Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 32 67
Rank change year-on-year +15 +35 -26
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 323 215 121
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.23% 6.14% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 6.96% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 172 103 93
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.24% -0.74%
75th Percentile £81,250 £66,875 £72,433
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £93,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,948 3,088 2,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.28% 88.20% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,578 1,219 2,062
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
West Yorkshire +20 211 £67,500 +28.57% 71
North Yorkshire +11 49 £47,500 -31.16% 11
South Yorkshire -3 27 £39,000 -33.05% 40
East Yorkshire -21 12 £50,000 +11.11% 15
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.55%) CMS
3 4 (1.24%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.93%) Moodle
5 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.62%) Confluence
5 2 (0.62%) Drupal
5 2 (0.62%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.10%) SOLIDWORKS
3 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.86%) AutoCAD
4 6 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.24%) Autodesk Inventor
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.86%) SAP CO
2 6 (1.86%) SAP FI
2 6 (1.86%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (1.86%) SAP PS
3 4 (1.24%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.93%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.93%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.62%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.43%) AWS
2 55 (17.03%) Azure
3 47 (14.55%) SaaS
4 26 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.64%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.33%) GCP
7 13 (4.02%) Serverless
8 9 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.17%) GitHub
10 6 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.55%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.55%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.24%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (1.24%) Apigee
12 4 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.10%) Firewall
2 8 (2.48%) DNS
3 7 (2.17%) DHCP
3 7 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.86%) Broadband
4 6 (1.86%) Internet
4 6 (1.86%) Network Security
4 6 (1.86%) VLAN
5 3 (0.93%) WPA
6 2 (0.62%) AMQP
6 2 (0.62%) Intranet
6 2 (0.62%) LAN
6 2 (0.62%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) BGP
7 1 (0.31%) MPLS
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
7 1 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.33%) Power BI
3 8 (2.48%) MySQL
4 7 (2.17%) Tableau
5 6 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.55%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.93%) Metadata
8 3 (0.93%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.62%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.62%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 27 (8.36%) JIRA
2 16 (4.95%) Git
3 9 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.17%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.86%) GitLab
6 4 (1.24%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.24%) Maven
6 4 (1.24%) Selenium
7 3 (0.93%) JMeter
7 3 (0.93%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.62%) Grunt
8 2 (0.62%) gulp
8 2 (0.62%) webpack
9 1 (0.31%) JUnit
9 1 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
General
1 134 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.12%) Finance
3 43 (13.31%) Manufacturing
3 43 (13.31%) Marketing
4 37 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.74%) Retail
6 15 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.10%) Law
7 10 (3.10%) Legal
7 10 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.86%) Electronics
10 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Banking
11 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.93%) Advertising
13 2 (0.62%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.62%) Games
13 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (19.50%) Developer
2 44 (13.62%) Lead
3 35 (10.84%) Development Manager
4 25 (7.74%) Senior
5 23 (7.12%) JIRA Developer
6 20 (6.19%) Analyst
6 20 (6.19%) Product Manager
7 18 (5.57%) Support Engineer
8 17 (5.26%) Consultant
8 17 (5.26%) Product Development Manager
9 16 (4.95%) Software Development Manager
9 16 (4.95%) Software Manager
10 15 (4.64%) IT Manager
10 15 (4.64%) Principal Consultant
10 15 (4.64%) Principal SAP Consultant
10 15 (4.64%) SAP Consultant
10 15 (4.64%) Technical Support
11 13 (4.02%) IT Support
12 12 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (3.72%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.67%) .NET
1 28 (8.67%) React
2 21 (6.50%) CSS
3 16 (4.95%) Node.js
4 12 (3.72%) HTML
5 10 (3.10%) Spring
5 10 (3.10%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.48%) Django
6 8 (2.48%) FastAPI
6 8 (2.48%) Flask
6 8 (2.48%) REST
6 8 (2.48%) RESTful
7 7 (2.17%) GraphQL
7 7 (2.17%) Vue
8 6 (1.86%) ASP.NET
8 6 (1.86%) Redux
8 6 (1.86%) SAP Basis
8 6 (1.86%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (1.86%) SAPUI5
9 5 (1.55%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.91%) FMCG
2 21 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.57%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.64%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.41%) Operational Technology
7 9 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.17%) NHS
9 7 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 5 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.24%) CMDB
12 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (0.93%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.74%) Windows
2 10 (3.10%) Linux
3 9 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) SUSE
4 3 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (34.06%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (25.39%) Agile
3 59 (18.27%) Mentoring
4 49 (15.17%) ITIL
5 47 (14.55%) Software Engineering
6 43 (13.31%) Change Management
6 43 (13.31%) Computer Science
6 43 (13.31%) ITSM
6 43 (13.31%) Project Management
7 42 (13.00%) Decision-Making
8 41 (12.69%) Project Delivery
9 40 (12.38%) Service Management
10 39 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (10.84%) CI/CD
11 35 (10.84%) DevOps
12 33 (10.22%) Incident Management
13 31 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (9.29%) Asset Management
15 27 (8.36%) Full-Stack Development
16 25 (7.74%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.27%) JavaScript
2 38 (11.76%) SQL
3 35 (10.84%) PowerShell
4 32 (9.91%) C#
5 31 (9.60%) Python
6 18 (5.57%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.26%) Java
8 8 (2.48%) Bash
9 4 (1.24%) Delphi
9 4 (1.24%) Groovy
9 4 (1.24%) PHP
9 4 (1.24%) Ruby
10 3 (0.93%) ABAP
10 3 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.62%) Bicep
11 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.62%) R
11 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 78 (24.15%) Degree
2 24 (7.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 12 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.86%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.86%) HNC
6 5 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.55%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.93%) GIAC
8 3 (0.93%) SANS
9 2 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.62%) CISMP
9 2 (0.62%) CISSP
9 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials
1 13 (4.02%) GDPR
1 13 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.41%) NIST
3 11 (3.41%) PMO
4 10 (3.10%) QA
5 7 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.17%) GRC
6 6 (1.86%) IEC 61131
7 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.55%) P3O
7 5 (1.55%) SLA
8 4 (1.24%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.62%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) GMP
11 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 25 (7.74%) Docker
2 8 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (6.50%) Terraform
2 10 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.17%) HP Fortify
5 4 (1.24%) Ansible
6 2 (0.62%) Control-M
7 1 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 47 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.05%) SAP
3 23 (7.12%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.41%) Oracle
5 10 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.86%) Ariba
7 6 (1.86%) Rockwell
7 6 (1.86%) Siemens
7 6 (1.86%) Sophos
8 4 (1.24%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.24%) IBM
8 4 (1.24%) Sage
9 3 (0.93%) Concur
9 3 (0.93%) Google
9 3 (0.93%) Openreach
10 2 (0.62%) Databricks
10 2 (0.62%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.62%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.62%) VMware