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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 20 37
Rank change year-on-year -31 +17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 329 931 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.77% 7.68% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.21% 9.43% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 185 506 289
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,250 £66,500 £66,286
90th Percentile £70,856 £82,500 £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 6,312 9,877 8,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.54% 81.43% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,461 7,187 4,406
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £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 22 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 22 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 -36 181 £50,000 -6.54% 376
East Midlands -17 144 £40,101 -15.58% 219
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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 13 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.82%) CMS
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.61%) MTS
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (4.26%) Simulink
2 12 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.22%) Trello
6 2 (0.61%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.26%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.22%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (1.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 3 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.61%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.30%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 115 (34.95%) Azure
2 77 (23.40%) AWS
3 49 (14.89%) GCP
4 28 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.56%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (3.95%) SaaS
8 12 (3.65%) OCI
9 9 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.43%) IaaS
10 8 (2.43%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.43%) Serverless
11 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.82%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.22%) GitHub
13 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.22%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.08%) Firewall
2 14 (4.26%) WAN
3 9 (2.74%) LAN
4 7 (2.13%) SD-WAN
4 7 (2.13%) VoIP
4 7 (2.13%) VPN
5 6 (1.82%) Network Security
5 6 (1.82%) VLAN
6 5 (1.52%) DHCP
6 5 (1.52%) DNS
7 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.91%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) PBX
9 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.06%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.43%) Tableau
3 6 (1.82%) MySQL
3 6 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.91%) Parquet
6 3 (0.91%) Power BI
6 3 (0.91%) Spark SQL
7 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.30%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.30%) SQL CLR
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (18.24%) JIRA
2 51 (15.50%) GitLab
3 49 (14.89%) Selenium
4 48 (14.59%) Cucumber
5 47 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 47 (14.29%) Maven
5 47 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 47 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (4.26%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (2.13%) Git
8 2 (0.61%) Mocha
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.30%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.30%) Newman
9 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.30%) Subversion
9 1 (0.30%) Vagrant
General
1 116 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 104 (31.61%) Finance
3 84 (25.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (15.50%) Banking
5 45 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.29%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.08%) Marketing
8 17 (5.17%) Retail
9 16 (4.86%) Manufacturing
10 15 (4.56%) Electronics
10 15 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.26%) Aerospace
12 12 (3.65%) Law
13 10 (3.04%) Billing
14 9 (2.74%) Legal
15 7 (2.13%) Police
16 6 (1.82%) Games
16 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.52%) Local Government
17 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (16.72%) Software Engineer
2 42 (12.77%) Analyst
3 23 (6.99%) Developer
4 22 (6.69%) Senior
5 19 (5.78%) Consultant
6 15 (4.56%) Integration Consultant
6 15 (4.56%) Oracle Consultant
6 15 (4.56%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 15 (4.56%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (4.56%) Technical Consultant
7 14 (4.26%) Junior
7 14 (4.26%) Junior Systems Engineer
8 12 (3.65%) Cloud Specialist
8 12 (3.65%) Lead
8 12 (3.65%) Oracle Specialist
8 12 (3.65%) Project Engineer
8 12 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (3.34%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.04%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.33%) CSS
2 52 (15.81%) HTML
3 50 (15.20%) React
4 49 (14.89%) Spring
5 48 (14.59%) Hibernate
5 48 (14.59%) JPA
5 48 (14.59%) Spring Boot
6 47 (14.29%) Kafka
6 47 (14.29%) Redux
7 28 (8.51%) .NET
8 8 (2.43%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.13%) jQuery
9 7 (2.13%) Web Services
10 3 (0.91%) Entity Framework
10 3 (0.91%) Middleware
10 3 (0.91%) Node.js
10 3 (0.91%) PySpark
10 3 (0.91%) REST
10 3 (0.91%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (0.91%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.02%) Product Ownership
2 52 (15.81%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.78%) e-Learning
5 18 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.82%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.22%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.22%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.22%) Pricing Data
9 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.91%) PKI
10 3 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.46%) Windows
2 19 (5.78%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.43%) Linux
4 5 (1.52%) CentOS
4 5 (1.52%) Rocky
4 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (31.00%) Agile
2 97 (29.48%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (23.10%) Project Management
4 67 (20.36%) DevOps
5 60 (18.24%) SDLC
6 59 (17.93%) CI/CD
6 59 (17.93%) Software Engineering
7 55 (16.72%) Test Automation
8 52 (15.81%) Microservices
8 52 (15.81%) Performance Optimisation
8 52 (15.81%) TDD
9 50 (15.20%) Clean Code
9 50 (15.20%) Front End Development
10 49 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 47 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 38 (11.55%) ITIL
13 35 (10.64%) Mentoring
14 34 (10.33%) Roadmaps
15 33 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (9.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 86 (26.14%) SQL
2 60 (18.24%) JavaScript
3 59 (17.93%) Java
4 25 (7.60%) C#
5 18 (5.47%) Python
6 14 (4.26%) MATLAB
7 9 (2.74%) PHP
8 7 (2.13%) C++
8 7 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) C
10 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (20.36%) Degree
2 14 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.43%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.82%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.22%) CISM
7 4 (1.22%) CISSP
7 4 (1.22%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.22%) PMP
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.61%) APMG
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (18.54%) QA
2 18 (5.47%) SLA
3 8 (2.43%) PMO
4 7 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.91%) COBIT
8 3 (0.91%) GDPR
8 3 (0.91%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.91%) NIST
8 3 (0.91%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.61%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) P3O
System Software
1 50 (15.20%) Docker
2 20 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.82%) Ansible
3 5 (1.52%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.30%) Nessus
4 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 47 (14.29%) Solace
3 35 (10.64%) Oracle
4 30 (9.12%) IBM
5 16 (4.86%) VMware
6 15 (4.56%) Cisco
6 15 (4.56%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.74%) Dell
8 8 (2.43%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.13%) SAP
10 6 (1.82%) Infor
10 6 (1.82%) Juniper
10 6 (1.82%) McAfee
10 6 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.52%) Avaya
11 5 (1.52%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.52%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.22%) Google
13 3 (0.91%) HP
13 3 (0.91%) Veeam