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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +36
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 74 114 597
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.62% 15.94% 21.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.88% 17.46% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 33 33 49
10th Percentile £31,800 £45,550 £32,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +48.15% +20.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,021 £93,500 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -15.38%

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 833 653 2,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.51% 91.33% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 500 262 755
10th Percentile £28,450 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £36,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £54,175
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.32% -1.50%

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 31 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 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.92%) Azure
2 8 (10.81%) AWS
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.41%) Serverless
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (4.05%) GCP
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.35%) Google Play
8 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.70%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) JIRA
3 2 (2.70%) GitLab
3 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.35%) JUnit
4 1 (1.35%) Maven
4 1 (1.35%) Mockito
4 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (43.24%) Finance
2 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (12.16%) Banking
6 8 (10.81%) Law
7 6 (8.11%) Manufacturing
8 5 (6.76%) Marketing
9 4 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (5.41%) Private Banking
9 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.35%) Publishing
10 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (17.57%) Developer
2 11 (14.86%) Lead
3 9 (12.16%) Analyst
3 9 (12.16%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) RPG Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Head of QA
5 6 (8.11%) IT Director
5 6 (8.11%) IT Manager
5 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.70%) Product Analyst
8 2 (2.70%) SAP Basis Support
8 2 (2.70%) SAP Support
8 2 (2.70%) Software Analyst
8 2 (2.70%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) .NET
2 4 (5.41%) Hugging Face
2 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.05%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) CrewAI
4 2 (2.70%) LangChain
4 2 (2.70%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.70%) Ray
4 2 (2.70%) SAP Basis
4 2 (2.70%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.70%) vLLM
5 1 (1.35%) CSS
5 1 (1.35%) HTML
5 1 (1.35%) Middleware
5 1 (1.35%) React
5 1 (1.35%) Spring
5 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.35%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) AS400
2 6 (8.11%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) FMCG
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.70%) Linux
4 1 (1.35%) AIX
4 1 (1.35%) Android
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Solaris
4 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (29.73%) ITIL
3 18 (24.32%) Mentoring
4 16 (21.62%) Analytics
5 14 (18.92%) Service Delivery
6 13 (17.57%) Change Management
6 13 (17.57%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (16.22%) AI
8 10 (13.51%) Agile
8 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Culture
9 9 (12.16%) Machine Learning
9 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (10.81%) Customer Experience
10 8 (10.81%) Generative AI
10 8 (10.81%) LLM
11 7 (9.46%) CI/CD
11 7 (9.46%) Commercial Awareness
11 7 (9.46%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) Python
2 9 (12.16%) RPG
3 6 (8.11%) C#
3 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.05%) Java
4 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.05%) SQL
4 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.70%) Go
5 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) IRCA
3 4 (5.41%) PhD
3 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) CSPO
5 1 (1.35%) CISM
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) CRISC
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) QA
2 6 (8.11%) GDPR
2 6 (8.11%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.35%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) Grafana
3 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.35%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.35%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) IBM
3 4 (5.41%) Oracle
3 4 (5.41%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) SAP
5 2 (2.70%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) Citrix
6 1 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) Epicor
6 1 (1.35%) Google
6 1 (1.35%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) Veeam