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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 39 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 -34
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 291 184 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.61% 4.25% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.83% 5.31% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 141 73 114
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,493 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -5.73% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £64,902
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.55% +8.17%

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 2,961 3,467 3,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.63% 80.11% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 1,495 2,437
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,250 £29,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +30 186 £65,000 +18.18% 109
North Yorkshire +5 45 £47,500 -42.42% 14
South Yorkshire +8 27 £37,500 -34.78% 29
East Yorkshire -9 20 £56,250 +25.00% 10
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 6 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
4 2 (0.69%) Drupal
4 2 (0.69%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.69%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.44%) SOLIDWORKS
3 6 (2.06%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.37%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.06%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.06%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.06%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (2.06%) SAP PS
3 4 (1.37%) Sage 200
4 3 (1.03%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.03%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.03%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.69%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.34%) Primavera
6 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 51 (17.53%) Azure
2 44 (15.12%) AWS
3 25 (8.59%) SaaS
4 19 (6.53%) GCP
5 18 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.44%) GitHub
7 7 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.41%) OCI
7 7 (2.41%) Serverless
8 6 (2.06%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.03%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.69%) Figma
10 2 (0.69%) npm
10 2 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.81%) Firewall
2 12 (4.12%) VLAN
3 8 (2.75%) DNS
4 7 (2.41%) BGP
4 7 (2.41%) DHCP
4 7 (2.41%) VPN
4 7 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.06%) Network Security
5 6 (2.06%) OSPF
5 6 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.03%) Broadband
6 3 (1.03%) Internet
6 3 (1.03%) WPA
7 2 (0.69%) AMQP
7 2 (0.69%) LAN
7 2 (0.69%) WAN
8 1 (0.34%) MPLS
8 1 (0.34%) VoIP
8 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.44%) MySQL
2 9 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.72%) Power BI
4 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.37%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (1.03%) Tableau
6 2 (0.69%) Metadata
6 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.69%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 22 (7.56%) JIRA
2 6 (2.06%) Git
2 6 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) Selenium
4 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.69%) Grunt
4 2 (0.69%) gulp
4 2 (0.69%) JMeter
4 2 (0.69%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.69%) webpack
5 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
General
1 106 (36.43%) Finance
2 93 (31.96%) Manufacturing
3 84 (28.87%) Social Skills
4 34 (11.68%) Marketing
5 20 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.15%) Retail
7 11 (3.78%) Law
8 9 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.06%) Legal
10 6 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.72%) Banking
12 4 (1.37%) Electronics
13 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) Automotive
15 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (22.68%) Automation Engineer
1 66 (22.68%) Systems Engineer
2 46 (15.81%) Developer
3 36 (12.37%) Lead
4 20 (6.87%) Development Manager
5 17 (5.84%) Consultant
6 16 (5.50%) JIRA Developer
6 16 (5.50%) Product Manager
7 15 (5.15%) Principal Consultant
7 15 (5.15%) Principal SAP Consultant
7 15 (5.15%) SAP Consultant
7 15 (5.15%) Senior
8 14 (4.81%) Product Development Manager
9 11 (3.78%) IT Manager
9 11 (3.78%) Software Developer
9 11 (3.78%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.44%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.09%) Analyst
11 9 (3.09%) Graduate
11 9 (3.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.53%) CSS
1 19 (6.53%) React
2 18 (6.19%) .NET
3 12 (4.12%) Node.js
4 8 (2.75%) HTML
4 8 (2.75%) RESTful
5 7 (2.41%) ASP.NET
5 7 (2.41%) REST
5 7 (2.41%) SAP Basis
5 7 (2.41%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (2.06%) Redux
6 6 (2.06%) SAPUI5
7 5 (1.72%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.72%) jQuery
7 5 (1.72%) Vue
8 4 (1.37%) Django
8 4 (1.37%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.37%) Flask
8 4 (1.37%) React Native
8 4 (1.37%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 83 (28.52%) FMCG
2 63 (21.65%) Management Information System
3 60 (20.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 60 (20.62%) Operational Technology
4 22 (7.56%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.44%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.37%) NHS
10 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.03%) Replication
12 2 (0.69%) CMDB
12 2 (0.69%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.69%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.87%) Windows
2 9 (3.09%) Linux
2 9 (3.09%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) SUSE
3 3 (1.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (46.39%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (20.96%) Budgeting
3 60 (20.62%) Data Collection
3 60 (20.62%) Energy Management
3 60 (20.62%) Quality Management
4 58 (19.93%) Agile
5 39 (13.40%) Mentoring
6 37 (12.71%) Computer Science
6 37 (12.71%) ITIL
6 37 (12.71%) Project Management
7 34 (11.68%) Project Delivery
8 32 (11.00%) ITSM
8 32 (11.00%) Software Engineering
9 30 (10.31%) Decision-Making
10 29 (9.97%) Change Management
11 28 (9.62%) Service Management
12 25 (8.59%) CI/CD
13 24 (8.25%) DevOps
14 23 (7.90%) Incident Management
15 22 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.40%) JavaScript
2 29 (9.97%) Python
3 28 (9.62%) SQL
4 27 (9.28%) PowerShell
5 22 (7.56%) C#
6 12 (4.12%) Java
6 12 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.06%) PHP
8 5 (1.72%) C++
9 4 (1.37%) Bash
9 4 (1.37%) Delphi
9 4 (1.37%) Ruby
10 3 (1.03%) ABAP
11 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.34%) R
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (20.96%) Degree
2 60 (20.62%) HNC
3 16 (5.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 14 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.37%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.37%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) ACCA
9 2 (0.69%) CIMA
9 2 (0.69%) CIPD
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) MBA
9 2 (0.69%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISA
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.09%) PMO
2 6 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (2.06%) GDPR
2 6 (2.06%) IEC 61131
3 5 (1.72%) GRC
3 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.37%) NIST
4 4 (1.37%) P3O
5 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.03%) QA
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) GMP
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (5.50%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.81%) Terraform
2 11 (3.78%) Ansible
3 8 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.69%) Control-M
4 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Argo
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) QRadar
5 1 (0.34%) SCOM
5 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (20.62%) Rockwell
1 60 (20.62%) Siemens
2 36 (12.37%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.25%) SAP
4 16 (5.50%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.06%) Ariba
6 6 (2.06%) Sophos
7 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.37%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.37%) IBM
8 4 (1.37%) Sage
9 3 (1.03%) Concur
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) Databricks
10 2 (0.69%) Google
10 2 (0.69%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.69%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.69%) Splunk
11 1 (0.34%) Instagram