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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +37
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 253 282 234
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.34% 14.43% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.33% 16.27% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 158 40 47
10th Percentile £37,275 £27,000 £37,628
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,688 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% +12.79%
75th Percentile £71,535 £75,000 £79,718
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,625 £112,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

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 2,448 1,733 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.06% 88.69% 81.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 691 1,041
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,991 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -18.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 18 September 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 18 September 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 96 £60,000 +4.35% 110
Slough -9 19 £43,000 -42.67% 125
Maidenhead 0 15 £80,000 +185.71% 13
Bracknell -7 10 £61,250 -5.77% 26
Wokingham -5 8 £72,500 - 14
Windsor +4 5 £52,500 - 11
Thatcham 0 4 - - 4
Ascot - 2 - - 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 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.79%) Apache
2 2 (0.79%) Confluence
2 2 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
3 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 37 (14.62%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (13.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.16%) AutoCAD
3 8 (3.16%) Revit
4 3 (1.19%) Solid Edge
4 3 (1.19%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.40%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 16 (6.32%) Primavera
2 13 (5.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.25%) Azure
2 21 (8.30%) Power Platform
3 17 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.32%) SaaS
5 14 (5.53%) AWS
6 7 (2.77%) GCP
7 6 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.37%) IaaS
8 4 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.58%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.19%) Serverless
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.79%) PaaS
10 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.93%) Firewall
2 12 (4.74%) DNS
3 5 (1.98%) DHCP
4 4 (1.58%) 5G
4 4 (1.58%) VPN
4 4 (1.58%) WAN
5 3 (1.19%) LAN
5 3 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.79%) HTTP
6 2 (0.79%) Network Security
6 2 (0.79%) SMS
6 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) 3G
7 1 (0.40%) 4G
7 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.40%) RS-485
7 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.40%) VoIP
7 1 (0.40%) Wireless
7 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.30%) Power BI
2 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (3.16%) JIRA
2 3 (1.19%) Git
2 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.79%) GitLab
3 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.40%) JUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (50.59%) Social Skills
2 77 (30.43%) Finance
3 61 (24.11%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.42%) Influencing Skills
5 30 (11.86%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (10.28%) Legal
7 23 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 16 (6.32%) Marketing
9 15 (5.93%) Manufacturing
10 13 (5.14%) Retail
10 13 (5.14%) Telecoms
11 12 (4.74%) Electronics
12 11 (4.35%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.98%) Avionics
13 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.98%) Law
14 4 (1.58%) Automotive
14 4 (1.58%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.02%) Senior
2 34 (13.44%) Analyst
3 29 (11.46%) Lead
4 14 (5.53%) Support Analyst
5 11 (4.35%) QA Leader
6 10 (3.95%) Account Manager
6 10 (3.95%) Auditor
6 10 (3.95%) IT Manager
7 9 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.56%) IT Support
7 9 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (3.16%) CAD Design Engineer
8 8 (3.16%) CAD Engineer
8 8 (3.16%) Design Engineer
9 7 (2.77%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (2.77%) Business Support Analyst
9 7 (2.77%) Security Analyst
9 7 (2.77%) Systems Support
9 7 (2.77%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.77%) Middleware
1 7 (2.77%) Terraform
2 4 (1.58%) Jakarta EE
2 4 (1.58%) LDAP
2 4 (1.58%) REST
2 4 (1.58%) Spring
3 3 (1.19%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.19%) JSON
3 3 (1.19%) JSON Schema
3 3 (1.19%) Loki
3 3 (1.19%) Regular Expression
3 3 (1.19%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.19%) Web Services
3 3 (1.19%) XML
3 3 (1.19%) XMPP
4 2 (0.79%) JPA
4 2 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.79%) React
4 2 (0.79%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.49%) Life Science
2 23 (9.09%) Pharmacovigilance
3 19 (7.51%) Driving Licence
4 14 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.77%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.37%) Analogue Electronics
8 6 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.98%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.58%) PKI
10 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.79%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.28%) Linux
2 12 (4.74%) Windows
3 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (19.76%) Collaborative Working
3 45 (17.79%) Customer Service
4 43 (17.00%) CRM
5 41 (16.21%) CAPA
6 38 (15.02%) Roadmaps
6 38 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (11.86%) Change Management
7 30 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (11.07%) Decision-Making
8 28 (11.07%) ERP
8 28 (11.07%) Process Improvement
9 24 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (9.49%) Resource Allocation
10 22 (8.70%) Customer Experience
11 21 (8.30%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
11 21 (8.30%) DevOps
11 21 (8.30%) Performance Management
12 20 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (7.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.70%) SQL
2 20 (7.91%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.14%) Python
4 7 (2.77%) C
5 5 (1.98%) C++
6 4 (1.58%) Java
6 4 (1.58%) Rust
7 3 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.79%) Bash
8 2 (0.79%) C#
8 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 68 (26.88%) Degree
2 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.35%) ACCA
5 11 (4.35%) CIMA
6 9 (3.56%) HNC
6 9 (3.56%) HND
7 5 (1.98%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.19%) CISSP
9 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.19%) GIAC
9 3 (1.19%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.19%) SANS
10 2 (0.79%) GCIA
10 2 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.58%) QA
2 41 (16.21%) Accessibility
3 38 (15.02%) Good Clinical Practice
4 28 (11.07%) GxP
5 10 (3.95%) SLA
6 8 (3.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 8 (3.16%) GLP
6 8 (3.16%) GMP
7 7 (2.77%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.98%) GDPR
10 4 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (1.19%) PMO
12 2 (0.79%) COBIT
12 2 (0.79%) COSO
12 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.40%) ARP4754
13 1 (0.40%) ARP4761
13 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.40%) MISRA
System Software
1 16 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.37%) vSphere
3 4 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.19%) Docker
4 3 (1.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.79%) KVM
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.98%) Kibana
4 3 (1.19%) Ansible
4 3 (1.19%) Argo
4 3 (1.19%) Grafana
4 3 (1.19%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.19%) SCCM
4 3 (1.19%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.40%) Autotask
Vendors
1 74 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.88%) Oracle
3 14 (5.53%) Sage
4 12 (4.74%) CA Agile Central
5 11 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.95%) VMware
7 8 (3.16%) SAP
8 4 (1.58%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.19%) Adobe
9 3 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.19%) Databricks
9 3 (1.19%) McAfee
9 3 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.19%) Splunk
10 2 (0.79%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.79%) EMC
10 2 (0.79%) IBM
10 2 (0.79%) Remedy
10 2 (0.79%) Workday