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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 40 95
Rank change year-on-year +17 +55 -64
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 239 269 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.41% 5.12% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.92% 5.95% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 150 209 124
10th Percentile £25,480 £37,550 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.40% +9.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £90,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £54,000 £51,587 £54,882
% change year-on-year +4.68% -6.00% +7.70%

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 2,188 4,520 4,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.30% 86.01% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 3,440 2,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,777 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +15 63 £50,000 -28.57% 24
Altrincham - 9 £47,500 - 20
Salford +13 3 £67,138 -16.08% 17
Oldham - 3 £35,000 - 1
Wigan -2 2 - - 3
Stockport - 2 £56,500 - 9
Sale -7 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 £52,500 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - - 14
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 (5.44%) Confluence
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.42%) IIS
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (5.86%) Trello
3 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.26%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.42%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.83%) Azure
2 41 (17.15%) AWS
3 22 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (6.28%) GCP
4 15 (6.28%) SaaS
5 7 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.26%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.26%) GitHub
8 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.84%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.84%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.42%) Kong
9 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.28%) Firewall
2 14 (5.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.26%) DNS
3 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.84%) HTTP
4 2 (0.84%) SMTP
4 2 (0.84%) WAN
5 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.42%) Internet
5 1 (0.42%) Intranet
5 1 (0.42%) IPsec
5 1 (0.42%) LAN
5 1 (0.42%) OSPF
5 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.09%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.26%) Event Store
4 3 (1.26%) MySQL
4 3 (1.26%) Power BI
5 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.42%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.42%) GIS
6 1 (0.42%) Power Query
6 1 (0.42%) SQL CLR
6 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.42%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (12.13%) JIRA
2 13 (5.44%) GitLab
3 9 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 9 (3.77%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.77%) Maven
3 9 (3.77%) Selenium
3 9 (3.77%) SonarQube
3 9 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.42%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (52.72%) Social Skills
2 82 (34.31%) Finance
3 54 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.11%) Banking
6 15 (6.28%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (5.44%) Legal
9 10 (4.18%) Retail
10 7 (2.93%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.09%) Law
11 5 (2.09%) Marketing
12 3 (1.26%) Automotive
12 3 (1.26%) Billing
12 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Electronics
13 2 (0.84%) Local Government
13 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.42%) Back Office
14 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (12.97%) Analyst
2 29 (12.13%) Lead
3 20 (8.37%) Developer
3 20 (8.37%) Head of IT
3 20 (8.37%) Software Engineer
4 19 (7.95%) Administrator
5 16 (6.69%) IT Administrator
5 16 (6.69%) Senior
6 14 (5.86%) Architect
6 14 (5.86%) Head of Delivery
7 13 (5.44%) Applications Support
7 13 (5.44%) Vendor Manager
8 12 (5.02%) Risk Manager
8 12 (5.02%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.18%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.77%) IT Support
11 8 (3.35%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.93%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (2.93%) Support Analyst
13 6 (2.51%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.88%) .NET
2 22 (9.21%) React
3 15 (6.28%) CSS
4 13 (5.44%) HTML
5 12 (5.02%) Kafka
5 12 (5.02%) Spring
6 11 (4.60%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.18%) Hibernate
8 9 (3.77%) JPA
8 9 (3.77%) Redux
9 8 (3.35%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.51%) Next.js
11 5 (2.09%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.09%) REST
12 4 (1.67%) Entity Framework
12 4 (1.67%) RESTful
13 3 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.94%) Social Media
2 26 (10.88%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 24 (10.04%) Product Ownership
4 19 (7.95%) Management Information System
5 18 (7.53%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (6.69%) Security Posture
7 10 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.93%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 7 (2.93%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.26%) Clustering
11 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.26%) IoT
11 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.48%) Windows
2 30 (12.55%) Windows Vista
3 11 (4.60%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.98%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (35.15%) Agile
3 52 (21.76%) Decision-Making
4 49 (20.50%) Risk Management
5 43 (17.99%) Computer Science
6 41 (17.15%) Collaborative Working
6 41 (17.15%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (16.74%) Process Improvement
8 37 (15.48%) DevOps
8 37 (15.48%) Service Delivery
9 35 (14.64%) Roadmaps
10 32 (13.39%) Data Protection
11 30 (12.55%) CI/CD
11 30 (12.55%) Coaching
11 30 (12.55%) ITIL
11 30 (12.55%) Scrum
11 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
12 28 (11.72%) Project Management
13 27 (11.30%) Information Security
14 24 (10.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.72%) SQL
2 21 (8.79%) C#
3 19 (7.95%) Java
4 15 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.44%) Python
6 9 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.93%) C-shell
7 7 (2.93%) Korn
7 7 (2.93%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.93%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.26%) C++
8 3 (1.26%) Go
8 3 (1.26%) PHP
9 2 (0.84%) ABAP
9 2 (0.84%) VB
9 2 (0.84%) VBA
10 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 75 (31.38%) Degree
2 66 (27.62%) DBS Check
3 28 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (10.88%) Master's Degree
5 20 (8.37%) CISSP
6 16 (6.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 16 (6.69%) CISA
6 16 (6.69%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (6.69%) CRISC
7 15 (6.28%) CISM
7 15 (6.28%) PMI Certification
7 15 (6.28%) PMP
8 14 (5.86%) CEH
9 10 (4.18%) Security Cleared
10 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
11 7 (2.93%) PhD
12 5 (2.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.84%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.42%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.04%) SLA
2 19 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.53%) NIST
4 17 (7.11%) QA
5 16 (6.69%) COBIT
6 12 (5.02%) GDPR
7 9 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.93%) Data Quality
9 6 (2.51%) ITGC
10 3 (1.26%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.84%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.42%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 17 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.02%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.93%) Terraform
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.26%) Ansible
4 3 (1.26%) Grafana
4 3 (1.26%) Kibana
5 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.84%) Puppet
5 2 (0.84%) Salt
6 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.77%) Google
2 9 (3.77%) Solace
3 7 (2.93%) Facebook
3 7 (2.93%) Oracle
4 6 (2.51%) SAP
5 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.26%) New Relic
6 3 (1.26%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.84%) Logitech
7 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.84%) VMware
8 1 (0.42%) AlienVault
8 1 (0.42%) Aruba
8 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.42%) EMC
8 1 (0.42%) Qualys