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 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 27 19 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 +46 -26
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 253 1,042 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.54% 15.34% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.22% 16.81% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 73 155 134
10th Percentile - £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,445 £55,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% -12.36% +14.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,433 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £118,588
UK median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

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 2,745 6,197 4,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.61% 91.25% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 2,442 2,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
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 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 29 May 2025.

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 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
Edinburgh +25 91 £60,394 +0.66% 161
Glasgow +1 54 £80,000 +56.10% 182
Lanarkshire +1 20 - - 10
North Lanarkshire +6 12 - - 7
Renfrewshire -9 10 - - 67
East Ayrshire -16 10 £40,101 -82.18%
Fife -10 9 £40,101 -7.17% 16
Moray - 7 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 - 2
Stirling +2 5 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -1 5 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 4 - -
North Ayrshire - 3 - -
Ayrshire - 3 - - 1
West Lothian 0 2 - - 14
Aberdeenshire +6 1 - - 2
Inverclyde -10 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - - 1
Strathclyde - 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 52 (20.55%) Confluence
2 4 (1.58%) Apache
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (11.07%) Simulink
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (11.07%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.04%) AWS
2 59 (23.32%) Azure
3 57 (22.53%) GCP
4 4 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (1.58%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.19%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.19%) SaaS
6 2 (0.79%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (0.79%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (0.79%) Contentsquare
6 2 (0.79%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.79%) npm
6 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.79%) Yarn
7 1 (0.40%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.40%) OCI
7 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.16%) Firewall
2 6 (2.37%) Network Security
2 6 (2.37%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.40%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.40%) Modbus
3 1 (0.40%) MQTT
3 1 (0.40%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.76%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.16%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (2.37%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.58%) MySQL
4 4 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.19%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.79%) Big Data
6 2 (0.79%) Parquet
6 2 (0.79%) Power BI
6 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 55 (21.74%) GitLab
1 55 (21.74%) JIRA
2 51 (20.16%) Maven
3 49 (19.37%) Bitbucket
3 49 (19.37%) Cucumber
3 49 (19.37%) Selenium
3 49 (19.37%) SonarQube
3 49 (19.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 28 (11.07%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (2.77%) JUnit
6 4 (1.58%) Git
6 4 (1.58%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.19%) Vite
8 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.79%) Gradle
8 2 (0.79%) Mockito
8 2 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 118 (46.64%) Finance
2 100 (39.53%) Social Skills
3 77 (30.43%) Banking
4 71 (28.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (23.72%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (11.46%) Electronics
7 28 (11.07%) Aerospace
8 20 (7.91%) Law
9 11 (4.35%) Legal
10 10 (3.95%) Marketing
11 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Publishing
12 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.79%) Retail
14 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (27.67%) Software Engineer
2 32 (12.65%) Innovation Manager
3 30 (11.86%) Junior
4 28 (11.07%) Junior Systems Engineer
4 28 (11.07%) Systems Engineer
5 24 (9.49%) Analyst
6 12 (4.74%) Lead
7 11 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Risk Manager
8 10 (3.95%) Developer
8 10 (3.95%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (3.56%) Senior
10 8 (3.16%) Risk Analyst
11 7 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Governance Analyst
12 6 (2.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 6 (2.37%) Cloud Security Lead
12 6 (2.37%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (25.69%) Spring
2 63 (24.90%) React
3 58 (22.92%) Spring Boot
4 57 (22.53%) HTML
4 57 (22.53%) Kafka
5 55 (21.74%) CSS
6 53 (20.95%) Hibernate
7 52 (20.55%) JPA
8 50 (19.76%) Redux
9 6 (2.37%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.79%) ADO
10 2 (0.79%) Jest
10 2 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.79%) Spring MVC
10 2 (0.79%) Web Services
11 1 (0.40%) JDBC
11 1 (0.40%) Servlets
11 1 (0.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.92%) Product Ownership
2 50 (19.76%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (9.49%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.58%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.40%) FMCG
6 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.40%) IoT
6 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.19%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (39.92%) Agile
2 77 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 76 (30.04%) Software Engineering
4 73 (28.85%) SDLC
5 68 (26.88%) Decision-Making
6 64 (25.30%) Artificial Intelligence
7 62 (24.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (23.32%) Microservices
10 58 (22.92%) DevOps
10 58 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 54 (21.34%) Front End Development
12 53 (20.95%) Containerisation
12 53 (20.95%) TDD
13 51 (20.16%) Clean Code
13 51 (20.16%) Test Automation
14 50 (19.76%) Performance Optimisation
15 48 (18.97%) Project Management
16 47 (18.58%) Analytics
17 46 (18.18%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.04%) Java
2 63 (24.90%) SQL
3 57 (22.53%) JavaScript
4 28 (11.07%) MATLAB
5 18 (7.11%) Python
6 8 (3.16%) C++
6 8 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.58%) VBA
8 3 (1.19%) C
8 3 (1.19%) R
9 2 (0.79%) Bash
9 2 (0.79%) C#
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (14.62%) Degree
2 28 (11.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (4.35%) CISSP
3 11 (4.35%) CRISC
4 7 (2.77%) CISM
5 4 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.58%) CISA
5 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.79%) PMP
7 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (20.55%) QA
2 11 (4.35%) COBIT
3 10 (3.95%) NIST
4 8 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.37%) NCSC
6 5 (1.98%) ITGC
7 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.79%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.40%) ECSS
9 1 (0.40%) IFRS
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.40%) JTAG
9 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (22.13%) Docker
2 8 (3.16%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Grafana
2 5 (1.98%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Ansible
3 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (19.37%) Solace
2 29 (11.46%) IBM
3 7 (2.77%) Google
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.98%) Oracle
5 4 (1.58%) Blue Prism
5 4 (1.58%) Splunk
5 4 (1.58%) UiPath
6 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.19%) Genesys
6 3 (1.19%) Sun
6 3 (1.19%) Verint
7 2 (0.79%) Adobe
7 2 (0.79%) Databricks
7 2 (0.79%) SAP
7 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.79%) Sybase
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco
8 1 (0.40%) HP
8 1 (0.40%) NVIDIA