Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Birmingham

Continual Improvement
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 32 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 103 117 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.89% 6.44% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 6.92% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 63 61 58
10th Percentile £41,630 £43,231 £32,469
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £53,575
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +11.99% -2.59%
75th Percentile £77,906 £70,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £89,500 £93,750 £73,625
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,388 1,691 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.41% 93.07% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 983 782 967
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £91,125 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Birmingham

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.94%) CMS
3 2 (1.94%) Confluence
3 2 (1.94%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.97%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.97%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.97%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.97%) Maximo
3 1 (0.97%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.07%) Azure
2 25 (24.27%) Power Platform
3 18 (17.48%) AWS
4 17 (16.50%) SaaS
5 8 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.85%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.85%) PowerApps
7 5 (4.85%) Serverless
8 4 (3.88%) GCP
9 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.94%) OCI
10 2 (1.94%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.94%) PaaS
10 2 (1.94%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.97%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) WAN
2 3 (2.91%) Firewall
2 3 (2.91%) LAN
2 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.91%) VPN
3 2 (1.94%) Intranet
3 2 (1.94%) VLAN
4 1 (0.97%) DHCP
4 1 (0.97%) DNS
4 1 (0.97%) FTP
4 1 (0.97%) ISDN
4 1 (0.97%) PSTN
4 1 (0.97%) RTP
4 1 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.97%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.97%) VoIP
4 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.97%) Wireless
4 1 (0.97%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.42%) Power BI
2 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.94%) MySQL
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.97%) GIS
4 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.77%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) JUnit
2 2 (1.94%) Maven
2 2 (1.94%) Mockito
3 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.97%) JMeter
3 1 (0.97%) Locust
3 1 (0.97%) Moq
3 1 (0.97%) MSTest
3 1 (0.97%) NSubstitute
3 1 (0.97%) NUnit
3 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 47 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.18%) Finance
3 20 (19.42%) Public Sector
4 15 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (13.59%) Legal
6 12 (11.65%) Retail
7 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (7.77%) Banking
9 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.94%) Law
12 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.94%) Marketing
12 2 (1.94%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.97%) Back Office
13 1 (0.97%) Games
13 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) Lead
2 19 (18.45%) Senior
3 14 (13.59%) Developer
4 10 (9.71%) Analyst
4 10 (9.71%) Service Manager
5 8 (7.77%) Architect
6 7 (6.80%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (6.80%) Lead Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.85%) Head of Support
7 5 (4.85%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.85%) IT Services Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Accountant
8 4 (3.88%) Compliance Analyst
8 4 (3.88%) Consultant
8 4 (3.88%) Designer
8 4 (3.88%) Lead C# Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) .NET
2 8 (7.77%) React
3 4 (3.88%) EDI
4 3 (2.91%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.91%) REST
4 3 (2.91%) Spring
5 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.94%) CSS
5 2 (1.94%) HTML
5 2 (1.94%) Middleware
5 2 (1.94%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (1.94%) RESTful
6 1 (0.97%) Django
6 1 (0.97%) EDIFACT
6 1 (0.97%) JSON
6 1 (0.97%) SOAP
6 1 (0.97%) Web Services
6 1 (0.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
1 7 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.94%) CMDB
5 2 (1.94%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.07%) Agile
2 31 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (24.27%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (24.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (19.42%) Mentoring
6 17 (16.50%) Roadmaps
7 16 (15.53%) ITIL
7 16 (15.53%) Migration
8 15 (14.56%) Collaborative Culture
8 15 (14.56%) Strategic Thinking
9 14 (13.59%) Decision-Making
9 14 (13.59%) Process Improvement
10 13 (12.62%) Analytics
10 13 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (12.62%) User Experience
11 12 (11.65%) CI/CD
11 12 (11.65%) DevOps
11 12 (11.65%) Service Delivery
12 11 (10.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.59%) SQL
2 11 (10.68%) C#
3 9 (8.74%) Python
4 7 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.85%) Java
5 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.94%) VBA
8 1 (0.97%) ABAP
8 1 (0.97%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.97%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (9.71%) Degree
1 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.80%) PMP
4 4 (3.88%) ACCA
4 4 (3.88%) CIMA
4 4 (3.88%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.94%) APMG
6 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.94%) CISM
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
6 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.77%) QA
3 7 (6.80%) SLA
4 5 (4.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.88%) PMO
6 3 (2.91%) GDPR
6 3 (2.91%) NIST
6 3 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.91%) WCAG
7 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.94%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.97%) COBIT
8 1 (0.97%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.91%) Terraform
3 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.71%) Oracle
3 9 (8.74%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.80%) SAP
5 3 (2.91%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.94%) BMC
6 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.94%) Pega
6 2 (1.94%) Remedy
7 1 (0.97%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.97%) Apple
7 1 (0.97%) Aruba
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco
7 1 (0.97%) Dell
7 1 (0.97%) Genesys
7 1 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) HP
7 1 (0.97%) Juniper
7 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.97%) SolarWinds