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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 13 27
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 -16
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 21 44 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 4.01% 7.24% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 11.37% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 14
10th Percentile - £32,500 £27,050
25th Percentile £40,584 £36,250 £39,964
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,846 £41,500 £44,538
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -6.82% -28.74%
75th Percentile £76,088 £53,212 £53,750
90th Percentile £103,070 £54,750 £58,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -10.43% +4.55%

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 406 387 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 77.48% 63.65% 91.91%
Number of salaries quoted 202 169 267
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £28,218
25th Percentile £30,195 £36,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,186
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +10.65% -9.63%
75th Percentile £55,625 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £70,000
South West median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -11.82% +0.46% +9.50%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +3 9 £100,000 +166.67% 9
Portishead -4 5 £41,355 -20.19%
Taunton -11 3 £46,250 +2.78% 1
Clevedon -1 2 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 2 - -
Yeovil - 2 £71,350 - 4
Bridgwater +5 1 - -
Shepton Mallet - 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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.76%) assyst
2 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DKIM
1 1 (4.76%) DMARC
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Back Office
3 5 (23.81%) Police
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (4.76%) Games
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Support
2 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Desktop Support Technician
4 3 (14.29%) Desktop Technician
4 3 (14.29%) IT Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Technician
5 2 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) ITSM Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (9.52%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ITIL
1 9 (42.86%) Patch Management
2 7 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 7 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 6 (28.57%) Analytics
3 6 (28.57%) Change Management
3 6 (28.57%) Customer Acquisition
3 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 6 (28.57%) Ticket Management
4 5 (23.81%) Line Management
5 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
6 3 (14.29%) ERP
6 3 (14.29%) People Management
6 3 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Go
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
1 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) NEBOSH
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Cisco
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) BMC
4 1 (4.76%) Hitachi
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) IFS
4 1 (4.76%) NetApp
4 1 (4.76%) Remedy
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Snow
4 1 (4.76%) Veritas
4 1 (4.76%) VMware