Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Berkshire

Continual Improvement
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 70
Rank change year-on-year +5 +50 -28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 200 179 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 9.93% 10.14% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.00% 11.02% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 52 40 39
10th Percentile £27,550 £32,500 £41,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £56,250 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +7.04% -10.55%
75th Percentile £72,188 £70,625 £78,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,250
South East median annual salary £59,435 £63,500 £61,653
% change year-on-year -6.40% +3.00% +2.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,666 1,625 1,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.68% 92.07% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 767 746 1,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,938 £31,925
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,840 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,125 £88,075
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,760
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.96% -2.25%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Berkshire

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Slough +7 60 £70,000 +3.70% 146
Maidenhead - 45 £27,750 - 3
Windsor -4 38 - - 2
Reading -11 32 £56,000 -10.40% 51
Bracknell +35 5 £65,000 +85.71% 6
Hungerford - 3 £49,000 -
Wokingham - 3 - - 1
Continuous Improvement
South East

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 41 (20.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 6 (3.00%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (3.00%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (3.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.00%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.00%) GCP
2 46 (23.00%) Azure
3 41 (20.50%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (17.00%) AWS
5 16 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.00%) Azure AI
7 6 (3.00%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.00%) SaaS
9 3 (1.50%) Boomi
10 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.50%) Benchling
11 1 (0.50%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.50%) iPaaS
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.50%) OCI
11 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.50%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) Firewall
2 4 (2.00%) Modbus
2 4 (2.00%) MQTT
3 3 (1.50%) VPN
3 3 (1.50%) Wireless
4 2 (1.00%) LAN
4 2 (1.00%) WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.50%) DNS
5 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 19 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.50%) Power BI
4 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.00%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.50%) DTS
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (21.50%) JIRA
2 40 (20.00%) eCATT
3 12 (6.00%) NeoLoad
4 5 (2.50%) Git
5 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.50%) GitLab
6 1 (0.50%) JUnit
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 93 (46.50%) Finance
2 86 (43.00%) Marketing
3 59 (29.50%) Social Skills
4 56 (28.00%) Manufacturing
5 54 (27.00%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (25.00%) Law
7 43 (21.50%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (21.50%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.50%) Legal
9 5 (2.50%) Retail
10 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.00%) Back Office
12 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Electronics
13 1 (0.50%) Billing
13 1 (0.50%) Humanities
13 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (29.00%) Analyst
2 56 (28.00%) Senior
3 45 (22.50%) Architect
4 37 (18.50%) Lead
5 21 (10.50%) Test Analyst
6 20 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.00%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.00%) Platform Architect
7 19 (9.50%) Data Architect
7 19 (9.50%) Senior Architect
7 19 (9.50%) Senior Data Architect
8 12 (6.00%) Performance Analyst
8 12 (6.00%) Performance Test Analyst
8 12 (6.00%) Testing Analyst
9 11 (5.50%) Service Analyst
9 11 (5.50%) Service Desk Analyst
10 9 (4.50%) Automation Test Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Support Specialist
12 7 (3.50%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
13 6 (3.00%) Product Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.50%) EDI
2 2 (1.00%) Node.js
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.00%) React
2 2 (1.00%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) CSS
3 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.50%) Express.js
3 1 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.50%) Middleware
3 1 (0.50%) Mustache
3 1 (0.50%) Next.js
3 1 (0.50%) RESTful
3 1 (0.50%) Sequelize
3 1 (0.50%) SOAP
3 1 (0.50%) Spring
3 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (0.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 29 (14.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (11.50%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.00%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.00%) FMCG
6 4 (2.00%) IoT
6 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 4 (2.00%) SCADA
7 3 (1.50%) Life Science
8 2 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.00%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Windows
2 4 (2.00%) Android
2 4 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.00%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.00%) ERP
2 72 (36.00%) Roadmaps
3 58 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (26.50%) Analytics
5 50 (25.00%) Data Science
6 49 (24.50%) Change Management
7 48 (24.00%) Risk Management
7 48 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (23.50%) Visualisation
9 45 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (21.00%) Mentoring
10 42 (21.00%) Strategic Roadmap
10 42 (21.00%) Test Management
11 40 (20.00%) Architectural Design
11 40 (20.00%) Source to Pay
12 38 (19.00%) Use Case
13 35 (17.50%) Project Management
14 31 (15.50%) AI
15 30 (15.00%) Machine Learning
16 28 (14.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.00%) Python
2 22 (11.00%) Java
3 20 (10.00%) Go
4 14 (7.00%) SQL
5 3 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.00%) C++
6 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (7.50%) Degree
2 12 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.50%) ACCA
4 3 (1.50%) CIMA
4 3 (1.50%) CISSP
4 3 (1.50%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.50%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.50%) PMP
4 3 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.00%) CGEIT
5 2 (1.00%) CRISC
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.50%) CISM
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.50%) QA
3 5 (2.50%) GDPR
3 5 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.50%) GRC
5 2 (1.00%) NCSC
5 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 2 (1.00%) PMO
5 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.00%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.50%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (20.00%) HP ALM
2 22 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 49 (24.50%) SAP
2 40 (20.00%) HP
3 30 (15.00%) Google
4 21 (10.50%) Microsoft
5 11 (5.50%) Oracle
6 9 (4.50%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.00%) JD Edwards
8 6 (3.00%) Foundry
9 4 (2.00%) ConnectWise
10 3 (1.50%) Dell
10 3 (1.50%) IBM
10 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.50%) VMware
10 3 (1.50%) Workday
11 2 (1.00%) Cisco
11 2 (1.00%) IFS
12 1 (0.50%) Jitterbit
12 1 (0.50%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.50%) SnapLogic