Process Improvement Job Trends in Scotland

Process Improvement
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 147 134
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 +38
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 15 57 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.60% 1.29% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.50% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 30
10th Percentile £44,000 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,250 £42,000 £45,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -13.04% +24.32%
75th Percentile £56,563 £51,250 £68,125
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% -14.40% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Process 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 2,266 3,803 2,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.88% 85.96% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1,588 1,990
10th Percentile £26,968 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,150 £41,938 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,650 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in Scotland

Process Improvement
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Process Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in Scotland

Process 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 Process Improvement within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 September 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 +1 7 £55,000 - 9
Glasgow +72 4 £44,000 +10.00% 8
Renfrewshire -5 1 £45,000 -10.00% 2
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £60,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Aberdeen - 1 - - 2
Process Improvement
UK

Process 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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP SCM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Tableau
3 1 (6.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) General Ledger
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Product Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Accountant
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Project Accountant
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Support
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Market Risk
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (13.33%) Logistics
5 2 (13.33%) Six Sigma
6 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (6.67%) Data Reconciliation
6 1 (6.67%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) ACCA
1 1 (6.67%) CFA
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Alteryx
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) SAP