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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 36 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -32
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 53 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 8.62% 2.48% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 3.02% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile £38,250 £39,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £46,329 £41,250 £39,745
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,596 £48,410 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% +18.07% -31.67%
75th Percentile £90,525 £54,419 £53,750
90th Percentile £108,000 £61,875 £58,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.57% -4.74%

All Process & 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 493 331 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 80.16% 82.13% 83.43%
Number of salaries quoted 217 114 364
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £26,075
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,941 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £59,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £70,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend 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 6 February 2026.

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 6 February 2026. 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 - 12 £100,000 - 5
Taunton -10 4 £32,500 -27.78% 1
Clevedon 0 3 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 3 - -
Portishead -4 2 £49,845 -3.81%
Templecombe - 2 - -
Bridgwater - 2 - - 1
Glastonbury +1 1 - -
Yeovil 0 1 £85,700 +26.96% 1
Montacute - 1 £72,500 - 1
Bruton - 1 - -
Castle Cary - 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 30 (56.60%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.89%) assyst
2 1 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.77%) Azure
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (1.89%) AWS
3 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) DKIM
1 1 (1.89%) DMARC
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
General
1 31 (58.49%) Manufacturing
2 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Back Office
4 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Police
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) French Language
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (16.98%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (16.98%) Desktop Support
1 9 (16.98%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 9 (16.98%) Site Engineer
1 9 (16.98%) Support Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Project Manager
3 4 (7.55%) Analyst
4 3 (5.66%) IT Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) IT Support
5 2 (3.77%) ITSM Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Service Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Service Management Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Support Analyst
6 1 (1.89%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (1.89%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (1.89%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (1.89%) IT Support Manager
6 1 (1.89%) Service Manager
6 1 (1.89%) Service Support Manager
6 1 (1.89%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (56.60%) FMCG
2 5 (9.43%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Windows
2 9 (16.98%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Root Cause Analysis
2 30 (56.60%) Cost Control
2 30 (56.60%) Data Analysis
2 30 (56.60%) Order Management
2 30 (56.60%) Predictive Maintenance
2 30 (56.60%) Preventative Maintenance
2 30 (56.60%) Proactive Maintenance
3 12 (22.64%) ITIL
4 11 (20.75%) Customer Experience
5 10 (18.87%) Customer Service
6 9 (16.98%) Analytics
6 9 (16.98%) Customer Acquisition
6 9 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (16.98%) Patch Management
6 9 (16.98%) People Management
6 9 (16.98%) Software Deployment
6 9 (16.98%) Ticket Management
7 5 (9.43%) Change Control
8 3 (5.66%) Change Management
8 3 (5.66%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) Go
1 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Degree
1 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) CTC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) SLA
2 5 (9.43%) NEBOSH
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (56.60%) SAP
2 9 (16.98%) Cisco
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) BMC
4 1 (1.89%) IFS
4 1 (1.89%) Remedy