Continuous Improvement Jobs in Northern Ireland

Continual Improvement
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 43 89
Rank change year-on-year +39 +46 -35
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 38 36 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.84% 4.85% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.17% 5.55% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 9
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £42,800 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £73,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £97,500 £53,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 649 836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.80% 87.47% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 58 308 435
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,625 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,454 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% +6.91% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £87,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 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
County Antrim +36 30 £80,000 +18.52% 134
County Londonderry - 5 - -
County Armagh +6 1 - -
County Down -6 1 - - 4
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (10.53%) Apache
1 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (18.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (15.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) Boomi
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) VLAN
1 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.63%) IPsec
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) SAP HANA
2 5 (13.16%) MySQL
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) Apache Hive
3 4 (10.53%) Big Data
3 4 (10.53%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.63%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Aerospace
3 7 (18.42%) Automotive
3 7 (18.42%) Legal
4 6 (15.79%) Manufacturing
5 5 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (13.16%) Retail
6 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Law
8 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Information Specialist
2 7 (18.42%) Procurement Specialist
3 6 (15.79%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Network Delivery Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Network Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Network Operations Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Network Services Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Service Delivery Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Service Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Operations Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Risk Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Hibernate
1 4 (10.53%) J2EE
1 4 (10.53%) Java EE
1 4 (10.53%) Kafka
1 4 (10.53%) Spring
1 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.79%) Fibre Optics
3 5 (13.16%) FMCG
4 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Project Management
2 16 (42.11%) Computer Science
3 14 (36.84%) Agile
4 13 (34.21%) Innovative Thinking
5 9 (23.68%) Risk Management
6 7 (18.42%) Change Management
6 7 (18.42%) Information Management
6 7 (18.42%) User Stories
7 6 (15.79%) Asset Management
7 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
7 6 (15.79%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (15.79%) ITIL
7 6 (15.79%) ITSM
7 6 (15.79%) Scrum
7 6 (15.79%) Service Delivery
7 6 (15.79%) Service Management
7 6 (15.79%) Strategic Planning
8 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Java
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (18.42%) Master's Degree
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (13.16%) CISSP
5 4 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (10.53%) CISA
5 4 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (10.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.63%) CCNA
7 1 (2.63%) CCNP
7 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) GMP
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) SAP
2 7 (18.42%) IBM
3 6 (15.79%) BMC
3 6 (15.79%) Remedy
4 5 (13.16%) Google
5 4 (10.53%) Sybase
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
7 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
7 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.63%) Cisco
8 1 (2.63%) Proofpoint