Continuous Improvement Jobs in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 59 43
Rank change year-on-year +40 -16 +28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,041 216 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.45% 4.59% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.65% 4.87% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 153 142 130
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £38,150
25th Percentile £40,800 £41,563 £42,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,259 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +9.56% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,387 £66,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,236 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,252 4,431 5,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.79% 94.24% 90.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,224 2,815
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,491 £30,465
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +7.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +61 904 £54,000 +20.00% 40
Edinburgh +3 69 £60,000 -10.54% 19
Aberdeen -9 12 £25,000 -35.06% 18
Dundee - 11 £40,144 - 3
Fife - 9 £43,200 - 5
West Lothian -2 8 £72,500 +70.59% 3
Lanarkshire - 5 £41,000 - 14
South Lanarkshire -4 4 £105,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 3
North Lanarkshire -8 2 - - 3
Highlands - 2 £41,000 -
Perthshire - 2 £35,000 -
Stirling -5 1 £50,000 -44.44% 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £25,000 - 8
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 -
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
1 203 (19.50%) Apache Spark
2 66 (6.34%) Apache
3 35 (3.36%) FileNet
4 29 (2.79%) Confluence
5 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.58%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 407 (39.10%) AWS
2 66 (6.34%) Azure
3 51 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
3 51 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
3 51 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (4.90%) Amazon EMR
3 51 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
3 51 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (4.90%) Serverless
4 50 (4.80%) GCP
5 44 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
6 35 (3.36%) Amazon S3
7 25 (2.40%) Google Play
8 24 (2.31%) BlazeMeter
9 22 (2.11%) Power Platform
9 22 (2.11%) SaaS
10 19 (1.83%) Datadog
11 18 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.67%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.77%) Firewall
1 8 (0.77%) LAN
1 8 (0.77%) SAN
1 8 (0.77%) WAN
2 7 (0.67%) Broadband
2 7 (0.67%) NAS
2 7 (0.67%) VoIP
3 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (0.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) IPsec
5 2 (0.19%) OSPF
5 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) WLAN
6 1 (0.096%) Network Security
6 1 (0.096%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (27.57%) NoSQL
2 167 (16.04%) Big Data
3 150 (14.41%) Hadoop
4 99 (9.51%) Apache Hive
5 86 (8.26%) HBase
6 52 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 50 (4.80%) Apache Cassandra
8 46 (4.42%) Relational Database
9 44 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
10 40 (3.84%) Data Lake
11 39 (3.75%) Qlik Sense
12 22 (2.11%) Power BI
13 16 (1.54%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.44%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.34%) MySQL
16 10 (0.96%) Flink
17 9 (0.86%) SQL Server
18 7 (0.67%) Redis
19 6 (0.58%) Tableau
20 3 (0.29%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 112 (10.76%) Jenkins
2 100 (9.61%) Git
3 96 (9.22%) JUnit
4 86 (8.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 58 (5.57%) JIRA
6 30 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 26 (2.50%) Selenium
8 25 (2.40%) Android Studio
9 21 (2.02%) Jasmine
9 21 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (2.02%) Protractor
9 21 (2.02%) WebDriver
10 20 (1.92%) Maven
11 10 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.86%) Gradle
12 9 (0.86%) JMeter
13 7 (0.67%) Moq
14 2 (0.19%) GitLab
15 1 (0.096%) Postman
15 1 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 880 (84.53%) Finance
2 853 (81.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 835 (80.21%) Law
4 481 (46.21%) Legal
5 203 (19.50%) Marketing
6 165 (15.85%) Banking
7 152 (14.60%) Social Skills
8 92 (8.84%) Investment Banking
9 54 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (3.65%) Private Banking
11 14 (1.34%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Retail
15 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.38%) Local Government
15 4 (0.38%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.38%) Police
16 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 791 (75.98%) Software Engineer
2 296 (28.43%) Java Engineer
2 296 (28.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 196 (18.83%) AWS Engineer
3 196 (18.83%) AWS Software Engineer
4 133 (12.78%) Big Data Engineer
4 133 (12.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 127 (12.20%) Full Stack Engineer
5 127 (12.20%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 123 (11.82%) Data Engineer
7 121 (11.62%) Python Engineer
7 121 (11.62%) Python Software Engineer
8 95 (9.13%) Developer
9 80 (7.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 58 (5.57%) Lead
11 56 (5.38%) Database Developer
11 56 (5.38%) Database Engineer
12 51 (4.90%) Scala Engineer
12 51 (4.90%) Scala Software Engineer
13 37 (3.55%) AWS Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (24.02%) Spring
2 178 (17.10%) React
3 172 (16.52%) AngularJS
4 120 (11.53%) J2EE
5 119 (11.43%) HTML
6 114 (10.95%) JMS
7 112 (10.76%) Kafka
8 110 (10.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 109 (10.47%) Node.js
10 89 (8.55%) Hibernate
11 88 (8.45%) CSS
11 88 (8.45%) Spring Boot
12 84 (8.07%) JSON
13 82 (7.88%) jQuery
14 62 (5.96%) Web Services
15 48 (4.61%) XML
16 39 (3.75%) HTML5
16 39 (3.75%) JavaBeans
16 39 (3.75%) PySpark
17 37 (3.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 745 (71.57%) Algorithms
2 158 (15.18%) Onboarding
3 148 (14.22%) Cloud Native
4 53 (5.09%) Data Structures
5 46 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 44 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 43 (4.13%) Legacy Code
8 16 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.44%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.06%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.06%) Private Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.86%) Market Risk
14 7 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.67%) Credit Risk
14 7 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.67%) Social Media
15 5 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.18%) Unix
2 48 (4.61%) Linux
3 29 (2.79%) Android
4 14 (1.34%) Windows
5 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 901 (86.55%) Agile
2 815 (78.29%) Software Engineering
3 789 (75.79%) Visualisation
4 770 (73.97%) CI/CD
5 737 (70.80%) SDLC
6 682 (65.51%) Operational Stability
7 679 (65.23%) Community of Practice
8 657 (63.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 635 (61.00%) Machine Learning
10 493 (47.36%) Risk Management
11 159 (15.27%) Client Onboarding
12 156 (14.99%) Microservices
13 143 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
14 138 (13.26%) Full Stack Development
15 127 (12.20%) TDD
16 124 (11.91%) KYC
16 124 (11.91%) Test Automation
17 87 (8.36%) Open Source
18 86 (8.26%) Batch Processing
19 85 (8.17%) OO
Programming Languages
1 585 (56.20%) Java
2 427 (41.02%) SQL
3 361 (34.68%) Python
4 126 (12.10%) JavaScript
4 126 (12.10%) PL/SQL
5 78 (7.49%) TypeScript
6 51 (4.90%) Scala
7 30 (2.88%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.02%) C#
9 14 (1.34%) Go
10 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.38%) Swift
13 3 (0.29%) C++
14 2 (0.19%) R
15 1 (0.096%) PHP
15 1 (0.096%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (9.99%) Degree
2 11 (1.06%) DBS Check
3 7 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.38%) A+ Certification
5 4 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (0.38%) MCDST
5 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.38%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.29%) CCNP
6 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.29%) HND
7 2 (0.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.19%) JNCIP
7 2 (0.19%) PhD
8 1 (0.096%) CCDP
8 1 (0.096%) CCSP
8 1 (0.096%) CISM
8 1 (0.096%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.98%) QA
2 7 (0.67%) ISO 14001
2 7 (0.67%) ISO 9001
3 6 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.38%) PMO
5 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.19%) IFRS
6 2 (0.19%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.096%) GDPR
7 1 (0.096%) NIST
7 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (8.26%) HDFS
2 33 (3.17%) Docker
3 13 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 119 (11.43%) Terraform
2 107 (10.28%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.32%) Grafana
4 19 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.67%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 181 (17.39%) Databricks
2 128 (12.30%) Oracle
3 86 (8.26%) Informatica
4 56 (5.38%) Cloudera
5 45 (4.32%) Dynatrace
5 45 (4.32%) Microsoft
5 45 (4.32%) Splunk
6 39 (3.75%) Alteryx
7 35 (3.36%) Google
8 13 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.15%) SAP
10 9 (0.86%) Cisco
10 9 (0.86%) TOWER Software
11 8 (0.77%) VMware
12 7 (0.67%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.67%) Mitel
13 5 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (0.38%) NEC
15 3 (0.29%) Citrix
16 2 (0.19%) IBM