Continuous Improvement Jobs in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 54 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +8
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 455 364 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.93% 5.33% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 5.65% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 350 197 180
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,005 £37,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,396 £50,000 £42,754
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +16.95% -9.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,937
90th Percentile £78,875 £79,100 £80,075
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,727 6,447 7,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.81% 94.46% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,531 3,582 5,012
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,270 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,952 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +17 167 £57,500 -3.40% 67
Dorset +19 69 £60,500 +57.14% 11
Wiltshire -8 68 £54,043 -1.74% 16
Devon +12 57 £46,958 +32.27% 36
Gloucestershire +1 57 £48,750 -2.50% 31
Somerset -5 33 £52,500 +36.36% 37
Cornwall -20 2 £46,890 +4.20% 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 24 (5.27%) Confluence
1 24 (5.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.66%) Apache
3 3 (0.66%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) nginx
4 2 (0.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Luigi
5 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 35 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.10%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.44%) Gliffy
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.22%) Revit
7 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
7 1 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Shopify
2 2 (0.44%) Primavera
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) HFM
3 1 (0.22%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.22%) iTrent
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.63%) Azure
2 44 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (9.01%) Power Platform
4 40 (8.79%) AWS
5 18 (3.96%) Power Automate
6 11 (2.42%) PowerApps
7 10 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.20%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.20%) GCP
7 10 (2.20%) SaaS
8 9 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.10%) PaaS
11 4 (0.88%) IaaS
11 4 (0.88%) Smartsheet
12 3 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (0.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.74%) SAN
2 11 (2.42%) Firewall
3 10 (2.20%) DNS
3 10 (2.20%) Internet
4 9 (1.98%) WAN
5 8 (1.76%) LAN
5 8 (1.76%) VoIP
6 7 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (1.54%) VLAN
7 6 (1.32%) Cisco IPT
7 6 (1.32%) Ethernet
7 6 (1.32%) RS-232
7 6 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (1.32%) Wireless
8 5 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (1.10%) Cisco Wireless
8 5 (1.10%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.88%) PBX
9 4 (0.88%) SMS
9 4 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.81%) Power BI
3 18 (3.96%) Tableau
4 17 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.64%) MySQL
6 10 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.76%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.66%) Metadata
9 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.44%) Looker
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 35 (7.69%) JIRA
2 24 (5.27%) Git
3 11 (2.42%) Subversion
4 10 (2.20%) Selenium
5 6 (1.32%) RStudio
6 5 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.66%) Moq
7 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.66%) xUnit.net
8 2 (0.44%) MSI
8 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.22%) Babel
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.22%) ESLint
9 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.22%) Vite
9 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 205 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 117 (25.71%) Finance
3 82 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (12.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (10.77%) Banking
6 43 (9.45%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (9.23%) Law
8 36 (7.91%) Manufacturing
9 35 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
10 33 (7.25%) Marketing
11 27 (5.93%) Electronics
12 25 (5.49%) Investment Banking
13 19 (4.18%) Aerospace
14 16 (3.52%) Local Government
14 16 (3.52%) Military
15 10 (2.20%) Legal
16 9 (1.98%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.32%) Aviation
17 6 (1.32%) Front Office
17 6 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (15.60%) Senior
2 70 (15.38%) Developer
3 53 (11.65%) Lead
4 49 (10.77%) Analyst
5 26 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 25 (5.49%) Software Developer
7 24 (5.27%) Business Manager
8 22 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 21 (4.62%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.18%) Architect
10 19 (4.18%) Consultant
11 14 (3.08%) Product Manager
12 13 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (2.86%) Network Engineer
12 13 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.64%) Business Relationship Manager
13 12 (2.64%) PMO Analyst
13 12 (2.64%) Relationships Manager
13 12 (2.64%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.64%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.05%) .NET
2 16 (3.52%) React
3 15 (3.30%) HTML
4 14 (3.08%) CSS
5 11 (2.42%) RESTful
6 10 (2.20%) Spring
7 9 (1.98%) Node.js
8 6 (1.32%) CSS3
8 6 (1.32%) HTML5
8 6 (1.32%) ODBC
9 5 (1.10%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.10%) LDAP
9 5 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.88%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.88%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 3 (0.66%) Redux
12 2 (0.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (4.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 13 (2.86%) Clustering
4 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.54%) CMDB
5 7 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.54%) Robotics
6 6 (1.32%) Analogue Electronics
6 6 (1.32%) AS400
6 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.10%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.88%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.95%) Windows
2 29 (6.37%) Linux
3 17 (3.74%) Windows 10
4 16 (3.52%) Apple iOS
5 14 (3.08%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.64%) AIX
7 10 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.32%) Android
8 6 (1.32%) Unix
9 5 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.88%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (31.21%) Agile
2 97 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (18.46%) Project Management
4 53 (11.65%) Coaching
4 53 (11.65%) ITIL
5 52 (11.43%) Project Delivery
6 51 (11.21%) Collaborative Working
7 49 (10.77%) Change Management
8 42 (9.23%) Customer Service
8 42 (9.23%) Line Management
8 42 (9.23%) Scrum
9 40 (8.79%) Process Improvement
9 40 (8.79%) Software Engineering
10 39 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (8.57%) User Experience
11 36 (7.91%) Roadmaps
12 35 (7.69%) Analytics
12 35 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (7.03%) CI/CD
14 31 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.31%) SQL
2 41 (9.01%) Java
3 38 (8.35%) C#
3 38 (8.35%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.18%) Python
5 18 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.98%) C++
7 8 (1.76%) R
8 7 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.10%) C
10 3 (0.66%) Bash
10 3 (0.66%) PHP
10 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.44%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) Swift
12 1 (0.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.22%) Julia
Qualifications
1 111 (24.40%) Degree
2 52 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.30%) PMP
6 14 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.86%) CCNP
7 13 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.76%) CCNA
10 7 (1.54%) APMG
10 7 (1.54%) ISEB
11 6 (1.32%) HNC
11 6 (1.32%) Tableau Certification
12 5 (1.10%) HND
12 5 (1.10%) RHCE
12 5 (1.10%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.35%) SLA
2 24 (5.27%) QA
3 22 (4.84%) PMO
4 19 (4.18%) GDPR
5 13 (2.86%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.32%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.88%) WCAG
8 2 (0.44%) GMP
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) TickIT
System Software
1 33 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.64%) Docker
4 4 (0.88%) Firmware
4 4 (0.88%) vSphere
4 4 (0.88%) XenApp
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.64%) Backup Exec
1 12 (2.64%) Kubernetes
1 12 (2.64%) NetBackup
2 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.76%) Terraform
4 7 (1.54%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.32%) Ansible
6 5 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (1.10%) Opsview
6 5 (1.10%) Rancher
7 4 (0.88%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (0.88%) Nagios
8 3 (0.66%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.44%) SCCM
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 116 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.25%) VMware
3 30 (6.59%) Oracle
4 15 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.86%) Google
6 12 (2.64%) Hitachi
6 12 (2.64%) NetApp
6 12 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.64%) Snow
6 12 (2.64%) Veritas
7 11 (2.42%) Xamarin
8 10 (2.20%) Cisco
9 9 (1.98%) Citrix
9 9 (1.98%) IBM
10 8 (1.76%) Databricks
10 8 (1.76%) HP
11 6 (1.32%) Alteryx
11 6 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (1.32%) SAP
12 5 (1.10%) Red Hat