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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +27
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 235 283 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.40% 15.42% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.60% 17.46% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 148 40 43
10th Percentile £36,750 £27,000 £39,380
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,063 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -1.30% +9.42%
75th Percentile £71,535 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £82,625 £112,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year +7.48% -8.15% -2.92%

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 2,217 1,621 2,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 69.83% 88.34% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 690 1,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,563 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% +5.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +26 92 £60,000 +12.15% 71
Slough -6 21 £43,000 -42.67% 9
Maidenhead -5 14 £80,000 +185.71% 4
Bracknell -5 13 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Wokingham -6 6 £72,500 - 6
Windsor -1 4 £52,500 - 9
Thatcham -2 4 - - 2
Hungerford - 2 £49,000 - 2
Ascot - 2 - -
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 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Apache
2 2 (0.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) JBoss
3 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 31 (13.19%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (11.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.70%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.70%) Revit
4 3 (1.28%) Solid Edge
4 3 (1.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.43%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.43%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 16 (6.81%) Primavera
2 10 (4.26%) NetSuite
3 6 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.32%) Azure
2 17 (7.23%) AWS
3 14 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.53%) GCP
5 12 (5.11%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.83%) SaaS
7 7 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.70%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.70%) IaaS
8 4 (1.70%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.28%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.85%) Google Ads
10 2 (0.85%) Meta Ads
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.38%) Firewall
2 12 (5.11%) DNS
3 5 (2.13%) VPN
4 4 (1.70%) DHCP
4 4 (1.70%) WAN
5 3 (1.28%) HTTP
5 3 (1.28%) LAN
5 3 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) Network Security
7 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.43%) RS-232
7 1 (0.43%) RS-485
7 1 (0.43%) SMTP
7 1 (0.43%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
7 1 (0.43%) VoIP
7 1 (0.43%) Wireless
7 1 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.11%) Power BI
2 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Git
2 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.85%) GitLab
3 2 (0.85%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.43%) JUnit
General
1 109 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 63 (26.81%) Finance
3 57 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.19%) Influencing Skills
5 30 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (8.94%) Legal
7 18 (7.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 16 (6.81%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.53%) Aerospace
10 11 (4.68%) Retail
11 9 (3.83%) Telecoms
12 8 (3.40%) Electronics
12 8 (3.40%) Marketing
13 5 (2.13%) Automotive
13 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.28%) Law
14 3 (1.28%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.85%) Advertising
15 2 (0.85%) Avionics
15 2 (0.85%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 33 (14.04%) Lead
2 29 (12.34%) Analyst
2 29 (12.34%) Senior
3 12 (5.11%) Applications Support
3 12 (5.11%) Software Engineer
4 11 (4.68%) QA Leader
5 10 (4.26%) Account Manager
5 10 (4.26%) Auditor
5 10 (4.26%) Support Analyst
6 8 (3.40%) Applications Support Analyst
6 8 (3.40%) IT Manager
6 8 (3.40%) IT Support
6 8 (3.40%) Team Leader
7 7 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (2.98%) Consultant
7 7 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.55%) Associate Director
8 6 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (2.55%) Security Analyst
8 6 (2.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.40%) Middleware
2 4 (1.70%) Jakarta EE
2 4 (1.70%) REST
2 4 (1.70%) Spring
3 3 (1.28%) .NET
3 3 (1.28%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.28%) JSON
3 3 (1.28%) JSON Schema
3 3 (1.28%) LDAP
3 3 (1.28%) Loki
3 3 (1.28%) Regular Expression
3 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.28%) Web Services
3 3 (1.28%) XML
3 3 (1.28%) XMPP
4 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.85%) JMS
4 2 (0.85%) React
4 2 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.21%) Life Science
2 18 (7.66%) Pharmacovigilance
3 12 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 10 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.40%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.98%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.98%) Hackathon
7 7 (2.98%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.70%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.70%) PKI
9 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.28%) Analogue Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) ARM Cortex
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.34%) Linux
2 9 (3.83%) Windows
3 5 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
3 36 (15.32%) CAPA
4 30 (12.77%) Customer Service
5 26 (11.06%) CRM
6 25 (10.64%) Change Management
7 24 (10.21%) Roadmaps
7 24 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (9.36%) ERP
9 21 (8.94%) Validation
10 20 (8.51%) Agile
10 20 (8.51%) DevOps
11 19 (8.09%) Decision-Making
11 19 (8.09%) Project Delivery
11 19 (8.09%) Service Delivery
12 18 (7.66%) Performance Management
12 18 (7.66%) Process Improvement
12 18 (7.66%) Resource Allocation
13 17 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.94%) Python
2 20 (8.51%) SQL
3 14 (5.96%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.68%) C
5 10 (4.26%) C++
6 8 (3.40%) Rust
7 4 (1.70%) Java
8 3 (1.28%) C#
8 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.85%) Bash
9 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 64 (27.23%) Degree
2 28 (11.91%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.96%) ACCA
4 14 (5.96%) CIMA
5 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.70%) HNC
9 4 (1.70%) HND
10 3 (1.28%) GIAC
10 3 (1.28%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.85%) CISA
11 2 (0.85%) CISSP
11 2 (0.85%) GCIA
11 2 (0.85%) GCIH
11 2 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.15%) QA
2 41 (17.45%) Accessibility
3 33 (14.04%) Good Clinical Practice
4 23 (9.79%) GxP
5 8 (3.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 8 (3.40%) GLP
5 8 (3.40%) GMP
6 7 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.98%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.98%) SLA
7 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.70%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.70%) GDPR
8 4 (1.70%) PMO
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.85%) COBIT
10 2 (0.85%) COSO
10 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.43%) ARP4754
11 1 (0.43%) GAAP
System Software
1 13 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.83%) Hyper-V
3 9 (3.83%) KVM
4 5 (2.13%) vSphere
5 3 (1.28%) Docker
6 2 (0.85%) Firmware
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.40%) Terraform
3 5 (2.13%) Kibana
4 4 (1.70%) Ansible
5 3 (1.28%) Argo
5 3 (1.28%) Grafana
5 3 (1.28%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.85%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.85%) SCCM
6 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.43%) Autotask
7 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 65 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.36%) Oracle
3 16 (6.81%) VMware
4 7 (2.98%) SAP
5 6 (2.55%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.55%) Sage
6 4 (1.70%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.70%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.70%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.28%) Databricks
7 3 (1.28%) McAfee
7 3 (1.28%) Remedy
7 3 (1.28%) Splunk
8 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.85%) Google
8 2 (0.85%) IBM
8 2 (0.85%) Veeam
9 1 (0.43%) Carbon Black