Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Surrey

Continual Improvement
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 29 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -31
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 90 94 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.51% 7.80% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 8.51% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 59 47 20
10th Percentile £34,250 £45,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £48,904 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £88,250 £77,500 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.37% +9.13% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,321 1,104 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.84% 91.62% 89.74%
Number of salaries quoted 751 487 676
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,552
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,625 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £74,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Surrey

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Surrey

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Horley - 15 £45,427 -
Woking +14 12 £100,000 +37.93% 7
Redhill +4 9 £61,427 - 2
Staines +3 6 £67,500 -10.00%
Weybridge - 6 - - 1
Reigate - 5 £55,040 -
Guildford -12 2 £32,500 -45.83% 14
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - -
Camberley - 2 - - 1
Farnham - 1 £47,500 -
Continuous Improvement
South East

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.33%) govService
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (2.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (2.22%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (2.22%) Sage 200
3 2 (2.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) Power Platform
1 14 (15.56%) SaaS
2 13 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (12.22%) AWS
4 8 (8.89%) Azure
5 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.44%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.22%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.11%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.11%) GCP
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.11%) MailChimp
9 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) LAN
2 2 (2.22%) VPN
2 2 (2.22%) WAN
2 2 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 29 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.00%) Finance
3 14 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (14.44%) Legal
5 10 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.78%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (5.56%) Local Government
10 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
10 4 (4.44%) Retail
11 1 (1.11%) Automotive
11 1 (1.11%) Front Office
11 1 (1.11%) Law
11 1 (1.11%) Marketing
11 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (12.22%) Development Manager
1 11 (12.22%) Software Development Manager
1 11 (12.22%) Software Manager
2 9 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 9 (10.00%) Lead
3 8 (8.89%) .NET Development Manager
3 8 (8.89%) Senior
3 8 (8.89%) Service Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Technical Manager
5 6 (6.67%) Mechanical Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Project Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Technical Services Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Applications Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Help Desk Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (4.44%) ERP Manager
7 4 (4.44%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) CSS
2 3 (3.33%) HTML
3 2 (2.22%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.67%) Life Science
4 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (28.89%) Agile
3 20 (22.22%) ITIL
4 18 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (15.56%) Project Management
7 12 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (13.33%) ERP
7 12 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 12 (13.33%) SDLC
7 12 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 11 (12.22%) Coaching
8 11 (12.22%) Product Vision
8 11 (12.22%) Resource Allocation
9 9 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
10 8 (8.89%) Business Continuity
10 8 (8.89%) Customer Service
10 8 (8.89%) Logistics
10 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.89%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) C#
2 9 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.11%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 3 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.22%) APMP
4 2 (2.22%) MCP
4 2 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.11%) SLA
2 5 (5.56%) PMO
3 4 (4.44%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.33%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 2 (2.22%) NIST
5 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.11%) COBIT
6 1 (1.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.22%) Ansible
2 2 (2.22%) SCCM
2 2 (2.22%) Terraform
3 1 (1.11%) Argo
3 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) Siemens
3 4 (4.44%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.33%) Granicus
4 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) IBM
5 2 (2.22%) NEC
5 2 (2.22%) OpenText
5 2 (2.22%) Sage
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow