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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +16
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 97 120 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.50% 15.21% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 16.81% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40 40 26
10th Percentile £31,225 £48,275 £32,625
25th Percentile £39,290 £63,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +56.86% -11.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £83,375 £85,125 £63,875
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +46.74% -23.33%

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 1,146 714 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 76.76% 90.49% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 678 297 480
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,851 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
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 13 October 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 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
3 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 21 (21.65%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) AWS
3 11 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.19%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.15%) GCP
7 4 (4.12%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.12%) SaaS
7 4 (4.12%) Serverless
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.09%) GitHub
9 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.03%) Datadog
9 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.03%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) DHCP
1 4 (4.12%) DNS
2 3 (3.09%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) VLAN
3 2 (2.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.03%) TETRA
4 1 (1.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.06%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 3 (3.09%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.06%) Hudson
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
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (35.05%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (12.37%) Law
5 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.25%) Marketing
6 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Banking
8 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Private Banking
9 3 (3.09%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.03%) Billing
11 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Publishing
11 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
4 11 (11.34%) Senior
5 8 (8.25%) RPG Developer
6 6 (6.19%) IT Director
6 6 (6.19%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Server Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) Terraform
2 5 (5.15%) .NET
3 4 (4.12%) Hugging Face
3 4 (4.12%) PyTorch
3 4 (4.12%) RESTful
4 3 (3.09%) CrewAI
4 3 (3.09%) LangChain
4 3 (3.09%) LangGraph
4 3 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (3.09%) Ray
4 3 (3.09%) vLLM
5 2 (2.06%) CSS
5 2 (2.06%) CSS3
5 2 (2.06%) HTML5
5 2 (2.06%) React
5 2 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.06%) Spring Batch
5 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.06%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) AS400
2 8 (8.25%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.19%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
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%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.03%) Replication
8 1 (1.03%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.37%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.15%) Linux
4 4 (4.12%) Debian
4 4 (4.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.08%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (20.62%) Mentoring
4 18 (18.56%) ITIL
5 17 (17.53%) Agile
6 16 (16.49%) AI
6 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
7 15 (15.46%) Collaborative Culture
8 13 (13.40%) Decision-Making
9 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
9 12 (12.37%) SDLC
10 11 (11.34%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.34%) Service Delivery
11 10 (10.31%) Analytics
11 10 (10.31%) Coaching
11 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (10.31%) User Experience
12 9 (9.28%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (9.28%) Technical Debt
12 9 (9.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) Python
2 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.28%) Java
3 9 (9.28%) RPG
4 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.15%) C#
6 5 (5.15%) SQL
7 3 (3.09%) Go
7 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) PhD
4 3 (3.09%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (2.06%) AAT
5 2 (2.06%) CSPO
5 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) A+ Certification
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) QA
2 4 (4.12%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
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%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.28%) IBM
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) VMware
5 3 (3.09%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.06%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) IFS
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%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) NEC
7 1 (1.03%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.03%) Veeam
7 1 (1.03%) YouTube