Continuous Improvement Jobs in the Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 19 41
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 -2
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 495 1,043 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.16% 7.81% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.18% 9.82% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 259 475 296
10th Percentile £27,650 £29,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £77,875
England median annual salary £56,500 £58,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.42% -1.72% -0.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,051 10,618 7,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.47% 79.54% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,920 6,988 4,368
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
West Midlands -9 303 £50,000 -7.41% 275
East Midlands +2 189 £40,000 -20.00% 161
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 50 (10.10%) Confluence
2 14 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.62%) CMS
5 4 (0.81%) Appian
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) MTS
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.02%) Simulink
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Revit
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.01%) SAP EWM
4 5 (1.01%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.81%) Infor CloudSuite
5 4 (0.81%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.40%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) Maximo
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 134 (27.07%) Azure
2 89 (17.98%) AWS
3 52 (10.51%) GCP
4 29 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (4.85%) SaaS
6 23 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 20 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (3.84%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.83%) OCI
10 12 (2.42%) Serverless
11 10 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.62%) IaaS
12 8 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.41%) GitHub
13 7 (1.41%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.21%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.66%) Firewall
2 23 (4.65%) WAN
3 17 (3.43%) LAN
4 9 (1.82%) Network Security
5 8 (1.62%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.41%) VLAN
6 7 (1.41%) VoIP
6 7 (1.41%) VPN
7 6 (1.21%) DNS
8 5 (1.01%) DHCP
8 5 (1.01%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.81%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.61%) Internet
10 3 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.40%) MPLS
12 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.20%) IPsec
12 1 (0.20%) SAN
12 1 (0.20%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.84%) Power BI
3 10 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (2.02%) Tableau
4 9 (1.82%) MySQL
5 6 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.21%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.61%) Data Hub
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.61%) SQL CLR
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.40%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.40%) Parquet
8 2 (0.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 62 (12.53%) JIRA
2 51 (10.30%) GitLab
2 51 (10.30%) Selenium
3 49 (9.90%) Cucumber
4 48 (9.70%) Maven
4 48 (9.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 47 (9.49%) Bitbucket
5 47 (9.49%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.02%) Git
6 10 (2.02%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Mocha
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.20%) NUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 187 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 170 (34.34%) Finance
3 101 (20.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (11.72%) Retail
6 56 (11.31%) Banking
6 56 (11.31%) Marketing
7 33 (6.67%) Digital Health
8 32 (6.46%) Public Sector
9 28 (5.66%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.83%) Electronics
11 14 (2.83%) Legal
12 12 (2.42%) Law
13 11 (2.22%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.82%) Advertising
14 9 (1.82%) Games
15 8 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (12.12%) Software Engineer
2 59 (11.92%) Analyst
3 40 (8.08%) Lead
4 39 (7.88%) Developer
5 34 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 28 (5.66%) Senior
7 26 (5.25%) Technical Engineer
7 26 (5.25%) Technical Support
7 26 (5.25%) Technical Support Engineer
8 21 (4.24%) Consultant
9 15 (3.03%) Integration Consultant
9 15 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
9 15 (3.03%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 15 (3.03%) Technical Consultant
10 13 (2.63%) Cloud Specialist
10 13 (2.63%) Junior
11 12 (2.42%) IT Analyst
11 12 (2.42%) Oracle Specialist
11 12 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (12.53%) CSS
2 58 (11.72%) HTML
3 55 (11.11%) React
4 51 (10.30%) Spring
5 49 (9.90%) Hibernate
5 49 (9.90%) Spring Boot
6 48 (9.70%) JPA
7 47 (9.49%) Kafka
7 47 (9.49%) Redux
8 38 (7.68%) .NET
9 8 (1.62%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.62%) ASP.NET
9 8 (1.62%) Entity Framework
9 8 (1.62%) REST
9 8 (1.62%) Web Services
10 7 (1.41%) Middleware
11 6 (1.21%) EDI
11 6 (1.21%) jQuery
12 4 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.53%) Product Ownership
2 54 (10.91%) Onboarding
3 52 (10.51%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (7.07%) FMCG
5 18 (3.64%) e-Learning
5 18 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.42%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.82%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.21%) NHS
11 5 (1.01%) Pricing Data
11 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.81%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.30%) Windows
2 21 (4.24%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.83%) Linux
4 5 (1.01%) CentOS
4 5 (1.01%) Rocky
4 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 133 (26.87%) Agile
3 82 (16.57%) DevOps
4 71 (14.34%) Project Management
5 68 (13.74%) SDLC
6 67 (13.54%) Software Engineering
7 66 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 64 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (12.53%) Test Automation
10 57 (11.52%) Coaching
10 57 (11.52%) TDD
11 55 (11.11%) Clean Code
11 55 (11.11%) Front End Development
11 55 (11.11%) Microservices
12 54 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
12 54 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 52 (10.51%) CRM
13 52 (10.51%) Logistics
13 52 (10.51%) Performance Optimisation
14 50 (10.10%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (22.02%) SQL
2 70 (14.14%) JavaScript
3 66 (13.33%) Java
4 39 (7.88%) C#
5 24 (4.85%) Python
6 10 (2.02%) MATLAB
7 9 (1.82%) PHP
8 8 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.41%) C++
10 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.40%) Groovy
11 2 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.20%) Bash
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) VB
12 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 108 (21.82%) Degree
2 20 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.42%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 8 (1.62%) HNC
5 8 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.41%) HND
6 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.21%) CISSP
8 5 (1.01%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.81%) CISM
9 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.55%) QA
2 27 (5.45%) SLA
3 12 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.62%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.62%) PMO
4 8 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.21%) GDPR
5 6 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.81%) COBIT
7 4 (0.81%) NCSC
7 4 (0.81%) NIST
8 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.61%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 50 (10.10%) Docker
2 26 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.41%) Terraform
3 6 (1.21%) Ansible
4 5 (1.01%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 98 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.49%) Solace
3 46 (9.29%) Oracle
4 27 (5.45%) VMware
5 26 (5.25%) IBM
6 25 (5.05%) Cisco
7 17 (3.43%) Dell
8 16 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.03%) SAP
10 14 (2.83%) Juniper
10 14 (2.83%) McAfee
11 13 (2.63%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.21%) Infor
12 6 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.21%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.21%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.01%) Avaya
13 5 (1.01%) Databricks
13 5 (1.01%) Google
13 5 (1.01%) JDA