Continuous Improvement Process Job Trends

Continuous\Continual Improvement Process
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Continuous Improvement Process skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 695 677
Rank change year-on-year +68 -18 +272
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process 18 18 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.033% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.037% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 24
10th Percentile - £54,250 -
25th Percentile £85,000 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +29.41% -9.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,438 £54,034
90th Percentile - £71,250 £71,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +29.41% -9.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Improvement Process 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Continuous Improvement Process
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement Process relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement Process job vacancy trend in the UK

Continuous Improvement Process
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Improvement Process

Continuous Improvement Process
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process within the UK over the 6 months to 4 January 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
England +90 18 £90,000 +63.64% 5
UK excluding London +60 12 - - 5
South East +23 10 - -
London +66 6 £90,000 +33.33% 1
Work from Home +79 1 £90,000 +63.64% 6
North of England +22 1 - - 4
South West +10 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Continuous Improvement Process
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (50.00%) Aviation
1 9 (50.00%) Electronics
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Business Information Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Information Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Information Risk Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) DBA
3 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Principal Modelling Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Release Manager
3 1 (5.56%) SQL DBA
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Test Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
1 9 (50.00%) Robotics
2 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (27.78%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (50.00%) AI
2 9 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Information Security
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 5 (27.78%) Coaching
5 5 (27.78%) Creative Thinking
5 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
5 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
5 5 (27.78%) Due Diligence
5 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
5 5 (27.78%) OWASP
5 5 (27.78%) People Management
5 5 (27.78%) Quantitative Risk Management
5 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 5 (27.78%) Risk Register
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C
1 1 (5.56%) C++
1 1 (5.56%) MATLAB
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) HNC
1 9 (50.00%) HND
2 6 (33.33%) CISSP
3 5 (27.78%) CISM
3 5 (27.78%) CRISC
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (27.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Imperva
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat