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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 41 62
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -3
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 279 456 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.07% 4.70% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 5.96% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 162 312 191
10th Percentile £36,375 £33,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,971 £52,668 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +8.59% -7.62%
75th Percentile £72,125 £65,625 £67,625
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,700 £59,526
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.39% -0.79%

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 3,429 7,651 6,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 86.85% 78.78% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,100 5,364 3,640
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,222
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.18% +8.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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 18 July 2025.

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 18 July 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
Bristol +15 95 £60,000 - 118
Wiltshire +17 45 £40,000 -21.95% 26
Dorset +23 44 £40,101 -13.30% 24
Gloucestershire +41 36 £55,000 +10.00% 117
Somerset -11 30 £50,000 -4.76% 40
Devon +5 23 £57,347 +22.13% 26
Cornwall +3 6 £67,500 +43.95% 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 11 (3.94%) Appian
2 9 (3.23%) IIS
3 6 (2.15%) Confluence
4 5 (1.79%) OpenEdge
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.72%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Mendix
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (6.81%) Simulink
2 17 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.43%) AutoCAD
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (5.38%) Teamcenter
2 5 (1.79%) Infor CloudSuite
2 5 (1.79%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.36%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.32%) AWS
2 21 (7.53%) Azure
3 19 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 14 (5.02%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.87%) SaaS
8 5 (1.79%) Collibra
9 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.43%) PaaS
10 3 (1.08%) OCI
10 3 (1.08%) Serverless
11 2 (0.72%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.72%) Boomi
11 2 (0.72%) GCP
11 2 (0.72%) GitHub
11 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Datadog
12 1 (0.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.96%) Firewall
2 14 (5.02%) Internet
3 13 (4.66%) WAN
4 12 (4.30%) Network Security
4 12 (4.30%) VPN
5 11 (3.94%) LAN
6 10 (3.58%) DHCP
6 10 (3.58%) DNS
7 9 (3.23%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.08%) VLAN
9 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.72%) SAN
10 1 (0.36%) BGP
10 1 (0.36%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.36%) MPLS
10 1 (0.36%) OSPF
10 1 (0.36%) PBX
10 1 (0.36%) SSL
10 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.02%) Power BI
2 9 (3.23%) Power Query
3 5 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (1.79%) Ataccama
3 5 (1.79%) Metadata
3 5 (1.79%) MySQL
3 5 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.08%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.72%) Big Data
6 2 (0.72%) GIS
6 2 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.72%) QGIS
6 2 (0.72%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.38%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.58%) JIRA
3 5 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.43%) GitLab
4 4 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.08%) Git
5 3 (1.08%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) RStudio
6 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 112 (40.14%) Finance
3 40 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 29 (10.39%) Law
6 25 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.96%) Marketing
7 21 (7.53%) Banking
8 20 (7.17%) Electronics
9 17 (6.09%) Aerospace
10 16 (5.73%) Back Office
11 13 (4.66%) Legal
12 11 (3.94%) Retail
13 9 (3.23%) Public Sector
14 8 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (2.15%) Police
16 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
17 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 3 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (12.90%) Lead
2 33 (11.83%) Analyst
3 32 (11.47%) Developer
4 25 (8.96%) Systems Manager
5 24 (8.60%) Resource Manager
6 19 (6.81%) Junior
7 17 (6.09%) Senior
7 17 (6.09%) Systems Engineer
8 16 (5.73%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.73%) Technical Support
9 15 (5.38%) Junior Systems Engineer
10 14 (5.02%) Desktop Support
10 14 (5.02%) Desktop Support Technician
10 14 (5.02%) Desktop Technician
10 14 (5.02%) Support Technician
11 13 (4.66%) Support Engineer
12 11 (3.94%) ERP Developer
12 11 (3.94%) Support Analyst
12 11 (3.94%) Technical Support Engineer
13 10 (3.58%) Progress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.58%) .NET
2 9 (3.23%) LDAP
3 8 (2.87%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.51%) CSS
4 7 (2.51%) HTML
4 7 (2.51%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.15%) React
6 5 (1.79%) Kafka
6 5 (1.79%) Spring
7 4 (1.43%) REST
8 3 (1.08%) Middleware
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.08%) RESTEasy
8 3 (1.08%) Web Services
9 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.72%) HTML5
9 2 (0.72%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.72%) RESTful
9 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.02%) Algorithms
1 14 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.23%) PKI
3 9 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.15%) Robotics
5 5 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.43%) SCADA
7 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.08%) NHS
7 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.72%) Clustering
8 2 (0.72%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.72%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.77%) Windows
2 23 (8.24%) Windows 10
3 13 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.30%) Linux
5 9 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.72%) AIX
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.05%) Agile
2 75 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (20.43%) Analytics
4 50 (17.92%) ERP
5 40 (14.34%) Project Management
6 38 (13.62%) Data Management
7 34 (12.19%) SDLC
8 29 (10.39%) Computer Science
8 29 (10.39%) Decision-Making
9 28 (10.04%) Customer Service
9 28 (10.04%) Roadmaps
10 27 (9.68%) ITIL
10 27 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 27 (9.68%) Systems Engineering
11 26 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (9.32%) UML
12 24 (8.60%) Visualisation
13 23 (8.24%) Software Engineering
14 21 (7.53%) CI/CD
15 20 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.17%) SQL
2 19 (6.81%) MATLAB
3 17 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.73%) Python
5 13 (4.66%) Java
6 11 (3.94%) VB
7 10 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.58%) Progress 4GL
8 9 (3.23%) C#
9 4 (1.43%) C
9 4 (1.43%) C++
9 4 (1.43%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.08%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.72%) Bash
11 2 (0.72%) VB6
12 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) Tcl
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (22.22%) Degree
2 48 (17.20%) Security Cleared
3 37 (13.26%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.02%) CTC Cleared
6 9 (3.23%) ACCA
6 9 (3.23%) CIMA
6 9 (3.23%) CISSP
6 9 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.87%) CISM
8 7 (2.51%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.51%) NVQ Level 3
9 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.08%) CEH
11 3 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.08%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.08%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.90%) SLA
2 17 (6.09%) QA
3 12 (4.30%) NIST
4 10 (3.58%) GDPR
5 9 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.87%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.15%) NCSC
8 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.72%) COBIT
9 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.51%) Docker
3 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.23%) WSUS
3 4 (1.43%) Terraform
4 2 (0.72%) Backup Exec
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.72%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 59 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.09%) IBM
3 16 (5.73%) Cisco
4 14 (5.02%) Oracle
5 10 (3.58%) Progress
6 9 (3.23%) SAP
7 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.79%) Infor
9 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.43%) VMware
10 3 (1.08%) Talend
11 2 (0.72%) Databricks
11 2 (0.72%) Facebook
11 2 (0.72%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.72%) NetApp
11 2 (0.72%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.72%) Snow
11 2 (0.72%) Veritas
12 1 (0.36%) Apple
12 1 (0.36%) Workday