Continuous Improvement Jobs

Continual Improvement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 32 65 61
Rank change year-on-year +33 -4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,073 3,773 9,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.61% 4.68% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 4.90% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,532 2,511 4,070
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -0.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,939 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% -3.64% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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
England +28 4,054 £60,000 +0.80% 1,125
UK excluding London +34 3,913 £54,939 +3.66% 1,050
Work from Home +2 1,301 £65,000 +13.04% 420
Midlands +26 966 £53,500 +1.90% 211
London +10 961 £75,000 +6.76% 228
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
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
1 168 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 120 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 93 (1.83%) Confluence
4 92 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 40 (0.79%) Apache
6 35 (0.69%) FileNet
7 31 (0.61%) SAS
8 20 (0.39%) IIS
8 20 (0.39%) Skype for Business
9 19 (0.37%) CMS
10 11 (0.22%) nginx
11 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.16%) WordPress
12 7 (0.14%) Appian
12 7 (0.14%) Drupal
13 6 (0.12%) OpenEdge
14 5 (0.099%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
15 3 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 796 (15.69%) Microsoft Office
2 658 (12.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 33 (0.65%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.14%) Siemens NX
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
7 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.079%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.079%) SPSS
9 3 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.059%) Camtasia
9 3 (0.059%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.039%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.039%) Revit
11 1 (0.020%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 50 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (0.91%) iTrent
3 33 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 29 (0.57%) NEC Housing
5 16 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 16 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 16 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 15 (0.30%) Ripple
7 14 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 14 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
9 11 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
9 11 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.18%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.14%) Magento
12 7 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 809 (15.95%) Azure
2 712 (14.04%) AWS
3 358 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 275 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
5 171 (3.37%) GCP
6 157 (3.09%) SaaS
7 141 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
9 116 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 99 (1.95%) Serverless
11 94 (1.85%) Entra ID
11 94 (1.85%) PowerApps
12 88 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 55 (1.08%) PaaS
14 52 (1.03%) Amazon S3
15 50 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
16 47 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 45 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 45 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
17 45 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 116 (2.29%) Firewall
2 73 (1.44%) WAN
3 68 (1.34%) Network Security
4 59 (1.16%) LAN
5 51 (1.01%) VoIP
6 46 (0.91%) DNS
7 42 (0.83%) SAN
8 39 (0.77%) TCP/IP
9 38 (0.75%) DHCP
9 38 (0.75%) Internet
10 35 (0.69%) VPN
11 33 (0.65%) Broadband
11 33 (0.65%) VLAN
12 26 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (0.51%) Wireless
13 22 (0.43%) NAS
13 22 (0.43%) Skype
14 21 (0.41%) 5G
14 21 (0.41%) Intranet
15 20 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (5.36%) NoSQL
2 264 (5.20%) Power BI
3 182 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 122 (2.40%) Big Data
5 102 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 101 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.89%) Tableau
8 87 (1.71%) Hadoop
9 67 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 62 (1.22%) Apache Hive
11 60 (1.18%) HBase
12 53 (1.04%) MongoDB
13 52 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 52 (1.03%) MySQL
14 43 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 38 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
16 35 (0.69%) RDBMS
16 35 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 34 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
18 30 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 231 (4.55%) Git
2 211 (4.16%) JIRA
3 140 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 86 (1.70%) JUnit
5 69 (1.36%) Selenium
6 60 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
7 41 (0.81%) GitLab
8 40 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 28 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 26 (0.51%) Android Studio
10 26 (0.51%) Jasmine
11 25 (0.49%) WebDriver
12 24 (0.47%) Visual Studio
13 21 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
13 21 (0.41%) Protractor
14 20 (0.39%) Artifactory
15 18 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 16 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 15 (0.30%) Maven
18 13 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 1,961 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 1,674 (33.00%) Finance
3 1,051 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 863 (17.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 762 (15.02%) Law
6 742 (14.63%) Legal
7 347 (6.84%) Military
8 316 (6.23%) Retail
9 278 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
10 270 (5.32%) Marketing
11 254 (5.01%) Banking
12 243 (4.79%) Manufacturing
13 235 (4.63%) Public Sector
14 204 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
15 120 (2.37%) Investment Banking
16 114 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
17 109 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 100 (1.97%) Telecoms
19 76 (1.50%) Local Government
20 52 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 674 (13.29%) Analyst
2 607 (11.97%) Software Engineer
3 567 (11.18%) Senior
4 447 (8.81%) Lead
5 417 (8.22%) Developer
6 346 (6.82%) Graduate
7 221 (4.36%) Java Engineer
8 210 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
9 198 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 188 (3.71%) Architect
10 188 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
11 154 (3.04%) Data Engineer
12 142 (2.80%) AWS Software Engineer
13 133 (2.62%) IT Manager
14 131 (2.58%) Full Stack Engineer
15 129 (2.54%) Product Analyst
16 121 (2.39%) Senior Manager
17 120 (2.37%) Sales Analyst
18 114 (2.25%) Business Analyst
19 102 (2.01%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (5.70%) React
2 248 (4.89%) HTML
3 235 (4.63%) .NET
4 218 (4.30%) CSS
5 203 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 187 (3.69%) Spring
7 167 (3.29%) Node.js
8 136 (2.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 133 (2.62%) Kafka
10 123 (2.42%) JSON
11 109 (2.15%) J2EE
12 106 (2.09%) JMS
13 102 (2.01%) Web Services
14 97 (1.91%) XML
15 95 (1.87%) RESTful
16 92 (1.81%) jQuery
17 89 (1.75%) Hibernate
18 72 (1.42%) PySpark
19 65 (1.28%) .NET Framework
20 60 (1.18%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 575 (11.33%) Onboarding
2 557 (10.98%) Algorithms
3 320 (6.31%) Management Information System
4 223 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 176 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 166 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 102 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 68 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 66 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 63 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 62 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 57 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 48 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 43 (0.85%) Blockchain
16 43 (0.85%) CMDB
17 42 (0.83%) Clustering
18 41 (0.81%) Operational Technology
19 37 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 344 (6.78%) Windows
2 215 (4.24%) Linux
3 127 (2.50%) Unix
4 125 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 93 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 77 (1.52%) Android
7 52 (1.03%) Apple iOS
8 40 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.32%) VMS
13 14 (0.28%) AIX
14 13 (0.26%) CentOS
14 13 (0.26%) Windows 7
15 12 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
16 11 (0.22%) Windows 8
16 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
17 10 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (33.57%) Agile
2 1,423 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
3 858 (16.91%) CI/CD
4 809 (15.95%) Customer Service
5 780 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 758 (14.94%) SDLC
7 683 (13.46%) Project Management
8 664 (13.09%) Visualisation
9 638 (12.58%) Artificial Intelligence
9 638 (12.58%) Risk Management
10 600 (11.83%) Data Analysis
11 546 (10.76%) Machine Learning
12 538 (10.61%) Process Improvement
13 526 (10.37%) Community of Practice
14 506 (9.97%) DevOps
15 500 (9.86%) Customer Experience
16 496 (9.78%) Logistics
17 491 (9.68%) Operational Stability
18 475 (9.36%) Mentoring
19 416 (8.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 859 (16.93%) SQL
2 584 (11.51%) Python
3 559 (11.02%) Java
4 316 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 272 (5.36%) C#
6 174 (3.43%) TypeScript
7 156 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 98 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 85 (1.68%) VBA
10 78 (1.54%) Bash
11 57 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 49 (0.97%) C++
13 48 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 43 (0.85%) Scala
15 42 (0.83%) PHP
16 30 (0.59%) Bicep
17 27 (0.53%) C
18 24 (0.47%) VB
19 21 (0.41%) R
20 20 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,384 (27.28%) Degree
2 247 (4.87%) Security Cleared
3 165 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 140 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 129 (2.54%) SC Cleared
6 101 (1.99%) PMI Certification
7 93 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 76 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (1.46%) PMP
10 71 (1.40%) CISSP
11 59 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 56 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
13 51 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 50 (0.99%) HNC
15 49 (0.97%) CCNA
16 45 (0.89%) HND
17 44 (0.87%) AWS Certification
18 43 (0.85%) CCNP
19 40 (0.79%) CISM
20 38 (0.75%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 414 (8.16%) QA
2 151 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 131 (2.58%) GDPR
4 130 (2.56%) SLA
5 99 (1.95%) Data Quality
6 92 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 73 (1.44%) PMO
8 69 (1.36%) NIST
9 59 (1.16%) ISO 9001
10 45 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (0.61%) NEBOSH
12 29 (0.57%) IFRS
12 29 (0.57%) ISO 14001
13 25 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
14 24 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 20 (0.39%) GRC
16 19 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.34%) COBIT
18 16 (0.32%) HIPAA
19 15 (0.30%) GMP
System Software
1 245 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 200 (3.94%) Docker
3 95 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.22%) HDFS
5 31 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 28 (0.55%) Firmware
7 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.30%) vSphere
9 8 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.099%) Ceph
11 5 (0.099%) NFS
12 4 (0.079%) pfSense
13 3 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.059%) GPFS
13 3 (0.059%) Lustre
13 3 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.039%) IAG
Systems Management
1 292 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 200 (3.94%) Terraform
3 76 (1.50%) Ansible
4 68 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 64 (1.26%) Grafana
6 57 (1.12%) SCCM
7 44 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 24 (0.47%) Puppet
9 21 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 19 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.30%) Salt
12 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
13 12 (0.24%) Backup Exec
13 12 (0.24%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.24%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.16%) Functional Safety
16 7 (0.14%) Istio
16 7 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 907 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 245 (4.83%) Oracle
3 239 (4.71%) SAP
4 203 (4.00%) Databricks
5 148 (2.92%) VMware
6 122 (2.40%) Cisco
7 102 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 86 (1.70%) Google
9 82 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 60 (1.18%) Informatica
11 48 (0.95%) IBM
12 47 (0.93%) Alteryx
13 46 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 42 (0.83%) Citrix
15 39 (0.77%) Splunk
16 32 (0.63%) Cloudera
16 32 (0.63%) NEC
17 31 (0.61%) Dynatrace
18 30 (0.59%) IFS
19 28 (0.55%) HP