Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Darlington

Continual Improvement
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 8 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 30.77% 10.94% 10.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 42.11% 12.07% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £66,701 - £29,919
25th Percentile £67,616 £56,495 £32,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,648 £59,430 £35,190
Median % change year-on-year +23.92% +68.88% -32.97%
75th Percentile £80,197 £62,365 £48,972
90th Percentile £81,423 - £53,500
Durham median annual salary £73,648 £59,430 £35,625
% change year-on-year +23.92% +66.82% -29.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 58 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 73.08% 90.63% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 43
10th Percentile - £35,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £46,713 £33,048
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £64,369 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% +44.65% -9.18%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,650 £56,875
90th Percentile £80,448 £80,000 £69,800
Durham median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.47% +18.75%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Darlington

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) dbt
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) Locust
General
1 6 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (75.00%) Marketing
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Product Manager
2 6 (75.00%) Development Manager
2 6 (75.00%) Product Development Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) FMCG
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Decision-Making
2 6 (75.00%) Chemistry
2 6 (75.00%) Commercialisation
2 6 (75.00%) Community of Practice
2 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (75.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) FinOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform