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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 4 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 +23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 436 432 299
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.04% 19.94% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.23% 20.79% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 286 123 216
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £36,750 £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 £75,188 £74,443 £72,433
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 3,565 2,078 4,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.95% 95.89% 84.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,194 1,184 3,527
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,563 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +1.43% 90
North Yorkshire -4 60 £52,500 -4.55% 13
South Yorkshire -14 51 £55,000 +15.79% 29
East Yorkshire -31 9 £45,000 - 10
Humberside - 7 £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 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.38%) Moodle
4 4 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.46%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (16.97%) AWS
2 73 (16.74%) Azure
3 66 (15.14%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (9.40%) SaaS
5 34 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 31 (7.11%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (3.67%) Serverless
9 15 (3.44%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.06%) GitHub
12 8 (1.83%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.15%) Apigee
16 4 (0.92%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (0.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.96%) Firewall
2 15 (3.44%) DHCP
2 15 (3.44%) DNS
3 13 (2.98%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.52%) Network Security
5 7 (1.61%) Broadband
5 7 (1.61%) Internet
5 7 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.92%) LAN
6 4 (0.92%) VLAN
6 4 (0.92%) WAN
7 3 (0.69%) VoIP
7 3 (0.69%) VPN
8 2 (0.46%) HTTP
8 2 (0.46%) Intranet
8 2 (0.46%) WPA
9 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.11%) Power BI
2 26 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.06%) Power Query
3 9 (2.06%) Tableau
4 7 (1.61%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.92%) Spark SQL
6 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.69%) MySQL
7 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.46%) Metadata
8 2 (0.46%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.23%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 40 (9.17%) JIRA
2 18 (4.13%) Git
3 7 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.61%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.38%) GitLab
5 5 (1.15%) Selenium
6 4 (0.92%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.92%) Maven
7 3 (0.69%) JMeter
7 3 (0.69%) JUnit
7 3 (0.69%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 202 (46.33%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (16.51%) Finance
4 33 (7.57%) Retail
5 32 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.50%) Marketing
7 21 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.44%) Legal
8 15 (3.44%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.06%) Automotive
11 6 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.15%) Advertising
12 5 (1.15%) Electronics
12 5 (1.15%) Law
12 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (14.45%) Developer
2 56 (12.84%) Senior
3 50 (11.47%) Analyst
3 50 (11.47%) Lead
4 32 (7.34%) Development Manager
5 31 (7.11%) IT Support
6 27 (6.19%) Senior Manager
7 23 (5.28%) JIRA Developer
8 21 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (4.82%) Software Engineer
8 21 (4.82%) Software Manager
8 21 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 20 (4.59%) Technical Support
10 19 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (4.13%) Software Development Manager
12 16 (3.67%) Product Manager
13 15 (3.44%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.44%) IT Manager
13 15 (3.44%) Service Manager
14 14 (3.21%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.42%) .NET
2 25 (5.73%) React
3 21 (4.82%) CSS
4 20 (4.59%) HTML
5 15 (3.44%) Vue
6 12 (2.75%) Node.js
7 11 (2.52%) Flask
8 10 (2.29%) Spring
9 9 (2.06%) Django
9 9 (2.06%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.06%) REST
9 9 (2.06%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.83%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (1.61%) PySpark
12 5 (1.15%) Kafka
12 5 (1.15%) Middleware
13 4 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.92%) Gherkin
13 4 (0.92%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.65%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (4.13%) Driving Licence
4 12 (2.75%) e-Learning
5 11 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.52%) NHS
6 10 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.06%) CMDB
7 9 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.06%) FMCG
7 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.61%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.92%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.49%) Windows
2 16 (3.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.61%) Android
4 6 (1.38%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.15%) Linux
6 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (21.10%) Agile
3 82 (18.81%) Mentoring
4 79 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 78 (17.89%) Decision-Making
6 69 (15.83%) ITIL
7 58 (13.30%) Coaching
7 58 (13.30%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (13.07%) Change Management
9 55 (12.61%) Software Engineering
10 51 (11.70%) Service Management
11 50 (11.47%) Incident Management
12 47 (10.78%) DevOps
13 44 (10.09%) ITSM
14 42 (9.63%) Analytics
14 42 (9.63%) Disaster Recovery
15 41 (9.40%) CI/CD
16 39 (8.94%) Incident Response
17 38 (8.72%) Service Delivery
18 36 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (13.53%) JavaScript
2 44 (10.09%) PowerShell
2 44 (10.09%) SQL
3 32 (7.34%) Python
4 27 (6.19%) C#
5 16 (3.67%) Bash
6 14 (3.21%) Java
6 14 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.92%) Groovy
7 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.46%) Bicep
8 2 (0.46%) R
8 2 (0.46%) VBA
9 1 (0.23%) ABAP
9 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (14.45%) Degree
2 26 (5.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 10 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.61%) DBS Check
4 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.38%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.38%) IRCA
5 6 (1.38%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.38%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (0.92%) CISSP
8 3 (0.69%) A+ Certification
8 3 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.69%) GIAC
8 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.69%) SANS
9 2 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.39%) GDPR
2 41 (9.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (7.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 31 (7.11%) NIST
5 30 (6.88%) QA
6 27 (6.19%) Data Quality
7 13 (2.98%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.83%) GMP
8 8 (1.83%) SLA
9 7 (1.61%) PMO
10 6 (1.38%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.38%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.15%) P3O
12 4 (0.92%) GRC
13 3 (0.69%) NCSC
14 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.46%) WCAG
15 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 30 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.82%) Docker
3 11 (2.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (5.28%) Terraform
2 13 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.61%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.38%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.46%) Control-M
6 2 (0.46%) SCCM
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.28%) Atlassian
3 18 (4.13%) Oracle
4 16 (3.67%) VMware
5 13 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.52%) SAP
7 8 (1.83%) Citrix
7 8 (1.83%) Google
7 8 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.61%) Apple
8 7 (1.61%) Databricks
8 7 (1.61%) Freshdesk
9 5 (1.15%) IFS
9 5 (1.15%) Workday
10 4 (0.92%) Adobe
10 4 (0.92%) Hotjar
11 3 (0.69%) IBM
11 3 (0.69%) Openreach
12 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.46%) Planon