Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Dorset

Continual Improvement
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 20 13 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 4.36% 3.39% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 3.74% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16 5 15
10th Percentile £27,500 £46,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,691 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.75% +20.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £67,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -6.40%

All Process & 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 356 348 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.56% 90.86% 89.89%
Number of salaries quoted 266 183 281
10th Percentile £27,707 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Dorset over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 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
Bournemouth +8 9 £55,000 -27.87% 14
Poole -1 7 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
2 1 (5.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Electronics
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Product Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Products Support Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Support Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Sales Executive
4 3 (15.00%) Senior DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Sales Executive
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Qt
2 2 (10.00%) Laravel
3 1 (5.00%) NumPy
3 1 (5.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Arduino
1 5 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Raspberry Pi
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (25.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Product Strategy
2 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Coaching
3 4 (20.00%) CRM
3 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) AI
4 3 (15.00%) B2B
4 3 (15.00%) B2B Sales
4 3 (15.00%) Business Development
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Generation
4 3 (15.00%) Market Research
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (10.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) PHP
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) New Relic
2 1 (5.00%) TikTok