Continuous Improvement Jobs in Lancashire

Continual Improvement
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 39 30
Rank change year-on-year -63 -9 +24
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 68 48 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.94% 3.65% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 4.62% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 57 38 38
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £49,749 £28,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £42,981 £49,290
Median % change year-on-year +33.92% -12.80% -6.12%
75th Percentile £58,943 £51,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £84,964 £77,500
North West median annual salary £56,000 £51,587 £54,882
% change year-on-year +8.56% -6.00% +7.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,274 1,039 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 98.40% 78.95% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 872 355
10th Percentile £42,415 £28,000 £28,508
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,188 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,313 £59,375
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,772 £70,600
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Lancashire

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Lancashire

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Lancashire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Lancashire

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston -19 26 £57,560 +113.18% 116
Blackburn -31 10 £57,560 +101.96% 6
Blackpool -27 6 £57,560 -19.34% 8
Lytham St Annes - 6 £57,560 - 1
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.29%) Simulink
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Teamcenter
2 4 (5.88%) SAP BPC
3 3 (4.41%) Maximo
4 1 (1.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.76%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) GCP
3 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Intranet
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) FTP
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.47%) SSH
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.47%) MySQL
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (8.82%) Bitbucket
2 6 (8.82%) Cucumber
2 6 (8.82%) GitLab
2 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 6 (8.82%) Maven
2 6 (8.82%) Selenium
2 6 (8.82%) SonarQube
2 6 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (52.94%) Aerospace
2 26 (38.24%) Finance
3 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Electronics
4 7 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.82%) Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Legal
7 3 (4.41%) Military
8 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.94%) Retail
8 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Lead
2 7 (10.29%) Junior
2 7 (10.29%) Junior Systems Engineer
2 7 (10.29%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Analyst
3 6 (8.82%) Finance Manager
3 6 (8.82%) Financial Analyst
3 6 (8.82%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Administrator
5 4 (5.88%) Development Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Data Administrator
6 3 (4.41%) IT Programme Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Senior
7 2 (2.94%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) CSS
1 6 (8.82%) Hibernate
1 6 (8.82%) HTML
1 6 (8.82%) JPA
1 6 (8.82%) Kafka
1 6 (8.82%) React
1 6 (8.82%) Redux
1 6 (8.82%) Spring
1 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.47%) EDI
2 1 (1.47%) LAMP
2 1 (1.47%) Loki
2 1 (1.47%) PySpark
2 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.47%) Life Science
2 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) AIX
1 1 (1.47%) CentOS
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Unix
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
1 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) SDLC
2 32 (47.06%) Collaborative Culture
3 29 (42.65%) Software Testing
3 29 (42.65%) Systems Thinking
4 18 (26.47%) Project Management
5 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.18%) Agile
7 8 (11.76%) DevOps
8 7 (10.29%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
8 7 (10.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.29%) Data Analysis
8 7 (10.29%) Mathematics
8 7 (10.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 7 (10.29%) Physics
8 7 (10.29%) PLM
8 7 (10.29%) SysML
8 7 (10.29%) Systems Engineering
8 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) SQL
2 35 (51.47%) Java
3 7 (10.29%) MATLAB
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.94%) Python
5 2 (2.94%) VBA
6 1 (1.47%) AWK
6 1 (1.47%) C
6 1 (1.47%) C++
6 1 (1.47%) Korn
6 1 (1.47%) Perl
6 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (58.82%) Degree
2 22 (32.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.94%) ACCA
3 2 (2.94%) CIMA
3 2 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.47%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) KVM
2 1 (1.47%) Postfix
2 1 (1.47%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Grafana
2 1 (1.47%) Nagios
2 1 (1.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 34 (50.00%) Oracle
2 8 (11.76%) IBM
2 8 (11.76%) SAP
3 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.82%) Solace
5 4 (5.88%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.47%) Tenable