Continuous Improvement Job Trends in England

Continual Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 +24
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,059 3,358 4,280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.22% 8.57% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 9.18% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 1,703 2,873
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.04% +0.30% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,033 36,575 71,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 93.39% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39,422 20,210 53,694
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in England

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +12 1,456 £80,000 +14.29% 641
North of England +2 1,176 £55,000 -0.90% 441
South East -8 848 £57,500 +4.55% 518
Midlands -2 665 £52,501 +10.53% 294
North West +17 530 £55,000 -1.79% 220
South West +10 491 £57,500 +4.55% 215
Yorkshire -11 473 £52,500 - 154
West Midlands 0 406 £55,000 +10.00% 175
East of England +14 309 £60,100 +17.92% 164
East Midlands +23 256 £47,500 +18.75% 116
North East +21 173 £57,500 +1.77% 70
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 204 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 128 (2.53%) Confluence
3 120 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 58 (1.15%) CMS
5 34 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.43%) Apache
8 17 (0.34%) IIS
9 11 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 10 (0.20%) Moodle
11 8 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 8 (0.16%) WordPress
12 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.099%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.079%) Documentum
15 4 (0.079%) JBoss
15 4 (0.079%) OpenEdge
16 3 (0.059%) govService
16 3 (0.059%) nginx
Applications
1 274 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.14%) Fusion 360
8 5 (0.099%) Trello
9 4 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.059%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 3 (0.059%) Windchill
11 2 (0.040%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.040%) CATIA
11 2 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.040%) Lectora
11 2 (0.040%) Revit
11 2 (0.040%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.040%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 79 (1.56%) SAP PM
2 56 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 44 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.26%) Magento
6 13 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.24%) Shopify
8 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.16%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
12 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
13 5 (0.099%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 957 (18.92%) Azure
2 672 (13.28%) AWS
3 482 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
4 356 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 337 (6.66%) SaaS
6 257 (5.08%) GCP
7 197 (3.89%) Entra ID
8 164 (3.24%) GitHub
9 163 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
10 126 (2.49%) Serverless
11 119 (2.35%) Power Automate
12 114 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
13 101 (2.00%) PowerApps
14 95 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
15 71 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 56 (1.11%) OneDrive
17 50 (0.99%) Amazon S3
18 48 (0.95%) Datadog
19 47 (0.93%) Figma
20 45 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 206 (4.07%) Firewall
2 112 (2.21%) DNS
3 107 (2.12%) VPN
4 105 (2.08%) WAN
5 95 (1.88%) Broadband
6 73 (1.44%) DHCP
7 69 (1.36%) LAN
8 59 (1.17%) Network Security
8 59 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (1.09%) TCP/IP
10 49 (0.97%) Wireless
11 40 (0.79%) VLAN
12 33 (0.65%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.43%) VoIP
14 15 (0.30%) Intranet
15 13 (0.26%) MQTT
15 13 (0.26%) SAN
15 13 (0.26%) WLAN
16 12 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (0.24%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (5.51%) Power BI
2 196 (3.87%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (1.38%) MongoDB
5 66 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 61 (1.21%) Tableau
7 59 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 53 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (0.91%) MySQL
10 42 (0.83%) Power Query
11 34 (0.67%) Metadata
12 33 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 30 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 20 (0.40%) Oracle Database
17 19 (0.38%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.34%) Redis
18 17 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 16 (0.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 234 (4.63%) JIRA
2 182 (3.60%) Git
3 86 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 83 (1.64%) GitLab
5 35 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 35 (0.69%) Selenium
6 24 (0.47%) Postman
7 23 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 22 (0.43%) JMeter
9 19 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 16 (0.32%) Maven
12 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (0.28%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.26%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.26%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
16 9 (0.18%) Claude Code
17 8 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 1,870 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 1,305 (25.80%) Finance
3 976 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 318 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 295 (5.83%) Law
7 288 (5.69%) Legal
8 286 (5.65%) Marketing
9 279 (5.51%) Retail
10 270 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
11 262 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 219 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
13 169 (3.34%) Banking
14 96 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
15 87 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 84 (1.66%) Games
17 79 (1.56%) Telecoms
18 72 (1.42%) Back Office
19 64 (1.27%) Electronics
20 59 (1.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 676 (13.36%) Senior
2 575 (11.37%) Lead
3 542 (10.71%) Analyst
4 373 (7.37%) Developer
5 217 (4.29%) IT Manager
6 206 (4.07%) Software Engineer
7 194 (3.83%) Support Engineer
8 178 (3.52%) IT Support
8 178 (3.52%) Senior Manager
9 167 (3.30%) Architect
10 140 (2.77%) Service Manager
11 122 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
12 110 (2.17%) Support Analyst
13 107 (2.12%) Consultant
13 107 (2.12%) Product Manager
14 102 (2.02%) Senior Developer
15 101 (2.00%) Development Manager
16 98 (1.94%) Project Manager
17 97 (1.92%) Team Leader
18 95 (1.88%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (4.53%) .NET
2 209 (4.13%) React
3 125 (2.47%) REST
4 111 (2.19%) Node.js
5 107 (2.12%) CSS
6 106 (2.10%) HTML
7 97 (1.92%) Spring
8 91 (1.80%) Spring Boot
9 81 (1.60%) RESTful
10 63 (1.25%) Middleware
11 52 (1.03%) .NET Core
11 52 (1.03%) Kafka
12 50 (0.99%) SOAP
13 46 (0.91%) Vue
14 44 (0.87%) Playwright
15 41 (0.81%) OAuth
16 39 (0.77%) ASP.NET
16 39 (0.77%) Django
17 37 (0.73%) Web Services
18 34 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 298 (5.89%) Product Ownership
2 247 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 212 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 169 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 147 (2.91%) FMCG
6 142 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 135 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
8 132 (2.61%) Driving Licence
9 111 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
10 96 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 93 (1.84%) Data Centre
12 89 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
13 82 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
14 79 (1.56%) Data Structures
15 78 (1.54%) Low-Code
16 60 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
17 57 (1.13%) Algorithms
18 54 (1.07%) e-Learning
19 52 (1.03%) Mobile App
20 42 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 407 (8.05%) Windows
2 187 (3.70%) Linux
3 160 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 68 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 51 (1.01%) Android
6 47 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 30 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 27 (0.53%) VMS
9 20 (0.40%) Unix
10 14 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.14%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.099%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.040%) CentOS
15 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.040%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.040%) SUSE
16 1 (0.020%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,229 (24.29%) Agile
2 1,173 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
3 768 (15.18%) Decision-Making
4 723 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 714 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 642 (12.69%) Mentoring
7 594 (11.74%) DevOps
8 586 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 570 (11.27%) Analytics
10 569 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 552 (10.91%) AI
12 508 (10.04%) Coaching
13 470 (9.29%) ITIL
14 455 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
15 416 (8.22%) Software Engineering
16 387 (7.65%) Service Delivery
17 369 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
18 367 (7.25%) Project Management
19 366 (7.23%) Change Management
20 364 (7.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 514 (10.16%) Python
2 506 (10.00%) SQL
3 239 (4.72%) JavaScript
4 238 (4.70%) C#
5 220 (4.35%) Java
6 186 (3.68%) PowerShell
7 181 (3.58%) TypeScript
8 89 (1.76%) Bash
9 49 (0.97%) C++
10 43 (0.85%) Go
11 35 (0.69%) C
12 33 (0.65%) Apex Code
13 31 (0.61%) SOQL
14 30 (0.59%) Bicep
14 30 (0.59%) PHP
15 28 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 27 (0.53%) Rust
17 25 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.47%) T-SQL
19 20 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 743 (14.69%) Degree
2 418 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 251 (4.96%) SC Cleared
4 162 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 140 (2.77%) DBS Check
6 115 (2.27%) CISSP
7 108 (2.13%) ACCA
8 102 (2.02%) PMI Certification
9 93 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 93 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 73 (1.44%) CISM
11 71 (1.40%) PMP
12 70 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 70 (1.38%) CIMA
13 61 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 55 (1.09%) Master's Degree
15 47 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
16 43 (0.85%) ISTQB
17 42 (0.83%) CRISC
17 42 (0.83%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (8.68%) QA
2 271 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 255 (5.04%) GDPR
4 226 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 193 (3.81%) Accessibility
6 171 (3.38%) SLA
7 159 (3.14%) NIST
8 127 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 100 (1.98%) PMO
10 74 (1.46%) ISO 9001
11 72 (1.42%) GRC
12 66 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 50 (0.99%) PCI DSS
14 46 (0.91%) IFRS
14 46 (0.91%) WCAG
15 42 (0.83%) SOC 2
16 38 (0.75%) NCSC
17 34 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 28 (0.55%) COBIT
19 27 (0.53%) ITGC
System Software
1 313 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 232 (4.59%) Docker
3 94 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.53%) Firmware
6 25 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.28%) KVM
8 14 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.20%) vSphere
10 6 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.12%) IAG
11 5 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.040%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.040%) UAG
13 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.020%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.020%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (5.57%) Terraform
2 258 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 116 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 113 (2.23%) Ansible
5 91 (1.80%) Grafana
6 52 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 36 (0.71%) SCCM
8 23 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.26%) Podman
12 10 (0.20%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.18%) Packer
13 9 (0.18%) Puppet
14 8 (0.16%) CASB
14 8 (0.16%) HP Fortify
14 8 (0.16%) Kibana
15 7 (0.14%) Argo
15 7 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,044 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 227 (4.49%) SAP
3 168 (3.32%) Oracle
4 164 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 133 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 123 (2.43%) VMware
7 112 (2.21%) Google
8 101 (2.00%) Cisco
9 98 (1.94%) Workday
10 55 (1.09%) Adobe
11 40 (0.79%) Databricks
12 33 (0.65%) Zscaler
13 32 (0.63%) Apple
13 32 (0.63%) SolarWinds
14 31 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 28 (0.55%) Xero
16 27 (0.53%) IFS
16 27 (0.53%) Splunk
17 25 (0.49%) Juniper
17 25 (0.49%) Palo Alto