Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 56 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +40
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 2,578 7,387 6,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.87% 6.01% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 6.28% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 3,516 3,535
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,322 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,576 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,291 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.16% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -9 2,152 £65,000 +4.00% 2,047
UK excluding London -20 1,566 £57,291 +4.16% 1,548
Work from Home -14 1,048 £62,500 - 834
London +7 825 £72,500 +3.57% 671
North of England -21 398 £52,500 -8.70% 389
South East -24 321 £65,000 +8.33% 365
Midlands -9 283 £54,250 +3.33% 299
North West -10 244 £50,000 -9.09% 225
West Midlands -8 203 £52,700 +0.38% 196
Scotland -15 189 £59,556 +0.05% 126
South West -45 171 £57,500 -0.43% 188
Yorkshire -22 133 £59,556 -0.74% 120
East of England +11 102 £65,000 +13.04% 160
Wales -8 90 £44,034 -11.93% 56
East Midlands -5 79 £60,000 +25.00% 103
North East -10 21 £53,645 +2.18% 51
Northern Ireland -12 12 £58,750 +30.56% 14
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 80 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.98%) Confluence
3 33 (1.28%) IIS
4 22 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.85%) nginx
5 21 (0.81%) Apache
6 15 (0.58%) CMS
7 12 (0.47%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) SAS
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.078%) JBoss
12 2 (0.078%) Kentico
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.078%) SharePoint 2010
12 2 (0.078%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 130 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.16%) Simulink
7 4 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.078%) 3ds Max
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.078%) Blender
8 2 (0.078%) Campfire
8 2 (0.078%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.078%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.039%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 23 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.54%) SAP CO
3 14 (0.54%) SAP FI
3 14 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
4 12 (0.47%) SAP BPC
5 8 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
6 7 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
7 4 (0.16%) HFM
7 4 (0.16%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.16%) ProductWriter
7 4 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.12%) Primavera
8 3 (0.12%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.12%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.078%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 506 (19.63%) Azure
2 295 (11.44%) AWS
3 236 (9.15%) Power Platform
4 197 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (4.50%) GCP
6 110 (4.27%) SaaS
7 99 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.75%) Serverless
9 68 (2.64%) Entra ID
10 65 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (2.40%) PaaS
12 50 (1.94%) IaaS
13 42 (1.63%) GitHub
14 34 (1.32%) PowerApps
15 32 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
17 28 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
17 28 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
18 24 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
19 23 (0.89%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.84%) Firewall
2 62 (2.40%) VPN
3 51 (1.98%) DNS
4 39 (1.51%) WAN
5 38 (1.47%) LAN
6 34 (1.32%) Internet
7 31 (1.20%) SAN
8 30 (1.16%) DHCP
8 30 (1.16%) VoIP
9 25 (0.97%) Wireless
10 23 (0.89%) TCP/IP
11 22 (0.85%) Network Security
11 22 (0.85%) VLAN
12 18 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
13 15 (0.58%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.47%) BGP
14 12 (0.47%) SMTP
15 11 (0.43%) AMQP
16 10 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (8.15%) Power BI
2 160 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 61 (2.37%) MySQL
4 50 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 46 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (1.75%) Big Data
7 40 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 36 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (1.20%) Tableau
11 30 (1.16%) Data Hub
12 26 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 25 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.89%) Redis
15 20 (0.78%) Metadata
15 20 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.66%) Hadoop
17 17 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 136 (5.28%) Git
2 113 (4.38%) JIRA
3 84 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.16%) Selenium
5 26 (1.01%) GitLab
6 25 (0.97%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 16 (0.62%) WebDriver
8 15 (0.58%) Postman
8 15 (0.58%) webpack
9 14 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.35%) Mocha
11 9 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.31%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.31%) Subversion
13 7 (0.27%) git-flow
13 7 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,065 (41.31%) Social Skills
2 846 (32.82%) Finance
3 437 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (8.61%) Banking
5 200 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 166 (6.44%) Legal
7 156 (6.05%) Manufacturing
8 139 (5.39%) Retail
9 135 (5.24%) Law
10 133 (5.16%) Marketing
11 127 (4.93%) Public Sector
12 96 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
13 81 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
14 65 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 50 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
16 49 (1.90%) Games
17 41 (1.59%) Electronics
18 29 (1.12%) Local Government
19 28 (1.09%) Financial Institution
20 27 (1.05%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 462 (17.92%) Lead
2 343 (13.30%) Senior
3 339 (13.15%) Analyst
4 257 (9.97%) Developer
5 137 (5.31%) Project Manager
6 121 (4.69%) Software Engineer
7 118 (4.58%) Architect
8 85 (3.30%) IT Manager
9 83 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 82 (3.18%) Service Manager
11 79 (3.06%) Senior Developer
12 78 (3.03%) Consultant
13 71 (2.75%) Senior Manager
14 67 (2.60%) Product Manager
15 65 (2.52%) Business Analyst
16 56 (2.17%) Team Leader
17 51 (1.98%) Delivery Manager
18 41 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
19 40 (1.55%) Java Developer
19 40 (1.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (4.42%) .NET
2 103 (4.00%) React
3 102 (3.96%) HTML
4 100 (3.88%) CSS
5 90 (3.49%) AngularJS
6 87 (3.37%) REST
7 78 (3.03%) Web Services
8 59 (2.29%) Node.js
9 58 (2.25%) Spring
10 53 (2.06%) Kafka
11 50 (1.94%) RESTful
12 40 (1.55%) ASP.NET
13 37 (1.44%) XML
14 35 (1.36%) JSON
15 31 (1.20%) HTML5
16 29 (1.12%) Spring Boot
17 28 (1.09%) Vue
18 27 (1.05%) .NET Framework
19 26 (1.01%) CSS3
19 26 (1.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 159 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 146 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 116 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 71 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 69 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 65 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 57 (2.21%) Cloud Native
8 52 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 31 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.01%) Sports Betting
14 24 (0.93%) Replication
15 22 (0.85%) Blockchain
15 22 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 21 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 18 (0.70%) NHS
18 16 (0.62%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 227 (8.81%) Windows
2 106 (4.11%) Linux
3 102 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.85%) Android
8 18 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.66%) Unix
10 14 (0.54%) SUSE
10 14 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.43%) CentOS
12 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.078%) VMS
13 2 (0.078%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (35.88%) Agile
2 649 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
3 380 (14.74%) Software Engineering
4 359 (13.93%) Project Management
5 341 (13.23%) Mentoring
6 340 (13.19%) DevOps
7 290 (11.25%) CI/CD
8 289 (11.21%) Roadmaps
9 285 (11.06%) Decision-Making
10 274 (10.63%) ITIL
11 270 (10.47%) Project Delivery
12 267 (10.36%) Analytics
12 267 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
13 244 (9.46%) Scrum
14 206 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 204 (7.91%) SDLC
16 194 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
17 190 (7.37%) Coaching
18 185 (7.18%) Visualisation
19 178 (6.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 343 (13.30%) SQL
2 203 (7.87%) Python
3 200 (7.76%) Java
4 167 (6.48%) JavaScript
5 145 (5.62%) C#
6 115 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 85 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 35 (1.36%) PHP
10 33 (1.28%) Bash
11 29 (1.12%) C++
12 27 (1.05%) Go
13 20 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.66%) C
14 17 (0.66%) Scala
15 14 (0.54%) Bicep
15 14 (0.54%) R
16 12 (0.47%) VBA
17 10 (0.39%) Perl
17 10 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 463 (17.96%) Degree
2 128 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 121 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 68 (2.64%) SC Cleared
6 43 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.16%) PMP
9 29 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 25 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.89%) MCSE
13 21 (0.81%) CISSP
14 20 (0.78%) MBA
15 19 (0.74%) CCNP
15 19 (0.74%) DV Cleared
15 19 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (6.21%) QA
2 80 (3.10%) SLA
3 71 (2.75%) PMO
4 53 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 50 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.44%) GDPR
8 34 (1.32%) NIST
9 31 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.74%) ISO 9001
11 19 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.66%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.62%) GRC
14 11 (0.43%) COBIT
14 11 (0.43%) GMP
15 10 (0.39%) NCSC
16 6 (0.23%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.19%) ISO 14001
18 4 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 148 (5.74%) Docker
3 102 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.93%) vSphere
6 17 (0.66%) vCloud
7 14 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.39%) Firmware
10 9 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.27%) XenApp
12 6 (0.23%) HDFS
13 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.16%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
15 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.039%) Ceph
16 1 (0.039%) KVM
Systems Management
1 125 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 105 (4.07%) Terraform
3 57 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 49 (1.90%) Ansible
5 22 (0.85%) Puppet
6 18 (0.70%) Nessus
7 17 (0.66%) Grafana
8 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.58%) SCCM
10 12 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.35%) Argo
11 9 (0.35%) CASB
12 7 (0.27%) Istio
13 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.19%) Cobbler
14 5 (0.19%) Control-M
14 5 (0.19%) Nagios
14 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.19%) Salt
14 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 518 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.97%) SAP
3 123 (4.77%) VMware
4 79 (3.06%) Google
5 57 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 53 (2.06%) Cisco
7 51 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.94%) Oracle
9 39 (1.51%) Citrix
10 34 (1.32%) Databricks
10 34 (1.32%) HP
11 24 (0.93%) Veeam
12 21 (0.81%) BMC
12 21 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 19 (0.74%) SolarWinds
14 16 (0.62%) IFS
15 15 (0.58%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.58%) Cadence
16 14 (0.54%) Fujitsu
16 14 (0.54%) Samsung