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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +47
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 68 111 714
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.32% 15.61% 22.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 16.82% 23.44%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 60
10th Percentile £35,225 £44,000 £39,925
25th Percentile £46,750 £63,750 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +48.15% +18.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £82,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,850 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.70% +22.73% -15.38%

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 800 660 3,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.35% 92.83% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 492 270 837
10th Percentile £29,038 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,798 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.66% -7.05% -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 16 July 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 (2.94%) IIS
1 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) Azure
2 12 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.88%) Serverless
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (4.41%) PaaS
6 2 (2.94%) GCP
6 2 (2.94%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.47%) Datadog
7 1 (1.47%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.47%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.94%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
3 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.47%) JUnit
4 1 (1.47%) Maven
4 1 (1.47%) Mockito
4 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (51.47%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (32.35%) Finance
3 5 (7.35%) Manufacturing
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.94%) Publishing
7 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.47%) Back Office
7 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Analyst
1 12 (17.65%) Developer
2 9 (13.24%) Senior
3 8 (11.76%) RPG Developer
4 7 (10.29%) IT Manager
5 6 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.82%) Head of QA
5 6 (8.82%) IT Director
6 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 3 (4.41%) Lead
7 3 (4.41%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 2 (2.94%) IT Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Product Business Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) SAP Basis Support
8 2 (2.94%) Security Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (4.41%) RESTful
3 2 (2.94%) SAP Basis
3 2 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.47%) Android SDK
4 1 (1.47%) CSS
4 1 (1.47%) CSS3
4 1 (1.47%) HTML
4 1 (1.47%) HTML5
4 1 (1.47%) Middleware
4 1 (1.47%) React
4 1 (1.47%) Spring
4 1 (1.47%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.47%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) AS400
2 6 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.47%) FMCG
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) PKI
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.47%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Windows
2 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) AIX
4 1 (1.47%) Android
4 1 (1.47%) Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) ITIL
1 25 (36.76%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (26.47%) Mentoring
3 16 (23.53%) Analytics
3 16 (23.53%) Service Delivery
4 13 (19.12%) Change Management
5 11 (16.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (14.71%) Agile
6 10 (14.71%) Collaborative Culture
6 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (13.24%) Customer Experience
7 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.29%) Commercial Awareness
8 7 (10.29%) PRINCE2
8 7 (10.29%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (8.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 6 (8.82%) Internal Audit
9 6 (8.82%) IT Audit
9 6 (8.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) RPG
2 6 (8.82%) C#
3 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.88%) Python
5 3 (4.41%) Java
5 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) SQL
7 1 (1.47%) Bash
7 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) IRCA
3 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) CSPO
5 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) CISM
6 1 (1.47%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) CRISC
6 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.47%) MCSE
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.47%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) QA
2 7 (10.29%) GDPR
3 6 (8.82%) ISO 9001
4 3 (4.41%) NIST
5 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.47%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) CASB
3 1 (1.47%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (1.47%) SCCM
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) IBM
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle
3 3 (4.41%) SAP
3 3 (4.41%) VMware
4 2 (2.94%) Citrix
4 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) Epicor
5 1 (1.47%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat