Continuous Improvement Jobs in Dorset

Continual Improvement
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 38 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 25 67 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 5.88% 5.44% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 6.39% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 11
10th Percentile - - £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £60,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +57.14% -33.04%
75th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £65,000 £67,500
South West median annual salary £54,641 £52,396 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.29% -0.20% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 1,049 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 93.41% 85.15% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 152 595 329
10th Percentile £28,800 £30,000 £31,850
25th Percentile £37,188 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,950 £66,250 £76,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Dorset.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Dorset over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Dorchester - 3 £50,000 - 1
Poole +7 2 - - 3
Bournemouth +7 2 £67,500 +11.57% 19
Sherborne - 2 - -
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Simulink
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (4.00%) GCP
2 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) IPsec
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) PBX
3 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VPLS
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) CockroachDB
3 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (56.00%) Finance
3 7 (28.00%) Marketing
4 6 (24.00%) Aerospace
4 6 (24.00%) Electronics
4 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (24.00%) Law
5 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (20.00%) Legal
6 4 (16.00%) Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Junior
1 6 (24.00%) Junior Systems Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Resource Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Systems Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Engagement Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Support Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Strategic Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) HTML5
3 1 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Project Management
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Analytics
3 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (28.00%) Mathematics
3 7 (28.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (24.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Physics
4 6 (24.00%) PLM
4 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) SysML
4 6 (24.00%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) UML
5 5 (20.00%) Community of Practice
5 5 (20.00%) Data Management
5 5 (20.00%) Operational Stability
5 5 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) MATLAB
2 4 (16.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) PHP
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.00%) FFIEC
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) HP
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow