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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 5 32
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +35
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 501 459 331
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.48% 16.59% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.13% 17.91% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 397 101 238
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +1.24% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,640 £80,000 £71,725
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +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 4,502 2,563 5,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.18% 92.63% 79.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,168 1,271 3,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -5 235 £55,000 -23.60% 78
South Yorkshire +3 109 £46,000 -1.08% 44
North Yorkshire -4 68 £47,500 +5.56% 23
East Yorkshire -15 25 £35,000 -39.66% 3
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 45 (8.98%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.20%) Confluence
4 4 (0.80%) Moodle
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) CICS
Applications
1 42 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.20%) Revit
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) iTrent
1 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (20.76%) Microsoft 365
2 89 (17.76%) Azure
3 58 (11.58%) AWS
4 54 (10.78%) Power Platform
5 52 (10.38%) Entra ID
6 30 (5.99%) SaaS
7 29 (5.79%) Power Automate
8 24 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (3.99%) PowerApps
10 19 (3.79%) OneDrive
11 17 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.00%) Serverless
14 9 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 9 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 7 (1.40%) GitHub
15 7 (1.40%) Google Workspace
15 7 (1.40%) Mimecast
16 6 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.98%) Firewall
2 22 (4.39%) DHCP
2 22 (4.39%) DNS
3 17 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.79%) Network Security
5 10 (2.00%) VPN
6 9 (1.80%) LAN
6 9 (1.80%) WAN
7 8 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.40%) VLAN
9 5 (1.00%) Internet
9 5 (1.00%) Wireless
10 3 (0.60%) Broadband
10 3 (0.60%) HTTP
10 3 (0.60%) VoIP
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.18%) Power BI
2 17 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.80%) MySQL
3 9 (1.80%) Power Query
4 7 (1.40%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.80%) Tableau
7 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.60%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.40%) Metadata
8 2 (0.40%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (4.79%) JIRA
2 15 (2.99%) Git
3 5 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.60%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Postman
5 2 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
General
1 214 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 101 (20.16%) Finance
3 99 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.78%) Manufacturing
6 29 (5.79%) Law
7 27 (5.39%) Retail
8 26 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (4.39%) Marketing
11 18 (3.59%) Legal
12 8 (1.60%) Automotive
13 7 (1.40%) Advertising
13 7 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.80%) Local Government
16 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 75 (14.97%) Analyst
2 58 (11.58%) Senior
3 48 (9.58%) Lead
4 39 (7.78%) IT Support
5 35 (6.99%) Developer
6 29 (5.79%) Software Engineer
6 29 (5.79%) Support Engineer
7 28 (5.59%) Senior Manager
8 24 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (4.79%) Product Manager
9 23 (4.59%) Support Analyst
10 22 (4.39%) Data Analyst
11 19 (3.79%) Service Manager
12 17 (3.39%) Applications Support
12 17 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) .NET Software Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) Development Manager
13 16 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.39%) .NET
2 19 (3.79%) CSS
3 18 (3.59%) HTML
4 16 (3.19%) React
4 16 (3.19%) Vue
5 10 (2.00%) Node.js
6 6 (1.20%) PySpark
6 6 (1.20%) REST
6 6 (1.20%) RESTful
7 5 (1.00%) Spring
8 4 (0.80%) Flask
8 4 (0.80%) GraphQL
8 4 (0.80%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.60%) LangChain
9 3 (0.60%) LangGraph
9 3 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.60%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.60%) OpenID
9 3 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.99%) Management Information System
2 22 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
2 22 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.39%) Driving Licence
4 13 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.40%) e-Learning
5 12 (2.40%) Operational Technology
6 8 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.20%) FMCG
7 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 6 (1.20%) NHS
7 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.00%) CMDB
8 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.00%) Replication
8 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 60 (11.98%) Windows
2 25 (4.99%) Windows Server
3 18 (3.59%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.80%) Linux
5 8 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.40%) Android
6 7 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (28.54%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (16.77%) Decision-Making
4 83 (16.57%) Agile
4 83 (16.57%) Mentoring
5 79 (15.77%) Coaching
6 75 (14.97%) ITIL
7 64 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 59 (11.78%) Cybersecurity
9 58 (11.58%) Analytics
10 54 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
11 52 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
12 51 (10.18%) Software Engineering
13 49 (9.78%) User Experience
14 48 (9.58%) Business Continuity
14 48 (9.58%) Incident Response
15 47 (9.38%) Service Delivery
16 45 (8.98%) ERP
16 45 (8.98%) Roadmaps
16 45 (8.98%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (13.57%) SQL
2 36 (7.19%) Python
3 29 (5.79%) C#
4 23 (4.59%) PowerShell
5 18 (3.59%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.59%) Bash
7 12 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.20%) Java
9 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.60%) ABAP
11 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.60%) PHP
11 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) CLIST
13 1 (0.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 54 (10.78%) Degree
2 22 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.79%) DBS Check
6 9 (1.80%) CISSP
7 7 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.20%) IRCA
9 5 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.80%) CCSP
10 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.60%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.60%) CISM
11 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (8.98%) GDPR
3 38 (7.58%) Data Quality
4 37 (7.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (6.79%) QA
6 27 (5.39%) NIST
7 12 (2.40%) SLA
8 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.80%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.60%) GMP
11 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.00%) NCSC
12 4 (0.80%) P3O
12 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.60%) PMO
14 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.20%) AQAP
14 1 (0.20%) GRC
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 51 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.20%) Docker
3 9 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.39%) Terraform
3 5 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.40%) Ansible
5 2 (0.40%) Kibana
5 2 (0.40%) SCCM
6 1 (0.20%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 167 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.19%) VMware
3 14 (2.79%) Oracle
4 12 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.00%) SAP
6 9 (1.80%) Cisco
6 9 (1.80%) Workday
7 8 (1.60%) Citrix
8 7 (1.40%) Apple
8 7 (1.40%) Freshdesk
8 7 (1.40%) Google
8 7 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.20%) Databricks
10 5 (1.00%) IFS
10 5 (1.00%) Meraki
11 4 (0.80%) Adobe
11 4 (0.80%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.80%) iManage
11 4 (0.80%) Juniper
11 4 (0.80%) Siemens