Continuous Improvement Jobs in the North West

Continual Improvement
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 36 80
Rank change year-on-year -9 +44 -36
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 468 525 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.00% 5.07% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 6.25% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 293 371 219
10th Percentile £32,550 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,715
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,486 8,394 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.93% 81.13% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 6,316 3,841
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +16 226 £55,000 -8.33% 524
Cumbria -26 113 £51,564 -26.34% 8
Lancashire -54 68 £57,560 +35.43% 152
Cheshire -26 41 £37,500 -13.79% 288
Merseyside -11 20 £54,000 +8.00% 121
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 44 (9.40%) Confluence
2 19 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) IIS
4 2 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 38 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (3.21%) Trello
3 10 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.50%) Simulink
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (4.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.85%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.64%) Maximo
4 3 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.64%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 87 (18.59%) Azure
2 78 (16.67%) AWS
3 47 (10.04%) GCP
4 26 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.85%) SaaS
6 15 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.28%) GitHub
8 5 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.07%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.07%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (0.64%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.43%) NuGet
12 1 (0.21%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.35%) Firewall
2 9 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.07%) Intranet
3 5 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.64%) DNS
5 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 2 (0.43%) SMTP
5 2 (0.43%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) IPsec
6 1 (0.21%) LAN
6 1 (0.21%) OSPF
6 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.21%) VPN
6 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.35%) Power BI
3 9 (1.92%) MySQL
4 7 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.07%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.64%) Event Store
7 3 (0.64%) GIS
8 2 (0.43%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.43%) SQL CLR
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.21%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (13.46%) JIRA
2 48 (10.26%) GitLab
3 39 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 39 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 39 (8.33%) Maven
3 39 (8.33%) Selenium
3 39 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 39 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (1.71%) Git
5 7 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.21%) ESLint
7 1 (0.21%) Mocha
7 1 (0.21%) NUnit
7 1 (0.21%) Sinon.JS
7 1 (0.21%) Storybook
7 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 168 (35.90%) Finance
2 158 (33.76%) Social Skills
3 85 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (10.26%) Banking
6 36 (7.69%) Aerospace
7 17 (3.63%) Retail
8 16 (3.42%) Legal
8 16 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.14%) Marketing
11 8 (1.71%) Electronics
11 8 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.28%) Law
13 5 (1.07%) Local Government
14 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.64%) Automotive
15 3 (0.64%) Military
16 2 (0.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (18.59%) Lead
2 55 (11.75%) Analyst
3 49 (10.47%) Software Engineer
4 39 (8.33%) Administrator
5 37 (7.91%) Project Manager
6 35 (7.48%) Principal Engineer
6 35 (7.48%) Systems Engineer
7 30 (6.41%) Developer
8 28 (5.98%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 25 (5.34%) Delivery Project Manager
9 25 (5.34%) Senior
10 20 (4.27%) Applications Support
10 20 (4.27%) Head of IT
11 17 (3.63%) Systems Administrator
12 16 (3.42%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.42%) IT Administrator
13 14 (2.99%) Head of Delivery
13 14 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 13 (2.78%) Vendor Manager
15 12 (2.56%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.11%) React
2 45 (9.62%) CSS
3 44 (9.40%) Kafka
4 43 (9.19%) Spring
5 42 (8.97%) HTML
5 42 (8.97%) Spring Boot
6 41 (8.76%) Hibernate
7 39 (8.33%) JPA
7 39 (8.33%) Redux
8 31 (6.62%) .NET
9 11 (2.35%) .NET Core
10 8 (1.71%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.71%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.71%) REST
11 7 (1.50%) Entity Framework
12 6 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.07%) Middleware
13 5 (1.07%) Next.js
13 5 (1.07%) Node.js
13 5 (1.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.18%) Social Media
2 55 (11.75%) Product Ownership
3 40 (8.55%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 18 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (3.63%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.35%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.64%) Clustering
13 3 (0.64%) IoT
13 3 (0.64%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.43%) Cyberattack
14 2 (0.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.69%) Windows
2 25 (5.34%) Windows Vista
3 14 (2.99%) Linux
4 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (28.85%) Agile
2 108 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (17.74%) Project Delivery
4 82 (17.52%) Project Management
5 77 (16.45%) CI/CD
5 77 (16.45%) Decision-Making
6 73 (15.60%) SDLC
7 68 (14.53%) DevOps
8 65 (13.89%) Process Improvement
9 62 (13.25%) Software Engineering
10 58 (12.39%) Microservices
11 55 (11.75%) Coaching
12 53 (11.32%) Collaborative Culture
13 50 (10.68%) Change Management
14 49 (10.47%) Containerisation
15 48 (10.26%) Clean Code
15 48 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
16 47 (10.04%) Line Management
17 46 (9.83%) Front End Development
17 46 (9.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 95 (20.30%) SQL
2 78 (16.67%) Java
3 51 (10.90%) JavaScript
4 25 (5.34%) C#
5 18 (3.85%) Python
6 14 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.50%) C-shell
7 7 (1.50%) Korn
7 7 (1.50%) MATLAB
7 7 (1.50%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.50%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.28%) VBA
9 5 (1.07%) PHP
10 4 (0.85%) Bicep
11 3 (0.64%) Bash
11 3 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.64%) Ruby
11 3 (0.64%) VB
12 2 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 189 (40.38%) Degree
2 96 (20.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 72 (15.38%) DBS Check
4 24 (5.13%) HNC
4 24 (5.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 24 (5.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 23 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.91%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.49%) ACCA
6 21 (4.49%) CIMA
7 16 (3.42%) CCAB
8 15 (3.21%) CISSP
9 14 (2.99%) PMI Certification
9 14 (2.99%) PMP
10 12 (2.56%) CRISC
11 11 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (2.35%) CISA
11 11 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (2.14%) CISM
13 9 (1.92%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.32%) QA
2 35 (7.48%) ISO 9001
3 30 (6.41%) Data Quality
4 25 (5.34%) SLA
5 15 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.99%) NIST
7 12 (2.56%) COBIT
8 9 (1.92%) GDPR
8 9 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.28%) ITGC
10 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.43%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.21%) IFRS
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 53 (11.32%) Docker
2 17 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 52 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.56%) Terraform
3 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.28%) Ansible
5 5 (1.07%) Puppet
6 4 (0.85%) Grafana
6 4 (0.85%) SCCM
7 3 (0.64%) Kibana
7 3 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.43%) Salt
9 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.40%) Oracle
3 39 (8.33%) Solace
4 30 (6.41%) SAP
5 11 (2.35%) Facebook
5 11 (2.35%) Google
6 7 (1.50%) IBM
6 7 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.85%) Hyperion
9 3 (0.64%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.64%) Blue Prism
9 3 (0.64%) Databricks
9 3 (0.64%) Logitech
9 3 (0.64%) New Relic
9 3 (0.64%) Ping Identity
9 3 (0.64%) Sage
9 3 (0.64%) UiPath
9 3 (0.64%) VMware
10 2 (0.43%) HubSpot