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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 +17
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 69 50 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 9.15% 5.69% 9.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.39% 6.40% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 33 24 29
10th Percentile £44,950 £32,575 £40,700
25th Percentile £63,750 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,813 £73,000
90th Percentile - £68,375 £91,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,039 £52,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year +33.41% -11.85% +0.05%

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 606 781 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 80.37% 88.95% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 341 393 464
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,300
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £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 £72,500 £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 11 December 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 4 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.90%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Camunda
3 1 (1.45%) FileNet
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.90%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) AWS
2 4 (5.80%) Azure
3 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.35%) Serverless
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.90%) npm
4 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.90%) Yarn
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.45%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) SD-WAN
1 4 (5.80%) WAN
2 3 (4.35%) Wireless
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.45%) BGP
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.45%) DHCP
4 1 (1.45%) DNS
4 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) Internet
4 1 (1.45%) LAN
4 1 (1.45%) Network Security
4 1 (1.45%) OSPF
4 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.45%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.45%) Big Data
4 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.45%) KDB
4 1 (1.45%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.45%) Parquet
4 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) JUnit
1 3 (4.35%) webpack
2 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) Vite
3 1 (1.45%) Ant
3 1 (1.45%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.45%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.45%) Protractor
3 1 (1.45%) Selenium
3 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (43.48%) Finance
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (24.64%) Law
4 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.04%) Banking
6 7 (10.14%) Marketing
7 5 (7.25%) Financial Institution
7 5 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.90%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.90%) Legal
9 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.90%) Retail
10 1 (1.45%) Games
10 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Software Engineer
2 16 (23.19%) Architect
3 13 (18.84%) Firmware Architect
4 11 (15.94%) Java Engineer
4 11 (15.94%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (14.49%) Senior
6 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Innovation Manager
7 5 (7.25%) Head of Data Management
7 5 (7.25%) Head of Risk Management
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Firmware Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Quality Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Firmware Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior QA Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) Spring
2 9 (13.04%) React
3 5 (7.25%) Kafka
3 5 (7.25%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.80%) CSS
4 4 (5.80%) HTML
5 3 (4.35%) REST
5 3 (4.35%) Web Services
6 2 (2.90%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.90%) Jest
6 2 (2.90%) RESTful
6 2 (2.90%) Vue
7 1 (1.45%) Blazor
7 1 (1.45%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.45%) Cocoa
7 1 (1.45%) Core Data
7 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.45%) SwiftUI
7 1 (1.45%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.64%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.45%) Life Science
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Windows
1 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.68%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (36.23%) Agile
3 23 (33.33%) AI
4 20 (28.99%) CI/CD
4 20 (28.99%) Customer Experience
5 18 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 18 (26.09%) Visualisation
6 17 (24.64%) Community of Practice
6 17 (24.64%) SDLC
7 16 (23.19%) Decision-Making
7 16 (23.19%) Mentoring
8 15 (21.74%) Operational Stability
9 11 (15.94%) Analytics
9 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
10 9 (13.04%) Project Management
11 7 (10.14%) Change Management
11 7 (10.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (10.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.64%) C++
2 15 (21.74%) Java
3 8 (11.59%) SQL
4 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) Python
5 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (2.90%) C#
6 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
7 1 (1.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) AWS Certification
1 5 (7.25%) CRISC
2 4 (5.80%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) CCNA
4 1 (1.45%) CCNP
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.45%) PMP
4 1 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) PMO
3 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Firmware
2 9 (13.04%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Docker
4 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Cisco
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.90%) Genesys
4 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.90%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.45%) Aruba
5 1 (1.45%) Avaya
5 1 (1.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.45%) Datto
5 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.45%) Veeam
5 1 (1.45%) Verint
5 1 (1.45%) VMware