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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 22 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +26
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 563 281 189
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.48% 8.40% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.10% 9.59% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 407 125 82
10th Percentile £31,050 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,772 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -6.07%

All Process & 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 5,070 2,930 3,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.40% 87.59% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,763 1,390 1,596
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 12 October 2026.

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 12 October 2026. 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 -2 238 £53,076 -15.08% 178
South Yorkshire +18 142 £45,000 +28.57% 49
North Yorkshire +15 79 £45,000 -5.26% 29
East Yorkshire +5 42 £42,500 -24.44% 11
Humberside - 2 £42,500 - 3
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 55 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.53%) nginx
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) CICS
5 2 (0.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.24%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.24%) Revit
4 4 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.53%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.36%) Trello
7 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.53%) iTrent
4 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (13.32%) Azure
3 61 (10.83%) Power Platform
4 50 (8.88%) AWS
5 33 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (5.15%) Entra ID
6 29 (5.15%) Power Automate
6 29 (5.15%) PowerApps
7 27 (4.80%) SaaS
8 26 (4.62%) OneDrive
9 14 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.13%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.95%) Serverless
13 10 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.80%) Firewall
2 19 (3.37%) DNS
3 16 (2.84%) DHCP
4 15 (2.66%) Network Security
5 9 (1.60%) VPN
5 9 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.42%) LAN
6 8 (1.42%) WAN
6 8 (1.42%) Wireless
7 6 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.89%) Internet
8 5 (0.89%) VoIP
9 4 (0.71%) ATM
9 4 (0.71%) CTI
10 3 (0.53%) Broadband
10 3 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.53%) VLAN
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.24%) Power BI
2 19 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.13%) MySQL
4 8 (1.42%) Electronic Patient Records
5 7 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.07%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.71%) Power Query
9 3 (0.53%) Big Data
9 3 (0.53%) Metadata
9 3 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.36%) GIS
10 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.84%) JIRA
2 10 (1.78%) Git
2 10 (1.78%) GitLab
3 4 (0.71%) Selenium
4 3 (0.53%) Appium
4 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.36%) JMeter
5 2 (0.36%) MLflow
5 2 (0.36%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 215 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (17.94%) Finance
4 94 (16.70%) Manufacturing
5 66 (11.72%) Public Sector
6 51 (9.06%) Law
7 43 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (3.91%) Marketing
10 21 (3.73%) Electronics
10 21 (3.73%) Legal
11 19 (3.37%) Retail
12 15 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.49%) Advertising
14 13 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.24%) Banking
16 6 (1.07%) Back Office
17 5 (0.89%) Automotive
17 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 74 (13.14%) Senior
2 60 (10.66%) Analyst
3 41 (7.28%) Lead
4 30 (5.33%) Consultant
5 29 (5.15%) IT Support
6 26 (4.62%) Developer
7 24 (4.26%) Support Analyst
8 22 (3.91%) Applications Support
9 21 (3.73%) IT Manager
10 19 (3.37%) Service Manager
11 18 (3.20%) Support Engineer
12 15 (2.66%) Administrator
12 15 (2.66%) Compliance Manager
12 15 (2.66%) Quality Manager
13 14 (2.49%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (2.31%) Operations Manager
14 13 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.31%) Software Engineer
14 13 (2.31%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.44%) Terraform
2 19 (3.37%) .NET
3 10 (1.78%) CSS
3 10 (1.78%) HTML
4 8 (1.42%) Kafka
4 8 (1.42%) Node.js
5 7 (1.24%) React
6 6 (1.07%) RESTful
7 5 (0.89%) REST
7 5 (0.89%) Vue
8 4 (0.71%) Playwright
8 4 (0.71%) PySpark
9 3 (0.53%) Next.js
9 3 (0.53%) Spring
10 2 (0.36%) ADO
10 2 (0.36%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.36%) CSS3
10 2 (0.36%) HTML5
10 2 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.39%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.37%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.20%) SCADA
4 15 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.66%) Robotics
5 14 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.13%) Replication
7 12 (2.13%) SystemC
8 11 (1.95%) Operational Technology
9 10 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.78%) NHS
10 9 (1.60%) FMCG
11 8 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.42%) CCTV
12 7 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.48%) Windows
2 31 (5.51%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.44%) Linux
4 10 (1.78%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.60%) Android
6 7 (1.24%) Unix
7 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.89%) macOS
9 2 (0.36%) zOS
10 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (38.90%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (17.94%) Agile
3 84 (14.92%) ITIL
4 81 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (12.79%) Coaching
5 72 (12.79%) Decision-Making
6 68 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (11.72%) Mentoring
7 66 (11.72%) Process Improvement
8 65 (11.55%) AI
9 63 (11.19%) Service Management
10 55 (9.77%) Customer Service
11 53 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (9.41%) CI/CD
12 49 (8.70%) ERP
12 49 (8.70%) Project Delivery
13 47 (8.35%) Analytics
14 46 (8.17%) Roadmaps
15 44 (7.82%) DevOps
15 44 (7.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 78 (13.85%) SQL
2 42 (7.46%) Python
3 24 (4.26%) C#
4 16 (2.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.49%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.95%) Shell Script
7 10 (1.78%) Bash
7 10 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.60%) Java
9 5 (0.89%) PHP
10 4 (0.71%) Bicep
10 4 (0.71%) COBOL
10 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.53%) ABAP
11 3 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.36%) Groovy
12 2 (0.36%) JCL
12 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.18%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 58 (10.30%) Degree
2 26 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.20%) NVQ Level 3
5 13 (2.31%) City & Guilds
5 13 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 12 (2.13%) HNC
7 11 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.60%) HND
9 5 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.89%) CISSP
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.71%) CCSP
10 4 (0.71%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.71%) PMP
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.57%) QA
2 21 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.31%) SLA
6 9 (1.60%) ISO 19650
7 8 (1.42%) GDPR
8 7 (1.24%) PMO
9 6 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.07%) ISO 9001
9 6 (1.07%) WCAG
10 5 (0.89%) GRC
10 5 (0.89%) NIST
11 3 (0.53%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.36%) IEC 61131
12 2 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.36%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.18%) AQAP
13 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 35 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.95%) Docker
3 10 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.71%) Ansible
4 3 (0.53%) Grafana
4 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.36%) Proxmox
5 2 (0.36%) SCCM
5 2 (0.36%) SCOM
5 2 (0.36%) WSUS
6 1 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 146 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.37%) SAP
3 17 (3.02%) Cisco
4 16 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.49%) Oracle
5 14 (2.49%) Siemens
6 11 (1.95%) NEC
7 8 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.42%) SonicWALL
7 8 (1.42%) VMware
8 7 (1.24%) Allen-Bradley
8 7 (1.24%) Autodesk
8 7 (1.24%) Databricks
9 6 (1.07%) Meraki
9 6 (1.07%) Sage
10 5 (0.89%) iManage
11 4 (0.71%) Avaya
11 4 (0.71%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.71%) VocaLink