Continuous Improvement Jobs with Work from Home 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 66 57
Rank change year-on-year +39 -9 +37
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,876 1,169 3,525
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 4.78% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.21% 5.01% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 606 856 1,905
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year - +6.24% +5.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,063 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,539 £96,752
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.35%

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 20,367 23,340 59,725
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.31% 95.44% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,556 17,219 38,791
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,481 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,469 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

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 41 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.96%) Confluence
4 13 (0.69%) Apache
5 8 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.27%) IIS
8 4 (0.21%) Appian
8 4 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) Camunda
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (3.68%) Chatbot
2 57 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.32%) Trello
7 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.16%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.16%) Maple
9 2 (0.11%) Simulink
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.053%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.053%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.01%) NEC Housing
2 13 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.32%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.21%) Aareon QL
7 4 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
7 4 (0.21%) OPENHousing
7 4 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
7 4 (0.21%) Primavera
7 4 (0.21%) Shopify
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 2 (0.11%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.053%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 554 (29.53%) GCP
2 325 (17.32%) Azure
3 230 (12.26%) AWS
4 112 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 74 (3.94%) SaaS
7 50 (2.67%) Serverless
8 49 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.03%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.71%) GitHub
11 29 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 25 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.33%) PaaS
14 24 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (0.91%) Azure Storage
16 17 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 817 (43.55%) Broadband
2 59 (3.14%) Firewall
3 27 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.33%) VLAN
5 22 (1.17%) BGP
6 19 (1.01%) OSPF
7 16 (0.85%) WAN
8 15 (0.80%) DNS
9 12 (0.64%) DHCP
10 11 (0.59%) Network Security
11 9 (0.48%) LAN
11 9 (0.48%) Wireless
12 8 (0.43%) DSL
12 8 (0.43%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.37%) 5G
13 7 (0.37%) VPN
14 6 (0.32%) Internet
15 5 (0.27%) HTTPS
15 5 (0.27%) SSL
15 5 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 582 (31.02%) Data Hub
2 55 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 47 (2.51%) Power BI
4 37 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.76%) NoSQL
6 32 (1.71%) Data Lake
7 29 (1.55%) MySQL
8 23 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.07%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.53%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.53%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.48%) Big Data
13 8 (0.43%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.43%) Power Query
13 8 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (3.25%) Git
2 44 (2.35%) JIRA
3 27 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.64%) Selenium
5 8 (0.43%) MLflow
6 7 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 7 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.37%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.27%) GitLab
8 5 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.21%) Vite
10 3 (0.16%) JUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.16%) TestNG
11 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.11%) Subversion
11 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,313 (69.99%) Social Skills
2 604 (32.20%) Influencing Skills
3 419 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (14.66%) Finance
5 89 (4.74%) Legal
6 70 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (3.62%) Law
8 66 (3.52%) Retail
9 61 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 57 (3.04%) Public Sector
11 50 (2.67%) Marketing
12 35 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.60%) Automotive
14 27 (1.44%) Banking
15 26 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.17%) Games
16 22 (1.17%) Publishing
17 20 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (1.01%) Advertising
19 18 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 748 (39.87%) Senior
2 734 (39.13%) Analyst
3 586 (31.24%) Senior Analyst
4 395 (21.06%) IT Analyst
5 381 (20.31%) Audit Analyst
6 252 (13.43%) Lead
7 135 (7.20%) Team Leader
8 109 (5.81%) Data Analyst
9 96 (5.12%) Developer
10 69 (3.68%) Portfolio Analyst
11 59 (3.14%) Architect
12 56 (2.99%) Consultant
13 50 (2.67%) Software Engineer
14 47 (2.51%) Project Manager
15 41 (2.19%) IT Manager
16 40 (2.13%) Senior Manager
17 36 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
18 33 (1.76%) Azure Engineer
19 29 (1.55%) Data Engineer
20 27 (1.44%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (6.66%) Elastic Stack
2 73 (3.89%) .NET
3 58 (3.09%) React
4 53 (2.83%) CSS
5 51 (2.72%) HTML
6 33 (1.76%) Node.js
7 32 (1.71%) RESTful
8 23 (1.23%) Web Services
9 21 (1.12%) .NET Framework
9 21 (1.12%) Kafka
10 19 (1.01%) ASP.NET
10 19 (1.01%) JSON
10 19 (1.01%) PySpark
11 18 (0.96%) Spring
12 17 (0.91%) .NET Core
12 17 (0.91%) AngularJS
12 17 (0.91%) Entity Framework
12 17 (0.91%) Middleware
12 17 (0.91%) REST
13 14 (0.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.61%) Private Cloud
2 84 (4.48%) Management Information System
3 69 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 40 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 22 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.12%) Blog
11 21 (1.12%) Digital Media
12 20 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 18 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (0.91%) Security Posture
15 14 (0.75%) CMDB
15 14 (0.75%) PMI
15 14 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
16 13 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
17 12 (0.64%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 179 (9.54%) Linux
2 89 (4.74%) Windows
3 31 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.75%) Unix
6 11 (0.59%) Android
6 11 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.48%) Solaris
8 8 (0.43%) SUSE
9 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.32%) CentOS
10 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.21%) AIX
13 3 (0.16%) VMS
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,055 (56.24%) Problem-Solving
2 723 (38.54%) Customer Experience
3 700 (37.31%) Analytics
4 634 (33.80%) Data Management
5 622 (33.16%) Data Governance
6 587 (31.29%) Data Transformation
7 504 (26.87%) Data Analysis
8 383 (20.42%) IT Audit
9 378 (20.15%) Agile
10 354 (18.87%) Mentoring
11 325 (17.32%) DevOps
12 296 (15.78%) Risk Management
13 277 (14.77%) Roadmaps
14 267 (14.23%) CI/CD
15 184 (9.81%) Computer Science
16 175 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 170 (9.06%) Containerisation
18 167 (8.90%) Deployment Automation
19 166 (8.85%) Continuous Integration
20 160 (8.53%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 260 (13.86%) Python
2 182 (9.70%) SQL
3 172 (9.17%) Bash
4 136 (7.25%) Shell Script
5 85 (4.53%) C#
6 84 (4.48%) JavaScript
7 68 (3.62%) PowerShell
8 56 (2.99%) Java
9 53 (2.83%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.28%) Go
11 13 (0.69%) PHP
12 11 (0.59%) MATLAB
13 10 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.48%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.43%) C++
16 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.27%) Rust
18 4 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.21%) VBA
19 3 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 587 (31.29%) CISA
2 310 (16.52%) Degree
3 171 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 162 (8.64%) Master's Degree
5 123 (6.56%) LPIC
5 123 (6.56%) RHCSA
6 97 (5.17%) Security Cleared
7 54 (2.88%) SC Cleared
8 47 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 39 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.55%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.12%) CISSP
12 21 (1.12%) PMP
13 20 (1.07%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 13 (0.69%) CCNP
16 12 (0.64%) CCNA
16 12 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 585 (31.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 137 (7.30%) NIST
3 125 (6.66%) SOC 2
4 116 (6.18%) QA
5 43 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.24%) GDPR
7 37 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.76%) Data Quality
9 30 (1.60%) SLA
10 19 (1.01%) PMO
11 13 (0.69%) NCSC
12 12 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.43%) Solvency II
15 5 (0.27%) GRC
15 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.16%) COBIT
17 3 (0.16%) NEBOSH
17 3 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 178 (9.49%) Docker
2 61 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.16%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) XenApp
7 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.053%) KVM
Systems Management
1 156 (8.32%) Ansible
2 137 (7.30%) Prometheus
3 136 (7.25%) Grafana
4 75 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 49 (2.61%) Terraform
6 19 (1.01%) SCCM
7 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.37%) Istio
9 5 (0.27%) Puppet
9 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.16%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.11%) CASB
12 2 (0.11%) linkerd
12 2 (0.11%) Nessus
12 2 (0.11%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.053%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 535 (28.52%) Google
2 245 (13.06%) Microsoft
3 47 (2.51%) Oracle
4 45 (2.40%) Databricks
5 42 (2.24%) Cisco
6 34 (1.81%) VMware
7 28 (1.49%) SAP
7 28 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 21 (1.12%) IFS
8 21 (1.12%) NEC
9 18 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 18 (0.96%) Sony
10 17 (0.91%) Extreme Networks
10 17 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.75%) BT
12 13 (0.69%) HP
12 13 (0.69%) Red Hat
12 13 (0.69%) Remedy
13 11 (0.59%) BMC