Continuous Improvement Jobs in the North East

Continual Improvement
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 30 58
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 +9
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 37 108 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.91% 5.81% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 6.69% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 35 83 46
10th Percentile £34,750 £28,250 £23,214
25th Percentile £42,865 £34,017 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £45,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% +18.42% -15.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,734 £49,468
90th Percentile £75,950 £73,500 £59,375
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 1,614 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 89.52% 86.87% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 370 1,312 597
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,885 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £66,354 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £73,750
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North East

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the North East

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North East

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Tyne and Wear +2 29 £55,000 +22.22% 68
Northumberland +6 6 £61,000 -3.17% 2
Durham -5 2 £56,500 +41.25% 11
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Bluetooth
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) SAN
4 1 (2.70%) PSTN
4 1 (2.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Postman
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
2 1 (2.70%) Protractor
2 1 (2.70%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Electronics
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Law
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Engineering Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Graduate
5 3 (8.11%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (8.11%) IT Graduate
6 2 (5.41%) DBA
6 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) CSS
3 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
3 3 (8.11%) jQuery
3 3 (8.11%) React
4 2 (5.41%) HTML
4 2 (5.41%) Jest
4 2 (5.41%) Vue
5 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.70%) Flash
5 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.70%) JPA
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) Redux
5 1 (2.70%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.70%) Svelte
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) SCADA
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (37.84%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) Mentoring
3 13 (35.14%) Test Automation
4 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
5 10 (27.03%) Collaborative Culture
5 10 (27.03%) Project Management
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.22%) DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) ITIL
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security
10 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (8.11%) Customer Service
10 3 (8.11%) Front End Development
10 3 (8.11%) OOP
10 3 (8.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) C#
2 6 (16.22%) Java
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) C
3 4 (10.81%) C++
3 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.11%) PHP
5 2 (5.41%) Python
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.70%) CCNA
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.70%) HNC
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MCSA
4 1 (2.70%) MCSE
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (10.81%) Firmware
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Docker
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Concur
2 2 (5.41%) JD Edwards
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
2 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco
3 1 (2.70%) Freshdesk
3 1 (2.70%) Solace
3 1 (2.70%) Veeam