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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +40
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 67 112 692
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.18% 15.82% 22.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 17.10% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 32 31 59
10th Percentile £35,113 £44,000 £39,850
25th Percentile £46,625 £63,750 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +48.15% +16.22%
75th Percentile £61,563 £85,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £83,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,425 £67,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -23.82% +25.00% -10.77%

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 805 655 2,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.26% 92.51% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 496 266 818
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £31,438 £37,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,886
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.71% -2.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% -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 19 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 (2.99%) IIS
1 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.99%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.97%) AWS
3 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (5.97%) Serverless
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.99%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) PaaS
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.49%) Datadog
6 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.49%) Google Play
6 1 (1.49%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.49%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.99%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.99%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.49%) JUnit
4 1 (1.49%) Maven
4 1 (1.49%) Mockito
4 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (50.75%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.84%) Finance
3 21 (31.34%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Retail
7 2 (2.99%) Publishing
8 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Law
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Analyst
1 12 (17.91%) Developer
2 9 (13.43%) Senior
3 8 (11.94%) RPG Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Head of QA
4 6 (8.96%) IT Director
4 6 (8.96%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.97%) Applications Support
5 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 3 (4.48%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Support Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) IT Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Product Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) SAP Basis Support
7 2 (2.99%) SAP Support
7 2 (2.99%) Site Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) .NET
2 3 (4.48%) RESTful
3 2 (2.99%) SAP Basis
3 2 (2.99%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.49%) Android SDK
4 1 (1.49%) CSS
4 1 (1.49%) CSS3
4 1 (1.49%) HTML
4 1 (1.49%) HTML5
4 1 (1.49%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.49%) Middleware
4 1 (1.49%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.49%) React
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) AS400
2 6 (8.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.49%) FMCG
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) AIX
4 1 (1.49%) Android
4 1 (1.49%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) ITIL
1 25 (37.31%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (25.37%) Mentoring
3 16 (23.88%) Analytics
3 16 (23.88%) Service Delivery
4 13 (19.40%) Change Management
5 11 (16.42%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (14.93%) Agile
6 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (13.43%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (13.43%) Customer Experience
7 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.45%) Commercial Awareness
8 7 (10.45%) PRINCE2
8 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (8.96%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 6 (8.96%) Data Analytics
9 6 (8.96%) Internal Audit
9 6 (8.96%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.43%) RPG
2 6 (8.96%) C#
3 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.46%) Python
4 3 (4.48%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.99%) SQL
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (28.36%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) IRCA
3 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) CSPO
5 1 (1.49%) CISM
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) CRISC
5 1 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.49%) MCSE
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.49%) MOS
5 1 (1.49%) PhD
5 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 6 (8.96%) GDPR
2 6 (8.96%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.49%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.49%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) IBM
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
3 3 (4.48%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) Citrix
4 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco
5 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) Epicor
5 1 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat