Continuous Improvement Job Trends in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 26 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 462 191 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.51% 7.26% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 8.12% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 257 136 350
10th Percentile £34,200 - £36,125
25th Percentile £41,993 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,836 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +2.75% -0.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,639 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & 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 4,937 2,353 7,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.59% 89.43% 84.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,317 1,524 5,500
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,660 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +7.18% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South West over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 2026. 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 +2 117 £62,500 -3.85% 60
Somerset +24 78 £76,250 +49.78% 26
Wiltshire -2 69 £65,000 +62.50% 18
Gloucestershire +20 64 £51,250 -4.01% 34
Devon +5 53 £45,000 -27.00% 14
Dorset +18 49 £40,000 -47.54% 13
Cornwall -17 7 £52,500 +23.53% 4
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (2.81%) Confluence
2 9 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) CMS
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.65%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.43%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) Windchill
5 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.22%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 74 (16.02%) SAP PM
2 9 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (1.95%) Magento
2 9 (1.95%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 55 (11.90%) Azure
2 52 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (10.17%) AWS
4 23 (4.98%) GCP
5 18 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.25%) Serverless
7 12 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 10 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.95%) GitHub
10 9 (1.95%) SaaS
11 8 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.30%) Datadog
12 6 (1.30%) Figma
13 5 (1.08%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (1.08%) Contentsquare
14 4 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.95%) Firewall
1 9 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (1.73%) Broadband
3 6 (1.30%) DNS
3 6 (1.30%) LAN
4 5 (1.08%) Network Security
4 5 (1.08%) WAN
5 3 (0.65%) LTE
5 3 (0.65%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.65%) VPN
6 2 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.22%) NAS
7 1 (0.22%) NGFW
7 1 (0.22%) SAN
7 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.90%) Power BI
3 14 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.95%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.30%) MySQL
7 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.87%) Tableau
9 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.43%) DTS
10 2 (0.43%) OLAP
10 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Redis
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (3.90%) JIRA
2 11 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.73%) CircleCI
3 8 (1.73%) Git
4 7 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.30%) GitLab
6 5 (1.08%) JMeter
6 5 (1.08%) Selenium
7 4 (0.87%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.87%) Gradle
7 4 (0.87%) Maven
7 4 (0.87%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.65%) Postman
9 2 (0.43%) Appium
9 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.43%) TestRail
9 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.22%) JUnit
10 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 162 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 108 (23.38%) Manufacturing
3 92 (19.91%) Finance
4 50 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.49%) Back Office
6 23 (4.98%) Retail
7 22 (4.76%) Legal
8 17 (3.68%) Electronics
9 15 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.25%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.03%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.38%) Marketing
12 11 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.73%) Games
15 8 (1.73%) Law
15 8 (1.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (9.09%) Senior
2 36 (7.79%) Analyst
2 36 (7.79%) Lead
2 36 (7.79%) Support Engineer
3 31 (6.71%) Developer
4 24 (5.19%) Site Engineer
5 23 (4.98%) Software Engineer
6 21 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
6 21 (4.55%) Desktop Support
6 21 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 20 (4.33%) IT Support
8 17 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (3.68%) Support Analyst
9 13 (2.81%) IT Analyst
10 12 (2.60%) Engineering Manager
11 10 (2.16%) Project Manager
12 9 (1.95%) Financial Controller
12 9 (1.95%) Head of Digital
12 9 (1.95%) Sales Representative
12 9 (1.95%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.41%) React
2 21 (4.55%) Spring
3 18 (3.90%) .NET
4 17 (3.68%) REST
4 17 (3.68%) Spring Boot
5 14 (3.03%) Middleware
6 10 (2.16%) SOAP
7 9 (1.95%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.95%) RESTful
8 8 (1.73%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.73%) Playwright
9 6 (1.30%) CSS
9 6 (1.30%) HTML
9 6 (1.30%) Node.js
10 5 (1.08%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.08%) OAuth
11 4 (0.87%) OAuth2
11 4 (0.87%) ZeroMQ
12 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.65%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (16.02%) FMCG
2 21 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 13 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.73%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.87%) e-Learning
9 4 (0.87%) PMI
10 3 (0.65%) iPad
10 3 (0.65%) iPhone
10 3 (0.65%) Replication
10 3 (0.65%) SCADA
10 3 (0.65%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.17%) Windows
2 34 (7.36%) Linux
3 24 (5.19%) Windows 10
4 14 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.30%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (22.73%) Agile
2 93 (20.13%) Root Cause Analysis
3 81 (17.53%) Data Analysis
4 78 (16.88%) Proactive Maintenance
5 77 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (16.45%) Preventative Maintenance
7 74 (16.02%) Cost Control
7 74 (16.02%) Order Management
7 74 (16.02%) Predictive Maintenance
8 65 (14.07%) Analytics
9 64 (13.85%) CI/CD
10 62 (13.42%) ITIL
11 52 (11.26%) DevOps
12 51 (11.04%) Decision-Making
13 44 (9.52%) Software Engineering
14 43 (9.31%) AI
14 43 (9.31%) Customer Experience
14 43 (9.31%) Test Automation
15 39 (8.44%) Customer Service
16 38 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 49 (10.61%) Python
2 41 (8.87%) SQL
3 31 (6.71%) Java
4 21 (4.55%) Bash
5 20 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 15 (3.25%) C#
7 15 (3.25%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.95%) R
10 6 (1.30%) C++
10 6 (1.30%) Go
11 3 (0.65%) VBA
11 3 (0.65%) VBScript
12 2 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.22%) Delphi
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) VB
13 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 81 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 73 (15.80%) Degree
3 47 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
6 15 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.38%) ACCA
9 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.73%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.52%) A+ Certification
12 6 (1.30%) IRCA
13 5 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 4 (0.87%) CISSP
14 4 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.87%) PMP
15 3 (0.65%) CCNA
15 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.87%) QA
2 23 (4.98%) SLA
3 22 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 18 (3.90%) GDPR
5 17 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (3.25%) ISO 9001
7 14 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.95%) GAAP
8 9 (1.95%) IFRS
8 9 (1.95%) NIST
9 6 (1.30%) WCAG
10 5 (1.08%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.87%) Automotive SPICE
11 4 (0.87%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.65%) PMO
13 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.43%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 30 (6.49%) Docker
2 20 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.98%) Terraform
3 13 (2.81%) Ansible
4 12 (2.60%) Grafana
5 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.08%) SCCM
8 4 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.43%) FTK
10 2 (0.43%) Kibana
10 2 (0.43%) Podman
10 2 (0.43%) VxRail
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.22%) Puppet
11 1 (0.22%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 80 (17.32%) SAP
2 65 (14.07%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.41%) Cisco
4 16 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.95%) ConnectWise
5 9 (1.95%) WooCommerce
6 7 (1.52%) VMware
7 6 (1.30%) Apple
7 6 (1.30%) Oracle
8 5 (1.08%) Adobe
9 4 (0.87%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.87%) Google
9 4 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.87%) Splunk
10 3 (0.65%) Okta
10 3 (0.65%) Qualys
10 3 (0.65%) Tenable
11 2 (0.43%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.43%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.43%) Thales