Continuous Improvement Job Trends in the Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +10
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 795 373 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.43% 7.42% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 8.35% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 545 212 506
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £29,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,625 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £74,800 £80,218
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

All Process & 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 8,583 4,468 11,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.40% 88.92% 78.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,005 2,536 7,654
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -12.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 2026. 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 +13 487 £55,000 +10.00% 207
East Midlands +24 305 £48,250 +20.62% 146
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 34 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.64%) Confluence
4 6 (0.75%) IIS
5 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.38%) CMS
5 3 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 78 (9.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.63%) Fusion 360
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Solid Edge
5 2 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.25%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) CATIA
6 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 19 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.38%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (14.47%) Azure
2 84 (10.57%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (8.18%) AWS
4 56 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 33 (4.15%) SaaS
6 26 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (3.27%) Entra ID
7 21 (2.64%) Serverless
8 16 (2.01%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.51%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.13%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.13%) PaaS
14 7 (0.88%) GCP
14 7 (0.88%) GitHub
14 7 (0.88%) IaaS
15 6 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.75%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.28%) Firewall
2 35 (4.40%) WAN
3 24 (3.02%) Wireless
4 21 (2.64%) DNS
4 21 (2.64%) VLAN
5 20 (2.52%) LAN
6 17 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 16 (2.01%) DHCP
7 16 (2.01%) VPN
8 15 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.01%) Network Security
10 5 (0.63%) IP Telephony
10 5 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.50%) MQTT
11 4 (0.50%) SAN
12 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.25%) Modbus
12 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.13%) Broadband
13 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.53%) Power BI
2 33 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.76%) Power Query
4 9 (1.13%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.50%) MySQL
7 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.50%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.38%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.38%) Tableau
9 2 (0.25%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.25%) Metadata
9 2 (0.25%) Redis
9 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.25%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (3.14%) JIRA
2 15 (1.89%) Git
3 8 (1.01%) Postman
3 8 (1.01%) Selenium
4 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.75%) JMeter
5 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.63%) GitLab
5 5 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.63%) LabVIEW
5 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.50%) Gatling
6 4 (0.50%) JUnit
6 4 (0.50%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.50%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.38%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 3 (0.38%) Mockito
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 292 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 164 (20.63%) Finance
3 150 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (11.70%) Manufacturing
5 65 (8.18%) Influencing Skills
6 59 (7.42%) Public Sector
7 57 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
8 42 (5.28%) Retail
9 31 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (3.65%) Legal
11 23 (2.89%) Law
12 17 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.76%) Local Government
14 13 (1.64%) Banking
14 13 (1.64%) Electronics
15 7 (0.88%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.75%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.75%) Marketing
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 97 (12.20%) Analyst
2 81 (10.19%) Lead
3 79 (9.94%) Senior
4 51 (6.42%) Support Engineer
5 46 (5.79%) IT Manager
5 46 (5.79%) Technical Support
6 41 (5.16%) Developer
7 38 (4.78%) Technical Engineer
7 38 (4.78%) Technical Support Engineer
8 37 (4.65%) Technologist
9 32 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
10 27 (3.40%) Service Manager
11 26 (3.27%) Accountant
12 22 (2.77%) Business Analyst
12 22 (2.77%) Project Manager
13 21 (2.64%) Support Technician
13 21 (2.64%) Systems Accountant
13 21 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
14 19 (2.39%) Administrator
14 19 (2.39%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.15%) React
2 25 (3.14%) .NET
3 14 (1.76%) AWS CDK
3 14 (1.76%) Next.js
4 13 (1.64%) ASP.NET
4 13 (1.64%) Node.js
4 13 (1.64%) REST
5 12 (1.51%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (1.38%) .NET Framework
7 10 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 9 (1.13%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.13%) Playwright
9 7 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.75%) Entity Framework
10 6 (0.75%) YAML
11 5 (0.63%) Blazor
11 5 (0.63%) Kafka
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.63%) SOAP
12 4 (0.50%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.29%) Driving Licence
2 32 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.14%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.76%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.26%) CSOC
10 10 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.26%) PMI
10 10 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.01%) EPoS
12 8 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.88%) IoT
13 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.94%) Windows
2 32 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.40%) Linux
4 6 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.50%) Android
6 4 (0.50%) VMS
7 3 (0.38%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.25%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (20.13%) Agile
3 134 (16.86%) Decision-Making
4 109 (13.71%) Mentoring
5 98 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 95 (11.95%) Coaching
7 88 (11.07%) Roadmaps
8 83 (10.44%) ITIL
9 80 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 77 (9.69%) CI/CD
10 77 (9.69%) Service Delivery
11 74 (9.31%) Analytics
12 69 (8.68%) Root Cause Analysis
13 68 (8.55%) Collaborative Working
14 66 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
14 66 (8.30%) Risk Management
15 63 (7.92%) DevOps
16 62 (7.80%) AI
17 59 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
18 57 (7.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (7.42%) SQL
2 38 (4.78%) Python
3 31 (3.90%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.90%) TypeScript
4 26 (3.27%) JavaScript
5 21 (2.64%) C#
5 21 (2.64%) Java
6 14 (1.76%) VBA
7 12 (1.51%) Bash
8 11 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.75%) ABAP
10 5 (0.63%) C++
11 4 (0.50%) C
11 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.38%) Bicep
12 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.38%) PHP
13 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (10.69%) Degree
2 60 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 36 (4.53%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.52%) CIMA
5 27 (3.40%) ACCA
6 17 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.89%) CISSP
8 14 (1.76%) PMP
9 13 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.26%) CISM
11 9 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.01%) HNC
12 8 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.88%) ISEB
14 6 (0.75%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.75%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (13.33%) QA
2 33 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (3.77%) SLA
4 29 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.65%) GDPR
5 21 (2.64%) ISO 9001
6 20 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (1.76%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.38%) NIST
10 10 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 9 (1.13%) PMO
12 7 (0.88%) GRC
12 7 (0.88%) ISO 14001
13 6 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.63%) WCAG
15 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.50%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.38%) COSHH
16 3 (0.38%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 51 (6.42%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.52%) Docker
4 13 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (3.02%) Terraform
2 22 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.51%) Grafana
5 9 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.75%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.50%) Ansible
8 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.25%) Autotask
9 2 (0.25%) Nagios
9 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 1 (0.13%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) CASB
10 1 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 180 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.77%) SAP
3 29 (3.65%) Cisco
4 22 (2.77%) VMware
5 16 (2.01%) Oracle
6 14 (1.76%) Dell
7 13 (1.64%) McAfee
7 13 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 12 (1.51%) Juniper
8 12 (1.51%) Workday
9 11 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.26%) Zscaler
11 9 (1.13%) Avaya
11 9 (1.13%) Cognos
11 9 (1.13%) IBM
12 6 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.63%) ConnectWise
13 5 (0.63%) Databricks
13 5 (0.63%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.50%) iManage