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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 4 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 +38
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 443 441 327
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.59% 19.87% 6.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.83% 20.95% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 300 125 237
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £52,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -11.85% +8.28%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £97,750 £93,778 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 3,745 2,105 4,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.65% 94.86% 84.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,377 1,234 3,633
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,348
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +1 258 £62,500 +2.89% 90
North Yorkshire -4 60 £52,500 +13.51% 13
South Yorkshire -14 54 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East Yorkshire -28 10 £40,000 -11.11% 10
Humberside - 8 £24,500 - 6
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 13 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.58%) Moodle
4 3 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.45%) CMS
5 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.45%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (17.61%) AWS
2 75 (16.93%) Azure
3 66 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (9.26%) SaaS
5 35 (7.90%) Entra ID
6 31 (7.00%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (4.29%) Serverless
9 16 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 12 (2.71%) GitHub
11 10 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.81%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.58%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.13%) Apigee
14 5 (1.13%) GCP
15 4 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.87%) Firewall
2 15 (3.39%) DHCP
2 15 (3.39%) DNS
3 13 (2.93%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.48%) Network Security
5 7 (1.58%) Broadband
5 7 (1.58%) Internet
5 7 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.90%) LAN
6 4 (0.90%) VLAN
6 4 (0.90%) WAN
7 3 (0.68%) VoIP
7 3 (0.68%) VPN
8 2 (0.45%) HTTP
8 2 (0.45%) Intranet
9 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.23%) WLAN
9 1 (0.23%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.00%) Power BI
2 24 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.03%) Power Query
3 9 (2.03%) Tableau
4 7 (1.58%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.13%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.68%) MySQL
7 3 (0.68%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.45%) Metadata
8 2 (0.45%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (6.09%) JIRA
2 18 (4.06%) Git
3 9 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.35%) GitLab
4 6 (1.35%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.90%) Maven
5 4 (0.90%) Selenium
6 3 (0.68%) JUnit
7 2 (0.45%) JMeter
7 2 (0.45%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 194 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (17.61%) Finance
4 36 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.90%) Retail
6 24 (5.42%) Marketing
7 22 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.61%) Legal
9 16 (3.61%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.03%) Automotive
11 6 (1.35%) Law
11 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.13%) Advertising
12 5 (1.13%) Electronics
12 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (13.09%) Senior
2 54 (12.19%) Developer
3 52 (11.74%) Lead
4 51 (11.51%) Analyst
5 30 (6.77%) Development Manager
5 30 (6.77%) IT Support
6 29 (6.55%) Senior Manager
7 24 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (5.19%) Support Engineer
9 22 (4.97%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.97%) Technical Support
10 20 (4.51%) Software Manager
11 19 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (4.06%) Product Manager
13 17 (3.84%) Software Development Manager
14 16 (3.61%) Data Analyst
15 15 (3.39%) Security Engineer
15 15 (3.39%) Technical Engineer
16 14 (3.16%) Service Manager
16 14 (3.16%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.55%) .NET
2 26 (5.87%) React
3 22 (4.97%) CSS
4 21 (4.74%) HTML
5 17 (3.84%) Vue
6 12 (2.71%) Flask
6 12 (2.71%) Spring
7 11 (2.48%) Node.js
7 11 (2.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.03%) Django
8 9 (2.03%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.03%) REST
9 7 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (1.58%) PySpark
10 6 (1.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.35%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.13%) Middleware
12 4 (0.90%) Gherkin
12 4 (0.90%) Jest
12 4 (0.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.55%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (4.06%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.16%) e-Learning
4 14 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.48%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.48%) NHS
6 9 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.03%) CMDB
6 9 (2.03%) FMCG
6 9 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.90%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.90%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.58%) Windows
2 16 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.58%) Android
3 7 (1.58%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.13%) Linux
6 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (22.57%) Agile
3 81 (18.28%) Decision-Making
4 80 (18.06%) Mentoring
5 79 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (13.32%) Coaching
7 58 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (12.64%) ITIL
9 53 (11.96%) Software Engineering
10 47 (10.61%) DevOps
11 45 (10.16%) CI/CD
12 43 (9.71%) Analytics
13 42 (9.48%) Change Management
13 42 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
14 40 (9.03%) Incident Response
15 37 (8.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (8.35%) User Experience
16 36 (8.13%) Incident Management
16 36 (8.13%) Service Delivery
16 36 (8.13%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.61%) SQL
2 46 (10.38%) JavaScript
3 35 (7.90%) Python
4 32 (7.22%) PowerShell
5 28 (6.32%) C#
6 16 (3.61%) Bash
6 16 (3.61%) Java
7 13 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.90%) Groovy
8 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.45%) Bicep
10 2 (0.45%) R
10 2 (0.45%) VBA
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (11.29%) Degree
2 16 (3.61%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 11 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.81%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.35%) IRCA
7 6 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.13%) CISSP
8 5 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.68%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.68%) GIAC
9 3 (0.68%) SANS
10 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.45%) CISMP
10 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.96%) GDPR
2 40 (9.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (7.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 31 (7.00%) Data Quality
5 30 (6.77%) NIST
5 30 (6.77%) QA
6 14 (3.16%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.81%) GMP
8 7 (1.58%) PMO
8 7 (1.58%) SLA
9 6 (1.35%) ISO 9001
10 5 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.13%) GRC
10 5 (1.13%) P3O
10 5 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.68%) NCSC
12 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.45%) WCAG
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 31 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.42%) Docker
3 11 (2.48%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (6.09%) Terraform
2 14 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.35%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.45%) Ansible
6 2 (0.45%) Kibana
6 2 (0.45%) SCCM
7 1 (0.23%) Control-M
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (26.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.29%) Oracle
3 16 (3.61%) VMware
4 13 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.71%) SAP
6 10 (2.26%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.81%) Citrix
8 8 (1.81%) Google
9 7 (1.58%) Apple
9 7 (1.58%) Databricks
9 7 (1.58%) Freshdesk
10 6 (1.35%) Workday
11 5 (1.13%) IFS
12 4 (0.90%) Adobe
12 4 (0.90%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.90%) IBM
13 3 (0.68%) Openreach
14 2 (0.45%) AppDynamics
14 2 (0.45%) Planon