Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Somerset

Continual Improvement
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -7
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 24 52 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 6.32% 7.11% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 12.15% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 16
10th Percentile - £33,250 £30,375
25th Percentile £40,584 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,721 £52,500 £45,093
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +16.43% -27.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £84,577 £57,000 £58,125
South West median annual salary £52,500 £53,796 £56,750
% change year-on-year -2.41% -5.21% -1.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 302 428 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 79.47% 58.55% 93.24%
Number of salaries quoted 153 239 274
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,542 £29,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Somerset

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Somerset over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Somerset

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bath +1 7 £50,000 -3.85% 16
Portishead - 7 £41,355 -
Shepton Mallet - 3 - -
Clevedon - 2 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 2 - - 1
Yeovil +3 1 £57,000 - 1
Taunton -6 1 £60,000 - 1
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.17%) assyst
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 2 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (4.17%) TETRA
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Police
3 6 (25.00%) Back Office
4 4 (16.67%) Finance
5 3 (12.50%) Games
6 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (25.00%) Desktop Support Technician
1 6 (25.00%) Desktop Technician
1 6 (25.00%) Support Technician
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Junior
3 3 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Monitoring Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Sales
4 2 (8.33%) Resource Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Support
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) RESTEasy
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (8.33%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.33%) AIX
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ITIL
1 10 (41.67%) Patch Management
2 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (33.33%) Analytics
4 7 (29.17%) Line Management
5 6 (25.00%) Customer Acquisition
5 6 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (25.00%) ERP
5 6 (25.00%) Software Deployment
5 6 (25.00%) Ticket Management
6 5 (20.83%) Change Management
7 4 (16.67%) Business Continuity
7 4 (16.67%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Data Management
8 3 (12.50%) Quality Management
9 2 (8.33%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Backup Exec
1 2 (8.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Hitachi
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) NetApp
3 2 (8.33%) Snow
3 2 (8.33%) Veritas
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) BMC
4 1 (4.17%) IFS
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow