Continuous Improvement Jobs in Manchester

Continual Improvement
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 41 97
Rank change year-on-year +18 +56 -64
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 224 275 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.34% 5.14% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.83% 6.04% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 133 213 122
10th Percentile £25,480 £35,550 £36,350
25th Percentile £40,040 £43,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.40% +10.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £88,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £56,000 £51,587 £53,691
% change year-on-year +8.56% -3.92% +7.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,069 4,554 4,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.52% 85.19% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,153 3,459 2,488
10th Percentile £29,800 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,020 £82,500
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bolton +18 60 £50,000 -28.57% 157
Altrincham - 10 £47,500 - 14
Oldham - 4 £35,000 -
Stockport - 3 £56,500 - 94
Wigan -3 2 - - 6
Salford +10 1 - - 10
Sale -6 1 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - - 8
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (5.80%) Confluence
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.89%) IIS
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (6.25%) Trello
3 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.45%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.98%) Azure
2 39 (17.41%) AWS
3 23 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.14%) GCP
4 16 (7.14%) SaaS
5 7 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.34%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (1.34%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.34%) GitHub
8 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.89%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.89%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.45%) Kong
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.91%) Firewall
2 10 (4.46%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.34%) DNS
3 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.89%) HTTP
4 2 (0.89%) SMTP
4 2 (0.89%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.45%) Internet
5 1 (0.45%) Intranet
5 1 (0.45%) IPsec
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) OSPF
5 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.34%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.34%) Event Store
4 3 (1.34%) MySQL
4 3 (1.34%) Power BI
5 2 (0.89%) Data Hub
5 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.89%) SQL CLR
6 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.45%) GIS
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (12.95%) JIRA
2 13 (5.80%) GitLab
3 9 (4.02%) Bitbucket
3 9 (4.02%) Cucumber
3 9 (4.02%) Maven
3 9 (4.02%) Selenium
3 9 (4.02%) SonarQube
3 9 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 121 (54.02%) Social Skills
2 81 (36.16%) Finance
3 47 (20.98%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (7.14%) Banking
6 13 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.36%) Legal
8 11 (4.91%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.46%) Retail
10 8 (3.57%) Marketing
11 7 (3.13%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.23%) Law
13 3 (1.34%) Automotive
13 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.89%) Back Office
14 2 (0.89%) Local Government
14 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (13.39%) Analyst
2 26 (11.61%) Lead
3 20 (8.93%) Head of IT
4 19 (8.48%) Administrator
4 19 (8.48%) Developer
4 19 (8.48%) Software Engineer
5 16 (7.14%) IT Administrator
6 15 (6.70%) Senior
7 14 (6.25%) Applications Support
7 14 (6.25%) Head of Delivery
8 13 (5.80%) Vendor Manager
9 12 (5.36%) Risk Manager
10 11 (4.91%) Architect
11 10 (4.46%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.46%) IT Support
12 8 (3.57%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.57%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.13%) Applications Support Analyst
13 7 (3.13%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.13%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.61%) .NET
2 21 (9.38%) React
3 14 (6.25%) CSS
4 13 (5.80%) Spring
5 12 (5.36%) Kafka
5 12 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 11 (4.91%) Hibernate
6 11 (4.91%) HTML
7 9 (4.02%) .NET Core
7 9 (4.02%) JPA
7 9 (4.02%) Redux
8 8 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.68%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.23%) Entity Framework
11 4 (1.79%) Next.js
11 4 (1.79%) REST
11 4 (1.79%) RESTful
12 3 (1.34%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (1.34%) Blazor
12 3 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.89%) Social Media
2 25 (11.16%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 23 (10.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 18 (8.04%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (6.70%) Management Information System
7 12 (5.36%) Security Posture
8 10 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.13%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 7 (3.13%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.34%) Clustering
11 3 (1.34%) IoT
11 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.89%) Industry 4.0
12 2 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (15.63%) Windows
2 26 (11.61%) Windows Vista
3 11 (4.91%) Linux
4 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (37.95%) Agile
2 77 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 42 (18.75%) Risk Management
5 40 (17.86%) Process Improvement
6 39 (17.41%) Collaborative Working
6 39 (17.41%) Computer Science
7 37 (16.52%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (16.07%) Roadmaps
9 35 (15.63%) DevOps
9 35 (15.63%) Service Delivery
10 31 (13.84%) CI/CD
10 31 (13.84%) Software Engineering
11 30 (13.39%) ITIL
12 29 (12.95%) Coaching
12 29 (12.95%) Scrum
13 28 (12.50%) Project Management
14 27 (12.05%) Data Protection
15 24 (10.71%) Microservices
16 23 (10.27%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.95%) SQL
2 21 (9.38%) C#
3 19 (8.48%) Java
4 14 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.36%) Python
6 8 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.13%) C-shell
7 7 (3.13%) Korn
7 7 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.34%) Go
8 3 (1.34%) PHP
8 3 (1.34%) VB
8 3 (1.34%) VBA
9 2 (0.89%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 67 (29.91%) Degree
2 63 (28.13%) DBS Check
3 24 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.38%) Master's Degree
5 16 (7.14%) CISSP
6 14 (6.25%) PMI Certification
6 14 (6.25%) PMP
7 12 (5.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 12 (5.36%) CISA
7 12 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.36%) CRISC
8 11 (4.91%) CISM
9 10 (4.46%) CEH
10 7 (3.13%) PhD
11 6 (2.68%) Security Cleared
12 4 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (1.79%) SC Cleared
13 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.27%) SLA
2 17 (7.59%) QA
3 14 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.25%) NIST
4 12 (5.36%) COBIT
5 9 (4.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.57%) GDPR
7 7 (3.13%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.68%) ITGC
9 3 (1.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.80%) Docker
3 3 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.13%) Terraform
3 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.34%) Ansible
4 3 (1.34%) Grafana
4 3 (1.34%) Kibana
5 2 (0.89%) Puppet
5 2 (0.89%) Salt
6 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.02%) Google
2 9 (4.02%) Solace
3 8 (3.57%) Facebook
3 8 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (1.79%) SAP
5 3 (1.34%) Logitech
5 3 (1.34%) New Relic
5 3 (1.34%) Ping Identity
5 3 (1.34%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.34%) VMware
6 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) AlienVault
7 1 (0.45%) Aruba
7 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.45%) Qualys