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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 29 62
Rank change year-on-year +15 +33 -17
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 329 213 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.52% 6.32% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.67% 7.08% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 175 108 101
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £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 £80,625 £64,438 £72,433
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 2,819 3,010 2,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 81.59% 89.32% 92.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,180 2,130
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,812
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.34%
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 25 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 25 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 +20 218 £67,500 +32.36% 135
North Yorkshire +7 50 £47,500 -31.16% 26
South Yorkshire -11 25 £39,000 -33.05% 76
East Yorkshire -23 11 £50,000 +11.11% 31
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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.52%) CMS
3 4 (1.22%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.91%) Moodle
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.61%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) Drupal
5 2 (0.61%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.04%) SOLIDWORKS
3 6 (1.82%) AutoCAD
3 6 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.22%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.61%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.82%) SAP CO
2 6 (1.82%) SAP FI
2 6 (1.82%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (1.82%) SAP PS
3 4 (1.22%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.91%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.91%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.91%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.61%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.30%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 68 (20.67%) AWS
2 58 (17.63%) Azure
3 46 (13.98%) SaaS
4 30 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.26%) GCP
6 14 (4.26%) Serverless
7 9 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.43%) GitHub
9 7 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.13%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.82%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (1.22%) Apigee
12 4 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.74%) Firewall
2 8 (2.43%) Network Security
3 7 (2.13%) DNS
4 6 (1.82%) Broadband
4 6 (1.82%) DHCP
4 6 (1.82%) Internet
4 6 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.52%) VLAN
6 3 (0.91%) WPA
7 2 (0.61%) AMQP
7 2 (0.61%) Intranet
7 2 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) MPLS
8 1 (0.30%) VoIP
8 1 (0.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.86%) Power BI
3 8 (2.43%) MySQL
3 8 (2.43%) Tableau
4 6 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.22%) Metadata
7 3 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.91%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.91%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.61%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.61%) Power Query
8 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (8.21%) JIRA
2 16 (4.86%) Git
3 9 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.82%) GitLab
6 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.22%) Maven
6 4 (1.22%) Selenium
7 3 (0.91%) JMeter
7 3 (0.91%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.61%) Grunt
8 2 (0.61%) gulp
8 2 (0.61%) webpack
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
General
1 136 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.54%) Finance
3 43 (13.07%) Marketing
4 38 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.94%) Manufacturing
6 27 (8.21%) Retail
7 15 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.26%) Legal
9 12 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.04%) Law
10 10 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.13%) Electronics
12 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Banking
13 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.91%) Advertising
14 3 (0.91%) Games
15 2 (0.61%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (19.76%) Developer
2 44 (13.37%) Lead
3 35 (10.64%) Development Manager
4 26 (7.90%) Senior
5 23 (6.99%) JIRA Developer
6 22 (6.69%) Analyst
7 20 (6.08%) Product Manager
8 18 (5.47%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Consultant
9 17 (5.17%) Product Development Manager
10 16 (4.86%) IT Manager
10 16 (4.86%) Software Development Manager
10 16 (4.86%) Software Manager
10 16 (4.86%) Technical Support
11 15 (4.56%) Principal Consultant
11 15 (4.56%) Principal SAP Consultant
11 15 (4.56%) SAP Consultant
12 13 (3.95%) IT Support
12 13 (3.95%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (3.65%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.81%) React
2 27 (8.21%) .NET
3 22 (6.69%) CSS
4 16 (4.86%) Node.js
5 13 (3.95%) HTML
6 11 (3.34%) Spring
7 10 (3.04%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.74%) Django
8 9 (2.74%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.74%) Flask
9 8 (2.43%) GraphQL
9 8 (2.43%) REST
9 8 (2.43%) RESTful
9 8 (2.43%) Vue
10 6 (1.82%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.82%) Redux
10 6 (1.82%) SAP Basis
10 6 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (1.82%) SAPUI5
11 5 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.60%) FMCG
2 20 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.43%) NHS
6 8 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.52%) CMDB
9 5 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.91%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.60%) Windows
2 10 (3.04%) Linux
3 8 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.91%) SUSE
4 3 (0.91%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (26.14%) Agile
3 60 (18.24%) Mentoring
4 50 (15.20%) ITIL
5 47 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 44 (13.37%) Computer Science
6 44 (13.37%) Decision-Making
6 44 (13.37%) ITSM
7 43 (13.07%) Change Management
7 43 (13.07%) Project Management
8 41 (12.46%) Project Delivery
9 40 (12.16%) Service Management
9 40 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (11.55%) CI/CD
11 36 (10.94%) DevOps
12 34 (10.33%) Incident Management
13 33 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (9.12%) Asset Management
15 27 (8.21%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (7.90%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.24%) JavaScript
2 43 (13.07%) SQL
3 35 (10.64%) PowerShell
3 35 (10.64%) Python
4 31 (9.42%) C#
5 19 (5.78%) TypeScript
6 18 (5.47%) Java
7 9 (2.74%) Bash
8 4 (1.22%) Delphi
8 4 (1.22%) Groovy
8 4 (1.22%) PHP
8 4 (1.22%) Ruby
9 3 (0.91%) ABAP
9 3 (0.91%) C++
9 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.61%) Bicep
10 2 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (24.32%) Degree
2 24 (7.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 13 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.52%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.22%) CISSP
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.91%) GIAC
9 3 (0.91%) SANS
10 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CISMP
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.86%) GDPR
2 15 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.34%) NIST
3 11 (3.34%) PMO
4 10 (3.04%) QA
5 8 (2.43%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.13%) GRC
7 6 (1.82%) IEC 61131
7 6 (1.82%) SLA
8 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.52%) P3O
9 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.91%) NCSC
10 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.61%) WCAG
12 1 (0.30%) GMP
System Software
1 27 (8.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (6.69%) Terraform
2 10 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.13%) HP Fortify
5 4 (1.22%) Ansible
6 2 (0.61%) Control-M
7 1 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.90%) SAP
3 23 (6.99%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.34%) Oracle
5 10 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.82%) Ariba
8 5 (1.52%) Sophos
9 4 (1.22%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.22%) Google
9 4 (1.22%) IBM
9 4 (1.22%) Sage
10 3 (0.91%) Concur
10 3 (0.91%) Databricks
10 3 (0.91%) Openreach
10 3 (0.91%) VMware
11 2 (0.61%) Genesys
11 2 (0.61%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.61%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.61%) Verint