Continuous Improvement Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +27
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,034 3,294 4,095
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.94% 9.71% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.85% 11.00% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,373 1,394 1,938
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,424 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,443 £53,818
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -2.55% +2.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,194 £58,700
% change year-on-year +4.91% -2.57% -1.39%

All Process & 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 51,105 29,940 53,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.47% 88.23% 79.59%
Number of salaries quoted 35,978 16,122 36,226
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,735 £27,817
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,230 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Improvement

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 21 July 2026.

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 21 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
North of England +7 1,416 £53,500 +7.00% 531
South East -10 973 £59,000 +8.26% 544
Midlands +3 959 £52,500 +10.53% 320
North West +22 702 £55,000 +10.00% 294
South West +14 658 £55,000 -3.51% 215
West Midlands +1 577 £51,061 +2.12% 191
Yorkshire -10 498 £50,000 -13.04% 177
East of England +22 413 £55,000 +29.41% 158
East Midlands +25 379 £54,000 +35.00% 129
Scotland 0 231 £51,425 -23.82% 84
Northern Ireland -1 223 £57,500 -34.29% 25
North East +4 216 £55,000 +15.18% 66
Wales +2 170 £53,171 -0.62% 45
Channel Islands +3 5 £75,000 -6.25%
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 263 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 137 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 85 (1.69%) Confluence
4 29 (0.58%) CMS
5 23 (0.46%) Apache
6 20 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.26%) IIS
9 11 (0.22%) nginx
10 10 (0.20%) WordPress
11 8 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.14%) Moodle
12 7 (0.14%) OpenEdge
13 5 (0.099%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.099%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.099%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.079%) SAS
14 4 (0.079%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.060%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 297 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 230 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.40%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.30%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.20%) Fusion 360
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.079%) CATIA
10 4 (0.079%) Sketch
10 4 (0.079%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.079%) Windchill
11 3 (0.060%) ALPHACAM
11 3 (0.060%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.060%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.060%) Simulink
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 85 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 79 (1.57%) SAP PM
3 49 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 41 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 29 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
6 16 (0.32%) Primavera
7 14 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 11 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 9 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.16%) Shopify
10 8 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.12%) Magento
12 6 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 5 (0.099%) Oracle Cash Management
13 5 (0.099%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 896 (17.80%) Azure
2 568 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
3 490 (9.73%) AWS
4 321 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 314 (6.24%) SaaS
6 255 (5.07%) Entra ID
7 172 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (2.54%) GCP
9 126 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 115 (2.28%) Serverless
11 107 (2.13%) PowerApps
12 101 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 88 (1.75%) OneDrive
14 77 (1.53%) GitHub
15 53 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 47 (0.93%) IaaS
18 45 (0.89%) PaaS
19 41 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
20 39 (0.77%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 235 (4.67%) Firewall
2 186 (3.69%) DNS
3 122 (2.42%) DHCP
4 114 (2.26%) WAN
5 100 (1.99%) VPN
6 96 (1.91%) LAN
7 91 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 77 (1.53%) Wireless
9 73 (1.45%) Broadband
10 67 (1.33%) VLAN
10 67 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (1.11%) Network Security
12 43 (0.85%) VoIP
13 29 (0.58%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.38%) Internet
15 17 (0.34%) TETRA
16 16 (0.32%) Unified Communications
17 13 (0.26%) SAN
18 11 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
18 11 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (4.35%) Power BI
2 177 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 58 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (0.99%) MySQL
5 47 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 41 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 39 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 35 (0.70%) Metadata
9 30 (0.60%) Power Query
9 30 (0.60%) Tableau
10 27 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (0.46%) Redis
12 19 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (0.30%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.22%) DynamoDB
18 9 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 190 (3.77%) JIRA
2 160 (3.18%) Git
3 99 (1.97%) GitLab
4 73 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 42 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 34 (0.68%) Selenium
7 28 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 21 (0.42%) Postman
9 17 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.34%) JMeter
10 12 (0.24%) Maven
11 11 (0.22%) JUnit
12 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.18%) Subversion
12 9 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.14%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.12%) Robot Framework
General
1 2,016 (40.05%) Social Skills
2 1,049 (20.84%) Finance
3 969 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 511 (10.15%) Manufacturing
5 416 (8.26%) Legal
6 381 (7.57%) Public Sector
7 305 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
8 302 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
9 277 (5.50%) Law
10 271 (5.38%) Retail
11 232 (4.61%) Marketing
12 208 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 112 (2.22%) Aerospace
14 100 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 76 (1.51%) Banking
16 74 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.37%) Games
18 66 (1.31%) Electronics
19 60 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
20 54 (1.07%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 708 (14.06%) Senior
2 522 (10.37%) Lead
3 511 (10.15%) Analyst
4 384 (7.63%) Developer
5 250 (4.97%) IT Manager
5 250 (4.97%) IT Support
6 221 (4.39%) Support Engineer
7 219 (4.35%) Senior Manager
8 178 (3.54%) Service Manager
9 167 (3.32%) Software Engineer
10 165 (3.28%) Architect
11 144 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
12 138 (2.74%) Support Analyst
13 121 (2.40%) Senior Developer
14 119 (2.36%) IT Engineer
15 106 (2.11%) Technical Support
16 93 (1.85%) Project Manager
16 93 (1.85%) Technical Engineer
17 90 (1.79%) Administrator
18 89 (1.77%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (4.47%) .NET
2 128 (2.54%) React
3 118 (2.34%) REST
4 96 (1.91%) Node.js
5 95 (1.89%) HTML
6 86 (1.71%) CSS
7 62 (1.23%) Vue
8 59 (1.17%) SOAP
9 53 (1.05%) Spring
10 47 (0.93%) Spring Boot
11 46 (0.91%) RESTful
12 42 (0.83%) AngularJS
12 42 (0.83%) ASP.NET
13 40 (0.79%) Kafka
14 39 (0.77%) Web Services
15 38 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
16 35 (0.70%) Visualforce
17 34 (0.68%) Middleware
17 34 (0.68%) OAuth
17 34 (0.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 252 (5.01%) Product Ownership
2 231 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 173 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 150 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 150 (2.98%) Driving Licence
5 146 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 135 (2.68%) FMCG
7 101 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 85 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 69 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 68 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 68 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 57 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 51 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 42 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.79%) e-Learning
17 36 (0.72%) Algorithms
17 36 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 477 (9.48%) Windows
2 255 (5.07%) Linux
3 238 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 34 (0.68%) Android
6 31 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 26 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (0.50%) Unix
9 23 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.12%) VMS
14 5 (0.099%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.079%) Debian
15 4 (0.079%) FreeRTOS
16 3 (0.060%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.040%) Solaris
17 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,377 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
2 1,096 (21.77%) Agile
3 732 (14.54%) Mentoring
4 716 (14.22%) Decision-Making
5 711 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 663 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 637 (12.65%) CI/CD
8 619 (12.30%) DevOps
9 549 (10.91%) ITIL
10 515 (10.23%) Service Delivery
11 508 (10.09%) AI
12 501 (9.95%) Roadmaps
13 486 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
14 483 (9.59%) Coaching
15 481 (9.56%) Analytics
16 418 (8.30%) Software Engineering
17 409 (8.12%) Collaborative Working
18 400 (7.95%) ERP
19 395 (7.85%) Root Cause Analysis
20 371 (7.37%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 437 (8.68%) SQL
2 424 (8.42%) Python
3 314 (6.24%) C#
4 254 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 207 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 188 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 175 (3.48%) Java
8 82 (1.63%) Bash
9 62 (1.23%) C++
10 55 (1.09%) C
11 37 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 36 (0.72%) SOQL
13 34 (0.68%) SOSL
14 29 (0.58%) Bicep
14 29 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 28 (0.56%) Go
16 25 (0.50%) PHP
17 22 (0.44%) T-SQL
18 20 (0.40%) Rust
19 18 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 628 (12.48%) Degree
2 436 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 278 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 149 (2.96%) DBS Check
5 121 (2.40%) ACCA
6 110 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 107 (2.13%) CIMA
8 106 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 103 (2.05%) CISSP
10 95 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 81 (1.61%) CISM
12 76 (1.51%) PMI Certification
13 66 (1.31%) Azure Certification
13 66 (1.31%) IRCA
14 64 (1.27%) A+ Certification
15 62 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
16 61 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
17 60 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
18 51 (1.01%) PMP
19 39 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 599 (11.90%) QA
2 214 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 202 (4.01%) GDPR
4 198 (3.93%) Accessibility
5 190 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 136 (2.70%) ISO 9001
7 130 (2.58%) SLA
8 113 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 67 (1.33%) NIST
10 66 (1.31%) PMO
11 52 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 34 (0.68%) GRC
13 31 (0.62%) GMP
13 31 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
14 29 (0.58%) WCAG
15 28 (0.56%) NCSC
15 28 (0.56%) PCI DSS
16 26 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
17 23 (0.46%) GxP
18 19 (0.38%) IFRS
System Software
1 388 (7.71%) Active Directory
2 184 (3.66%) Docker
3 127 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 100 (1.99%) Hyper-V
5 39 (0.77%) Firmware
6 22 (0.44%) KVM
7 21 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.30%) vSphere
10 12 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.079%) Squid
13 4 (0.079%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.060%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.040%) UAG
16 1 (0.020%) GPFS
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 211 (4.19%) Terraform
2 203 (4.03%) Kubernetes
3 189 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 69 (1.37%) Ansible
5 59 (1.17%) Grafana
6 41 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.40%) Puppet
7 20 (0.40%) SCCM
8 17 (0.34%) Argo
9 14 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.24%) Proxmox
11 11 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.20%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.16%) Kibana
15 7 (0.14%) Autotask
15 7 (0.14%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.12%) Istio
16 6 (0.12%) Nagios
16 6 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,213 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 183 (3.64%) SAP
3 169 (3.36%) VMware
4 152 (3.02%) Oracle
5 125 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 110 (2.19%) Cisco
7 97 (1.93%) Workday
8 83 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 69 (1.37%) Google
10 52 (1.03%) Splunk
11 50 (0.99%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.70%) Veeam
13 33 (0.66%) Adobe
13 33 (0.66%) Databricks
14 32 (0.64%) IBM
14 32 (0.64%) Red Hat
15 25 (0.50%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.46%) Aruba
16 23 (0.46%) Meraki
17 22 (0.44%) HubSpot