Continuous Improvement Jobs in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 71 42
Rank change year-on-year +50 -29 +19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 750 161 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.16% 4.24% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.99% 4.42% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 131 126 171
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,197 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,800 £40,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,759 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +14.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,056 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £107,076 £83,799
UK median annual salary £58,800 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% -0.79% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow +62 629 £54,000 +20.00% 14
Edinburgh +15 71 £60,000 -10.54% 9
West Lothian -1 8 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Dundee - 6 £52,685 - 1
Fife -4 4 £43,200 -21.45% 6
Aberdeen -12 4 £65,000 +68.83% 2
Inverclyde 0 3 - -
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 2
Lanarkshire - 3 £52,500 - 8
Perthshire +5 2 £35,000 - 1
South Lanarkshire -5 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -6 2 - -
Highlands - 2 £41,000 - 4
South Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 - 1
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 110 (14.67%) Apache Spark
2 35 (4.67%) FileNet
3 31 (4.13%) Apache
4 22 (2.93%) Confluence
5 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.67%) SAS
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 280 (37.33%) AWS
2 53 (7.07%) Azure
3 50 (6.67%) GCP
4 35 (4.67%) Amazon S3
5 34 (4.53%) Serverless
6 31 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
7 29 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (3.87%) Amazon EMR
7 29 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
7 29 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (3.33%) Google Play
9 19 (2.53%) Datadog
9 19 (2.53%) SaaS
10 15 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
11 12 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.20%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.07%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.20%) Firewall
1 9 (1.20%) LAN
1 9 (1.20%) SAN
1 9 (1.20%) WAN
2 7 (0.93%) Broadband
2 7 (0.93%) NAS
2 7 (0.93%) VoIP
3 4 (0.53%) VPN
4 2 (0.27%) BGP
4 2 (0.27%) IPsec
4 2 (0.27%) Network Security
4 2 (0.27%) OSPF
4 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.27%) Wireless
4 2 (0.27%) WLAN
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (27.73%) NoSQL
2 83 (11.07%) Big Data
3 80 (10.67%) Hadoop
4 60 (8.00%) Apache Hive
4 60 (8.00%) HBase
5 41 (5.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 37 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
7 36 (4.80%) Data Lake
8 35 (4.67%) Qlik Sense
9 33 (4.40%) Relational Database
10 29 (3.87%) Electronic Patient Records
11 13 (1.73%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.07%) Power BI
13 7 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.93%) Tableau
14 5 (0.67%) SQL Server
15 4 (0.53%) MySQL
16 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
17 2 (0.27%) Data Hub
18 1 (0.13%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 83 (11.07%) JUnit
2 82 (10.93%) Jenkins
3 64 (8.53%) Git
4 60 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 37 (4.93%) JIRA
5 37 (4.93%) Selenium
6 30 (4.00%) Cypress.io
7 25 (3.33%) Android Studio
8 21 (2.80%) Jasmine
8 21 (2.80%) Karma Test Runner
8 21 (2.80%) Protractor
8 21 (2.80%) WebDriver
9 13 (1.73%) Maven
10 12 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.20%) Gradle
11 9 (1.20%) JMeter
12 3 (0.40%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.40%) GoCD
13 2 (0.27%) GitLab
13 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 605 (80.67%) Finance
2 575 (76.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 555 (74.00%) Law
4 361 (48.13%) Legal
5 136 (18.13%) Social Skills
6 114 (15.20%) Banking
7 99 (13.20%) Marketing
8 85 (11.33%) Investment Banking
9 35 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.07%) Local Government
12 8 (1.07%) Police
13 6 (0.80%) Private Banking
14 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Retail
15 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.53%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 545 (72.67%) Software Engineer
2 203 (27.07%) Java Engineer
2 203 (27.07%) Java Software Engineer
3 141 (18.80%) AWS Engineer
3 141 (18.80%) AWS Software Engineer
4 98 (13.07%) Full Stack Engineer
4 98 (13.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 91 (12.13%) Data Engineer
6 80 (10.67%) Big Data Engineer
6 80 (10.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 75 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 75 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 50 (6.67%) Developer
9 43 (5.73%) Lead
10 41 (5.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 33 (4.40%) Senior
12 30 (4.00%) AWS Database Engineer
12 30 (4.00%) AWS Developer
12 30 (4.00%) Database Developer
12 30 (4.00%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (21.73%) Spring
2 150 (20.00%) React
3 118 (15.73%) AngularJS
4 107 (14.27%) J2EE
5 105 (14.00%) JMS
6 104 (13.87%) HTML
6 104 (13.87%) Node.js
7 102 (13.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 86 (11.47%) Hibernate
8 86 (11.47%) Kafka
9 81 (10.80%) CSS
10 77 (10.27%) JSON
11 75 (10.00%) jQuery
12 49 (6.53%) Web Services
13 45 (6.00%) Spring Boot
14 37 (4.93%) Spring Integration
15 35 (4.67%) GraphQL
15 35 (4.67%) PySpark
16 32 (4.27%) XML
17 30 (4.00%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 507 (67.60%) Algorithms
2 118 (15.73%) Onboarding
3 85 (11.33%) Cloud Native
4 40 (5.33%) Data Structures
5 36 (4.80%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.80%) Legacy Code
8 11 (1.47%) IoT
8 11 (1.47%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.20%) Market Risk
11 7 (0.93%) Social Media
11 7 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (0.80%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.67%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.53%) CMDB
14 4 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.53%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (10.93%) Unix
2 35 (4.67%) Linux
3 27 (3.60%) Android
4 23 (3.07%) Windows
5 14 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (82.13%) Agile
2 557 (74.27%) Software Engineering
3 544 (72.53%) CI/CD
4 540 (72.00%) Visualisation
5 524 (69.87%) SDLC
6 476 (63.47%) Community of Practice
7 469 (62.53%) Operational Stability
8 467 (62.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 445 (59.33%) Machine Learning
10 361 (48.13%) Risk Management
11 117 (15.60%) Client Onboarding
12 100 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
13 98 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (12.67%) TDD
15 93 (12.40%) Test Automation
16 92 (12.27%) KYC
17 91 (12.13%) Microservices
18 65 (8.67%) OO
19 61 (8.13%) Open Source
20 60 (8.00%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 381 (50.80%) Java
2 313 (41.73%) SQL
3 246 (32.80%) Python
4 101 (13.47%) JavaScript
5 85 (11.33%) PL/SQL
6 78 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 29 (3.87%) Kotlin
7 29 (3.87%) Scala
8 9 (1.20%) C++
9 7 (0.93%) Bash
9 7 (0.93%) C#
9 7 (0.93%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.40%) Groovy
10 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.40%) VBA
11 2 (0.27%) Go
11 2 (0.27%) Swift
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (7.47%) Degree
2 8 (1.07%) DBS Check
3 7 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.40%) CCNP
6 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.40%) MAPM
6 3 (0.40%) MBCS
6 3 (0.40%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.27%) HND
7 2 (0.27%) JNCIP
7 2 (0.27%) MCDST
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.27%) PhD
8 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.73%) QA
2 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.93%) ISO 14001
3 7 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.13%) IFRS
6 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (8.00%) HDFS
2 28 (3.73%) Docker
3 15 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 73 (9.73%) Terraform
3 25 (3.33%) Grafana
4 19 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.93%) Ansible
5 7 (0.93%) ZABBIX
6 5 (0.67%) Puppet
7 3 (0.40%) Fortio
7 3 (0.40%) Istio
7 3 (0.40%) Kiali
7 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 127 (16.93%) Databricks
2 100 (13.33%) Oracle
3 60 (8.00%) Informatica
4 35 (4.67%) Alteryx
5 33 (4.40%) Google
6 30 (4.00%) Cloudera
7 25 (3.33%) Dynatrace
7 25 (3.33%) Microsoft
7 25 (3.33%) Splunk
8 14 (1.87%) SAP
9 13 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.20%) Cisco
10 9 (1.20%) TOWER Software
10 9 (1.20%) VMware
11 8 (1.07%) NEC
12 7 (0.93%) Mitel
13 5 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.40%) Citrix
14 3 (0.40%) IBM