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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 32
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 201 242 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.30% 14.66% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.23% 16.14% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 116 32 54
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,125 £27,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,625 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +24.32% -15.91%
75th Percentile £71,535 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £81,750 £112,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.48% +1.90% -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 1,965 1,499 2,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.38% 90.79% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 578 1,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,880
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,325 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -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 25 June 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 25 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
Reading +23 87 £60,000 +12.15% 28
Slough -3 23 £43,000 -42.67% 5
Maidenhead -1 14 £80,000 - 8
Hungerford - 11 £49,000 -
Bracknell -9 8 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Wokingham -9 2 £60,000 - 5
Windsor +7 1 £52,500 - 8
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 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 24 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (11.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Primavera
2 7 (3.48%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.89%) Azure
2 25 (12.44%) AWS
3 20 (9.95%) GCP
4 14 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.98%) SaaS
6 9 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.48%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.49%) Serverless
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.00%) Benchling
9 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.00%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.00%) Meta Ads
9 2 (1.00%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.50%) IaaS
10 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.97%) Firewall
2 10 (4.98%) DNS
3 7 (3.48%) VPN
4 4 (1.99%) WAN
5 3 (1.49%) HTTP
5 3 (1.49%) LAN
5 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.00%) DHCP
6 2 (1.00%) Network Security
6 2 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.00%) VLAN
6 2 (1.00%) Wireless
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.50%) Modbus
7 1 (0.50%) MQTT
7 1 (0.50%) RS-232
7 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.50%) VoIP
7 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.48%) Power BI
2 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) GitLab
2 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) Subversion
4 1 (0.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 75 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 65 (32.34%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (29.85%) Finance
4 21 (10.45%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (7.46%) Legal
5 15 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 12 (5.97%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.98%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.98%) Retail
9 7 (3.48%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.99%) Marketing
13 2 (1.00%) Advertising
13 2 (1.00%) Automotive
13 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.00%) Law
13 2 (1.00%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (20.40%) Analyst
2 26 (12.94%) Lead
3 20 (9.95%) Senior
4 16 (7.96%) Software Engineer
5 13 (6.47%) Applications Support
6 11 (5.47%) Report Analyst
7 10 (4.98%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (4.98%) Support Analyst
8 9 (4.48%) Associate Director
8 9 (4.48%) Team Leader
9 8 (3.98%) Applications Support Analyst
9 8 (3.98%) Auditor
9 8 (3.98%) Logistics Analyst
9 8 (3.98%) Procurement Analyst
10 7 (3.48%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.99%) Consultant
11 6 (2.99%) QA Leader
12 5 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) Python Software Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.47%) Middleware
2 4 (1.99%) REST
2 4 (1.99%) Spring
3 3 (1.49%) .NET
3 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.49%) Java EE
3 3 (1.49%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.49%) Web Services
4 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.00%) JMS
4 2 (1.00%) JSON
4 2 (1.00%) JSON Schema
4 2 (1.00%) LDAP
4 2 (1.00%) Loki
4 2 (1.00%) React
4 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.00%) SOAP
4 2 (1.00%) XML
4 2 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Life Science
2 18 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.97%) Client/Server
4 13 (6.47%) Pharmacovigilance
5 12 (5.97%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.98%) Hackathon
6 10 (4.98%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.49%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.49%) PKI
11 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.00%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.43%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Windows
3 5 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.50%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (32.34%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (12.44%) Agile
2 25 (12.44%) CAPA
2 25 (12.44%) Change Management
2 25 (12.44%) Computer Science
3 22 (10.95%) Collaborative Working
3 22 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (10.45%) Decision-Making
5 20 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
5 20 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (9.95%) Line Management
6 19 (9.45%) Project Delivery
6 19 (9.45%) Roadmaps
6 19 (9.45%) Validation
7 18 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (8.96%) DevOps
7 18 (8.96%) ERP
7 18 (8.96%) Service Delivery
7 18 (8.96%) Software Engineering
8 16 (7.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.42%) Python
2 21 (10.45%) SQL
3 15 (7.46%) C
3 15 (7.46%) C++
4 14 (6.97%) Rust
5 9 (4.48%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.99%) Java
7 3 (1.49%) C#
8 2 (1.00%) Bash
8 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.50%) ABAP
9 1 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 61 (30.35%) Degree
2 24 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.45%) ACCA
3 21 (10.45%) CIMA
4 15 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.48%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) GIAC
10 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.00%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.00%) GCIA
10 2 (1.00%) GCIH
10 2 (1.00%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.00%) SANS
11 1 (0.50%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.50%) CISSP
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.41%) QA
2 33 (16.42%) Accessibility
3 23 (11.44%) Good Clinical Practice
4 15 (7.46%) GxP
5 8 (3.98%) PMO
6 7 (3.48%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.99%) GLP
8 4 (1.99%) GMP
8 4 (1.99%) SLA
9 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.49%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.50%) COBIT
10 1 (0.50%) COSO
10 1 (0.50%) GDPR
10 1 (0.50%) MISRA
10 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (7.96%) Hyper-V
1 16 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.46%) KVM
3 7 (3.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.49%) Docker
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.00%) vSphere
6 1 (0.50%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.99%) Terraform
3 5 (2.49%) Kibana
4 4 (1.99%) Ansible
5 2 (1.00%) Argo
5 2 (1.00%) Grafana
5 2 (1.00%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Autotask
6 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.96%) VMware
3 12 (5.97%) Oracle
4 8 (3.98%) SAP
5 7 (3.48%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.49%) Databricks
7 3 (1.49%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.49%) McAfee
7 3 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.49%) Sage
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.00%) BMC
8 2 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.00%) Google
8 2 (1.00%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) LabVantage
8 2 (1.00%) Remedy