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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 724 877 899
Rank change year-on-year +153 +22 +227
Permanent jobs citing Lean Thinking 2 33 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.030% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.037% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 19
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,360
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 £58,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £70,000
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 52,154 90,344 86,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.09% 82.48% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,405 62,469 52,977
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 25 June 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
UK excluding London +158 1 - - 14
Work from Home +116 1 £45,000 -23.40% 10
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Coach
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation