Continuous Improvement Jobs in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 61 44
Rank change year-on-year +29 -17 +37
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4,411 3,204 4,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.30% 5.18% 5.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 5.42% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 1,766 1,999
10th Percentile £31,050 £30,500 £32,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +4.54% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Scotland +35 1,032 £55,380 -8.49% 138
North of England +46 969 £52,500 -2.33% 430
Midlands +18 830 £52,500 - 273
South East +4 713 £51,000 -15.00% 338
West Midlands +16 623 £53,500 +0.94% 176
North West +46 525 £51,000 -7.27% 246
South West +9 452 £52,396 -0.20% 194
Yorkshire +39 343 £60,000 +9.33% 145
East of England +3 235 £55,000 +10.00% 173
East Midlands +10 196 £47,500 -5.00% 97
Wales +45 155 £51,997 +16.41% 78
North East +28 101 £45,000 +20.00% 51
Northern Ireland +43 28 £67,500 +50.00% 26
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 205 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 134 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 98 (2.22%) Confluence
4 92 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 70 (1.59%) Apache
6 34 (0.77%) FileNet
7 26 (0.59%) SAS
8 22 (0.50%) IIS
9 13 (0.29%) CMS
10 12 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 9 (0.20%) WordPress
12 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 6 (0.14%) Appian
13 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.045%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.045%) BizTalk Server
15 2 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
15 2 (0.045%) Umbraco
Applications
1 494 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 356 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 127 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.95%) AutoCAD
6 35 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.20%) Simulink
9 5 (0.11%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.091%) Trello
11 3 (0.068%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.068%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.045%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.045%) Revit
12 2 (0.045%) Sketch
13 1 (0.023%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.023%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.32%) iTrent
5 13 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
6 12 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.18%) Magento
9 8 (0.18%) Sage 200
9 8 (0.18%) Shopify
10 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.11%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.11%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.091%) Primavera
12 4 (0.091%) SAP APO
12 4 (0.091%) SAP IS-U
12 4 (0.091%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 630 (14.28%) AWS
2 553 (12.54%) Azure
3 279 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 244 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
5 121 (2.74%) SaaS
6 106 (2.40%) GCP
7 91 (2.06%) Serverless
8 88 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 78 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
11 65 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 57 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
13 55 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
15 51 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
15 51 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 47 (1.07%) Entra ID
17 45 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 43 (0.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 102 (2.31%) Firewall
2 75 (1.70%) WAN
3 69 (1.56%) VoIP
4 68 (1.54%) LAN
5 59 (1.34%) DNS
6 58 (1.31%) SAN
7 49 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 38 (0.86%) VLAN
9 36 (0.82%) Internet
10 34 (0.77%) DHCP
10 34 (0.77%) Network Security
11 32 (0.73%) Broadband
12 29 (0.66%) VPN
13 28 (0.63%) NAS
14 26 (0.59%) Intranet
15 22 (0.50%) TCP/IP
15 22 (0.50%) Wireless
16 19 (0.43%) HTTP
17 18 (0.41%) SNMP
18 17 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (7.05%) NoSQL
2 240 (5.44%) Power BI
3 175 (3.97%) Big Data
4 157 (3.56%) SQL Server
5 151 (3.42%) Hadoop
6 99 (2.24%) Apache Hive
7 94 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 86 (1.95%) HBase
9 82 (1.86%) MySQL
10 78 (1.77%) Data Lake
11 67 (1.52%) Tableau
12 54 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 49 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
14 48 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
15 46 (1.04%) Power Query
16 43 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
17 40 (0.91%) RDBMS
18 35 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 34 (0.77%) Metadata
20 30 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 238 (5.40%) Git
2 209 (4.74%) JIRA
3 155 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.15%) JUnit
5 86 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
6 45 (1.02%) Selenium
7 40 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 29 (0.66%) Android Studio
9 27 (0.61%) Jasmine
10 26 (0.59%) WebDriver
11 25 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
12 21 (0.48%) Protractor
13 20 (0.45%) Visual Studio
14 18 (0.41%) GitLab
14 18 (0.41%) Maven
15 16 (0.36%) Subversion
16 15 (0.34%) PHPUnit
17 12 (0.27%) Cucumber
18 11 (0.25%) Moq
General
1 1,675 (37.97%) Finance
2 1,637 (37.11%) Social Skills
3 1,041 (23.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,021 (23.15%) Law
5 900 (20.40%) Analytical Skills
6 717 (16.25%) Legal
7 327 (7.41%) Marketing
8 293 (6.64%) Banking
9 292 (6.62%) Manufacturing
10 288 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
11 278 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
12 212 (4.81%) Retail
13 164 (3.72%) Public Sector
14 145 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
15 113 (2.56%) Investment Banking
16 107 (2.43%) Military
17 91 (2.06%) Telecoms
18 64 (1.45%) Electronics
19 52 (1.18%) Local Government
20 47 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 840 (19.04%) Software Engineer
2 589 (13.35%) Analyst
3 420 (9.52%) Lead
4 394 (8.93%) Developer
5 333 (7.55%) Senior
6 298 (6.76%) Java Engineer
7 292 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 208 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
9 197 (4.47%) AWS Software Engineer
10 181 (4.10%) Project Manager
11 171 (3.88%) Graduate
12 151 (3.42%) Data Engineer
13 150 (3.40%) IT Manager
14 140 (3.17%) IT Engineer
15 137 (3.11%) Full Stack Engineer
16 134 (3.04%) Product Analyst
17 133 (3.02%) Big Data Engineer
17 133 (3.02%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 131 (2.97%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 130 (2.95%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (6.23%) React
2 270 (6.12%) Spring
3 238 (5.40%) AngularJS
4 221 (5.01%) HTML
5 196 (4.44%) CSS
6 157 (3.56%) .NET
6 157 (3.56%) Node.js
7 145 (3.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 131 (2.97%) JSON
9 119 (2.70%) J2EE
10 113 (2.56%) JMS
11 111 (2.52%) Kafka
11 111 (2.52%) RESTful
12 106 (2.40%) Web Services
13 100 (2.27%) Spring Boot
14 96 (2.18%) jQuery
15 90 (2.04%) Hibernate
16 87 (1.97%) XML
17 70 (1.59%) REST
18 61 (1.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 768 (17.41%) Algorithms
2 330 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 323 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 194 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 182 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
6 159 (3.60%) Product Ownership
7 84 (1.90%) FMCG
8 76 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 75 (1.70%) Driving Licence
10 72 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 52 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 48 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 46 (1.04%) Legacy Code
14 43 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
16 40 (0.91%) Virtual Team
17 37 (0.84%) NHS
18 32 (0.73%) Public Cloud
19 30 (0.68%) CMDB
19 30 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 298 (6.76%) Windows
2 159 (3.60%) Linux
3 126 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.56%) Unix
5 76 (1.72%) Android
6 67 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 45 (1.02%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.41%) Windows 7
10 14 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.29%) VMS
11 13 (0.29%) Windows 8
12 12 (0.27%) AIX
13 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.14%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.068%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,726 (39.13%) Agile
2 1,215 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
3 1,003 (22.74%) Software Engineering
4 938 (21.27%) CI/CD
5 903 (20.47%) Visualisation
6 892 (20.22%) SDLC
7 739 (16.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 693 (15.71%) Community of Practice
9 689 (15.62%) Machine Learning
9 689 (15.62%) Operational Stability
10 650 (14.74%) Risk Management
11 633 (14.35%) Project Management
12 542 (12.29%) Customer Service
13 384 (8.71%) Mentoring
14 383 (8.68%) Coaching
15 365 (8.27%) Project Delivery
16 360 (8.16%) DevOps
17 352 (7.98%) Decision-Making
18 348 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 338 (7.66%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 767 (17.39%) SQL
2 677 (15.35%) Java
3 490 (11.11%) Python
4 311 (7.05%) JavaScript
5 192 (4.35%) C#
6 136 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 130 (2.95%) PL/SQL
8 101 (2.29%) PowerShell
9 75 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 53 (1.20%) PHP
11 52 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 52 (1.18%) Scala
12 48 (1.09%) C
13 29 (0.66%) C++
14 28 (0.63%) VB
15 20 (0.45%) Bash
16 17 (0.39%) R
17 16 (0.36%) Bicep
18 14 (0.32%) Go
18 14 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,052 (23.85%) Degree
2 156 (3.54%) Security Cleared
3 115 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (1.65%) Master's Degree
5 71 (1.61%) SC Cleared
6 70 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 70 (1.59%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 52 (1.18%) HND
8 49 (1.11%) HNC
9 48 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.00%) PMP
11 41 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 38 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 36 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 31 (0.70%) DV Cleared
15 29 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (0.59%) CISSP
17 24 (0.54%) CCNA
18 20 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (7.05%) QA
2 152 (3.45%) SLA
3 124 (2.81%) GDPR
4 117 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (2.24%) PMO
6 68 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.50%) ISO 9001
8 50 (1.13%) Data Quality
9 41 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 37 (0.84%) NIST
11 31 (0.70%) ISO 14001
12 28 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.48%) NEBOSH
14 17 (0.39%) GRC
15 16 (0.36%) NCSC
16 15 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 12 (0.27%) ISO 22301
19 11 (0.25%) PCI DSS
20 10 (0.23%) COSHH
System Software
1 202 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 111 (2.52%) Docker
3 108 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (1.95%) HDFS
5 49 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.50%) Firmware
6 22 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.50%) vSphere
7 18 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.11%) XenApp
11 4 (0.091%) pfSense
12 3 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.023%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.023%) Snort
14 1 (0.023%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 178 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 172 (3.90%) Terraform
3 51 (1.16%) Grafana
4 42 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.73%) SCCM
6 19 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.36%) Functional Safety
8 14 (0.32%) Ansible
9 13 (0.29%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.29%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.27%) Backup Exec
10 12 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.25%) Nagios
12 8 (0.18%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.16%) SCOM
14 6 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.11%) Opsview
15 5 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 764 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 223 (5.06%) Databricks
3 220 (4.99%) Oracle
4 154 (3.49%) SAP
5 139 (3.15%) VMware
6 113 (2.56%) Google
7 108 (2.45%) Cisco
8 89 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 86 (1.95%) Informatica
10 72 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 56 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 54 (1.22%) Citrix
13 53 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 49 (1.11%) Splunk
15 43 (0.97%) Alteryx
16 30 (0.68%) Veeam
17 23 (0.52%) HP
17 23 (0.52%) Meraki
18 21 (0.48%) Dell
18 21 (0.48%) IBM