Continuous Improvement Jobs in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 67 59
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 398 282 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.53% 4.53% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 4.79% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 260 191 178
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,572 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,900 £53,519
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -6.76% +7.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,875 £77,500 £89,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,800 5,890 8,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.33% 94.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 3,616 5,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,188 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Bristol +41 137 £60,000 +0.80% 48
Somerset +26 71 £52,500 +36.36% 18
Wiltshire +8 65 £52,500 -19.23% 13
Dorset +18 51 £60,000 +43.71% 8
Gloucestershire -9 41 £52,837 -18.71% 22
Devon -4 27 £44,161 +38.00% 20
Cornwall -21 4 £45,195 +0.43% 2
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (5.78%) Confluence
2 20 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.51%) OpenEdge
5 3 (0.75%) Apache
5 3 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Luigi
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 64 (16.08%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (6.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (5.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.50%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.25%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.25%) Revit
7 1 (0.25%) Solid Edge
7 1 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.50%) iTrent
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.25%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 64 (16.08%) Azure
2 40 (10.05%) AWS
3 37 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 33 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (2.76%) OpenShift
7 10 (2.51%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.76%) GCP
9 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.51%) SaaS
11 5 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.01%) GitHub
12 4 (1.01%) Smartsheet
13 3 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) SAN
2 9 (2.26%) Internet
3 8 (2.01%) DNS
4 7 (1.76%) VLAN
5 5 (1.26%) Firewall
5 5 (1.26%) LAN
5 5 (1.26%) WAN
6 4 (1.01%) ADSL
6 4 (1.01%) PBX
6 4 (1.01%) VoIP
7 3 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (0.75%) DHCP
7 3 (0.75%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.75%) RS-232
7 3 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.53%) Power BI
2 19 (4.77%) Tableau
3 17 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.26%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.01%) MySQL
8 3 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.50%) Big Data
9 2 (0.50%) Looker
9 2 (0.50%) Metadata
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.50%) Power Query
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.25%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 32 (8.04%) JIRA
2 12 (3.02%) Git
3 6 (1.51%) RStudio
4 5 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.26%) Selenium
5 3 (0.75%) Moq
5 3 (0.75%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.75%) xUnit.net
6 2 (0.50%) MSI
7 1 (0.25%) Babel
7 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) ESLint
7 1 (0.25%) GitLab
7 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.25%) Subversion
7 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.25%) Vite
7 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 180 (45.23%) Social Skills
2 102 (25.63%) Finance
3 76 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (12.31%) Legal
6 45 (11.31%) Law
7 42 (10.55%) Banking
8 39 (9.80%) Retail
9 33 (8.29%) Manufacturing
9 33 (8.29%) Marketing
10 25 (6.28%) Investment Banking
11 21 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (3.77%) Electronics
12 15 (3.77%) Public Sector
13 14 (3.52%) Tech for Good
14 11 (2.76%) Local Government
15 10 (2.51%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.76%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (1.76%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (12.56%) Analyst
2 44 (11.06%) Lead
3 42 (10.55%) Developer
4 33 (8.29%) Senior
5 23 (5.78%) Support Engineer
6 20 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (4.52%) Architect
8 17 (4.27%) Operations Engineer
8 17 (4.27%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (3.77%) Product Manager
11 14 (3.52%) Consultant
11 14 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.27%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.27%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.52%) .NET
2 12 (3.02%) HTML
3 10 (2.51%) CSS
4 8 (2.01%) React
4 8 (2.01%) RESTful
5 5 (1.26%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.26%) ASP.NET
5 5 (1.26%) LDAP
6 4 (1.01%) Node.js
6 4 (1.01%) Spring
6 4 (1.01%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (0.75%) OAuth
7 3 (0.75%) OpenID
7 3 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.75%) Redux
7 3 (0.75%) SAML
7 3 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.27%) Clustering
5 13 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.76%) CMDB
6 7 (1.76%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.76%) Robotics
7 6 (1.51%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.26%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.01%) Tandem
10 3 (0.75%) Analogue Electronics
10 3 (0.75%) Housing Association
10 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.82%) Windows
2 39 (9.80%) Linux
3 16 (4.02%) Windows 10
4 14 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.02%) AIX
5 12 (3.02%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.26%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.51%) Unix
7 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.50%) Android
11 1 (0.25%) CentOS
11 1 (0.25%) Debian
11 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (30.40%) Agile
2 93 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (17.34%) Coaching
4 59 (14.82%) ITIL
5 50 (12.56%) People Management
6 45 (11.31%) Line Management
7 43 (10.80%) Collaborative Working
8 37 (9.30%) CI/CD
8 37 (9.30%) Configuration Management
8 37 (9.30%) Logistics
9 36 (9.05%) Analytics
9 36 (9.05%) Project Management
10 35 (8.79%) Customer Service
11 32 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (8.04%) Software Engineering
12 31 (7.79%) Roadmaps
13 30 (7.54%) Project Delivery
14 29 (7.29%) Service Management
15 28 (7.04%) Workflow
16 27 (6.78%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 51 (12.81%) SQL
2 39 (9.80%) Python
3 29 (7.29%) Java
4 20 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.77%) C#
6 14 (3.52%) Perl
7 8 (2.01%) R
8 7 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.51%) C++
9 6 (1.51%) Progress 4GL
10 5 (1.26%) VBA
11 3 (0.75%) C
11 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.50%) Bash
12 2 (0.50%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.50%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.50%) PHP
12 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 124 (31.16%) Degree
2 47 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.79%) CIPD
4 30 (7.54%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (3.77%) PMI Certification
6 15 (3.77%) PMP
7 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.76%) APMG
9 6 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.51%) CCNP
9 6 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.51%) Tableau Certification
10 5 (1.26%) CCNA
10 5 (1.26%) RHCE
10 5 (1.26%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.04%) SLA
2 19 (4.77%) QA
3 15 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.76%) GDPR
5 6 (1.51%) PMO
6 5 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.26%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.75%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) GMP
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 24 (6.03%) Docker
3 23 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.01%) vSphere
5 2 (0.50%) Firmware
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.28%) Ansible
3 20 (5.03%) Terraform
4 14 (3.52%) Progress Chef
4 14 (3.52%) Puppet
5 13 (3.27%) Salt
6 12 (3.02%) Backup Exec
6 12 (3.02%) NetBackup
7 10 (2.51%) SCCM
8 5 (1.26%) Rancher
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.75%) Opsview
10 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.75%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 105 (26.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.03%) Oracle
3 23 (5.78%) VMware
4 19 (4.77%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.02%) Hitachi
6 12 (3.02%) NetApp
6 12 (3.02%) Snow
6 12 (3.02%) Veritas
7 10 (2.51%) Databricks
8 9 (2.26%) IBM
8 9 (2.26%) SAP
9 7 (1.76%) Cisco
10 6 (1.51%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.51%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.51%) Google
10 6 (1.51%) HP
10 6 (1.51%) Progress
11 5 (1.26%) Canon
11 5 (1.26%) Xamarin