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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +10
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 179 141 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.36% 9.57% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.23% 10.32% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 111 19 45
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,900 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £42,920
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +28.15% -21.96%
75th Percentile £70,375 £65,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £66,050 £104,500
South East median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +3.48% +12.75% -15.00%

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 1,750 1,366 2,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.99% 92.74% 85.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 503 1,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £54,995
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.10% -4.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 76 £50,963 -6.06% 22
Slough +4 31 £43,000 -21.82% 13
Maidenhead -11 16 £80,000 - 1
Hungerford - 14 £49,000 -
Bracknell +8 9 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Wokingham - 1 - - 3
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 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.93%) Azure
2 28 (15.64%) AWS
3 25 (13.97%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.50%) GCP
5 10 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.47%) SaaS
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.23%) Serverless
9 3 (1.68%) Benchling
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.12%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.12%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Firewall
2 5 (2.79%) DNS
2 5 (2.79%) Modbus
2 5 (2.79%) MQTT
2 5 (2.79%) VPN
3 3 (1.68%) WAN
3 3 (1.68%) Wireless
4 2 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.12%) LAN
4 2 (1.12%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.56%) RS-232
5 1 (0.56%) SMTP
5 1 (0.56%) SSL
5 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) Power BI
2 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (5.59%) Git
2 5 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.68%) GitLab
3 3 (1.68%) Subversion
4 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) JUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 56 (31.28%) Finance
2 53 (29.61%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (29.05%) Social Skills
4 14 (7.82%) Manufacturing
4 14 (7.82%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.15%) Retail
5 11 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Marketing
7 6 (3.35%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.68%) Legal
9 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.12%) Advertising
10 2 (1.12%) Automotive
10 2 (1.12%) Back Office
10 2 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 44 (24.58%) Analyst
2 15 (8.38%) Lead
3 14 (7.82%) Report Analyst
3 14 (7.82%) Software Engineer
4 12 (6.70%) Applications Support
5 11 (6.15%) Associate Director
6 9 (5.03%) Financial Analyst
6 9 (5.03%) Service Analyst
6 9 (5.03%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) Logistics Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) Procurement Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) Senior
8 7 (3.91%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (3.91%) Developer
8 7 (3.91%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.35%) Administrator
9 6 (3.35%) Consultant
9 6 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.35%) Implementation Engineer
9 6 (3.35%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.03%) Middleware
2 5 (2.79%) REST
3 4 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.23%) React
3 4 (2.23%) Spring
3 4 (2.23%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.68%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.68%) Node.js
4 3 (1.68%) RESTful
4 3 (1.68%) Web Services
5 2 (1.12%) .NET
5 2 (1.12%) CSS
5 2 (1.12%) Java EE
5 2 (1.12%) JMS
5 2 (1.12%) JPA
5 2 (1.12%) Mustache
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.12%) SOAP
6 1 (0.56%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
1 17 (9.50%) Life Science
2 13 (7.26%) Client/Server
3 11 (6.15%) Hackathon
3 11 (6.15%) Low-Code
4 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.35%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.35%) SCADA
6 5 (2.79%) IoT
7 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.68%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.68%) LIMS
8 3 (1.68%) Pharmacovigilance
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.73%) Linux
2 14 (7.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Android
3 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.56%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.56%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.40%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (18.44%) Agile
3 26 (14.53%) Decision-Making
4 25 (13.97%) Computer Science
5 24 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (13.41%) Validation
6 21 (11.73%) System Testing
7 19 (10.61%) Project Delivery
7 19 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (10.06%) DevOps
9 17 (9.50%) Change Management
9 17 (9.50%) Software Engineering
9 17 (9.50%) Test Automation
10 16 (8.94%) Service Management
11 15 (8.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 15 (8.38%) Code Quality
11 15 (8.38%) ERP
11 15 (8.38%) Use Case
12 14 (7.82%) CI/CD
12 14 (7.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.32%) Python
2 26 (14.53%) SQL
3 16 (8.94%) C++
4 14 (7.82%) C
5 13 (7.26%) Rust
6 4 (2.23%) Java
6 4 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.12%) C#
7 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
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%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (22.35%) Degree
2 23 (12.85%) ACCA
2 23 (12.85%) CIMA
3 18 (10.06%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 9 (5.03%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.56%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) CCNA
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) QA
2 12 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.59%) Data Quality
4 9 (5.03%) PMO
5 6 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.79%) SLA
7 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.68%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.68%) Good Clinical Practice
7 3 (1.68%) GxP
7 3 (1.68%) NCSC
8 1 (0.56%) GDPR
8 1 (0.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 18 (10.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (9.50%) Hyper-V
3 14 (7.82%) KVM
4 7 (3.91%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.79%) Docker
6 2 (1.12%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.35%) Ansible
2 6 (3.35%) Terraform
3 2 (1.12%) Kibana
3 2 (1.12%) SCCM
3 2 (1.12%) SCOM
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 38 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.06%) VMware
3 7 (3.91%) MuleSoft
3 7 (3.91%) SAP
4 4 (2.23%) Databricks
4 4 (2.23%) Oracle
5 3 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.68%) LabVantage
5 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco
6 2 (1.12%) Google
6 2 (1.12%) IBM
6 2 (1.12%) IFS
6 2 (1.12%) Juniper
6 2 (1.12%) McAfee
6 2 (1.12%) Remedy
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) BMC
7 1 (0.56%) HP