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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +25
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 89 114 408
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.66% 15.57% 19.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 17.22% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39 34 35
10th Percentile £31,200 £51,750 £35,350
25th Percentile £38,463 £63,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +52.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,100 £87,125 £82,000
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £61,725 £49,004
% change year-on-year -14.14% +25.96% -24.61%

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 1,008 662 1,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.45% 90.44% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 638 264 575
10th Percentile £29,925 £29,750 £31,650
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,981 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +36.79% -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 12 September 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 (2.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.25%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.47%) Azure
2 13 (14.61%) AWS
3 11 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.62%) GCP
6 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.37%) Serverless
8 2 (2.25%) GitHub
8 2 (2.25%) OCI
8 2 (2.25%) PaaS
8 2 (2.25%) SaaS
9 1 (1.12%) Datadog
9 1 (1.12%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) DHCP
1 4 (4.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.37%) Power BI
3 2 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.25%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
3 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.25%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) JUnit
3 2 (2.25%) Maven
3 2 (2.25%) Mockito
3 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 34 (38.20%) Finance
3 15 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (13.48%) Law
6 8 (8.99%) Banking
6 8 (8.99%) Marketing
7 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.49%) Private Banking
9 3 (3.37%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.12%) Publishing
11 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (16.85%) Lead
2 14 (15.73%) Developer
2 14 (15.73%) Software Engineer
3 10 (11.24%) Analyst
3 10 (11.24%) Senior
4 8 (8.99%) RPG Developer
5 6 (6.74%) IT Director
5 6 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.49%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.49%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Server Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Windows Server Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Windows Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) .NET
2 5 (5.62%) Terraform
3 4 (4.49%) Hugging Face
3 4 (4.49%) PyTorch
3 4 (4.49%) RESTful
4 3 (3.37%) CrewAI
4 3 (3.37%) LangChain
4 3 (3.37%) LangGraph
4 3 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (3.37%) Ray
4 3 (3.37%) vLLM
5 2 (2.25%) SAP Basis
5 2 (2.25%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.25%) Spring
5 2 (2.25%) Spring Batch
5 2 (2.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) WireMock
6 1 (1.12%) CSS
6 1 (1.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) AS400
2 8 (8.99%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.74%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.25%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) FMCG
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Replication
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Windows
2 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.74%) Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Debian
4 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.12%) AIX
5 1 (1.12%) Android
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Solaris
5 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (24.72%) ITIL
3 18 (20.22%) Mentoring
4 17 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (16.85%) AI
5 15 (16.85%) Software Engineering
6 14 (15.73%) Agile
6 14 (15.73%) Collaborative Culture
7 13 (14.61%) Analytics
8 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
8 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (12.36%) Machine Learning
8 11 (12.36%) SDLC
9 10 (11.24%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (10.11%) Change Management
10 9 (10.11%) Decision-Making
10 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (10.11%) Operational Stability
10 9 (10.11%) Service Delivery
10 9 (10.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.98%) Python
2 9 (10.11%) Java
2 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.11%) RPG
3 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.74%) C#
4 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.49%) SQL
6 3 (3.37%) Go
6 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.12%) Bash
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (25.84%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) PhD
4 3 (3.37%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (2.25%) CSPO
5 2 (2.25%) IRCA
6 1 (1.12%) ACCA
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) CIMA
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
2 2 (2.25%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.37%) Grafana
3 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.12%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) IBM
3 6 (6.74%) Oracle
4 4 (4.49%) VMware
5 3 (3.37%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.25%) Databricks
6 2 (2.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco
7 1 (1.12%) Citrix
7 1 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) NEC
7 1 (1.12%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Veeam