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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 31 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -18
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 3,039 4,497 3,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.63% 6.28% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 7.52% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 2,318 1,692
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -

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 36,988 59,840 56,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.56% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,070 41,306 29,083
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 2025. 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 +8 999 £52,500 - 997
South East +37 875 £55,000 +4.76% 1,052
North West -12 497 £55,000 +6.62% 592
Yorkshire +24 465 £50,000 -16.67% 299
Midlands -27 355 £45,000 -14.29% 545
East of England +19 276 £50,967 -7.33% 358
Scotland -12 236 £50,445 -8.28% 280
South West +2 212 £51,819 -1.10% 449
West Midlands -36 198 £50,000 -6.54% 340
East Midlands -11 153 £40,000 -15.79% 175
Wales -8 66 £51,000 -1.92% 103
North East -9 37 £55,750 +23.89% 126
Northern Ireland +39 28 £80,000 +18.52% 50
Channel Islands +3 4 £80,000 -5.88%
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
1 179 (5.89%) Confluence
2 71 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.49%) OpenEdge
5 13 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.39%) nginx
7 7 (0.23%) Apache
7 7 (0.23%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.20%) SAS
9 5 (0.16%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.099%) IIS
11 3 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.066%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.066%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.066%) MTS
13 1 (0.033%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.033%) Mendix
13 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
Applications
1 138 (4.54%) Simulink
2 107 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 95 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.76%) Trello
7 9 (0.30%) Acrobat
8 6 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.099%) Productboard
10 3 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.066%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.033%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 138 (4.54%) Teamcenter
2 32 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
6 6 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 6 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.13%) Maximo
8 3 (0.099%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.099%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.099%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.066%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.066%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.066%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.066%) Shopify
9 2 (0.066%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 477 (15.70%) Azure
2 355 (11.68%) AWS
3 192 (6.32%) GCP
4 175 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (3.42%) SaaS
6 82 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 45 (1.48%) Entra ID
8 42 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (1.38%) Serverless
9 31 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
11 29 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
11 29 (0.95%) GitHub
12 27 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (0.89%) OCI
13 24 (0.79%) Google Workspace
14 23 (0.76%) PowerApps
15 22 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 20 (0.66%) Boomi
16 20 (0.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.65%) Firewall
2 44 (1.45%) WAN
3 42 (1.38%) VPN
4 35 (1.15%) Network Security
5 34 (1.12%) LAN
6 32 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 28 (0.92%) DNS
8 27 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
9 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
10 22 (0.72%) VLAN
11 16 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.49%) SAN
13 14 (0.46%) Intranet
14 13 (0.43%) DHCP
14 13 (0.43%) Internet
15 12 (0.39%) Wireless
16 11 (0.36%) MPLS
16 11 (0.36%) OSPF
16 11 (0.36%) VoIP
17 10 (0.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 69 (2.27%) Power BI
3 46 (1.51%) MySQL
4 37 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 33 (1.09%) Big Data
6 27 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (0.76%) Metadata
8 19 (0.63%) Tableau
9 18 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 18 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (0.30%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.26%) Couchbase
15 7 (0.23%) Ataccama
15 7 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 266 (8.75%) JIRA
2 178 (5.86%) GitLab
3 162 (5.33%) Selenium
4 159 (5.23%) Maven
5 158 (5.20%) Cucumber
6 156 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 156 (5.13%) SonarQube
6 156 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 145 (4.77%) Rational DOORS
8 29 (0.95%) Git
9 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
10 5 (0.16%) JUnit
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.16%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.099%) Gradle
12 3 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.066%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.066%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.066%) Postman
General
1 1,544 (50.81%) Social Skills
2 915 (30.11%) Finance
3 468 (15.40%) Manufacturing
4 463 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 409 (13.46%) Electronics
6 370 (12.18%) Marketing
7 276 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 258 (8.49%) Presentation Skills
9 242 (7.96%) Banking
10 189 (6.22%) Aerospace
11 174 (5.73%) Law
12 114 (3.75%) Legal
13 107 (3.52%) Public Sector
14 101 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
15 95 (3.13%) Retail
16 75 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (1.15%) Automotive
18 32 (1.05%) Advertising
19 30 (0.99%) Local Government
20 29 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 324 (10.66%) Lead
2 274 (9.02%) Analyst
3 222 (7.31%) Systems Manager
4 213 (7.01%) Resource Manager
5 211 (6.94%) Systems Engineer
6 206 (6.78%) Software Engineer
7 192 (6.32%) Senior
8 168 (5.53%) Technical Manager
9 164 (5.40%) Developer
10 156 (5.13%) Junior
11 141 (4.64%) Help Desk Manager
12 138 (4.54%) Junior Systems Engineer
13 126 (4.15%) Architect
14 120 (3.95%) Product Manager
15 101 (3.32%) Products Support Manager
16 92 (3.03%) Support Manager
17 89 (2.93%) Change Analyst
18 88 (2.90%) Business Change Analyst
19 85 (2.80%) Project Manager
20 74 (2.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (7.17%) React
2 211 (6.94%) CSS
3 190 (6.25%) HTML
4 174 (5.73%) Kafka
5 173 (5.69%) Spring
6 169 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 165 (5.43%) Hibernate
7 165 (5.43%) Redux
8 159 (5.23%) JPA
9 119 (3.92%) .NET
10 72 (2.37%) Middleware
11 49 (1.61%) REST
12 37 (1.22%) ASP.NET
13 33 (1.09%) jQuery
14 30 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 30 (0.99%) RESTful
15 28 (0.92%) SOAP
16 26 (0.86%) .NET Core
17 22 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
17 22 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 289 (9.51%) Product Ownership
2 197 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
3 172 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 79 (2.60%) FMCG
5 63 (2.07%) Social Media
6 59 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 55 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 50 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.55%) e-Learning
10 45 (1.48%) Operational Technology
11 43 (1.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 38 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 34 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 33 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 24 (0.79%) PMI
17 22 (0.72%) Algorithms
17 22 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
18 21 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 185 (6.09%) Windows
2 68 (2.24%) Linux
3 35 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.02%) Windows Vista
5 23 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
8 5 (0.16%) Rocky
8 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.13%) Android
9 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.099%) AIX
10 3 (0.099%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.066%) SUSE
11 2 (0.066%) Unix
11 2 (0.066%) VMS
11 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
2 721 (23.72%) Agile
3 500 (16.45%) Project Management
4 448 (14.74%) DevOps
5 418 (13.75%) Analytics
6 396 (13.03%) Mathematics
7 377 (12.41%) Physics
8 350 (11.52%) Data Management
9 342 (11.25%) CI/CD
9 342 (11.25%) Computer Science
10 341 (11.22%) ERP
11 329 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 328 (10.79%) Mentoring
13 311 (10.23%) Change Management
14 297 (9.77%) Decision-Making
15 296 (9.74%) Software Engineering
16 294 (9.67%) SDLC
17 286 (9.41%) Coaching
18 267 (8.79%) Collaborative Working
19 251 (8.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 342 (11.25%) SQL
2 290 (9.54%) Java
3 243 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 141 (4.64%) MATLAB
5 133 (4.38%) C#
6 110 (3.62%) Python
7 44 (1.45%) C++
8 41 (1.35%) PHP
9 39 (1.28%) C
9 39 (1.28%) TypeScript
10 36 (1.18%) PowerShell
11 21 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 19 (0.63%) Progress 4GL
13 14 (0.46%) Ada
13 14 (0.46%) R
14 12 (0.39%) Embedded C
14 12 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.36%) VBA
16 10 (0.33%) Bash
17 9 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 982 (32.31%) Degree
2 324 (10.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 150 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 111 (3.65%) Security Cleared
5 93 (3.06%) HNC
6 90 (2.96%) CBAP
6 90 (2.96%) DBS Check
7 78 (2.57%) CISSP
8 70 (2.30%) Master's Degree
9 62 (2.04%) PMI Certification
10 61 (2.01%) SC Cleared
11 59 (1.94%) CISM
12 50 (1.65%) Chartered Engineer
12 50 (1.65%) CRISC
13 41 (1.35%) PMP
14 33 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 30 (0.99%) Six Sigma Black Belt
18 28 (0.92%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (8.69%) QA
2 115 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 93 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (3.03%) SLA
5 65 (2.14%) GDPR
6 56 (1.84%) NIST
7 49 (1.61%) ISO 9001
8 42 (1.38%) COBIT
8 42 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 33 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (0.95%) Accessibility
11 28 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.92%) PMO
12 21 (0.69%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.63%) GMP
14 18 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.46%) NCSC
17 13 (0.43%) GRC
18 11 (0.36%) ITGC
System Software
1 200 (6.58%) Docker
2 92 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.59%) Firmware
5 17 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.099%) vSphere
9 2 (0.066%) KVM
9 2 (0.066%) pfSense
9 2 (0.066%) Postfix
9 2 (0.066%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.033%) Snort
10 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 211 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.41%) Terraform
3 28 (0.92%) Ansible
4 23 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.39%) Grafana
6 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.23%) Puppet
8 6 (0.20%) SCCM
9 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.13%) Nessus
11 3 (0.099%) Kibana
11 3 (0.099%) QRadar
11 3 (0.099%) SCOM
12 2 (0.066%) cPanel
12 2 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.066%) Nagios
12 2 (0.066%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.066%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.066%) Salt
Vendors
1 411 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.82%) IBM
3 156 (5.13%) Solace
4 120 (3.95%) Oracle
5 99 (3.26%) SAP
6 83 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.17%) Google
8 63 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.84%) VMware
10 55 (1.81%) Cisco
11 38 (1.25%) Siemens
12 37 (1.22%) Rockwell
13 29 (0.95%) Sun
14 28 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 20 (0.66%) Qualys
17 19 (0.63%) Progress
17 19 (0.63%) Tenable
18 18 (0.59%) MuleSoft
19 17 (0.56%) Citrix