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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +51
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 59 104 793
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 5.81% 16.67% 21.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 17.66% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 27 26 59
10th Percentile £31,800 £51,750 £39,850
25th Percentile £43,750 £63,750 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +48.15% +20.00%
75th Percentile £59,375 £85,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £98,125 £83,000
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £67,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -28.15% +25.00% -16.92%

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 735 589 3,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 72.41% 94.39% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 450 218 910
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £40,808
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,375 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 22 June 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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (18.64%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) AWS
4 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) GCP
4 2 (3.39%) IaaS
4 2 (3.39%) Mimecast
4 2 (3.39%) PaaS
4 2 (3.39%) SaaS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.69%) OCI
5 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
1 3 (5.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.69%) JUnit
3 1 (1.69%) Maven
3 1 (1.69%) Mockito
3 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (59.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (35.59%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (30.51%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Retail
7 2 (3.39%) Back Office
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.39%) Publishing
8 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Analyst
2 7 (11.86%) IT Manager
2 7 (11.86%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Developer
3 6 (10.17%) Head of QA
4 5 (8.47%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.47%) RPG Developer
5 4 (6.78%) IT Director
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.39%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 2 (3.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) Android SDK
3 1 (1.69%) Middleware
3 1 (1.69%) Spring
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (10.17%) AS400
2 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.69%) FMCG
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) PKI
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Windows
2 5 (8.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) AIX
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) ITIL
1 22 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.42%) Analytics
2 15 (25.42%) Service Delivery
3 13 (22.03%) Change Management
3 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
4 10 (16.95%) Customer Experience
5 9 (15.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (13.56%) Agile
7 7 (11.86%) Collaborative Culture
7 7 (11.86%) Customer Service
7 7 (11.86%) PRINCE2
7 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
8 6 (10.17%) Quality Management
8 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) RPG
2 3 (5.08%) C#
2 3 (5.08%) Java
2 3 (5.08%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) IRCA
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) CSPO
5 2 (3.39%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) MCSE
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (3.39%) MOS
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) CRISC
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) QA
2 7 (11.86%) GDPR
3 6 (10.17%) ISO 9001
4 3 (5.08%) NIST
5 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.39%) SLA
6 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.69%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) SCCM
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) CASB
2 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) IBM
3 3 (5.08%) Citrix
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
3 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.08%) VMware
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) Epicor
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) SAP