Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 62 58
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,673 5,079 8,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.78% 4.83% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 5.05% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,213 2,918 3,750
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,680 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £77,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.34% +4.54% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +30 4,406 £52,500 -4.34% 1,559
England +24 4,244 £57,500 -4.17% 1,933
Work from Home -2 1,594 £60,000 - 697
Scotland +38 1,028 £55,380 -11.39% 142
London +6 1,005 £73,000 +0.69% 539
North of England +41 970 £52,500 -3.57% 417
Midlands +17 827 £52,500 - 264
South East +2 715 £51,750 -13.75% 341
West Midlands +17 622 £53,500 -0.93% 170
North West +44 527 £51,000 -7.27% 239
South West +9 451 £52,396 -0.20% 182
Yorkshire +39 345 £60,000 +9.33% 138
East of England +8 235 £55,000 +10.00% 170
East Midlands +18 194 £47,500 -5.00% 94
Wales +45 155 £51,997 +16.41% 76
North East +30 98 £45,000 +22.03% 52
Northern Ireland +33 28 £67,500 +50.00% 26
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 215 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 160 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 135 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 124 (2.19%) Confluence
5 83 (1.46%) Apache
6 35 (0.62%) SAS
7 34 (0.60%) FileNet
8 29 (0.51%) IIS
9 28 (0.49%) CMS
10 17 (0.30%) nginx
11 11 (0.19%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.19%) WordPress
12 9 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (0.16%) Drupal
13 7 (0.12%) Appian
14 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.088%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.088%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.071%) NServiceBus
17 3 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 540 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 411 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 134 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.74%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) Simulink
9 6 (0.11%) SPSS
10 5 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.088%) Solid Edge
10 5 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.071%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.071%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.071%) Trello
12 3 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.053%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.053%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.053%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 39 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.28%) iTrent
3 16 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.14%) Magento
8 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 8 (0.14%) Shopify
9 7 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.12%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.11%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.11%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.11%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.088%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 881 (15.53%) Azure
2 799 (14.08%) AWS
3 370 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 354 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
5 178 (3.14%) GCP
6 170 (3.00%) SaaS
7 164 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 111 (1.96%) Serverless
10 109 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
11 97 (1.71%) Entra ID
12 78 (1.37%) GitHub
13 75 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 74 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (1.18%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (1.04%) Power Automate
18 57 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
20 52 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.52%) Firewall
2 93 (1.64%) DNS
3 81 (1.43%) WAN
4 80 (1.41%) SAN
5 75 (1.32%) LAN
6 69 (1.22%) VoIP
7 65 (1.15%) VPN
8 60 (1.06%) Internet
9 52 (0.92%) VLAN
10 50 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 47 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 44 (0.78%) DHCP
13 42 (0.74%) Network Security
14 35 (0.62%) Broadband
15 31 (0.55%) SNMP
16 30 (0.53%) Wireless
17 28 (0.49%) Intranet
17 28 (0.49%) NAS
18 27 (0.48%) HTTP
19 25 (0.44%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (6.17%) NoSQL
2 306 (5.39%) Power BI
3 242 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 200 (3.53%) Big Data
5 161 (2.84%) Hadoop
6 114 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 109 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.89%) Apache Hive
9 102 (1.80%) MySQL
10 86 (1.52%) HBase
11 85 (1.50%) Tableau
12 70 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
13 68 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 60 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
16 49 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
16 49 (0.86%) Power Query
17 44 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 43 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
19 41 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 286 (5.04%) JIRA
2 285 (5.02%) Git
3 219 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 95 (1.67%) JUnit
5 86 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
6 61 (1.08%) Selenium
7 55 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 39 (0.69%) WebDriver
9 33 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 33 (0.58%) GitLab
10 32 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 29 (0.51%) Android Studio
12 27 (0.48%) Jasmine
13 24 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 21 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
14 21 (0.37%) Protractor
14 21 (0.37%) Subversion
15 19 (0.33%) Maven
16 16 (0.28%) Cucumber
17 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,218 (39.10%) Social Skills
2 2,011 (35.45%) Finance
3 1,154 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,128 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1,112 (19.60%) Law
6 816 (14.38%) Legal
7 387 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
7 387 (6.82%) Marketing
8 366 (6.45%) Banking
9 358 (6.31%) Manufacturing
10 321 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
11 261 (4.60%) Retail
12 247 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
13 212 (3.74%) Public Sector
14 125 (2.20%) Investment Banking
15 123 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 111 (1.96%) Military
17 69 (1.22%) Local Government
18 68 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
19 66 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 864 (15.23%) Software Engineer
2 694 (12.23%) Analyst
3 606 (10.68%) Lead
4 557 (9.82%) Senior
5 513 (9.04%) Developer
6 314 (5.53%) Java Engineer
7 301 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
8 254 (4.48%) Project Manager
9 220 (3.88%) Graduate
10 217 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
11 199 (3.51%) Architect
12 198 (3.49%) IT Manager
13 197 (3.47%) AWS Software Engineer
14 196 (3.45%) IT Engineer
15 184 (3.24%) Data Engineer
16 138 (2.43%) Full Stack Engineer
17 134 (2.36%) Product Analyst
18 133 (2.34%) Big Data Engineer
18 133 (2.34%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 131 (2.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (5.69%) React
2 287 (5.06%) Spring
3 262 (4.62%) AngularJS
4 256 (4.51%) HTML
5 248 (4.37%) .NET
6 227 (4.00%) CSS
7 176 (3.10%) Node.js
8 165 (2.91%) JSON
9 147 (2.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 146 (2.57%) Kafka
11 139 (2.45%) RESTful
12 137 (2.41%) Web Services
13 121 (2.13%) J2EE
14 119 (2.10%) XML
15 113 (1.99%) JMS
16 110 (1.94%) Spring Boot
17 102 (1.80%) REST
18 99 (1.75%) Hibernate
19 98 (1.73%) jQuery
20 76 (1.34%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 780 (13.75%) Algorithms
2 388 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 377 (6.65%) Management Information System
4 226 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 218 (3.84%) Cloud Native
6 206 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 142 (2.50%) FMCG
8 100 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 88 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.41%) Driving Licence
11 77 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 68 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 61 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 59 (1.04%) Clustering
15 58 (1.02%) Public Cloud
16 57 (1.00%) Mobile App
17 48 (0.85%) Legacy Code
18 45 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
19 43 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
19 43 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 429 (7.56%) Windows
2 243 (4.28%) Linux
3 207 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 143 (2.52%) Unix
5 87 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 85 (1.50%) Android
7 54 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 50 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 28 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 22 (0.39%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 15 (0.26%) VMS
15 14 (0.25%) SUSE
16 13 (0.23%) AIX
16 13 (0.23%) CentOS
16 13 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 11 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
18 9 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,181 (38.45%) Agile
2 1,642 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
3 1,127 (19.87%) Software Engineering
4 1,075 (18.95%) CI/CD
5 955 (16.83%) SDLC
6 940 (16.57%) Visualisation
7 834 (14.70%) Project Management
8 793 (13.98%) Artificial Intelligence
9 750 (13.22%) Risk Management
10 737 (12.99%) Machine Learning
11 698 (12.30%) Community of Practice
12 688 (12.13%) Operational Stability
13 605 (10.66%) Customer Service
14 592 (10.44%) Mentoring
15 572 (10.08%) DevOps
16 497 (8.76%) Project Delivery
17 492 (8.67%) Coaching
18 467 (8.23%) Decision-Making
19 458 (8.07%) Roadmaps
20 441 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 951 (16.76%) SQL
2 773 (13.63%) Java
3 645 (11.37%) Python
4 367 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 300 (5.29%) C#
6 203 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 172 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 136 (2.40%) PL/SQL
9 103 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 76 (1.34%) Scala
11 62 (1.09%) Kotlin
12 61 (1.08%) PHP
13 59 (1.04%) Bash
14 52 (0.92%) C
15 43 (0.76%) Bicep
16 36 (0.63%) C++
17 28 (0.49%) VB
18 26 (0.46%) VBA
19 25 (0.44%) Go
19 25 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 1,376 (24.26%) Degree
2 184 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 184 (3.24%) Security Cleared
3 134 (2.36%) Master's Degree
4 117 (2.06%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 94 (1.66%) SC Cleared
6 89 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 65 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 63 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 59 (1.04%) HNC
9 59 (1.04%) PMP
10 58 (1.02%) HND
11 57 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 53 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 53 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 46 (0.81%) CISSP
14 36 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 34 (0.60%) DV Cleared
15 34 (0.60%) MBA
16 33 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (7.40%) QA
2 169 (2.98%) SLA
3 149 (2.63%) GDPR
4 142 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 110 (1.94%) PMO
6 87 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 78 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.29%) ISO 9001
9 62 (1.09%) NIST
10 56 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.62%) ISO 14001
12 31 (0.55%) IFRS
13 29 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 27 (0.48%) NEBOSH
15 22 (0.39%) NCSC
16 21 (0.37%) GRC
16 21 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.32%) ISO 22301
17 18 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 13 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 305 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 211 (3.72%) Docker
3 148 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.66%) HDFS
5 60 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 38 (0.67%) vSphere
8 31 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.41%) Firmware
10 22 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.25%) vCloud
12 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.11%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.088%) XenApp
15 4 (0.071%) pfSense
16 3 (0.053%) Ceph
16 3 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
17 2 (0.035%) IAG
17 2 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
17 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 292 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 253 (4.46%) Terraform
3 82 (1.45%) Grafana
4 72 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (1.18%) Ansible
6 45 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 38 (0.67%) SCCM
8 35 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 33 (0.58%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.49%) Puppet
11 25 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.39%) Nagios
13 20 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 18 (0.32%) NetBackup
15 17 (0.30%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
18 11 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 10 (0.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 990 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 272 (4.79%) Oracle
3 259 (4.57%) Databricks
4 207 (3.65%) VMware
5 198 (3.49%) SAP
6 144 (2.54%) Cisco
7 143 (2.52%) Google
8 109 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 108 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 86 (1.52%) Informatica
11 72 (1.27%) Citrix
12 64 (1.13%) Cloudera
13 56 (0.99%) Splunk
14 53 (0.93%) Dynatrace
15 50 (0.88%) Alteryx
15 50 (0.88%) HP
15 50 (0.88%) Veeam
16 32 (0.56%) Commvault
17 29 (0.51%) SolarWinds
18 28 (0.49%) Meraki