Continuous Improvement Job Trends in the East of England

Continual Improvement
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 39 52
Rank change year-on-year +20 +13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 355 231 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 5.70% 7.73% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.20% 8.36% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 226 134 158
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £31,109
25th Percentile £45,853 £28,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £43,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -20.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £78,500 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,463 £87,500 £79,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,328 2,764 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.50% 92.50% 77.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,961 1,387 3,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,150 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,533 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Cambridgeshire +4 110 £60,100 +84.92% 32
Hertfordshire +3 94 £71,250 +9.62% 43
Bedfordshire +19 42 £51,359 -2.17% 26
Suffolk +16 39 £50,000 +66.67% 14
Essex -12 36 £60,000 +108.70% 25
Norfolk -6 33 £55,000 +1.85% 29
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 23 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.13%) Apache
4 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.13%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) IIS
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 2 (0.56%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.41%) Fusion 360
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.28%) CATIA
6 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.56%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
3 2 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (16.62%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (16.06%) Azure
3 52 (14.65%) AWS
4 37 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 37 (10.42%) SaaS
5 31 (8.73%) Power Platform
6 15 (4.23%) Power Automate
7 14 (3.94%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.10%) OneDrive
9 9 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.97%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.69%) Serverless
13 5 (1.41%) GCP
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.13%) OpenShift
15 3 (0.85%) Asana
15 3 (0.85%) GitHub
16 2 (0.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.61%) Firewall
2 12 (3.38%) VPN
3 10 (2.82%) DNS
4 9 (2.54%) LAN
4 9 (2.54%) WAN
5 8 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.69%) DHCP
6 6 (1.69%) Internet
7 5 (1.41%) SMS
7 5 (1.41%) Wireless
8 4 (1.13%) Broadband
8 4 (1.13%) Network Security
8 4 (1.13%) WLAN
9 3 (0.85%) VLAN
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.56%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.56%) IPv6
10 2 (0.56%) Modbus
10 2 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.28%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.63%) Power BI
2 8 (2.25%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.41%) Tableau
5 4 (1.13%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.13%) Impala
5 4 (1.13%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.13%) Parquet
5 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.13%) Spark SQL
6 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.38%) JIRA
2 9 (2.54%) Git
3 4 (1.13%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.85%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.56%) Ranorex
5 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.28%) git-flow
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) Qt Creator
6 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 134 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.46%) Finance
3 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.61%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (7.04%) Marketing
6 22 (6.20%) Legal
7 21 (5.92%) Manufacturing
8 18 (5.07%) Retail
9 16 (4.51%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.66%) Public Sector
12 11 (3.10%) Back Office
13 10 (2.82%) Front Office
13 10 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (2.25%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.25%) Automotive
15 8 (2.25%) Law
16 6 (1.69%) Banking
17 5 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (13.80%) Lead
2 43 (12.11%) Senior
3 29 (8.17%) IT Support
3 29 (8.17%) Service Manager
4 23 (6.48%) IT Manager
5 22 (6.20%) Developer
6 20 (5.63%) Analyst
7 19 (5.35%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.07%) IT Engineer
9 17 (4.79%) Senior Manager
10 16 (4.51%) Administrator
11 15 (4.23%) Team Leader
12 14 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.66%) Architect
13 13 (3.66%) Business Manager
13 13 (3.66%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) Support Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) Systems Administrator
15 11 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
16 10 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.94%) React
2 13 (3.66%) Web Services
3 10 (2.82%) HTML
4 8 (2.25%) CSS
5 7 (1.97%) HTML5
6 6 (1.69%) REST
7 5 (1.41%) PySpark
8 4 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.85%) Bootstrap
9 3 (0.85%) jQuery
9 3 (0.85%) SOAP
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.56%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.56%) RESTful
10 2 (0.56%) Spring
10 2 (0.56%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.56%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.56%) TFX
11 1 (0.28%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.28%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.58%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.20%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.20%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.66%) e-Learning
5 13 (3.66%) Legacy Applications
6 12 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.54%) Robotics
8 8 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.97%) FPGA
10 5 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.13%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.13%) IoT
11 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.13%) PMI
11 4 (1.13%) Social Network
11 4 (1.13%) Verilog
11 4 (1.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.39%) Windows
2 26 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.38%) Linux
4 9 (2.54%) Android
5 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (25.92%) Agile
3 52 (14.65%) AI
4 50 (14.08%) Service Delivery
4 50 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (11.83%) CI/CD
5 42 (11.83%) Mentoring
6 38 (10.70%) User Experience
7 37 (10.42%) Scrum
8 33 (9.30%) Customer Service
8 33 (9.30%) DevOps
8 33 (9.30%) Software Engineering
9 32 (9.01%) Coaching
9 32 (9.01%) ERP
9 32 (9.01%) Process Improvement
10 31 (8.73%) Analytics
10 31 (8.73%) Project Management
11 30 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (8.45%) Decision-Making
12 29 (8.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.99%) Python
2 38 (10.70%) SQL
3 21 (5.92%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.51%) Java
4 16 (4.51%) PowerShell
5 15 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.97%) C
7 6 (1.69%) C#
8 5 (1.41%) Embedded C
9 4 (1.13%) C++
10 3 (0.85%) Bash
11 2 (0.56%) Bicep
11 2 (0.56%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.56%) Scala
11 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.28%) Go
12 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.28%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (13.24%) Degree
2 35 (9.86%) DBS Check
3 29 (8.17%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.25%) CCNA
7 8 (2.25%) CCNP
8 7 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.41%) PMP
11 4 (1.13%) AAT
11 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.85%) HND
12 3 (0.85%) SSCP
13 2 (0.56%) CISM
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) HNC
13 2 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.86%) QA
2 20 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.82%) GDPR
5 4 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.13%) DO-254
5 4 (1.13%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.13%) PMO
6 3 (0.85%) GRC
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (0.85%) PERC
6 3 (0.85%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.56%) NIST
7 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) JTAG
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.23%) Firmware
3 10 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.41%) Docker
6 2 (0.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.69%) Terraform
3 5 (1.41%) Proxmox
4 4 (1.13%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 86 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.35%) Oracle
3 16 (4.51%) SAP
4 13 (3.66%) YouTube
5 12 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.10%) Cisco
7 10 (2.82%) VMware
8 9 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.25%) Google
10 7 (1.97%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.69%) Aruba
12 4 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.13%) dotdigital
12 4 (1.13%) JD Edwards
12 4 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.85%) Databricks
13 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.85%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud