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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 21 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 -7
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 3,912 3,814 2,117
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.51% 7.76% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 8.60% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 1,655 1,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.93%

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 42,678 44,368 42,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.92% 90.27% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,472 22,014 32,621
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 3 January 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 3 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
London +7 1,223 £76,000 - 512
South East +8 833 £57,500 -11.54% 384
North of England -2 798 £57,500 +20.59% 399
Midlands -11 545 £52,500 - 215
North West -3 351 £55,000 +4.76% 216
West Midlands -12 336 £57,500 +4.55% 134
Yorkshire +17 331 £62,250 +31.05% 135
South West +15 284 £53,000 +19.10% 173
East Midlands +2 209 £40,500 -10.00% 81
East of England -22 179 £46,160 -9.43% 166
North East +6 118 £55,000 +46.67% 52
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
1 110 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 68 (1.74%) Confluence
4 19 (0.49%) CMS
5 18 (0.46%) IIS
6 16 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.15%) nginx
9 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.13%) Camunda
10 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.10%) Appian
11 4 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.077%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.077%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 234 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 219 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 13 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
8 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.18%) Trello
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.15%) Windchill
12 5 (0.13%) Siemens NX
13 4 (0.10%) Autodesk Inventor
13 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
14 3 (0.077%) Sketch
15 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.051%) Revit
Business Applications
1 72 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.36%) Shopify
6 13 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.26%) Elite 3E
9 9 (0.23%) Sage 200
9 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.23%) SAP FS
10 8 (0.20%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
10 8 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 759 (19.40%) Azure
2 492 (12.58%) AWS
3 379 (9.69%) Microsoft 365
4 325 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 317 (8.10%) SaaS
6 182 (4.65%) GCP
7 146 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 101 (2.58%) Serverless
10 99 (2.53%) GitHub
11 62 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (1.58%) Power Automate
12 53 (1.35%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.15%) PaaS
14 44 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.12%) Figma
15 43 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 39 (1.00%) OneDrive
17 36 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.37%) Firewall
2 92 (2.35%) WAN
3 87 (2.22%) DNS
4 74 (1.89%) DHCP
4 74 (1.89%) LAN
5 72 (1.84%) VPN
6 49 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 45 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
8 44 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (1.10%) Network Security
10 33 (0.84%) Wireless
11 29 (0.74%) VLAN
12 22 (0.56%) Internet
12 22 (0.56%) SAN
12 22 (0.56%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.54%) Broadband
14 12 (0.31%) HTTP
14 12 (0.31%) SSL
14 12 (0.31%) VoIP
15 11 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (7.06%) Power BI
2 172 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 74 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 62 (1.58%) MySQL
6 59 (1.51%) Tableau
7 50 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 44 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 27 (0.69%) Looker
11 27 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 26 (0.66%) Power Query
13 24 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.46%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.43%) Metadata
17 15 (0.38%) Big Data
18 14 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 294 (7.52%) JIRA
2 153 (3.91%) Git
3 93 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.02%) eCATT
4 40 (1.02%) GitLab
5 37 (0.95%) Selenium
6 28 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 17 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.41%) JMeter
10 15 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.36%) webpack
12 12 (0.31%) NeoLoad
12 12 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
13 11 (0.28%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.28%) Postman
14 10 (0.26%) gulp
14 10 (0.26%) JUnit
15 9 (0.23%) Maven
15 9 (0.23%) Storybook
General
1 1,746 (44.63%) Social Skills
2 1,078 (27.56%) Finance
3 841 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
4 381 (9.74%) Marketing
5 285 (7.29%) Legal
6 282 (7.21%) Retail
7 278 (7.11%) Law
8 274 (7.00%) Manufacturing
9 253 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 245 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
11 188 (4.81%) Public Sector
12 184 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
13 135 (3.45%) Banking
13 135 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (1.84%) Electronics
15 70 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 61 (1.56%) Back Office
17 57 (1.46%) Police
18 55 (1.41%) Telecoms
19 53 (1.35%) French Language
Job Titles
1 561 (14.34%) Lead
2 507 (12.96%) Senior
3 464 (11.86%) Analyst
4 348 (8.90%) Developer
5 200 (5.11%) Architect
6 163 (4.17%) Support Engineer
7 125 (3.20%) Product Manager
8 122 (3.12%) IT Support
9 121 (3.09%) Service Manager
10 109 (2.79%) IT Manager
11 105 (2.68%) Development Manager
12 102 (2.61%) Senior Manager
13 97 (2.48%) 2nd Line Support
14 96 (2.45%) Support Analyst
15 90 (2.30%) Consultant
16 88 (2.25%) Software Engineer
16 88 (2.25%) Technical Support
17 77 (1.97%) Project Manager
17 77 (1.97%) Technical Engineer
18 72 (1.84%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (5.78%) .NET
2 194 (4.96%) React
3 108 (2.76%) CSS
4 101 (2.58%) REST
5 97 (2.48%) HTML
6 81 (2.07%) RESTful
7 76 (1.94%) Node.js
8 67 (1.71%) Spring
9 61 (1.56%) Spring Boot
10 51 (1.30%) AngularJS
11 47 (1.20%) Middleware
12 44 (1.12%) .NET Core
13 35 (0.89%) Django
14 34 (0.87%) EDI
15 32 (0.82%) OAuth
16 31 (0.79%) .NET Framework
16 31 (0.79%) Vue
17 29 (0.74%) SOAP
18 28 (0.72%) JSON
19 27 (0.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 282 (7.21%) Onboarding
2 218 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 186 (4.75%) Cloud Native
4 173 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 140 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
6 136 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 133 (3.40%) FMCG
8 112 (2.86%) Driving Licence
9 88 (2.25%) Data Centre
10 75 (1.92%) Security Posture
11 72 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
12 67 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
13 63 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
14 55 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 54 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
16 51 (1.30%) Mobile App
17 46 (1.18%) Virtual Team
18 39 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
18 39 (1.00%) Robotics
19 32 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 339 (8.67%) Windows
2 132 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 120 (3.07%) Linux
4 92 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.20%) Android
6 46 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 41 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 26 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.61%) Unix
11 16 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.26%) VMS
14 6 (0.15%) SUSE
14 6 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.15%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.13%) AIX
16 3 (0.077%) CentOS
16 3 (0.077%) OpenWrt
16 3 (0.077%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,159 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 1,015 (25.95%) Agile
3 554 (14.16%) Mentoring
4 548 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 542 (13.85%) Decision-Making
6 485 (12.40%) Analytics
6 485 (12.40%) Roadmaps
7 458 (11.71%) Project Management
8 431 (11.02%) ITIL
9 427 (10.92%) CI/CD
10 419 (10.71%) DevOps
11 417 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 362 (9.25%) Change Management
13 361 (9.23%) AI
14 356 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
15 350 (8.95%) Coaching
16 334 (8.54%) ERP
17 332 (8.49%) Service Delivery
18 312 (7.98%) Project Delivery
19 311 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 453 (11.58%) SQL
2 353 (9.02%) Python
3 286 (7.31%) C#
4 219 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 214 (5.47%) Java
6 167 (4.27%) PowerShell
7 120 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 60 (1.53%) Bash
9 39 (1.00%) Go
10 30 (0.77%) PHP
11 27 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 26 (0.66%) Bicep
12 26 (0.66%) C++
13 25 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 25 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.43%) VBA
15 16 (0.41%) VB
16 15 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 867 (22.16%) Degree
2 313 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 173 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 157 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (2.28%) CISSP
6 84 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 79 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 75 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 66 (1.69%) CISM
10 66 (1.69%) PMP
11 64 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 62 (1.58%) ACCA
13 59 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 57 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 47 (1.20%) CIMA
15 47 (1.20%) DBS Check
16 43 (1.10%) CRISC
17 42 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
18 41 (1.05%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 348 (8.90%) QA
2 209 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 183 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 166 (4.24%) GDPR
5 139 (3.55%) SLA
6 138 (3.53%) Accessibility
7 114 (2.91%) NIST
8 100 (2.56%) PMO
9 83 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 67 (1.71%) GRC
11 42 (1.07%) SOC 2
12 39 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 31 (0.79%) Def Stans
14 30 (0.77%) PCI DSS
15 26 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 26 (0.66%) NCSC
16 25 (0.64%) WCAG
17 24 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
18 23 (0.59%) IFRS
18 23 (0.59%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 247 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 161 (4.12%) Docker
3 63 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.38%) Firmware
8 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.18%) vSphere
9 4 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.077%) NFS
11 2 (0.051%) KVM
11 2 (0.051%) QEMU
12 1 (0.026%) HDFS
12 1 (0.026%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 179 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 169 (4.32%) Terraform
3 128 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 84 (2.15%) Ansible
5 48 (1.23%) SCCM
6 41 (1.05%) HP ALM
7 36 (0.92%) Grafana
8 31 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 20 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 15 (0.38%) Autotask
13 12 (0.31%) WSUS
14 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.18%) Argo
16 7 (0.18%) HP Fortify
17 6 (0.15%) Nessus
18 5 (0.13%) Kubeflow
18 5 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 767 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 227 (5.80%) SAP
3 156 (3.99%) ServiceNow
4 142 (3.63%) Oracle
5 126 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 93 (2.38%) VMware
7 92 (2.35%) Cisco
8 75 (1.92%) Google
9 61 (1.56%) Workday
10 60 (1.53%) HP
11 54 (1.38%) Adobe
12 41 (1.05%) IBM
13 33 (0.84%) Apple
14 32 (0.82%) Dell
14 32 (0.82%) Fortinet
14 32 (0.82%) SolarWinds
15 29 (0.74%) Siemens
16 28 (0.72%) Atlassian
17 27 (0.69%) Veeam
17 27 (0.69%) YouTube