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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 12 31
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 -23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 25 46 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 5.52% 6.77% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 11.47% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 16
10th Percentile - £32,125 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,584 £35,313 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,707 £41,250 £44,538
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -7.38% -31.48%
75th Percentile £69,663 £54,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £54,750 £58,125
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year - -9.87% +1.51%

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 366 401 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 80.79% 59.06% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 185 183 295
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £29,290 £38,375 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.47% -3.99%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,730 £81,250 £70,750
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

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 October 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 October 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 8 £76,250 +69.44% 17
Portishead - 7 £41,355 -
Shepton Mallet - 3 - -
Taunton -14 2 £46,250 +2.78% 1
Weston-super-Mare - 2 - -
Clevedon - 2 - - 2
Yeovil - 1 £57,000 - 2
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 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.00%) assyst
2 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) DKIM
2 1 (4.00%) DMARC
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) TETRA
General
1 20 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Police
3 6 (24.00%) Back Office
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Games
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
1 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support Technician
1 6 (24.00%) Desktop Technician
1 6 (24.00%) Support Technician
2 3 (12.00%) IT Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Junior
2 3 (12.00%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Monitoring Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Systems Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Resource Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Technical Support
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Service Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) RESTEasy
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
1 10 (40.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Analytics
3 7 (28.00%) Change Management
3 7 (28.00%) Customer Experience
3 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (28.00%) Line Management
4 6 (24.00%) Customer Acquisition
4 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (24.00%) ERP
4 6 (24.00%) Software Deployment
4 6 (24.00%) Ticket Management
5 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
5 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 4 (16.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) Quality Management
7 2 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) CTC Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) BMC
5 1 (4.00%) Hitachi
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) IFS
5 1 (4.00%) NetApp
5 1 (4.00%) Remedy
5 1 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) Snow
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas
5 1 (4.00%) VMware