Continuous Improvement Jobs in the North of England

Continual Improvement
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 32 74
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 -25
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 954 958 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.24% 5.29% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 6.45% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 429 699 491
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,200 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,911 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -11 463 £55,000 +7.16% 1,269
Yorkshire +26 457 £57,500 -4.17% 901
North East -5 34 £60,000 +33.33% 307
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 52 (5.45%) Confluence
2 22 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.42%) SAS
4 3 (0.31%) IIS
4 3 (0.31%) WordPress
5 1 (0.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.10%) nginx
5 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.10%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 55 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.20%) Simulink
3 19 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.57%) Trello
5 12 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (2.20%) Teamcenter
2 20 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.31%) Maximo
4 3 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.10%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.10%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 130 (13.63%) Azure
2 105 (11.01%) AWS
3 64 (6.71%) GCP
4 34 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (2.73%) Power Platform
6 23 (2.41%) SaaS
7 15 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.47%) GitHub
9 8 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (0.73%) OCI
10 7 (0.73%) Power Automate
10 7 (0.73%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.63%) Serverless
12 5 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (0.52%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.62%) Firewall
2 14 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (1.05%) VPN
4 8 (0.84%) Network Security
5 7 (0.73%) DNS
5 7 (0.73%) OSPF
6 6 (0.63%) BGP
6 6 (0.63%) VLAN
7 5 (0.52%) Intranet
8 4 (0.42%) SAN
9 3 (0.31%) DHCP
9 3 (0.31%) HTTP
9 3 (0.31%) Wireless
10 2 (0.21%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.21%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.21%) Internet
10 2 (0.21%) IP Telephony
10 2 (0.21%) SMTP
10 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.31%) Power BI
3 18 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.47%) MySQL
5 13 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.84%) Big Data
8 6 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.52%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.31%) Event Store
12 2 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.21%) GIS
12 2 (0.21%) SQL CLR
12 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.10%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (8.28%) JIRA
2 49 (5.14%) GitLab
3 41 (4.30%) Maven
4 40 (4.19%) Bitbucket
4 40 (4.19%) Cucumber
4 40 (4.19%) Selenium
4 40 (4.19%) SonarQube
4 40 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 21 (2.20%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (0.94%) Git
7 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.21%) Postman
10 1 (0.10%) ESLint
10 1 (0.10%) Gradle
10 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.10%) Protractor
10 1 (0.10%) Storybook
10 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 505 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 319 (33.44%) Manufacturing
3 283 (29.66%) Finance
4 262 (27.46%) Electronics
5 249 (26.10%) Marketing
6 246 (25.79%) Presentation Skills
7 107 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
8 86 (9.01%) Banking
9 62 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (5.24%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.20%) Legal
13 20 (2.10%) Public Sector
13 20 (2.10%) Retail
14 12 (1.26%) Law
15 6 (0.63%) Advertising
15 6 (0.63%) Local Government
15 6 (0.63%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.63%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 138 (14.47%) Technical Manager
2 136 (14.26%) Help Desk Manager
3 125 (13.10%) Lead
4 101 (10.59%) Products Support Manager
5 93 (9.75%) Systems Engineer
6 84 (8.81%) Support Manager
7 77 (8.07%) Product Manager
8 62 (6.50%) Analyst
9 61 (6.39%) Automation Engineer
10 59 (6.18%) Software Engineer
11 49 (5.14%) Developer
12 46 (4.82%) Senior
13 43 (4.51%) Administrator
14 38 (3.98%) Project Manager
15 37 (3.88%) Principal Engineer
16 30 (3.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
17 28 (2.94%) Junior
18 25 (2.62%) Architect
18 25 (2.62%) Delivery Project Manager
19 21 (2.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.44%) React
2 56 (5.87%) .NET
3 53 (5.56%) CSS
4 46 (4.82%) Kafka
4 46 (4.82%) Spring
4 46 (4.82%) Spring Boot
5 44 (4.61%) HTML
6 42 (4.40%) Hibernate
7 41 (4.30%) Redux
8 40 (4.19%) JPA
9 21 (2.20%) .NET Core
10 18 (1.89%) REST
11 16 (1.68%) .NET Framework
11 16 (1.68%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.36%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.26%) jQuery
14 10 (1.05%) Web Services
15 8 (0.84%) Node.js
15 8 (0.84%) RESTful
15 8 (0.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.49%) Management Information System
2 77 (8.07%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.18%) FMCG
4 58 (6.08%) Social Media
5 49 (5.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 44 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (4.40%) Operational Technology
8 35 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 18 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.57%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.47%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.15%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.05%) e-Learning
17 8 (0.84%) CMDB
17 8 (0.84%) Data Centre
18 7 (0.73%) Cloud Native
18 7 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.14%) Windows
2 26 (2.73%) Windows Vista
3 18 (1.89%) Linux
4 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.10%) Android
6 1 (0.10%) CentOS
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (27.67%) Mathematics
1 264 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
2 258 (27.04%) Physics
3 207 (21.70%) Agile
4 133 (13.94%) Project Management
5 119 (12.47%) DevOps
6 117 (12.26%) CI/CD
7 104 (10.90%) Decision-Making
8 101 (10.59%) Software Engineering
9 93 (9.75%) Change Management
10 90 (9.43%) Project Delivery
11 86 (9.01%) Coaching
12 83 (8.70%) Budgeting
12 83 (8.70%) Microservices
13 81 (8.49%) SDLC
14 78 (8.18%) Process Improvement
15 73 (7.65%) Computer Science
16 68 (7.13%) Collaborative Culture
16 68 (7.13%) Mentoring
17 66 (6.92%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (12.05%) SQL
2 106 (11.11%) Java
3 77 (8.07%) JavaScript
4 50 (5.24%) C#
5 31 (3.25%) Python
6 21 (2.20%) MATLAB
7 20 (2.10%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.05%) C++
9 9 (0.94%) PHP
10 8 (0.84%) Korn
11 7 (0.73%) C-shell
11 7 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.63%) VBA
13 5 (0.52%) Bicep
14 4 (0.42%) Bash
14 4 (0.42%) C
14 4 (0.42%) R
15 3 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 476 (49.90%) Degree
2 110 (11.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 73 (7.65%) DBS Check
4 66 (6.92%) HNC
5 32 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 24 (2.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 24 (2.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 18 (1.89%) ACCA
8 18 (1.89%) CIMA
8 18 (1.89%) CISSP
9 17 (1.78%) PMP
10 16 (1.68%) CCAB
10 16 (1.68%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.26%) CEH
11 12 (1.26%) CISA
11 12 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.26%) CISM
11 12 (1.26%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.92%) QA
2 35 (3.67%) ISO 9001
3 32 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 27 (2.83%) SLA
5 20 (2.10%) GDPR
6 18 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.68%) NIST
8 12 (1.26%) COBIT
9 9 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.63%) ITGC
11 5 (0.52%) IFRS
11 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.52%) PMO
12 4 (0.42%) Basel II
12 4 (0.42%) Basel III
12 4 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.42%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 65 (6.81%) Docker
2 21 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) Firmware
3 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) KVM
5 1 (0.10%) Postfix
5 1 (0.10%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.99%) Terraform
3 13 (1.36%) Ansible
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.63%) Grafana
6 5 (0.52%) Puppet
7 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.31%) SCCM
9 2 (0.21%) Nessus
9 2 (0.21%) Salt
10 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.10%) Nagios
10 1 (0.10%) SCOM
10 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 92 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.56%) Oracle
3 42 (4.40%) Rockwell
3 42 (4.40%) SAP
3 42 (4.40%) Siemens
4 40 (4.19%) Solace
5 23 (2.41%) IBM
6 16 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.36%) Google
7 13 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.05%) Facebook
9 5 (0.52%) Concur
10 4 (0.42%) Hyperion
10 4 (0.42%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.31%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.31%) Dell
11 3 (0.31%) HP
11 3 (0.31%) New Relic
11 3 (0.31%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.31%) VMware