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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 +37
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 471 440 329
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.63% 17.68% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.93% 18.77% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 352 113 249
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,250 £32,900
25th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,908 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £97,000 £93,778 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,100 £59,756 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.58% +3.92% -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 4,309 2,344 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.82% 94.21% 82.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 1,295 3,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,625 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -7 243 £60,000 -2.63% 74
South Yorkshire -13 74 £47,500 +3.83% 42
North Yorkshire -6 68 £47,500 -19.15% 11
East Yorkshire -17 25 £35,000 -22.22% 6
Humberside - 9 £24,500 - 4
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 25 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.49%) Moodle
4 3 (0.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 34 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.64%) iTrent
2 3 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (16.56%) Azure
2 77 (16.35%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (14.44%) AWS
4 46 (9.77%) Entra ID
5 44 (9.34%) SaaS
6 41 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 23 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (4.03%) Power Automate
9 12 (2.55%) Serverless
10 11 (2.34%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.27%) GitHub
13 6 (1.27%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.27%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.22%) Firewall
2 19 (4.03%) DHCP
2 19 (4.03%) DNS
3 16 (3.40%) Network Security
3 16 (3.40%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.49%) LAN
4 7 (1.49%) VPN
4 7 (1.49%) WAN
4 7 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.06%) VLAN
6 3 (0.64%) Broadband
6 3 (0.64%) Internet
6 3 (0.64%) VoIP
7 2 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.42%) HTTP
7 2 (0.42%) Intranet
7 2 (0.42%) Wireless
8 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.07%) Power BI
2 27 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.91%) Power Query
4 8 (1.70%) MySQL
5 7 (1.49%) PowerPivot
5 7 (1.49%) Tableau
6 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.85%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.64%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.42%) Metadata
9 2 (0.42%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.42%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (4.25%) JIRA
2 17 (3.61%) Git
3 9 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.27%) GitLab
5 5 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.85%) Maven
7 3 (0.64%) JUnit
7 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 2 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) JMeter
9 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 207 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 95 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (17.62%) Finance
4 41 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.22%) Retail
6 25 (5.31%) Marketing
7 22 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (4.46%) Law
8 21 (4.46%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (3.82%) Legal
10 8 (1.70%) Automotive
11 6 (1.27%) Advertising
12 5 (1.06%) Electronics
13 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.85%) Local Government
14 3 (0.64%) Aviation
14 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (12.10%) Analyst
2 56 (11.89%) Senior
3 51 (10.83%) Lead
4 40 (8.49%) Developer
5 32 (6.79%) Support Engineer
6 31 (6.58%) Senior Manager
7 30 (6.37%) Development Manager
8 29 (6.16%) IT Support
9 25 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (5.10%) Product Manager
11 22 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.67%) Technical Support
12 21 (4.46%) Data Analyst
12 21 (4.46%) Software Manager
13 16 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.40%) Software Development Manager
14 14 (2.97%) .NET Development Manager
14 14 (2.97%) Security Engineer
14 14 (2.97%) Technical Engineer
14 14 (2.97%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.58%) .NET
2 17 (3.61%) CSS
3 16 (3.40%) HTML
3 16 (3.40%) React
4 12 (2.55%) Vue
5 10 (2.12%) Node.js
5 10 (2.12%) Spring
6 9 (1.91%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.70%) REST
8 6 (1.27%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.27%) PySpark
9 5 (1.06%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.85%) Flask
10 4 (0.85%) Gherkin
10 4 (0.85%) Jest
10 4 (0.85%) Middleware
11 3 (0.64%) Kafka
11 3 (0.64%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.64%) OpenID
11 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 22 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.82%) Driving Licence
4 16 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.18%) e-Learning
6 11 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.91%) FMCG
7 9 (1.91%) NHS
8 8 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.70%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.49%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.49%) CMDB
9 7 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.06%) Replication
12 4 (0.85%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.98%) Windows
2 18 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 15 (3.18%) Windows 10
4 10 (2.12%) Linux
5 7 (1.49%) Android
5 7 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (19.53%) Agile
3 87 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 81 (17.20%) Decision-Making
5 79 (16.77%) Mentoring
6 73 (15.50%) Coaching
7 59 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (12.31%) ITIL
9 53 (11.25%) Software Engineering
10 50 (10.62%) Analytics
10 50 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 47 (9.98%) User Experience
12 46 (9.77%) Disaster Recovery
13 44 (9.34%) Incident Response
14 42 (8.92%) DevOps
14 42 (8.92%) Roadmaps
15 39 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (8.28%) Product Vision
16 38 (8.07%) Service Delivery
17 37 (7.86%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.46%) SQL
2 34 (7.22%) Python
3 31 (6.58%) C#
4 30 (6.37%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.10%) PowerShell
6 16 (3.40%) Bash
7 14 (2.97%) Java
8 13 (2.76%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.85%) Groovy
11 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.42%) PHP
12 2 (0.42%) VBA
13 1 (0.21%) Bicep
13 1 (0.21%) R
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (11.04%) Degree
2 19 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.97%) DBS Check
3 14 (2.97%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.70%) CISSP
6 6 (1.27%) IRCA
6 6 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.85%) CCSP
8 4 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.64%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.64%) CISM
9 3 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.04%) GDPR
2 41 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (7.86%) Data Quality
4 35 (7.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 33 (7.01%) QA
6 29 (6.16%) NIST
7 14 (2.97%) Accessibility
8 12 (2.55%) SLA
9 8 (1.70%) GMP
10 6 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.27%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.27%) NCSC
11 5 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.85%) P3O
13 3 (0.64%) WCAG
14 2 (0.42%) GRC
14 2 (0.42%) PMO
15 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.21%) ISO 19650
15 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (9.13%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.40%) Docker
3 9 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.18%) Terraform
3 6 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.06%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.42%) Ansible
6 2 (0.42%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 130 (27.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.82%) Oracle
3 14 (2.97%) VMware
4 11 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.91%) SAP
5 9 (1.91%) Workday
6 8 (1.70%) Citrix
6 8 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.49%) Apple
7 7 (1.49%) Freshdesk
8 6 (1.27%) Databricks
8 6 (1.27%) Google
9 5 (1.06%) IFS
10 4 (0.85%) Adobe
10 4 (0.85%) Cisco
10 4 (0.85%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.85%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.85%) Juniper
11 3 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.64%) IBM