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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 32 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 +47 -28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 200 95 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 9.58% 7.02% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.34% 7.40% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 84 26 38
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £37,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £58,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +38.24% -29.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,188 £67,938
90th Percentile £78,375 £71,375 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.14% +20.48% -12.50%

All Process & 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 1,621 1,284 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 77.63% 94.90% 86.39%
Number of salaries quoted 860 520 1,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £46,188 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 3 March 2026.

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 3 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
Reading +12 58 £56,000 -10.40% 59
Slough +9 46 £43,000 -36.30% 34
Maidenhead - 28 £70,000 - 2
Windsor -6 20 - - 1
Hungerford - 14 £49,000 -
Bracknell +21 7 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Wokingham - 3 - - 7
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%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 41 (20.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.50%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.00%) Azure DevOps
2 42 (21.00%) Azure
3 23 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (10.50%) AWS
5 13 (6.50%) GCP
6 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.50%) SaaS
8 3 (1.50%) Benchling
8 3 (1.50%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.00%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.50%) Boomi
10 1 (0.50%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.50%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.50%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) Firewall
2 5 (2.50%) Modbus
2 5 (2.50%) MQTT
2 5 (2.50%) VPN
3 4 (2.00%) DNS
4 3 (1.50%) WAN
4 3 (1.50%) Wireless
5 2 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.00%) LAN
5 2 (1.00%) VLAN
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.50%) RS-232
6 1 (0.50%) SMTP
6 1 (0.50%) SSL
6 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.50%) Power BI
2 2 (1.00%) MySQL
2 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 44 (22.00%) JIRA
2 40 (20.00%) eCATT
3 12 (6.00%) NeoLoad
4 7 (3.50%) Git
5 3 (1.50%) Subversion
6 2 (1.00%) GitLab
6 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 100 (50.00%) Finance
2 68 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (32.50%) Social Skills
4 52 (26.00%) Manufacturing
5 46 (23.00%) Influencing Skills
6 45 (22.50%) Marketing
7 41 (20.50%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.50%) Retail
10 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.00%) Legal
12 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.00%) Automotive
13 2 (1.00%) Back Office
13 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.00%) Law
14 1 (0.50%) Billing
14 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (39.00%) Analyst
2 30 (15.00%) Senior
3 29 (14.50%) Lead
4 21 (10.50%) Test Analyst
5 14 (7.00%) Report Analyst
6 12 (6.00%) Performance Analyst
6 12 (6.00%) Performance Test Analyst
6 12 (6.00%) Testing Analyst
7 10 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) Automation Test Analyst
8 9 (4.50%) Service Analyst
8 9 (4.50%) Service Desk Analyst
9 8 (4.00%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.50%) Associate Director
11 6 (3.00%) Implementation Engineer
11 6 (3.00%) Product Owner
12 5 (2.50%) Architect
12 5 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.50%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.50%) Procurement Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.50%) Middleware
2 4 (2.00%) EDI
3 2 (1.00%) .NET
3 2 (1.00%) CSS
3 2 (1.00%) Node.js
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.00%) React
3 2 (1.00%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.50%) Express.js
4 1 (0.50%) Kafka
4 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.50%) Mustache
4 1 (0.50%) Next.js
4 1 (0.50%) Qt
4 1 (0.50%) RESTful
4 1 (0.50%) Sequelize
4 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (11.00%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.00%) Life Science
4 9 (4.50%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.50%) Hackathon
5 7 (3.50%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.50%) IoT
6 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.50%) SCADA
7 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.50%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.50%) FMCG
8 3 (1.50%) LIMS
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Linux
2 14 (7.00%) Windows
3 4 (2.00%) Android
3 4 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.50%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.50%) ERP
1 73 (36.50%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (22.50%) Visualisation
3 44 (22.00%) Risk Management
4 42 (21.00%) Test Management
5 40 (20.00%) Source to Pay
5 40 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 37 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (16.50%) Change Management
8 32 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 31 (15.50%) Use Case
10 30 (15.00%) Analytics
11 28 (14.00%) Agile
12 26 (13.00%) Project Management
13 25 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 23 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (11.50%) Decision-Making
15 22 (11.00%) Business Strategy
16 21 (10.50%) Digital Enablement
16 21 (10.50%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.50%) Python
2 20 (10.00%) SQL
3 12 (6.00%) C++
4 10 (5.00%) C
5 9 (4.50%) Rust
6 4 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.00%) C#
7 2 (1.00%) Java
8 1 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.50%) Bash
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (13.00%) Degree
2 19 (9.50%) ACCA
2 19 (9.50%) CIMA
3 17 (8.50%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.50%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.50%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CGEIT
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.50%) CRISC
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.50%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.00%) PMO
4 5 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.50%) SLA
5 3 (1.50%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.50%) GRC
6 1 (0.50%) MISRA
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (6.50%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.00%) KVM
4 7 (3.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.00%) Docker
5 2 (1.00%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (20.00%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.00%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) Ansible
3 3 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.00%) SCCM
4 2 (1.00%) SCOM
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 49 (24.50%) SAP
2 41 (20.50%) HP
3 30 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.00%) VMware
5 6 (3.00%) Oracle
5 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.50%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.50%) IFS
7 3 (1.50%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.50%) LabVantage
7 3 (1.50%) Workday
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco
8 2 (1.00%) Juniper
8 2 (1.00%) McAfee
8 2 (1.00%) Remedy
8 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.50%) BMC
9 1 (0.50%) Epicor
9 1 (0.50%) Informatica