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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 28 32
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 99 52 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 11.96% 5.59% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.27% 6.38% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 35 25 30
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,600 £42,225
25th Percentile £61,875 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -6.38% +3.07%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £73,000
90th Percentile - £68,250 £89,250
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £52,750 £59,556
% change year-on-year +27.96% -11.43% +1.78%

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 694 815 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.82% 87.63% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 346 424 466
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 27 November 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 6 (6.06%) Apache
1 6 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.03%) Camunda
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) FileNet
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.22%) AWS
2 7 (7.07%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.05%) npm
3 5 (5.05%) Serverless
3 5 (5.05%) Yarn
4 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.04%) Azure
4 4 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.01%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.01%) GitHub
7 1 (1.01%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) SD-WAN
1 3 (3.03%) WAN
2 2 (2.02%) Wireless
3 1 (1.01%) BGP
3 1 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.01%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (1.01%) DHCP
3 1 (1.01%) DNS
3 1 (1.01%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.01%) Firewall
3 1 (1.01%) HTTP
3 1 (1.01%) Internet
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) Network Security
3 1 (1.01%) OSPF
3 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.01%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.01%) VLAN
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (7.07%) RDBMS
3 7 (7.07%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.03%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (3.03%) Big Data
6 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.03%) KDB
6 3 (3.03%) Kdb+
6 3 (3.03%) Parquet
6 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.02%) Power BI
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) JUnit
2 6 (6.06%) webpack
3 5 (5.05%) Cypress.io
3 5 (5.05%) Vite
4 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (2.02%) Maven
6 1 (1.01%) Ant
6 1 (1.01%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.01%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.01%) Protractor
6 1 (1.01%) Selenium
6 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (59.60%) Finance
2 46 (46.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 46 (46.46%) Law
3 26 (26.26%) Banking
4 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
5 18 (18.18%) Marketing
6 14 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.04%) Legal
8 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.02%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.02%) Retail
11 1 (1.01%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (47.47%) Software Engineer
2 29 (29.29%) Java Engineer
2 29 (29.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 18 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 18 (18.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 16 (16.16%) Architect
5 14 (14.14%) Firmware Architect
6 11 (11.11%) Senior
7 9 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead
9 6 (6.06%) Innovation Manager
9 6 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Head of Data Management
10 5 (5.05%) Head of Risk Management
11 4 (4.04%) Embedded Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.29%) Spring
2 24 (24.24%) React
3 18 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 14 (14.14%) Kafka
5 10 (10.10%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.08%) CSS
6 8 (8.08%) HTML
7 7 (7.07%) Web Services
8 6 (6.06%) REST
8 6 (6.06%) RESTful
9 5 (5.05%) Jest
10 4 (4.04%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.04%) Vue
11 3 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (3.03%) JDBC
11 3 (3.03%) JPA
11 3 (3.03%) OpenAPI
11 3 (3.03%) SOAP
11 3 (3.03%) Swagger
11 3 (3.03%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (46.46%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.03%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.01%) FMCG
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Windows
1 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) Agile
2 47 (47.47%) Software Engineering
2 47 (47.47%) Visualisation
3 46 (46.46%) CI/CD
3 46 (46.46%) Community of Practice
3 46 (46.46%) SDLC
4 42 (42.42%) Operational Stability
5 35 (35.35%) AI
6 31 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (21.21%) Machine Learning
9 19 (19.19%) Customer Experience
9 19 (19.19%) Mentoring
10 16 (16.16%) Decision-Making
11 15 (15.15%) Analytics
12 12 (12.12%) Risk Management
12 12 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.09%) DevOps
13 9 (9.09%) Project Management
13 9 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.41%) Java
2 18 (18.18%) C++
2 18 (18.18%) SQL
3 15 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.12%) Python
6 4 (4.04%) C#
7 3 (3.03%) Scala
8 2 (2.02%) Bash
8 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.01%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (5.05%) AWS Certification
1 5 (5.05%) CRISC
2 4 (4.04%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 3 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (1.01%) CCNA
4 1 (1.01%) CCNP
4 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) PMO
3 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Firmware
2 9 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (4.04%) Docker
4 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.07%) Terraform
3 4 (4.04%) Ansible
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) Oracle
2 10 (10.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Cisco
3 4 (4.04%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.04%) Splunk
4 3 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (1.01%) Aruba
5 1 (1.01%) Avaya
5 1 (1.01%) Datto
5 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.01%) Genesys
5 1 (1.01%) IBM
5 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) Veeam
5 1 (1.01%) VMware