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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 24 43
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +2
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 177 134 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.10% 9.30% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.97% 9.87% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 98 23 44
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £42,710
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +28.78% -22.64%
75th Percentile £71,125 £65,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £86,500 £72,450 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year - +15.94% -13.75%

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 1,614 1,357 2,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 73.90% 94.17% 85.84%
Number of salaries quoted 973 503 1,879
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +7 66 £52,500 -4.55% 23
Slough +5 30 £43,000 -33.85% 10
Maidenhead -2 22 £80,000 - 2
Hungerford - 14 £49,000 -
Bracknell +10 7 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Windsor +7 6 - - 2
Wokingham - 4 - - 6
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 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (10.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.26%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.13%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (26.55%) Azure
2 25 (14.12%) AWS
3 24 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (9.60%) GCP
6 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.52%) SaaS
7 3 (1.69%) Benchling
7 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.13%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.13%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.56%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Serverless
9 1 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.95%) Firewall
2 5 (2.82%) Modbus
2 5 (2.82%) MQTT
2 5 (2.82%) VPN
3 4 (2.26%) DNS
4 3 (1.69%) WAN
4 3 (1.69%) Wireless
5 2 (1.13%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.13%) LAN
5 2 (1.13%) VLAN
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.56%) RS-232
6 1 (0.56%) SMTP
6 1 (0.56%) SSL
6 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.52%) Power BI
2 2 (1.13%) MySQL
2 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (11.86%) JIRA
2 18 (10.17%) eCATT
3 9 (5.08%) NeoLoad
4 7 (3.95%) Git
5 3 (1.69%) Subversion
6 2 (1.13%) GitLab
6 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 65 (36.72%) Finance
2 47 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (25.42%) Social Skills
4 31 (17.51%) Manufacturing
5 25 (14.12%) Marketing
6 24 (13.56%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (10.73%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (5.65%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.95%) Retail
11 6 (3.39%) Aerospace
11 6 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.13%) Advertising
13 2 (1.13%) Automotive
13 2 (1.13%) Back Office
13 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.13%) Legal
13 2 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 58 (32.77%) Analyst
2 14 (7.91%) Report Analyst
2 14 (7.91%) Software Engineer
3 13 (7.34%) Lead
4 11 (6.21%) Associate Director
5 9 (5.08%) Applications Support
5 9 (5.08%) Performance Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Performance Test Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Service Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Service Desk Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Test Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Testing Analyst
6 8 (4.52%) Senior
7 7 (3.95%) Financial Analyst
7 7 (3.95%) Logistics Analyst
7 7 (3.95%) Procurement Analyst
8 6 (3.39%) Administrator
8 6 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (3.39%) Implementation Engineer
8 6 (3.39%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.82%) Middleware
2 2 (1.13%) .NET
2 2 (1.13%) CSS
2 2 (1.13%) Node.js
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.13%) React
2 2 (1.13%) REST
3 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.56%) Express.js
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.56%) Mustache
3 1 (0.56%) Next.js
3 1 (0.56%) Qt
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) Sequelize
3 1 (0.56%) Spring
3 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.56%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (0.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Life Science
2 13 (7.34%) Client/Server
3 11 (6.21%) Hackathon
3 11 (6.21%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.82%) IoT
5 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.82%) SCADA
6 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.69%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) LIMS
8 2 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.13%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.30%) Linux
2 14 (7.91%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Android
3 4 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.56%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.56%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (18.64%) ERP
3 32 (18.08%) Agile
4 29 (16.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (14.69%) Computer Science
6 24 (13.56%) Decision-Making
6 24 (13.56%) Validation
7 23 (12.99%) Visualisation
8 22 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (12.43%) Risk Management
9 21 (11.86%) System Testing
10 20 (11.30%) Test Management
11 19 (10.73%) Roadmaps
11 19 (10.73%) Test Automation
12 18 (10.17%) Source to Pay
13 16 (9.04%) Software Engineering
14 15 (8.47%) Use Case
15 14 (7.91%) Biotechnology
15 14 (7.91%) Programme Management
15 14 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.95%) Python
2 19 (10.73%) SQL
3 16 (9.04%) C++
4 14 (7.91%) C
5 13 (7.34%) Rust
6 4 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.13%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) ABAP
8 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) Java
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (19.77%) Degree
2 21 (11.86%) ACCA
2 21 (11.86%) CIMA
3 16 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.21%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.52%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.26%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.56%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CGEIT
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.56%) CRISC
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.86%) QA
2 10 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.95%) PMO
4 5 (2.82%) SLA
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.69%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.69%) NCSC
6 2 (1.13%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) MISRA
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (9.60%) Hyper-V
3 14 (7.91%) KVM
4 7 (3.95%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.13%) Docker
5 2 (1.13%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (10.17%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.26%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Ansible
3 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.13%) SCCM
4 2 (1.13%) SCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 31 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.12%) SAP
3 19 (10.73%) HP
4 18 (10.17%) VMware
5 6 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.26%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.69%) Google
7 3 (1.69%) LabVantage
8 2 (1.13%) Cisco
8 2 (1.13%) Databricks
8 2 (1.13%) IFS
8 2 (1.13%) Juniper
8 2 (1.13%) McAfee
8 2 (1.13%) Oracle
8 2 (1.13%) Remedy
8 2 (1.13%) Workday
9 1 (0.56%) 3PAR
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto