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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 76
Rank change year-on-year -9 +61 -31
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 136 106 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.28% 9.58% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 10.60% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 100 85 46
10th Percentile £35,938 £28,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% -

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 1,600 1,000 2,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.87% 90.33% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 645 1,361
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,330 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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
Guildford -4 23 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Woking -12 23 £55,000 +22.22% 16
Epsom +17 18 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Leatherhead -4 9 £100,000 +95.12% 1
Redhill +7 6 £165,000 +312.50% 2
Staines -5 6 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Reigate -11 5 £92,500 - 12
Warlingham - 3 - -
Caterham - 3 - -
Camberley -2 2 £40,125 -38.27% 3
Horley +2 1 £38,000 -41.54%
Egham -5 1 £62,500 +92.31% 1
Cobham - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - - 1
Godalming - 1 £32,000 - 1
Weybridge - 1 - - 2
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 4 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.74%) Infor LN
1 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.74%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.74%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.59%) AWS
2 19 (13.97%) SaaS
3 14 (10.29%) Azure
4 8 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.15%) Google Analytics
6 6 (4.41%) Miro
7 5 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.68%) GitHub
7 5 (3.68%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.47%) PaaS
10 1 (0.74%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.74%) IaaS
10 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) Firewall
2 7 (5.15%) LAN
2 7 (5.15%) WAN
2 7 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.21%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (2.21%) Internet
3 3 (2.21%) Wireless
4 2 (1.47%) Broadband
4 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.74%) BGP
5 1 (0.74%) DHCP
5 1 (0.74%) DNS
5 1 (0.74%) IPsec
5 1 (0.74%) LTE
5 1 (0.74%) Network Security
5 1 (0.74%) SNMP
5 1 (0.74%) SSL
5 1 (0.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.74%) VPN
5 1 (0.74%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.15%) Metadata
1 7 (5.15%) Power BI
2 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.68%) Redis
4 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.47%) MySQL
4 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.47%) Tableau
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) Impala
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.74%) Parquet
5 1 (0.74%) Siebel EIM
5 1 (0.74%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Git
2 7 (5.15%) JIRA
3 6 (4.41%) GitLab
4 4 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.47%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.74%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.74%) ScriptRunner
General
1 57 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.47%) Finance
3 35 (25.74%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.44%) Marketing
5 15 (11.03%) Retail
6 12 (8.82%) Automotive
7 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.15%) Aerospace
9 7 (5.15%) Law
10 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.94%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.94%) Legal
12 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.47%) Electronics
13 2 (1.47%) Games
13 2 (1.47%) Italian Language
13 2 (1.47%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 25 (18.38%) Developer
2 24 (17.65%) Lead
3 18 (13.24%) Senior
3 18 (13.24%) Software Engineer
4 13 (9.56%) .NET Software Engineer
4 13 (9.56%) C# Software Engineer
5 12 (8.82%) .NET Developer
5 12 (8.82%) .NET Software Developer
5 12 (8.82%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (8.82%) C# Developer
5 12 (8.82%) C# Software Developer
5 12 (8.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Analyst
7 9 (6.62%) IT Support
8 8 (5.88%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) Vue
2 16 (11.76%) .NET
3 15 (11.03%) CSS
3 15 (11.03%) HTML
4 5 (3.68%) Node.js
5 3 (2.21%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.21%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.47%) Laravel
6 2 (1.47%) React
6 2 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.74%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.74%) boto
7 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.74%) PySpark
7 1 (0.74%) REST
7 1 (0.74%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.15%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.68%) NHS
4 5 (3.68%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.68%) Web Conferencing
5 4 (2.94%) PMI
5 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.47%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.47%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.47%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.82%) Windows
2 10 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.68%) Linux
4 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 31 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (19.12%) Agile
4 25 (18.38%) AI
5 23 (16.91%) B2B
6 22 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (16.18%) Microservices
7 21 (15.44%) SDLC
7 21 (15.44%) Software Engineering
8 20 (14.71%) Coaching
9 18 (13.24%) CI/CD
9 18 (13.24%) Computer Science
10 17 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 16 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (11.76%) SEO
12 15 (11.03%) User Stories
13 14 (10.29%) Resource Allocation
14 13 (9.56%) Decision-Making
14 13 (9.56%) Mentoring
15 12 (8.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.71%) C#
2 16 (11.76%) SQL
3 13 (9.56%) Python
4 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.94%) C++
6 4 (2.94%) Go
7 2 (1.47%) Bash
7 2 (1.47%) PHP
8 1 (0.74%) Groovy
8 1 (0.74%) Java
8 1 (0.74%) Perl
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (16.91%) Degree
2 9 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.41%) CISSP
5 5 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.94%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.21%) CCNA
7 3 (2.21%) CISM
7 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.47%) CEH
8 2 (1.47%) CRISC
8 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) GDPR
2 4 (2.94%) GMP
2 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.94%) ITGC
3 3 (2.21%) NIST
3 3 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) GAAP
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.74%) IFRS
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.68%) Docker
3 1 (0.74%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Terraform
2 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Argo
3 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.74%) Grafana
3 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.15%) Google
3 7 (5.15%) Oracle
4 5 (3.68%) Cisco
4 5 (3.68%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.94%) Adobe
6 3 (2.21%) Aruba
6 3 (2.21%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.21%) Qualys
6 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.47%) BMC
7 2 (1.47%) Progress
7 2 (1.47%) SAP
7 2 (1.47%) Splunk
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.74%) Cognos
8 1 (0.74%) EMC
8 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) Siebel