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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 27 75
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 -28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 188 128 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 9.00% 8.32% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.16% 8.85% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 70 29 41
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,938 £35,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £76,300 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,750 £64,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -10.47% +21.70% -11.67%

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 1,685 1,446 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 80.62% 94.02% 86.92%
Number of salaries quoted 816 569 1,694
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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
Slough +2 51 £43,000 -36.30% 5
Reading 0 48 £52,500 -16.00% 52
Maidenhead - 29 £49,000 - 1
Windsor -10 22 - - 1
Hungerford - 11 £49,000 -
Bracknell +30 5 £65,000 +85.71% 4
Wokingham - 3 - - 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 4 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 41 (21.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.26%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 6 (3.19%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (3.19%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (3.19%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.06%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.53%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.53%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.94%) Azure DevOps
2 36 (19.15%) Azure
3 22 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (8.51%) AWS
5 9 (4.79%) GCP
5 9 (4.79%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.19%) SaaS
7 3 (1.60%) Benchling
7 3 (1.60%) Boomi
7 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.06%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.53%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.53%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.53%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.53%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.19%) Firewall
2 5 (2.66%) Modbus
2 5 (2.66%) MQTT
3 4 (2.13%) VPN
4 3 (1.60%) DNS
4 3 (1.60%) WAN
4 3 (1.60%) Wireless
5 2 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.06%) LAN
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.53%) VLAN
6 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.79%) Power BI
2 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.06%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) Metadata
3 1 (0.53%) MySQL
3 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (23.40%) JIRA
2 40 (21.28%) eCATT
3 12 (6.38%) NeoLoad
4 6 (3.19%) Git
5 3 (1.60%) Subversion
6 2 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) JUnit
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 105 (55.85%) Finance
2 73 (38.83%) Social Skills
3 69 (36.70%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (29.79%) Manufacturing
5 46 (24.47%) Marketing
6 45 (23.94%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (22.87%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.19%) Retail
9 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Electronics
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Aviation
12 1 (0.53%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (37.77%) Analyst
2 35 (18.62%) Senior
3 32 (17.02%) Lead
4 21 (11.17%) Test Analyst
5 12 (6.38%) Performance Analyst
5 12 (6.38%) Performance Test Analyst
5 12 (6.38%) Testing Analyst
6 11 (5.85%) Report Analyst
7 10 (5.32%) Service Analyst
7 10 (5.32%) Service Desk Analyst
8 9 (4.79%) Applications Support
8 9 (4.79%) Automation Test Analyst
9 8 (4.26%) Support Specialist
10 6 (3.19%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 6 (3.19%) Architect
10 6 (3.19%) Product Owner
10 6 (3.19%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.66%) Applications Support Specialist
11 5 (2.66%) Associate Director
11 5 (2.66%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.72%) EDI
2 4 (2.13%) Middleware
3 2 (1.06%) Node.js
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.06%) React
3 2 (1.06%) REST
4 1 (0.53%) .NET
4 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.53%) Express.js
4 1 (0.53%) Kafka
4 1 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.53%) Mustache
4 1 (0.53%) Next.js
4 1 (0.53%) Qt
4 1 (0.53%) RESTful
4 1 (0.53%) Sequelize
4 1 (0.53%) Spring
4 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.53%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.53%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 29 (15.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.26%) Life Science
4 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.19%) FMCG
6 5 (2.66%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.66%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.66%) IoT
6 5 (2.66%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.66%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.66%) SCADA
7 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) LIMS
8 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.45%) Windows
2 8 (4.26%) Linux
3 4 (2.13%) Android
3 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.49%) ERP
2 74 (39.36%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (23.94%) Change Management
3 45 (23.94%) Risk Management
3 45 (23.94%) Visualisation
4 44 (23.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 43 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (22.34%) Test Management
7 40 (21.28%) Source to Pay
8 36 (19.15%) Analytics
9 33 (17.55%) Use Case
10 32 (17.02%) Project Management
10 32 (17.02%) Roadmaps
11 27 (14.36%) Business Strategy
11 27 (14.36%) Business Transformation
11 27 (14.36%) Digital Enablement
11 27 (14.36%) Matrix Management
11 27 (14.36%) Resource Allocation
11 27 (14.36%) Revenue Management
12 25 (13.30%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.11%) SQL
2 14 (7.45%) Python
3 8 (4.26%) C++
4 6 (3.19%) C
5 5 (2.66%) Rust
6 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.06%) Java
8 1 (0.53%) ABAP
8 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.53%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (10.64%) Degree
2 19 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.98%) ACCA
3 15 (7.98%) CIMA
4 7 (3.72%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.13%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.53%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) CCIE
10 1 (0.53%) CCNA
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.53%) CISSP
10 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.53%) HND
10 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.83%) QA
2 6 (3.19%) PMO
3 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.60%) GDPR
5 3 (1.60%) NCSC
5 3 (1.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
6 1 (0.53%) MISRA
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.26%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.66%) KVM
5 2 (1.06%) Docker
5 2 (1.06%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 40 (21.28%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) Ansible
3 2 (1.06%) SCCM
3 2 (1.06%) SCOM
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (26.06%) SAP
2 41 (21.81%) HP
3 27 (14.36%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.85%) Oracle
5 9 (4.79%) VMware
6 8 (4.26%) JD Edwards
7 7 (3.72%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.13%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.60%) Dell
9 3 (1.60%) IBM
9 3 (1.60%) IFS
9 3 (1.60%) LabVantage
9 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.60%) Workday
10 2 (1.06%) Cisco
10 2 (1.06%) Juniper
10 2 (1.06%) McAfee
11 1 (0.53%) Jitterbit
11 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.53%) Software AG