Continuous Improvement Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +33 -8 +13
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,134 1,515 2,530
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.71% 4.66% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 5.06% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 793 1,134 1,631
10th Percentile £35,100 £32,150 £30,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £44,562
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £100,114
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,743 29,922 43,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.43% 91.97% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,445 23,308 30,232
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,464 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Continuous Improvement salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 39 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.94%) CMS
3 19 (1.68%) nginx
4 16 (1.41%) Confluence
5 14 (1.23%) WordPress
6 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (1.06%) Apache Solr
7 12 (1.06%) SAS
8 11 (0.97%) Drupal
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Apache
10 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.088%) Appian
12 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.088%) Moodle
12 1 (0.088%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.97%) Trello
5 9 (0.79%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.35%) Maple
7 3 (0.26%) Simulink
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.18%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.088%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.088%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.088%) Sketch
9 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.35%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.26%) Maximo
6 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.18%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.088%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.088%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.088%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 303 (26.72%) Azure
2 190 (16.75%) AWS
3 100 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 57 (5.03%) SaaS
6 45 (3.97%) GCP
6 45 (3.97%) Serverless
7 42 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.91%) GitHub
9 27 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 25 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.03%) Google Workspace
12 20 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (1.50%) Entra ID
15 15 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 13 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.59%) Firewall
2 31 (2.73%) DNS
3 24 (2.12%) WAN
4 21 (1.85%) LAN
5 19 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.59%) Network Security
7 16 (1.41%) HTTPS
7 16 (1.41%) IPsec
7 16 (1.41%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.23%) DHCP
8 14 (1.23%) VPN
9 13 (1.15%) BGP
9 13 (1.15%) Broadband
9 13 (1.15%) VLAN
10 12 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.88%) Intranet
12 9 (0.79%) HSRP
13 8 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.53%) VoIP
15 5 (0.44%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 66 (5.82%) Power BI
3 60 (5.29%) MySQL
4 39 (3.44%) NoSQL
5 33 (2.91%) Tableau
6 28 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 20 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.15%) Couchbase
11 12 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.88%) Big Data
13 8 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.53%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 5 (0.44%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (5.03%) JIRA
2 49 (4.32%) Git
3 19 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.41%) GitLab
5 9 (0.79%) Selenium
6 7 (0.62%) JUnit
7 6 (0.53%) Postman
8 5 (0.44%) LSMW
8 5 (0.44%) Maven
8 5 (0.44%) Subversion
9 4 (0.35%) MLflow
9 4 (0.35%) Mocha
10 3 (0.26%) Appium
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.18%) JMeter
11 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 513 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 319 (28.13%) Finance
3 206 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (9.61%) Marketing
5 86 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 78 (6.88%) Banking
8 50 (4.41%) Law
9 49 (4.32%) Legal
9 49 (4.32%) Manufacturing
10 48 (4.23%) Retail
11 46 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (3.53%) Advertising
13 29 (2.56%) Electronics
14 28 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.47%) Publishing
15 27 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.94%) Automotive
16 22 (1.94%) Games
17 21 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 166 (14.64%) Lead
2 152 (13.40%) Senior
3 151 (13.32%) Developer
4 99 (8.73%) Analyst
5 52 (4.59%) Architect
5 52 (4.59%) Software Engineer
6 39 (3.44%) Senior Developer
7 36 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (3.09%) Account Manager
9 34 (3.00%) Strategic Account Manager
10 33 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
10 33 (2.91%) Project Manager
11 31 (2.73%) Graduate
11 31 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
12 30 (2.65%) Consultant
12 30 (2.65%) Graduate Developer
12 30 (2.65%) IT Graduate
13 29 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
14 28 (2.47%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (8.82%) .NET
2 81 (7.14%) CSS
3 70 (6.17%) React
4 59 (5.20%) HTML
5 40 (3.53%) ASP.NET
6 37 (3.26%) jQuery
7 33 (2.91%) AngularJS
7 33 (2.91%) RESTful
8 26 (2.29%) Node.js
8 26 (2.29%) REST
9 23 (2.03%) .NET Framework
10 22 (1.94%) .NET Core
11 21 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (1.85%) React Native
12 16 (1.41%) Spring
13 15 (1.32%) Flutter
14 13 (1.15%) Entity Framework
15 12 (1.06%) GraphQL
15 12 (1.06%) Spring Boot
16 11 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 68 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 53 (4.67%) Data Centre
4 39 (3.44%) Digital Media
5 38 (3.35%) Marketing Technology
6 33 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 29 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 23 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
8 23 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 22 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 22 (1.94%) PMI
10 21 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.50%) Private Cloud
12 17 (1.50%) Social Media
13 16 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.23%) Credit Risk
15 13 (1.15%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 74 (6.53%) Windows
2 36 (3.17%) Linux
3 23 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.62%) VMS
4 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.53%) Windows Vista
6 5 (0.44%) Android
6 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.44%) Unix
7 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) CentOS
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.18%) SUSE
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.088%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (35.80%) Agile
2 342 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
3 226 (19.93%) Project Management
4 224 (19.75%) Mentoring
5 223 (19.66%) DevOps
6 179 (15.78%) Roadmaps
7 144 (12.70%) Decision-Making
8 139 (12.26%) CI/CD
9 131 (11.55%) Analytics
9 131 (11.55%) Software Engineering
10 130 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 126 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
12 124 (10.93%) Project Delivery
13 105 (9.26%) Coaching
14 100 (8.82%) ITIL
14 100 (8.82%) Risk Management
15 99 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
16 93 (8.20%) Scrum
17 91 (8.02%) Strategic Thinking
18 88 (7.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (13.40%) Python
2 151 (13.32%) SQL
3 130 (11.46%) JavaScript
4 109 (9.61%) C#
5 85 (7.50%) Java
6 58 (5.11%) PHP
7 38 (3.35%) C++
8 37 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.00%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.59%) Bash
11 17 (1.50%) C
12 15 (1.32%) Go
13 13 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.88%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.88%) Ruby
14 10 (0.88%) VBA
15 9 (0.79%) R
16 8 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.71%) Korn
16 8 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (18.87%) Degree
2 83 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 69 (6.08%) DBS Check
4 60 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.79%) SC Cleared
6 42 (3.70%) PMI Certification
7 36 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 26 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 24 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.12%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.94%) PMP
11 21 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 21 (1.85%) CISSP
12 19 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.15%) PhD
14 12 (1.06%) CCNP
15 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.88%) CISM
16 10 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.64%) QA
2 35 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.91%) GDPR
4 28 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 25 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.85%) SLA
8 17 (1.50%) PMO
9 16 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (1.15%) NIST
11 11 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.79%) PERC
13 7 (0.62%) Basel II
13 7 (0.62%) Basel III
13 7 (0.62%) Dodd-Frank
13 7 (0.62%) IFRS
13 7 (0.62%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.53%) GRC
14 6 (0.53%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.62%) Docker
3 24 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.53%) vSphere
8 5 (0.44%) Firmware
9 4 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 2 (0.18%) Postfix
11 2 (0.18%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.18%) XenApp
11 2 (0.18%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 79 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.32%) Terraform
3 23 (2.03%) Ansible
4 14 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.88%) Grafana
5 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.79%) SCCM
7 6 (0.53%) Puppet
7 6 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.44%) CASB
8 5 (0.44%) Istio
8 5 (0.44%) linkerd
9 4 (0.35%) Nessus
9 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.18%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) Salt
11 2 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 243 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.20%) Google
3 55 (4.85%) SAP
4 47 (4.14%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.88%) Oracle
6 37 (3.26%) Databricks
7 26 (2.29%) Cisco
7 26 (2.29%) VMware
8 22 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.68%) Adobe
10 18 (1.59%) Tenable
11 16 (1.41%) Qualys
12 13 (1.15%) Citrix
12 13 (1.15%) Splunk
13 12 (1.06%) IBM
14 11 (0.97%) Meraki
15 9 (0.79%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.79%) OneTrust
16 6 (0.53%) CheckPoint
17 5 (0.44%) Fortinet