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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 20 37
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 340 956 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.00% 7.58% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 9.41% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 195 509 296
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £51,875
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.20% +2.43%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £66,589
90th Percentile £70,856 £80,848 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

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 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
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 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 28 May 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 28 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
West Midlands -35 183 £50,000 -6.54% 1,040
East Midlands -7 153 £40,050 -15.68% 729
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 47 (13.82%) Confluence
2 13 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.18%) CMS
5 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) IIS
6 2 (0.59%) MTS
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 14 (4.12%) Simulink
2 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.18%) Trello
6 2 (0.59%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.12%) Teamcenter
2 7 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.18%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (1.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 3 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.59%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.59%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.59%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.29%) Maximo
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 116 (34.12%) Azure
2 79 (23.24%) AWS
3 49 (14.41%) GCP
4 26 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (4.71%) Entra ID
6 15 (4.41%) SaaS
7 12 (3.53%) OCI
8 10 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (2.65%) Serverless
10 8 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.35%) IaaS
11 6 (1.76%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.47%) GitHub
12 5 (1.47%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.88%) Firewall
2 14 (4.12%) WAN
3 9 (2.65%) LAN
4 7 (2.06%) SD-WAN
4 7 (2.06%) VoIP
4 7 (2.06%) VPN
5 6 (1.76%) Network Security
5 6 (1.76%) VLAN
6 5 (1.47%) DHCP
6 5 (1.47%) DNS
7 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.88%) Internet
9 1 (0.29%) PBX
9 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.24%) Tableau
3 8 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.06%) Power BI
5 6 (1.76%) MySQL
5 6 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.88%) Parquet
8 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.88%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.59%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.59%) SQL CLR
10 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.29%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.29%) MS Access
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (17.65%) JIRA
2 51 (15.00%) GitLab
3 49 (14.41%) Selenium
4 48 (14.12%) Cucumber
5 47 (13.82%) Bitbucket
5 47 (13.82%) Maven
5 47 (13.82%) SonarQube
5 47 (13.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (4.12%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (2.06%) Git
8 2 (0.59%) Mocha
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.29%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.29%) Newman
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.29%) Subversion
9 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 119 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 108 (31.76%) Finance
3 84 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (15.29%) Banking
5 44 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.35%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.47%) Marketing
8 18 (5.29%) Retail
9 15 (4.41%) Electronics
9 15 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (4.12%) Aerospace
11 12 (3.53%) Law
12 10 (2.94%) Billing
13 8 (2.35%) Games
13 8 (2.35%) Legal
14 7 (2.06%) Police
15 6 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.47%) Local Government
17 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (16.18%) Software Engineer
2 48 (14.12%) Analyst
3 25 (7.35%) Developer
4 22 (6.47%) Senior
5 19 (5.59%) Consultant
6 15 (4.41%) Integration Consultant
6 15 (4.41%) Oracle Consultant
6 15 (4.41%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 15 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (4.41%) Technical Consultant
7 14 (4.12%) Junior
7 14 (4.12%) Junior Systems Engineer
7 14 (4.12%) Lead
8 13 (3.82%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.53%) Cloud Specialist
9 12 (3.53%) Oracle Specialist
9 12 (3.53%) Project Engineer
9 12 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (2.94%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.76%) CSS
2 52 (15.29%) HTML
3 50 (14.71%) React
4 49 (14.41%) Spring
5 48 (14.12%) Hibernate
5 48 (14.12%) JPA
5 48 (14.12%) Spring Boot
6 47 (13.82%) Kafka
6 47 (13.82%) Redux
7 31 (9.12%) .NET
8 8 (2.35%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.06%) jQuery
9 7 (2.06%) Web Services
10 4 (1.18%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.18%) Middleware
11 3 (0.88%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.88%) Node.js
11 3 (0.88%) PySpark
11 3 (0.88%) REST
11 3 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.06%) Product Ownership
2 53 (15.59%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (6.47%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.29%) e-Learning
4 18 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.47%) Learning Management System
8 5 (1.47%) Pricing Data
9 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.18%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.88%) PKI
10 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.35%) Windows
2 20 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.35%) Linux
4 5 (1.47%) CentOS
4 5 (1.47%) Rocky
4 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.88%) Agile
2 104 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (22.06%) Project Management
4 66 (19.41%) DevOps
5 62 (18.24%) SDLC
6 60 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 58 (17.06%) CI/CD
8 55 (16.18%) Test Automation
9 53 (15.59%) TDD
10 52 (15.29%) Microservices
10 52 (15.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 51 (15.00%) Clean Code
12 50 (14.71%) Front End Development
12 50 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 47 (13.82%) Containerisation
14 40 (11.76%) ITIL
15 36 (10.59%) Mentoring
16 35 (10.29%) Roadmaps
17 33 (9.71%) Computer Science
17 33 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (27.65%) SQL
2 60 (17.65%) Java
2 60 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 27 (7.94%) C#
4 22 (6.47%) Python
5 14 (4.12%) MATLAB
6 9 (2.65%) PHP
7 7 (2.06%) C++
7 7 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.29%) C
9 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (20.59%) Degree
2 14 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.35%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.06%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.76%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.18%) CISM
7 4 (1.18%) CISSP
7 4 (1.18%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.18%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.18%) PMP
7 4 (1.18%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (17.65%) QA
2 18 (5.29%) SLA
3 7 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.06%) PMO
4 6 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.47%) COBIT
5 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 5 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.18%) GDPR
7 3 (0.88%) NIST
7 3 (0.88%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.59%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 50 (14.71%) Docker
2 20 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.76%) Ansible
3 5 (1.47%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.18%) Terraform
5 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.29%) Nessus
5 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.82%) Solace
3 37 (10.88%) Oracle
4 30 (8.82%) IBM
5 17 (5.00%) VMware
6 15 (4.41%) Cisco
6 15 (4.41%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.65%) Dell
8 9 (2.65%) SAP
9 6 (1.76%) Infor
9 6 (1.76%) Juniper
9 6 (1.76%) McAfee
9 6 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.47%) Avaya
10 5 (1.47%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.47%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.18%) Google
12 3 (0.88%) Apple
12 3 (0.88%) Databricks