Continuous Improvement Jobs in South Wales

Continual Improvement
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -16
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 37 72 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.84% 4.92% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 6.28% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 28 36 46
10th Percentile £42,125 £35,000 £26,391
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,375 £30,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,750 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year +23.22% +18.10% -8.85%
75th Percentile £73,000 £65,625 £52,054
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £96,250
Wales median annual salary £49,000 £51,997 £44,666
% change year-on-year -5.76% +16.41% -8.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 628 1,146 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.20% 78.33% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 400 747 563
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,546 £47,500 £45,496
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +4.41% -7.15%
75th Percentile £67,217 £61,348 £62,988
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in South Wales.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Newport -7 14 £71,000 +23.59% 21
Cardiff +15 13 £65,000 +20.37% 35
Gwent - 4 £45,750 - 5
Glamorgan -5 2 £52,000 - 41
Neath Port Talbot - 2 £42,500 - 10
Continuous Improvement
Wales

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (5.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) GNU Octave
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) GPRS
1 2 (5.41%) GSM
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) VLAN
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Manufacturing
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Electronics
5 4 (10.81%) Retail
6 3 (8.11%) Local Government
6 3 (8.11%) Marketing
7 2 (5.41%) Aviation
7 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Software Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Civil Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Development Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) QA Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Development Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Senior QA Manager
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Middleware
2 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.41%) XML
3 1 (2.70%) Django
3 1 (2.70%) React
3 1 (2.70%) Redux
3 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.11%) NHS
2 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (5.41%) CPLD
3 2 (5.41%) CUDA
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.41%) FPGA
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Mentoring
2 14 (37.84%) Agile
3 12 (32.43%) DevOps
4 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
4 8 (21.62%) SDLC
5 7 (18.92%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (18.92%) Design Patterns
5 7 (18.92%) Open Source
5 7 (18.92%) UML
6 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (16.22%) Project Management
7 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.51%) Configuration Management
7 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.51%) Scrum
7 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) C
4 2 (5.41%) Ada
4 2 (5.41%) C++
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Degree
2 7 (18.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (13.51%) Chartered Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CCIE
5 1 (2.70%) CCNA
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) PMO
4 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (5.41%) Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) EMC
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco