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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +29
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 87 118 519
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 7.10% 16.39% 20.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 18.07% 22.17%
Number of salaries quoted 40 36 45
10th Percentile £31,225 £47,875 £35,350
25th Percentile £41,138 £63,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +48.15% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £75,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -16.92%

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 919 653 2,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.02% 90.69% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 559 254 683
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £32,550
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £43,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.61% -21.36% -

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 22 August 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 (2.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.15%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.99%) Azure
2 15 (17.24%) AWS
3 10 (11.49%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.60%) Serverless
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.30%) OCI
7 2 (2.30%) PaaS
7 2 (2.30%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) DHCP
1 3 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.30%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.15%) Redis
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Git
2 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) GitLab
3 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.15%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.15%) JUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Maven
4 1 (1.15%) Mockito
4 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (45.98%) Social Skills
2 37 (42.53%) Finance
3 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (13.79%) Law
6 9 (10.34%) Banking
6 9 (10.34%) Marketing
7 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Private Banking
8 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Publishing
9 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Lead
2 14 (16.09%) Developer
3 13 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Analyst
4 10 (11.49%) Senior
5 8 (9.20%) RPG Developer
6 6 (6.90%) IT Director
6 6 (6.90%) IT Manager
6 6 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Head of QA
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.60%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Applications Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Release Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Server Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) .NET
1 6 (6.90%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) Hugging Face
2 4 (4.60%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.45%) CrewAI
3 3 (3.45%) LangChain
3 3 (3.45%) LangGraph
3 3 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.45%) Ray
3 3 (3.45%) RESTful
3 3 (3.45%) vLLM
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Basis
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.15%) CSS
5 1 (1.15%) HTML
5 1 (1.15%) Middleware
5 1 (1.15%) NestJS
5 1 (1.15%) Spring
5 1 (1.15%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) AS400
2 8 (9.20%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.30%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) FMCG
8 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
8 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.15%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Windows
2 6 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.75%) Linux
4 3 (3.45%) Debian
4 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) AIX
5 1 (1.15%) Android
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.15%) Solaris
5 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.53%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (26.44%) ITIL
3 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 17 (19.54%) AI
5 16 (18.39%) Analytics
6 14 (16.09%) Agile
6 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
7 13 (14.94%) Change Management
7 13 (14.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (14.94%) Service Delivery
7 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (13.79%) Machine Learning
9 11 (12.64%) CI/CD
10 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (11.49%) SDLC
11 9 (10.34%) Generative AI
11 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (10.34%) Operational Stability
11 9 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.54%) Python
2 9 (10.34%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.34%) RPG
3 8 (9.20%) Java
4 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.90%) C#
5 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.60%) SQL
7 3 (3.45%) Go
7 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.15%) Bash
9 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (26.44%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) IRCA
3 4 (4.60%) PhD
3 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) CSPO
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) CISM
5 1 (1.15%) CISSP
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) CRISC
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) QA
2 5 (5.75%) GDPR
2 5 (5.75%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Docker
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.15%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Grafana
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) IBM
3 5 (5.75%) Oracle
4 4 (4.60%) VMware
5 3 (3.45%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.30%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco
7 1 (1.15%) Citrix
7 1 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) NEC
7 1 (1.15%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Veeam