Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Glasgow

Continual Improvement
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +15
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 97 113 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.78% 14.79% 12.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 16.31% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 41 35 32
10th Percentile £31,250 £49,950 £33,475
25th Percentile £40,345 £63,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +45.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £77,000 £85,750 £77,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £48,507
% change year-on-year -12.00% +28.85% -21.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,078 693 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.38% 90.71% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 679 281 537
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £84,850
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Glasgow

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (2.06%) IIS
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.68%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) AWS
3 12 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.15%) GCP
6 4 (4.12%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.12%) Serverless
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.09%) GitHub
8 2 (2.06%) OCI
8 2 (2.06%) PaaS
8 2 (2.06%) SaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) DHCP
1 4 (4.12%) DNS
2 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.03%) TETRA
3 1 (1.03%) VLAN
3 1 (1.03%) VoIP
3 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Power BI
3 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.06%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Git
2 3 (3.09%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.06%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.06%) JUnit
3 2 (2.06%) Maven
3 2 (2.06%) Mockito
3 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) Hudson
General
1 39 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 35 (36.08%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (12.37%) Law
5 8 (8.25%) Marketing
5 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.22%) Banking
7 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.12%) Private Banking
8 3 (3.09%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Billing
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Publishing
10 1 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (16.49%) Developer
2 15 (15.46%) Lead
2 15 (15.46%) Software Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) Analyst
3 12 (12.37%) Senior
4 8 (8.25%) RPG Developer
5 6 (6.19%) IT Director
5 6 (6.19%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Server Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Windows Server Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Windows Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) .NET
1 6 (6.19%) Terraform
2 4 (4.12%) Hugging Face
2 4 (4.12%) PyTorch
2 4 (4.12%) RESTful
3 3 (3.09%) CrewAI
3 3 (3.09%) LangChain
3 3 (3.09%) LangGraph
3 3 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.09%) Ray
3 3 (3.09%) vLLM
4 2 (2.06%) CSS
4 2 (2.06%) CSS3
4 2 (2.06%) HTML5
4 2 (2.06%) React
4 2 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.06%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.06%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) AS400
2 8 (8.25%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.12%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.03%) FMCG
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Replication
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.03%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.37%) Windows
2 7 (7.22%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.19%) Linux
4 4 (4.12%) Debian
4 4 (4.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.03%) AIX
5 1 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.03%) Solaris
5 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (21.65%) ITIL
3 20 (20.62%) Mentoring
3 20 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (16.49%) AI
4 16 (16.49%) Collaborative Culture
4 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
5 15 (15.46%) Agile
6 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.37%) Decision-Making
7 11 (11.34%) Analytics
7 11 (11.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (11.34%) Machine Learning
7 11 (11.34%) SDLC
8 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (10.31%) Service Delivery
8 10 (10.31%) User Experience
9 9 (9.28%) DevOps
9 9 (9.28%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (9.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.53%) Python
2 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.28%) Java
3 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.28%) RPG
4 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.19%) C#
5 6 (6.19%) SQL
6 3 (3.09%) Go
6 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.06%) Bash
7 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (22.68%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) PhD
4 3 (3.09%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (2.06%) CSPO
6 1 (1.03%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.03%) AAT
6 1 (1.03%) ACCA
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) CIMA
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.03%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.09%) Grafana
3 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.03%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.28%) IBM
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 5 (5.15%) VMware
5 3 (3.09%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.06%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco
7 1 (1.03%) Citrix
7 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) IFS
7 1 (1.03%) NEC
7 1 (1.03%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Veeam