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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +34
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 82 117 597
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.96% 16.20% 21.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.31% 17.84% 22.96%
Number of salaries quoted 37 35 50
10th Percentile £31,150 £47,100 £32,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £63,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +50.23% -3.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £62,188
90th Percentile £81,200 £92,000 £82,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,394 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.93% +10.81% -16.60%

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 881 656 2,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.79% 90.86% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 530 258 710
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,313 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -

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 August 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 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (1.22%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.95%) Azure
2 14 (17.07%) AWS
3 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.10%) GCP
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.88%) Serverless
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.44%) PaaS
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub
9 1 (1.22%) Google Play
9 1 (1.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) DHCP
1 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.44%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Git
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) GitLab
3 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.22%) JUnit
4 1 (1.22%) Maven
4 1 (1.22%) Mockito
4 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (45.12%) Finance
2 36 (43.90%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (14.63%) Law
6 9 (10.98%) Banking
6 9 (10.98%) Marketing
7 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.88%) Private Banking
8 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (17.07%) Developer
1 14 (17.07%) Lead
2 12 (14.63%) Software Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) Senior
4 9 (10.98%) Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) RPG Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Head of QA
6 6 (7.32%) IT Director
6 6 (7.32%) IT Manager
6 6 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.88%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Applications Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.66%) Reliability Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) .NET
2 4 (4.88%) Hugging Face
2 4 (4.88%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.66%) CrewAI
3 3 (3.66%) LangChain
3 3 (3.66%) LangGraph
3 3 (3.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.66%) Ray
3 3 (3.66%) RESTful
3 3 (3.66%) vLLM
4 2 (2.44%) SAP Basis
4 2 (2.44%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.22%) CSS
5 1 (1.22%) CSS3
5 1 (1.22%) HTML5
5 1 (1.22%) Middleware
5 1 (1.22%) Spring
5 1 (1.22%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.22%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) AS400
2 7 (8.54%) AI Agents
3 6 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.44%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) FMCG
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Replication
8 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.22%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Windows
2 5 (6.10%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.88%) Linux
4 2 (2.44%) Debian
4 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.22%) AIX
5 1 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.22%) Solaris
5 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (26.83%) ITIL
3 18 (21.95%) Mentoring
4 17 (20.73%) Analytics
5 16 (19.51%) AI
6 14 (17.07%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (17.07%) Service Delivery
7 13 (15.85%) Agile
7 13 (15.85%) Software Engineering
8 12 (14.63%) Change Management
8 12 (14.63%) Machine Learning
9 11 (13.41%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.98%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (10.98%) Generative AI
11 9 (10.98%) LLM
11 9 (10.98%) SDLC
11 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (10.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.51%) Python
2 9 (10.98%) RPG
3 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.54%) Java
5 6 (7.32%) C#
5 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.88%) SQL
8 3 (3.66%) Go
8 3 (3.66%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (26.83%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) IRCA
3 4 (4.88%) PhD
3 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) CSPO
5 1 (1.22%) CISM
5 1 (1.22%) CISSP
5 1 (1.22%) CRISC
5 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) GDPR
2 6 (7.32%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.44%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.22%) Docker
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.32%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) Grafana
3 3 (3.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.22%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.22%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) IBM
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle
3 4 (4.88%) VMware
4 3 (3.66%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.44%) Databricks
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco
6 1 (1.22%) Citrix
6 1 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) Google
6 1 (1.22%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) Veeam