Lean Thinking Jobs

Lean Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Lean Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Lean Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 860 922
Rank change year-on-year +152 +62 +215
Permanent jobs citing Lean Thinking 3 34 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.034% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.040% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 26
10th Percentile - £42,500 £38,527
25th Percentile - £43,750 £43,453
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -35.33%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £61,125
90th Percentile - £75,000 £76,875
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -35.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean Thinking 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 51,236 85,141 94,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.08% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,106 59,815 55,546
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lean Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lean Thinking.

Salary trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

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Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +147 2 - - 17
Work from Home +114 2 £45,000 -5.26% 5
London +103 1 - - 9

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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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Delivery Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Director
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy