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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 125 67 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 15.84% 6.71% 4.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.73% 7.78% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 44 24 29
10th Percentile £45,425 £32,575 £45,101
25th Percentile £63,750 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.66% -12.08% +5.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £61,938 £73,000
90th Percentile - £63,375 £91,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £49,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +40.70% -17.08% +9.09%

All Process and 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 705 861 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.35% 86.27% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 303 460 506
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,975 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,125 £38,375 £37,924
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

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 28 October 2025.

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 9 (7.20%) Apache
1 9 (7.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.20%) Camunda
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.20%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) FileNet
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.80%) AWS
2 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.60%) npm
3 7 (5.60%) Yarn
4 6 (4.80%) Azure
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.80%) Serverless
5 5 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.60%) GCP
7 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.80%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.80%) Datadog
8 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.80%) GitHub
8 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.60%) WAN
2 1 (0.80%) BGP
2 1 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.80%) DHCP
2 1 (0.80%) DNS
2 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.80%) Firewall
2 1 (0.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) LAN
2 1 (0.80%) Network Security
2 1 (0.80%) OSPF
2 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.80%) VLAN
2 1 (0.80%) VPN
2 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (7.20%) RDBMS
3 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.60%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.00%) Apache Hudi
5 5 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (4.00%) Big Data
5 5 (4.00%) Parquet
6 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.20%) KDB
6 4 (3.20%) Kdb+
7 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.60%) Power BI
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.80%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) JUnit
2 8 (6.40%) webpack
3 7 (5.60%) Cypress.io
3 7 (5.60%) Vite
4 5 (4.00%) JIRA
5 4 (3.20%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.40%) Maven
7 2 (1.60%) GitLab
7 2 (1.60%) Selenium
7 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.80%) Ant
8 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.80%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.80%) Protractor
8 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 79 (63.20%) Finance
2 65 (52.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (51.20%) Law
4 38 (30.40%) Banking
5 24 (19.20%) Marketing
6 19 (15.20%) Social Skills
7 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.60%) Legal
9 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
10 5 (4.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.60%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (52.80%) Software Engineer
2 38 (30.40%) Java Engineer
2 38 (30.40%) Java Software Engineer
3 24 (19.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 24 (19.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) Architect
4 17 (13.60%) Firmware Architect
5 16 (12.80%) Senior
6 13 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) AWS Software Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Lead
7 9 (7.20%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Senior Manager
10 5 (4.00%) Head of Data Management
10 5 (4.00%) Head of Risk Management
10 5 (4.00%) Innovation Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Embedded Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (31.20%) Spring
2 33 (26.40%) React
3 25 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 21 (16.80%) Kafka
5 13 (10.40%) AngularJS
6 11 (8.80%) CSS
6 11 (8.80%) HTML
7 9 (7.20%) Web Services
8 8 (6.40%) RESTful
9 7 (5.60%) Jest
9 7 (5.60%) REST
10 6 (4.80%) Hibernate
11 5 (4.00%) JPA
11 5 (4.00%) Vue
12 4 (3.20%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (3.20%) JDBC
12 4 (3.20%) OpenAPI
12 4 (3.20%) SOAP
12 4 (3.20%) Swagger
12 4 (3.20%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (51.20%) Algorithms
2 10 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.20%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.40%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) FMCG
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
1 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (59.20%) Agile
2 66 (52.80%) Software Engineering
3 64 (51.20%) Community of Practice
3 64 (51.20%) SDLC
3 64 (51.20%) Visualisation
4 62 (49.60%) CI/CD
5 59 (47.20%) Operational Stability
6 40 (32.00%) AI
7 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (23.20%) Machine Learning
10 25 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.80%) Customer Experience
12 15 (12.00%) Risk Management
13 13 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.40%) TDD
14 12 (9.60%) Analytics
14 12 (9.60%) Decision-Making
14 12 (9.60%) DevOps
15 9 (7.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.60%) Java
2 23 (18.40%) SQL
3 22 (17.60%) C++
4 20 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.60%) Python
5 17 (13.60%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.80%) C#
7 4 (3.20%) Scala
8 2 (1.60%) Bash
8 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.60%) Swift
9 1 (0.80%) C
9 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.80%) Go
9 1 (0.80%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (4.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (4.00%) CRISC
2 4 (3.20%) Degree
2 4 (3.20%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 1 (0.80%) CCNA
3 1 (0.80%) CCNP
3 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) PMO
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (16.80%) Firmware
2 9 (7.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (5.60%) Docker
4 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.00%) Terraform
3 5 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (12.00%) Oracle
2 11 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.80%) Splunk
4 5 (4.00%) Databricks
4 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco
6 1 (0.80%) Aruba
6 1 (0.80%) Datto
6 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.80%) IBM
6 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) Solace
6 1 (0.80%) Sybase
6 1 (0.80%) Veeam
6 1 (0.80%) VMware