Continuous Improvement Jobs in England

Continual Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 36 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 -2
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 3,543 4,382 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.33% 5.06% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 5.95% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 2,886 2,376
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £31,638
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,846 £75,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% -

All Process and 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 45,518 73,613 83,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.19% 84.97% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,437 53,908 49,787
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,067
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
North of England +7 940 £56,000 +6.67% 2,478
South East +37 876 £55,000 +4.76% 2,824
London +22 869 £70,000 -4.11% 2,312
North West -15 456 £56,000 +8.56% 1,310
Yorkshire +26 451 £56,250 -6.25% 887
Midlands -27 331 £45,000 -14.29% 1,863
East of England +17 276 £50,967 -7.33% 1,382
South West +3 209 £52,500 +0.20% 1,222
West Midlands -35 179 £50,000 -6.54% 1,025
East Midlands -12 148 £40,101 -15.58% 723
North East -8 33 £58,250 +29.44% 298
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 140 (3.95%) Confluence
2 118 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (0.99%) CMS
5 24 (0.68%) WordPress
6 14 (0.40%) OpenEdge
7 12 (0.34%) IIS
8 11 (0.31%) Drupal
9 10 (0.28%) nginx
10 7 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.17%) Apache
11 6 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.14%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.11%) Moodle
14 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.056%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.056%) MTS
Applications
1 136 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (2.94%) Simulink
4 47 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 31 (0.87%) Trello
7 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 9 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
9 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.085%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.085%) Productboard
12 2 (0.056%) Maya
12 2 (0.056%) Notion
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.028%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.028%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 103 (2.91%) Teamcenter
2 33 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 6 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
8 6 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) Maximo
11 3 (0.085%) Adaptiv
11 3 (0.085%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.085%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.085%) SAP GRC
11 3 (0.085%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 600 (16.93%) Azure
2 406 (11.46%) AWS
3 239 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 181 (5.11%) GCP
5 143 (4.04%) SaaS
6 131 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 67 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 66 (1.86%) Serverless
9 56 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (1.44%) GitHub
11 43 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
12 42 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
13 39 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (1.02%) OneDrive
14 36 (1.02%) PowerApps
15 34 (0.96%) Google Workspace
16 31 (0.87%) OCI
17 29 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (0.82%) Power Automate
18 26 (0.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 123 (3.47%) Firewall
2 66 (1.86%) VPN
3 64 (1.81%) WAN
4 51 (1.44%) LAN
4 51 (1.44%) Network Security
5 44 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 35 (0.99%) DNS
8 27 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
8 27 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (0.71%) VLAN
10 20 (0.56%) BGP
10 20 (0.56%) Internet
10 20 (0.56%) OSPF
11 19 (0.54%) MPLS
11 19 (0.54%) Wireless
12 18 (0.51%) Intranet
13 17 (0.48%) DHCP
14 16 (0.45%) SAN
15 15 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 109 (3.08%) Power BI
3 54 (1.52%) MySQL
4 41 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 36 (1.02%) Tableau
6 33 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (0.87%) Big Data
8 27 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.73%) Metadata
10 22 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 22 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
11 20 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.51%) MongoDB
12 18 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.37%) Data Hub
15 11 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (0.25%) SQL CLR
17 7 (0.20%) Ataccama
17 7 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 257 (7.25%) JIRA
2 136 (3.84%) GitLab
3 128 (3.61%) Selenium
4 115 (3.25%) Rational DOORS
5 114 (3.22%) Maven
6 112 (3.16%) SonarQube
7 111 (3.13%) Cucumber
8 108 (3.05%) Bitbucket
8 108 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 47 (1.33%) Git
10 20 (0.56%) Jenkins
11 10 (0.28%) JUnit
11 10 (0.28%) Mocha
12 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.23%) Postman
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.20%) JMeter
13 7 (0.20%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.20%) webpack
14 6 (0.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,783 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 1,098 (30.99%) Finance
3 569 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 458 (12.93%) Manufacturing
5 440 (12.42%) Marketing
6 366 (10.33%) Electronics
7 297 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 280 (7.90%) Presentation Skills
9 250 (7.06%) Law
10 240 (6.77%) Banking
11 156 (4.40%) Aerospace
11 156 (4.40%) Legal
12 147 (4.15%) Public Sector
13 129 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
14 126 (3.56%) Retail
15 91 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (1.64%) Advertising
17 46 (1.30%) Local Government
18 29 (0.82%) Automotive
19 28 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 432 (12.19%) Lead
2 359 (10.13%) Analyst
3 311 (8.78%) Senior
4 229 (6.46%) Systems Manager
5 216 (6.10%) Developer
6 215 (6.07%) Resource Manager
7 186 (5.25%) Systems Engineer
8 180 (5.08%) Software Engineer
9 178 (5.02%) Architect
10 175 (4.94%) Technical Manager
11 147 (4.15%) Product Manager
12 141 (3.98%) Help Desk Manager
13 125 (3.53%) Junior
14 103 (2.91%) Junior Systems Engineer
15 101 (2.85%) Products Support Manager
16 97 (2.74%) Support Manager
17 95 (2.68%) Project Manager
18 90 (2.54%) Change Analyst
19 89 (2.51%) Support Engineer
20 88 (2.48%) Business Change Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (5.67%) CSS
2 198 (5.59%) React
3 168 (4.74%) HTML
4 142 (4.01%) .NET
5 138 (3.90%) Spring
6 136 (3.84%) Kafka
7 133 (3.75%) Spring Boot
8 121 (3.42%) Redux
9 116 (3.27%) Hibernate
10 112 (3.16%) JPA
11 81 (2.29%) Middleware
12 62 (1.75%) REST
13 50 (1.41%) AngularJS
14 44 (1.24%) ASP.NET
15 42 (1.19%) RESTful
16 36 (1.02%) .NET Core
16 36 (1.02%) jQuery
17 35 (0.99%) Web Services
18 33 (0.93%) SOAP
19 32 (0.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 291 (8.21%) Product Ownership
2 216 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 151 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 81 (2.29%) FMCG
4 81 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 70 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 69 (1.95%) Social Media
8 56 (1.58%) Driving Licence
9 53 (1.50%) e-Learning
10 47 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 45 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 43 (1.21%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 40 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 40 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
14 39 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 39 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
15 37 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 35 (0.99%) Digital Media
17 33 (0.93%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 243 (6.86%) Windows
2 77 (2.17%) Linux
3 64 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 32 (0.90%) Windows Vista
6 21 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.34%) Android
9 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.17%) CentOS
10 6 (0.17%) Unix
10 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.14%) Rocky
11 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.11%) VMS
12 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.056%) AIX
13 2 (0.056%) Debian
13 2 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.056%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
2 893 (25.20%) Agile
3 568 (16.03%) Project Management
4 501 (14.14%) Analytics
5 486 (13.72%) DevOps
6 416 (11.74%) Mentoring
7 390 (11.01%) Data Management
8 383 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 378 (10.67%) Mathematics
10 377 (10.64%) Computer Science
11 373 (10.53%) ERP
12 362 (10.22%) Change Management
13 360 (10.16%) CI/CD
14 354 (9.99%) Roadmaps
15 346 (9.77%) Physics
16 340 (9.60%) Decision-Making
17 321 (9.06%) Coaching
18 311 (8.78%) Collaborative Working
18 311 (8.78%) SDLC
19 294 (8.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 384 (10.84%) SQL
2 289 (8.16%) Java
3 247 (6.97%) JavaScript
4 190 (5.36%) Python
5 167 (4.71%) C#
6 105 (2.96%) MATLAB
7 79 (2.23%) PowerShell
8 50 (1.41%) TypeScript
9 49 (1.38%) PHP
10 43 (1.21%) C++
11 33 (0.93%) C
12 22 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.56%) R
14 18 (0.51%) Progress 4GL
15 16 (0.45%) Go
16 14 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.37%) Bash
17 13 (0.37%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,067 (30.12%) Degree
2 273 (7.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 199 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 152 (4.29%) Security Cleared
5 113 (3.19%) DBS Check
6 91 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 90 (2.54%) CBAP
8 88 (2.48%) CISSP
9 80 (2.26%) PMI Certification
10 76 (2.15%) SC Cleared
11 67 (1.89%) HNC
12 62 (1.75%) CISM
13 59 (1.67%) PMP
14 57 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
15 55 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
16 49 (1.38%) Azure Certification
17 44 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
17 44 (1.24%) CRISC
18 38 (1.07%) Six Sigma Black Belt
19 35 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (7.39%) QA
2 129 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 116 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 110 (3.10%) SLA
5 81 (2.29%) GDPR
6 69 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 69 (1.95%) NIST
7 46 (1.30%) ISO 9001
8 42 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 41 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 38 (1.07%) GMP
11 36 (1.02%) PMO
12 31 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.85%) COBIT
14 26 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
15 20 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.56%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.45%) GRC
17 9 (0.25%) NCSC
17 9 (0.25%) PERC
System Software
1 177 (5.00%) Docker
2 139 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.23%) Firmware
7 8 (0.23%) vSphere
8 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
10 1 (0.028%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.028%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) Postfix
10 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.028%) Snort
Systems Management
1 209 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 71 (2.00%) Terraform
3 47 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (1.13%) Ansible
5 27 (0.76%) Grafana
6 25 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) SCCM
8 12 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.17%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) Kibana
13 3 (0.085%) CASB
13 3 (0.085%) Control-M
13 3 (0.085%) Nessus
13 3 (0.085%) QRadar
13 3 (0.085%) SCOM
14 2 (0.056%) linkerd
Vendors
1 564 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 150 (4.23%) IBM
2 150 (4.23%) Oracle
3 116 (3.27%) SAP
4 108 (3.05%) Solace
5 107 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 106 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 97 (2.74%) Google
8 82 (2.31%) VMware
9 77 (2.17%) Cisco
10 38 (1.07%) Siemens
11 37 (1.04%) Databricks
11 37 (1.04%) Rockwell
12 29 (0.82%) Red Hat
12 29 (0.82%) Sun
13 26 (0.73%) Meraki
14 24 (0.68%) Apple
14 24 (0.68%) Citrix
15 23 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 23 (0.65%) Splunk