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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 66
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 -23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 209 184 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 10.39% 9.99% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.41% 11.01% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 53 43 39
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £44,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,006 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.66% -13.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £78,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,250
South East median annual salary £58,250 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and 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 1,684 1,671 1,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.70% 90.72% 90.29%
Number of salaries quoted 760 787 1,138
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,000 £32,263
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -7.56%
75th Percentile £69,840 £80,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 +5 62 £70,000 +3.70% 58
Maidenhead - 48 £27,750 - 4
Windsor -1 41 - - 2
Reading -10 32 £56,000 -10.40% 28
Bracknell +34 5 £65,000 +57.58% 8
Hungerford - 3 £49,000 - 1
Wokingham - 3 - - 1
Thatcham -3 1 £51,000 +56.92%
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 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 41 (19.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.83%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 6 (2.87%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (2.87%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (2.87%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.96%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.84%) GCP
2 50 (23.92%) Azure
3 41 (19.62%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (19.14%) AWS
5 15 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.74%) Azure AI
6 12 (5.74%) Vertex AI
7 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.91%) SaaS
9 3 (1.44%) Boomi
10 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.48%) iPaaS
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Serverless
11 1 (0.48%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) Firewall
2 3 (1.44%) Modbus
2 3 (1.44%) MQTT
2 3 (1.44%) VPN
2 3 (1.44%) Wireless
3 2 (0.96%) LAN
3 2 (0.96%) WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.57%) BigQuery
2 19 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.87%) Power BI
4 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.96%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.48%) DTS
5 1 (0.48%) Metadata
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (20.57%) JIRA
2 40 (19.14%) eCATT
3 12 (5.74%) NeoLoad
4 5 (2.39%) Git
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 94 (44.98%) Finance
2 86 (41.15%) Marketing
3 59 (28.23%) Law
3 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
4 57 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (26.79%) Manufacturing
6 43 (20.57%) Influencing Skills
6 43 (20.57%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (7.18%) Legal
8 8 (3.83%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.96%) Back Office
11 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Electronics
12 1 (0.48%) Advertising
12 1 (0.48%) Humanities
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (28.23%) Senior
2 57 (27.27%) Analyst
3 45 (21.53%) Architect
4 41 (19.62%) Lead
5 21 (10.05%) Test Analyst
6 20 (9.57%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (9.57%) GCP Architect
6 20 (9.57%) Platform Architect
7 19 (9.09%) Data Architect
7 19 (9.09%) Senior Architect
7 19 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
8 12 (5.74%) Performance Analyst
8 12 (5.74%) Performance Test Analyst
8 12 (5.74%) Product Delivery Manager
8 12 (5.74%) Product Manager
8 12 (5.74%) Testing Analyst
9 10 (4.78%) Service Analyst
9 10 (4.78%) Service Desk Analyst
10 9 (4.31%) Automation Test Analyst
11 8 (3.83%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.35%) EDI
2 2 (0.96%) Node.js
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.96%) React
2 2 (0.96%) REST
3 1 (0.48%) CSS
3 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.48%) Express.js
3 1 (0.48%) Kafka
3 1 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.48%) Middleware
3 1 (0.48%) Mustache
3 1 (0.48%) Next.js
3 1 (0.48%) RESTful
3 1 (0.48%) Sequelize
3 1 (0.48%) SOAP
3 1 (0.48%) Spring
3 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.48%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (0.48%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Data Centre
2 29 (13.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (11.00%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.74%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.87%) FMCG
7 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.39%) SCADA
8 3 (1.44%) IoT
8 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 2 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.96%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.96%) Life Science
9 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.31%) Windows
2 4 (1.91%) Android
2 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.96%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (37.32%) ERP
2 77 (36.84%) Roadmaps
3 60 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (28.23%) Data Science
5 56 (26.79%) Change Management
6 55 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (25.36%) Analytics
8 49 (23.44%) Risk Management
8 49 (23.44%) Visualisation
9 47 (22.49%) Use Case
10 46 (22.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (20.10%) Mentoring
11 42 (20.10%) Strategic Roadmap
11 42 (20.10%) Test Management
12 40 (19.14%) AI
12 40 (19.14%) Architectural Design
12 40 (19.14%) Source to Pay
13 39 (18.66%) Machine Learning
14 37 (17.70%) Generative AI
14 37 (17.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.48%) Python
2 22 (10.53%) Java
3 20 (9.57%) Go
4 13 (6.22%) SQL
5 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.96%) C++
6 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (8.61%) Degree
2 12 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.83%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.91%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.91%) PMP
5 4 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (1.44%) ACCA
6 3 (1.44%) CIMA
6 3 (1.44%) CISSP
6 3 (1.44%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.96%) CGEIT
7 2 (0.96%) CRISC
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.48%) APMP
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.05%) QA
3 5 (2.39%) GDPR
3 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.44%) GRC
5 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 2 (0.96%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) PMO
5 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.96%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (19.14%) HP ALM
2 22 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.96%) Ansible
3 2 (0.96%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) SCCM
4 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 49 (23.44%) SAP
2 40 (19.14%) HP
3 39 (18.66%) Google
4 23 (11.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (5.74%) Foundry
6 11 (5.26%) Oracle
7 9 (4.31%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.83%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.91%) ConnectWise
10 3 (1.44%) Dell
10 3 (1.44%) IBM
10 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.44%) VMware
10 3 (1.44%) Workday
11 2 (0.96%) Cisco
11 2 (0.96%) IFS
12 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.48%) Jitterbit
12 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.48%) SnapLogic