Continuous Improvement Jobs in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 63 43
Rank change year-on-year +34 -20 +29
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 3,913 2,374 4,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.99% 4.93% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 5.16% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,763 1,575 2,130
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,595 £37,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,939 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,234 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,548 £80,075
UK median annual salary £58,800 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% -0.79% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Midlands +26 966 £53,500 +1.90% 211
North of England +35 854 £52,500 - 280
Scotland +50 750 £55,000 -12.36% 46
West Midlands +19 747 £55,000 +3.77% 127
South East +16 657 £57,500 - 248
North West +32 460 £52,500 -4.55% 156
South West +25 398 £55,000 +10.22% 136
Yorkshire +30 264 £55,500 +11.00% 93
East Midlands +7 211 £50,000 +7.53% 83
East of England -2 192 £55,000 +22.22% 83
North East +28 130 £37,500 - 44
Wales +23 71 £45,000 -2.74% 40
Northern Ireland +42 28 £47,500 +5.56% 45
Channel Islands - 2 £60,000 - 1
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
1 139 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 115 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 75 (1.92%) Confluence
4 70 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (0.92%) Apache
6 35 (0.89%) FileNet
7 24 (0.61%) SAS
8 20 (0.51%) Skype for Business
9 19 (0.49%) IIS
10 8 (0.20%) CMS
10 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.15%) Appian
11 6 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 6 (0.15%) WordPress
12 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.13%) nginx
13 2 (0.051%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.051%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.026%) Apache Airflow
14 1 (0.026%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 744 (19.01%) Microsoft Office
2 592 (15.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.82%) AutoCAD
6 28 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.18%) Siemens NX
7 7 (0.18%) Simulink
7 7 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.077%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.051%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.051%) Revit
10 1 (0.026%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.026%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.026%) Solid Edge
10 1 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 44 (1.12%) iTrent
2 34 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.56%) NEC Housing
4 18 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.23%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.18%) Magento
10 7 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.18%) Sage 200
10 7 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 533 (13.62%) AWS
2 513 (13.11%) Azure
3 240 (6.13%) Power Platform
4 195 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (2.61%) GCP
5 102 (2.61%) SaaS
6 82 (2.10%) Serverless
7 81 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 52 (1.33%) PowerApps
11 48 (1.23%) Amazon S3
12 47 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 38 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
17 31 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.33%) Firewall
2 64 (1.64%) WAN
3 51 (1.30%) VoIP
4 49 (1.25%) LAN
5 39 (1.00%) Network Security
5 39 (1.00%) SAN
6 37 (0.95%) DNS
7 32 (0.82%) DHCP
8 31 (0.79%) VLAN
9 27 (0.69%) Internet
10 24 (0.61%) Broadband
10 24 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.56%) Skype
12 21 (0.54%) TCP/IP
13 20 (0.51%) VPN
14 19 (0.49%) Wireless
15 18 (0.46%) Intranet
16 17 (0.43%) OSPF
17 16 (0.41%) NAS
18 15 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (5.95%) NoSQL
2 187 (4.78%) Power BI
3 114 (2.91%) SQL Server
4 103 (2.63%) Big Data
5 83 (2.12%) Hadoop
6 73 (1.87%) Tableau
7 70 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 60 (1.53%) Apache Hive
8 60 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 60 (1.53%) HBase
9 44 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 41 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 38 (0.97%) MySQL
11 38 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
12 33 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 30 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
13 30 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.69%) Power Query
15 22 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 164 (4.19%) Git
2 142 (3.63%) JIRA
3 102 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 83 (2.12%) JUnit
5 60 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
6 55 (1.41%) Selenium
7 34 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 26 (0.66%) Android Studio
9 22 (0.56%) Jasmine
9 22 (0.56%) WebDriver
10 21 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
10 21 (0.54%) Protractor
11 20 (0.51%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.38%) GitLab
12 15 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.33%) Maven
14 12 (0.31%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.26%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.26%) Terragrunt
16 9 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 1,455 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 1,292 (33.02%) Finance
3 798 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 744 (19.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 692 (17.68%) Law
6 662 (16.92%) Legal
7 342 (8.74%) Military
8 273 (6.98%) Retail
9 244 (6.24%) Organisational Skills
10 215 (5.49%) Manufacturing
11 198 (5.06%) Marketing
12 181 (4.63%) Banking
13 178 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
14 176 (4.50%) Public Sector
15 110 (2.81%) Investment Banking
16 88 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
17 82 (2.10%) Telecoms
18 64 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
19 52 (1.33%) Local Government
20 50 (1.28%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 583 (14.90%) Software Engineer
2 565 (14.44%) Analyst
3 343 (8.77%) Graduate
4 303 (7.74%) Lead
5 295 (7.54%) Senior
6 288 (7.36%) Developer
7 205 (5.24%) Java Engineer
8 203 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
9 181 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
10 151 (3.86%) Project Manager
11 142 (3.63%) AWS Software Engineer
12 126 (3.22%) Full Stack Engineer
12 126 (3.22%) Product Analyst
13 124 (3.17%) Architect
14 120 (3.07%) Sales Analyst
15 116 (2.96%) Data Engineer
16 106 (2.71%) IT Manager
17 104 (2.66%) Business Analyst
18 99 (2.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 92 (2.35%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (6.31%) React
2 214 (5.47%) HTML
3 184 (4.70%) CSS
4 175 (4.47%) AngularJS
4 175 (4.47%) Spring
5 148 (3.78%) .NET
5 148 (3.78%) Node.js
6 130 (3.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 107 (2.73%) J2EE
8 105 (2.68%) JMS
9 99 (2.53%) JSON
10 91 (2.33%) Kafka
11 89 (2.27%) jQuery
11 89 (2.27%) Web Services
12 86 (2.20%) Hibernate
13 73 (1.87%) RESTful
14 64 (1.64%) XML
15 53 (1.35%) Spring Boot
16 50 (1.28%) .NET Framework
17 49 (1.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 541 (13.83%) Algorithms
2 508 (12.98%) Onboarding
3 244 (6.24%) Management Information System
4 181 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
5 123 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 112 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 80 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 69 (1.76%) Driving Licence
9 56 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 48 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 45 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 44 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 37 (0.95%) Virtual Team
14 34 (0.87%) Operational Technology
15 31 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
16 30 (0.77%) CMDB
16 30 (0.77%) IoT
17 28 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
18 27 (0.69%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 239 (6.11%) Windows
2 134 (3.42%) Linux
3 95 (2.43%) Unix
4 79 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 73 (1.87%) Android
5 73 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 47 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.33%) VMS
10 12 (0.31%) AIX
10 12 (0.31%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.28%) Windows 8
12 10 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.15%) Debian
16 4 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.077%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,291 (32.99%) Agile
2 1,046 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
3 751 (19.19%) Customer Service
4 717 (18.32%) CI/CD
5 686 (17.53%) SDLC
6 678 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 607 (15.51%) Visualisation
8 579 (14.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 528 (13.49%) Data Analysis
9 528 (13.49%) Risk Management
10 509 (13.01%) Community of Practice
11 497 (12.70%) Project Management
12 494 (12.62%) Machine Learning
13 486 (12.42%) Operational Stability
14 481 (12.29%) Process Improvement
15 473 (12.09%) Logistics
16 455 (11.63%) Customer Experience
17 388 (9.92%) Creative Thinking
18 372 (9.51%) Performance Metrics
19 359 (9.17%) Contingency Planning
Programming Languages
1 662 (16.92%) SQL
2 473 (12.09%) Java
3 426 (10.89%) Python
4 267 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 169 (4.32%) C#
6 147 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 93 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 91 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 75 (1.92%) VBA
10 45 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 38 (0.97%) Bash
12 37 (0.95%) C++
13 35 (0.89%) PHP
14 31 (0.79%) Scala
14 31 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 24 (0.61%) VB
16 22 (0.56%) C
17 20 (0.51%) MATLAB
18 15 (0.38%) Bicep
18 15 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 1,125 (28.75%) Degree
2 192 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 97 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 72 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 53 (1.35%) PMP
9 49 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.02%) CISSP
11 40 (1.02%) HNC
12 39 (1.00%) HND
13 38 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
14 35 (0.89%) CIPD
15 32 (0.82%) CCNA
16 29 (0.74%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.72%) DV Cleared
18 27 (0.69%) CISM
19 24 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (7.44%) QA
2 132 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 115 (2.94%) SLA
4 110 (2.81%) GDPR
5 63 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 59 (1.51%) PMO
7 56 (1.43%) ISO 9001
8 54 (1.38%) Accessibility
9 45 (1.15%) NIST
10 39 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 29 (0.74%) ISO 14001
11 29 (0.74%) NEBOSH
12 17 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.38%) GRC
14 14 (0.36%) GMP
15 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 12 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.28%) IFRS
17 11 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 177 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 116 (2.96%) Docker
3 72 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.53%) HDFS
5 27 (0.69%) Firmware
5 27 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.31%) vSphere
8 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.10%) pfSense
9 4 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.077%) Ceph
10 3 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.077%) GPFS
10 3 (0.077%) Lustre
10 3 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.051%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 179 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 144 (3.68%) Terraform
3 47 (1.20%) SCCM
4 42 (1.07%) Ansible
4 42 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.87%) Grafana
6 24 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.49%) Puppet
9 13 (0.33%) Salt
10 12 (0.31%) Backup Exec
10 12 (0.31%) NetBackup
10 12 (0.31%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.13%) Rancher
12 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.077%) Fortio
13 3 (0.077%) Istio
13 3 (0.077%) Kiali
Vendors
1 664 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 196 (5.01%) SAP
3 195 (4.98%) Oracle
4 155 (3.96%) Databricks
5 105 (2.68%) VMware
6 76 (1.94%) Cisco
7 75 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 69 (1.76%) Google
9 64 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 60 (1.53%) Informatica
11 42 (1.07%) IBM
12 41 (1.05%) Alteryx
13 35 (0.89%) Red Hat
14 31 (0.79%) Citrix
14 31 (0.79%) Dynatrace
15 30 (0.77%) Cloudera
15 30 (0.77%) IFS
16 26 (0.66%) Splunk
17 25 (0.64%) NEC
18 24 (0.61%) Dell