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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 65 59
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,756 4,779 8,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.81% 4.76% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 4.98% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,235 2,774 3,787
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,680 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,481 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +8.00%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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
UK excluding London +32 4,475 £52,500 - 1,667
England +27 4,308 £57,500 -4.17% 2,121
Work from Home +6 1,601 £62,250 +8.26% 732
Scotland +44 1,042 £55,000 -8.33% 117
London +9 1,018 £73,000 +0.69% 549
North of England +45 961 £52,500 +5.00% 446
Midlands +18 887 £52,500 - 302
South East +3 720 £52,500 -12.50% 398
West Midlands +17 674 £54,000 +2.86% 193
North West +46 523 £51,325 -2.24% 255
South West +15 450 £52,396 +4.79% 194
Yorkshire +42 330 £60,000 +14.29% 141
East of England +2 235 £55,000 +10.00% 180
East Midlands +10 202 £47,500 -5.00% 109
Wales +52 156 £51,997 +16.41% 66
North East +25 108 £45,000 +18.42% 60
Northern Ireland +46 28 £67,500 +50.00% 16
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
1 215 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 159 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 131 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 125 (2.17%) Confluence
5 82 (1.42%) Apache
6 35 (0.61%) FileNet
6 35 (0.61%) SAS
7 28 (0.49%) CMS
8 23 (0.40%) IIS
9 15 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.24%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.19%) WordPress
12 10 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
13 9 (0.16%) Drupal
14 7 (0.12%) Appian
15 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.087%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.087%) Tomcat
17 3 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
17 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 582 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
2 465 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 136 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 51 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.73%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) Simulink
9 5 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
9 5 (0.087%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.087%) SPSS
10 4 (0.069%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.069%) Trello
11 3 (0.052%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.052%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.052%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 39 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.28%) iTrent
6 13 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
7 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.14%) Magento
10 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.14%) Shopify
11 5 (0.087%) HFM
11 5 (0.087%) Hyperion Planning
11 5 (0.087%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.069%) Endur
12 4 (0.069%) Primavera
12 4 (0.069%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 899 (15.62%) Azure
2 825 (14.33%) AWS
3 384 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 350 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
5 187 (3.25%) GCP
6 173 (3.01%) SaaS
7 165 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 114 (1.98%) Serverless
10 110 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
11 98 (1.70%) Entra ID
12 80 (1.39%) GitHub
12 80 (1.39%) PowerApps
13 76 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (1.18%) Amazon S3
14 68 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 67 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
16 57 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
17 54 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
18 52 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (2.45%) Firewall
2 96 (1.67%) DNS
3 80 (1.39%) WAN
4 74 (1.29%) LAN
4 74 (1.29%) SAN
5 65 (1.13%) VoIP
6 61 (1.06%) Internet
7 57 (0.99%) VPN
8 51 (0.89%) VLAN
9 50 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (0.85%) TCP/IP
11 47 (0.82%) DHCP
12 45 (0.78%) Network Security
13 36 (0.63%) Broadband
14 31 (0.54%) SNMP
15 30 (0.52%) Wireless
16 27 (0.47%) HTTP
16 27 (0.47%) Intranet
17 25 (0.43%) BGP
18 24 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (6.20%) NoSQL
2 315 (5.47%) Power BI
3 234 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 199 (3.46%) Big Data
5 160 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 120 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 113 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.86%) Apache Hive
9 101 (1.75%) MySQL
10 90 (1.56%) Tableau
11 86 (1.49%) HBase
12 75 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 69 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 63 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
16 50 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
17 48 (0.83%) Power Query
18 45 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
19 42 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 41 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 288 (5.00%) Git
2 281 (4.88%) JIRA
3 218 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.70%) JUnit
5 86 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 67 (1.16%) Selenium
7 54 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 40 (0.69%) GitLab
9 35 (0.61%) WebDriver
10 32 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 30 (0.52%) Android Studio
13 28 (0.49%) Jasmine
14 27 (0.47%) Visual Studio
15 21 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
15 21 (0.36%) Protractor
16 20 (0.35%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Subversion
18 17 (0.30%) Cucumber
19 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,217 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 2,031 (35.28%) Finance
3 1,183 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,136 (19.74%) Law
5 1,120 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
6 825 (14.33%) Legal
7 406 (7.05%) Marketing
8 386 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
9 357 (6.20%) Banking
10 356 (6.18%) Manufacturing
11 326 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
12 262 (4.55%) Retail
13 247 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
14 235 (4.08%) Public Sector
15 152 (2.64%) Military
16 128 (2.22%) Investment Banking
17 124 (2.15%) Telecoms
18 76 (1.32%) Local Government
19 71 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.18%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 875 (15.20%) Software Engineer
2 708 (12.30%) Analyst
3 586 (10.18%) Lead
4 579 (10.06%) Senior
5 518 (9.00%) Developer
6 320 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 306 (5.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 262 (4.55%) Graduate
9 248 (4.31%) Project Manager
10 218 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
11 199 (3.46%) Architect
12 198 (3.44%) IT Manager
13 197 (3.42%) AWS Software Engineer
14 195 (3.39%) IT Engineer
15 193 (3.35%) Data Engineer
16 138 (2.40%) Full Stack Engineer
17 134 (2.33%) Product Analyst
18 133 (2.31%) Big Data Engineer
18 133 (2.31%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 132 (2.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (5.68%) React
2 293 (5.09%) Spring
3 263 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 262 (4.55%) HTML
5 256 (4.45%) .NET
6 232 (4.03%) CSS
7 177 (3.08%) Node.js
8 161 (2.80%) JSON
9 156 (2.71%) Kafka
10 149 (2.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 141 (2.45%) RESTful
12 135 (2.35%) Web Services
13 122 (2.12%) J2EE
14 120 (2.08%) XML
15 114 (1.98%) JMS
16 109 (1.89%) Spring Boot
17 100 (1.74%) REST
18 99 (1.72%) jQuery
19 98 (1.70%) Hibernate
20 74 (1.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 792 (13.76%) Algorithms
2 428 (7.44%) Onboarding
3 383 (6.65%) Management Information System
4 228 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
5 221 (3.84%) Cloud Native
6 219 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 141 (2.45%) FMCG
8 105 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 81 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 70 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 66 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 64 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 60 (1.04%) Clustering
16 59 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 48 (0.83%) Legacy Code
18 45 (0.78%) NHS
19 44 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
20 43 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 430 (7.47%) Windows
2 257 (4.46%) Linux
3 196 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 150 (2.61%) Unix
5 88 (1.53%) Android
5 88 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 57 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 41 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 18 (0.31%) Windows 7
12 16 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.26%) VMS
14 13 (0.23%) AIX
14 13 (0.23%) CentOS
14 13 (0.23%) Windows 8
15 12 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,204 (38.29%) Agile
2 1,663 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
3 1,114 (19.35%) Software Engineering
4 1,102 (19.15%) CI/CD
5 973 (16.90%) SDLC
6 938 (16.30%) Visualisation
7 849 (14.75%) Project Management
8 805 (13.99%) Artificial Intelligence
9 777 (13.50%) Risk Management
10 748 (13.00%) Machine Learning
11 719 (12.49%) Community of Practice
12 703 (12.21%) Operational Stability
13 654 (11.36%) Customer Service
14 612 (10.63%) Mentoring
15 583 (10.13%) DevOps
16 502 (8.72%) Coaching
17 501 (8.70%) Project Delivery
18 468 (8.13%) Decision-Making
19 466 (8.10%) Roadmaps
20 456 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 952 (16.54%) SQL
2 788 (13.69%) Java
3 672 (11.67%) Python
4 367 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 302 (5.25%) C#
6 199 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 170 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 138 (2.40%) PL/SQL
9 102 (1.77%) T-SQL
10 77 (1.34%) Scala
11 65 (1.13%) Bash
12 61 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 60 (1.04%) PHP
14 53 (0.92%) C
15 42 (0.73%) C++
16 39 (0.68%) Bicep
17 30 (0.52%) VB
18 25 (0.43%) Go
19 24 (0.42%) R
19 24 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,432 (24.88%) Degree
2 200 (3.47%) Security Cleared
3 183 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 117 (2.03%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 100 (1.74%) PMI Certification
6 100 (1.74%) SC Cleared
7 72 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 70 (1.22%) PMP
9 66 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 59 (1.03%) HNC
11 58 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 57 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
13 55 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 54 (0.94%) HND
15 51 (0.89%) CISSP
16 37 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 35 (0.61%) ACCA
18 33 (0.57%) CISM
19 32 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 433 (7.52%) QA
2 161 (2.80%) SLA
3 151 (2.62%) GDPR
4 146 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (1.89%) PMO
6 99 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 81 (1.41%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.27%) ISO 9001
9 62 (1.08%) NIST
10 56 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.61%) ISO 14001
12 34 (0.59%) IFRS
13 27 (0.47%) NEBOSH
14 23 (0.40%) NCSC
15 21 (0.36%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.35%) GRC
17 19 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.30%) ISO 22301
19 13 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
19 13 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 296 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 216 (3.75%) Docker
3 136 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.63%) HDFS
5 59 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.59%) vSphere
8 31 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.40%) Firmware
10 18 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.21%) vCloud
12 6 (0.10%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.087%) XenApp
14 4 (0.069%) pfSense
15 3 (0.052%) Ceph
15 3 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.035%) IAG
16 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 305 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 266 (4.62%) Terraform
3 94 (1.63%) Grafana
4 74 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 69 (1.20%) Ansible
6 45 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 45 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 42 (0.73%) SCCM
8 33 (0.57%) Functional Safety
9 28 (0.49%) Puppet
10 25 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 22 (0.38%) Nagios
12 20 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
13 18 (0.31%) NetBackup
14 17 (0.30%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.23%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
16 12 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
17 11 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,014 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 287 (4.99%) Oracle
3 261 (4.53%) Databricks
4 197 (3.42%) SAP
5 196 (3.41%) VMware
6 148 (2.57%) Google
7 145 (2.52%) Cisco
8 110 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 109 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 86 (1.49%) Informatica
11 68 (1.18%) Citrix
12 64 (1.11%) Cloudera
13 57 (0.99%) Splunk
14 55 (0.96%) Dynatrace
15 52 (0.90%) Alteryx
16 49 (0.85%) Veeam
17 46 (0.80%) HP
18 32 (0.56%) Commvault
19 29 (0.50%) IBM
20 28 (0.49%) Meraki