 (0.48%) Ruby
12 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (29.44%) Degree
2 64 (10.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 44 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (6.88%) NVQ Level 3
4 43 (6.88%) NVQ Level 4
5 31 (4.96%) PMI Certification
5 31 (4.96%) Security Cleared
6 29 (4.64%) CBAP
7 25 (4.00%) Master's Degree
8 17 (2.72%) CISSP
9 15 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 15 (2.40%) CISM
9 15 (2.40%) SC Cleared
10 14 (2.24%) CRISC
11 13 (2.08%) Chartered Engineer
12 12 (1.92%) PMP
13 10 (1.60%) HND
14 7 (1.12%) DV Cleared
14 7 (1.12%) MRICS
15 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.20%) QA
4 15 (2.40%) GDPR
5 13 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 11 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.44%) PERC
9 8 (1.28%) PMO
10 7 (1.12%) NIST
10 7 (1.12%) SLA
11 5 (0.80%) GMP
11 5 (0.80%) GRC
12 4 (0.64%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.64%) COBIT
13 3 (0.48%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.32%) COSHH
System Software
1 19 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.12%) Docker
6 6 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.24%) Ansible
2 14 (2.24%) Terraform
3 3 (0.48%) Grafana
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.32%) Argo
5 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.16%) Puppet
5 1 (0.16%) vRealize
5 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 104 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.76%) IBM
3 35 (5.60%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.16%) VMware
5 21 (3.36%) Google
5 21 (3.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 20 (3.20%) Oracle
7 17 (2.72%) Qualys
7 17 (2.72%) Tenable
8 16 (2.56%) SAP
9 11 (1.76%) Databricks
10 10 (1.60%) Cisco
11 9 (1.44%) Adobe
11 9 (1.44%) Citrix
11 9 (1.44%) OneTrust
11 9 (1.44%) Sun
12 7 (1.12%) Meraki
13 5 (0.80%) PeopleSoft
14 4 (0.64%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.32%) Alteryx