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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,324 1,581 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.56% 4.58% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 5.13% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 813 1,134 1,304
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,125 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 18,835 30,834 34,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.27% 89.39% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,990 22,905 24,939
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,250 £81,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

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 1 July 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
1 172 (12.99%) Confluence
2 47 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.59%) CMS
5 17 (1.28%) WordPress
6 15 (1.13%) Appian
7 13 (0.98%) IIS
8 9 (0.68%) Drupal
9 6 (0.45%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.38%) SAS
11 4 (0.30%) Moodle
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.15%) MTS
13 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 77 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.91%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.68%) Trello
7 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.23%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.15%) Notion
10 2 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.15%) Sketch
11 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.076%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.076%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.45%) Adaptiv
4 6 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
4 6 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 5 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.38%) Shopify
6 4 (0.30%) Maximo
6 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
7 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 446 (33.69%) Azure
2 282 (21.30%) AWS
3 200 (15.11%) GCP
4 115 (8.69%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 69 (5.21%) SaaS
7 36 (2.72%) Entra ID
8 34 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (2.27%) GitHub
10 27 (2.04%) Serverless
11 21 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (1.59%) OCI
11 21 (1.59%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.13%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.06%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.06%) PaaS
14 14 (1.06%) Snowflake
15 13 (0.98%) IaaS
16 12 (0.91%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.40%) Firewall
2 23 (1.74%) VPN
2 23 (1.74%) WAN
3 18 (1.36%) Network Security
4 17 (1.28%) SD-WAN
4 17 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.21%) LAN
6 15 (1.13%) BGP
6 15 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
7 14 (1.06%) OSPF
8 12 (0.91%) DNS
9 11 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (0.68%) IPsec
10 9 (0.68%) VLAN
11 8 (0.60%) Internet
11 8 (0.60%) WLAN
12 5 (0.38%) MPLS
12 5 (0.38%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (18.50%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.12%) Power BI
3 42 (3.17%) MySQL
4 31 (2.34%) Tableau
5 23 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.28%) Data Hub
8 15 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.98%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.98%) SQL CLR
10 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.68%) Metadata
11 9 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.60%) Big Data
12 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.45%) GIS
14 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 211 (15.94%) JIRA
2 168 (12.69%) GitLab
3 165 (12.46%) Selenium
4 162 (12.24%) Maven
5 159 (12.01%) SonarQube
5 159 (12.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 158 (11.93%) Cucumber
7 157 (11.86%) Bitbucket
8 40 (3.02%) Git
9 13 (0.98%) Jenkins
10 6 (0.45%) JUnit
10 6 (0.45%) Postman
10 6 (0.45%) Subversion
11 4 (0.30%) Mocha
11 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.23%) Appium
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.15%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.15%) XCTest
General
1 570 (43.05%) Social Skills
2 551 (41.62%) Finance
3 246 (18.58%) Banking
4 245 (18.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 224 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (8.76%) Marketing
7 96 (7.25%) Public Sector
8 64 (4.83%) Legal
9 58 (4.38%) Manufacturing
10 49 (3.70%) Advertising
11 46 (3.47%) Retail
12 43 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.34%) Local Government
15 30 (2.27%) Back Office
16 29 (2.19%) Law
17 24 (1.81%) Automotive
18 23 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (1.51%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 195 (14.73%) Software Engineer
2 174 (13.14%) Lead
3 157 (11.86%) Developer
4 154 (11.63%) Analyst
5 135 (10.20%) Senior
6 42 (3.17%) Architect
7 37 (2.79%) Business Analyst
7 37 (2.79%) Graduate
7 37 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (2.64%) IT Graduate
9 34 (2.57%) Account Manager
9 34 (2.57%) Graduate Developer
9 34 (2.57%) Strategic Account Manager
9 34 (2.57%) Team Leader
10 33 (2.49%) Senior Developer
11 32 (2.42%) Product Manager
12 29 (2.19%) IT Manager
13 27 (2.04%) Senior Manager
14 25 (1.89%) Civil Engineer
14 25 (1.89%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (17.15%) CSS
2 206 (15.56%) React
3 200 (15.11%) HTML
4 175 (13.22%) Spring
5 171 (12.92%) Spring Boot
6 164 (12.39%) Kafka
7 163 (12.31%) Redux
8 160 (12.08%) JPA
9 159 (12.01%) Hibernate
10 120 (9.06%) .NET
11 41 (3.10%) ASP.NET
12 38 (2.87%) jQuery
13 27 (2.04%) .NET Core
13 27 (2.04%) REST
14 26 (1.96%) .NET Framework
15 24 (1.81%) Node.js
16 23 (1.74%) RESTful
17 22 (1.66%) AngularJS
17 22 (1.66%) Entity Framework
18 17 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 271 (20.47%) Product Ownership
2 167 (12.61%) Enterprise Software
3 83 (6.27%) Management Information System
4 42 (3.17%) NHS
5 40 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 34 (2.57%) Digital Media
7 34 (2.57%) Marketing Technology
8 31 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 25 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.81%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.51%) PMI
11 20 (1.51%) Public Cloud
12 19 (1.44%) Social Media
12 19 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (1.21%) Driving Licence
13 16 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 105 (7.93%) Windows
2 29 (2.19%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.81%) Linux
3 24 (1.81%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Vista
5 4 (0.30%) Android
5 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) Debian
6 2 (0.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (43.35%) Agile
2 354 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
3 316 (23.87%) DevOps
4 261 (19.71%) Software Engineering
5 260 (19.64%) CI/CD
6 229 (17.30%) SDLC
7 224 (16.92%) Microservices
8 212 (16.01%) Project Management
9 205 (15.48%) Mentoring
10 203 (15.33%) Test Automation
11 191 (14.43%) TDD
12 187 (14.12%) Containerisation
13 185 (13.97%) Clean Code
14 184 (13.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 182 (13.75%) Front End Development
16 170 (12.84%) Performance Optimisation
17 151 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 150 (11.33%) Decision-Making
19 147 (11.10%) Analytics
20 135 (10.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 338 (25.53%) SQL
2 254 (19.18%) Java
3 246 (18.58%) JavaScript
4 127 (9.59%) C#
5 114 (8.61%) Python
6 48 (3.63%) PHP
7 39 (2.95%) C++
8 29 (2.19%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.91%) C
11 11 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.83%) VBA
12 10 (0.76%) R
13 9 (0.68%) Embedded C
13 9 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.53%) C-shell
14 7 (0.53%) Korn
14 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.53%) VB
15 6 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 257 (19.41%) Degree
2 95 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 62 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 56 (4.23%) DBS Check
6 54 (4.08%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.49%) PMP
8 28 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.21%) CISSP
10 16 (1.21%) CTC Cleared
10 16 (1.21%) Postgraduate
11 14 (1.06%) ACCA
11 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.98%) CIMA
12 13 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.91%) CFA
14 11 (0.83%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.76%) PhD
16 9 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (18.28%) QA
2 54 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.79%) GDPR
5 36 (2.72%) SLA
6 23 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.28%) PMO
8 11 (0.83%) NIST
8 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.68%) COBIT
9 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.60%) GRC
11 7 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.38%) GMP
14 4 (0.30%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.30%) NCSC
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 191 (14.43%) Docker
2 43 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.076%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 202 (15.26%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.96%) Terraform
3 20 (1.51%) Ansible
4 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.76%) Grafana
7 6 (0.45%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.30%) Puppet
9 3 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Salt
11 1 (0.076%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.076%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.076%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.076%) Matomo
11 1 (0.076%) Nessus
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.076%) SCCM
11 1 (0.076%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.076%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 255 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 157 (11.86%) Solace
3 60 (4.53%) SAP
4 58 (4.38%) Oracle
5 50 (3.78%) Google
6 44 (3.32%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.17%) Cisco
8 27 (2.04%) VMware
9 26 (1.96%) Databricks
10 22 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.36%) Tenable
12 17 (1.28%) Qualys
13 14 (1.06%) Concur
14 12 (0.91%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.91%) Citrix
14 12 (0.91%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.91%) Murex
15 10 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.76%) Sage
15 10 (0.76%) SolarWinds