Process Improvement Jobs

Process Improvement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Process Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Process Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 130 207
Rank change year-on-year -25 +77 +23
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 1,135 2,214 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 2.14% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.54% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 663 1,034 894
10th Percentile £31,050 £31,500 £37,756
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -10.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +0.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Process 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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 -37 1,031 £53,000 -3.64% 1,500
UK excluding London -42 705 £47,500 -5.00% 800
Work from Home -20 421 £53,000 -3.64% 662
London +8 351 £71,250 +1.79% 806
North of England +2 270 £45,000 -5.26% 243
North West +3 198 £47,000 -1.05% 121
South East -8 181 £57,500 +27.78% 190
Midlands -113 96 £45,362 -13.60% 136
East of England +30 73 £35,000 -30.00% 64
West Midlands -85 62 £48,000 -12.73% 91
Yorkshire +2 55 £42,500 -5.56% 92
South West +8 45 £53,750 +2.59% 68
East Midlands -52 33 £42,500 -3.41% 43
Scotland +71 19 £65,000 +17.37% 45
North East +17 17 £38,800 -8.71% 32
Northern Ireland +28 10 £32,500 -13.33% 26
Wales +27 10 £47,500 +13.10% 27
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 10
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Process 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 52 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.32%) Confluence
3 11 (0.97%) IIS
3 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.44%) WordPress
5 3 (0.26%) CMS
5 3 (0.26%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.18%) ThingWorx
6 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.088%) Apache
7 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.088%) Moodle
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.088%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 136 (11.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.03%) Trello
5 15 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.088%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.088%) Blender
9 1 (0.088%) Maya
9 1 (0.088%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 48 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.03%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.62%) SAP Business One
5 6 (0.53%) Maximo
5 6 (0.53%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.35%) Magento
7 3 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 3 (0.26%) iTrent
7 3 (0.26%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (12.78%) Azure
2 120 (10.57%) Power Platform
3 92 (8.11%) AWS
4 88 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (5.29%) SaaS
6 35 (3.08%) GCP
7 23 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (1.41%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.15%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.06%) Entra ID
13 10 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (0.79%) Amazon S3
15 8 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
15 8 (0.70%) Miro
15 8 (0.70%) Serverless
16 7 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.32%) Firewall
2 27 (2.38%) LAN
2 27 (2.38%) WAN
3 26 (2.29%) VPN
4 24 (2.11%) DNS
5 21 (1.85%) DHCP
6 20 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.41%) Network Security
8 12 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.97%) Internet
10 10 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (0.88%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.88%) WLAN
11 9 (0.79%) IPsec
11 9 (0.79%) MPLS
12 8 (0.70%) BGP
12 8 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (0.70%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.70%) OSPF
12 8 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (9.43%) Power BI
2 50 (4.41%) Big Data
3 33 (2.91%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.94%) Tableau
5 18 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.88%) RDBMS
6 10 (0.88%) SAP HANA
7 9 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.79%) Power Query
8 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (0.35%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.35%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.26%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.26%) MS Access
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (7.84%) JIRA
2 21 (1.85%) Selenium
3 15 (1.32%) Git
4 7 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.62%) Postman
5 6 (0.53%) JMeter
5 6 (0.53%) SpecFlow
6 5 (0.44%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.44%) TestRail
7 4 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.35%) JUnit
7 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.18%) NUnit
9 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.18%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.088%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.088%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.088%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.088%) REST Assured
General
1 554 (48.81%) Social Skills
2 403 (35.51%) Finance
3 350 (30.84%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (9.52%) Marketing
5 99 (8.72%) Law
6 78 (6.87%) Manufacturing
7 62 (5.46%) Legal
8 60 (5.29%) Advertising
9 54 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 42 (3.70%) Banking
11 37 (3.26%) Retail
12 33 (2.91%) Public Sector
13 32 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 27 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 25 (2.20%) Aviation
17 23 (2.03%) Electronics
18 20 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (1.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 301 (26.52%) Analyst
2 188 (16.56%) Senior
3 108 (9.52%) Lead
4 76 (6.70%) Business Analyst
5 72 (6.34%) Financial Analyst
6 71 (6.26%) Senior Manager
7 58 (5.11%) Developer
8 54 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
9 52 (4.58%) Account Manager
10 51 (4.49%) Project Manager
11 50 (4.41%) Senior Account Manager
12 46 (4.05%) Administrator
13 40 (3.52%) Data Analyst
14 37 (3.26%) Team Leader
15 35 (3.08%) Finance Systems Analyst
16 33 (2.91%) Support Analyst
17 26 (2.29%) Procurement Analyst
18 25 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
19 24 (2.11%) Finance Business Analyst
19 24 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.08%) REST
2 33 (2.91%) .NET
3 24 (2.11%) React
4 23 (2.03%) FastAPI
5 22 (1.94%) Flask
6 18 (1.59%) HTML
7 15 (1.32%) CSS
8 13 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 10 (0.88%) RESTful
10 9 (0.79%) Node.js
11 8 (0.70%) JSON
12 7 (0.62%) ASP.NET
12 7 (0.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 7 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (0.62%) pytest
13 6 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
14 5 (0.44%) Kafka
14 5 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
14 5 (0.44%) SAPUI5
14 5 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 133 (11.72%) Management Information System
2 50 (4.41%) Digital Media
2 50 (4.41%) Marketing Technology
3 41 (3.61%) Social Media
4 38 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 31 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 21 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.59%) Derivative
9 18 (1.59%) Life Science
10 16 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 15 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.15%) Taxonomies
13 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.31%) Windows
2 43 (3.79%) Windows Server
3 24 (2.11%) Linux
4 15 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (0.97%) Android
6 11 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.53%) Windows Vista
8 5 (0.44%) CentOS
8 5 (0.44%) Rocky
8 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.35%) Unix
9 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (42.47%) Problem-Solving
2 295 (25.99%) Project Management
3 271 (23.88%) Agile
4 228 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 187 (16.48%) ERP
6 165 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 160 (14.10%) Decision-Making
8 147 (12.95%) Analytics
9 145 (12.78%) Data Analysis
10 138 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
11 135 (11.89%) Change Management
12 112 (9.87%) Project Delivery
12 112 (9.87%) Roadmaps
13 111 (9.78%) ITIL
14 109 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
15 108 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 103 (9.07%) Analytical Thinking
17 96 (8.46%) Computer Science
18 95 (8.37%) Mentoring
19 94 (8.28%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.04%) SQL
2 80 (7.05%) Python
3 42 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 30 (2.64%) PowerShell
5 27 (2.38%) C#
6 23 (2.03%) Java
7 10 (0.88%) C++
8 9 (0.79%) R
8 9 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.53%) C
10 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.35%) ABAP
12 4 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.35%) Go
12 4 (0.35%) PHP
13 3 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 304 (26.78%) Degree
2 66 (5.81%) PMI Certification
3 64 (5.64%) PMP
4 59 (5.20%) ACCA
5 55 (4.85%) CIMA
6 53 (4.67%) DBS Check
7 43 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.61%) Master's Degree
9 35 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.94%) Security Cleared
11 19 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.67%) SC Cleared
12 16 (1.41%) CCAB
12 16 (1.41%) PhD
13 14 (1.23%) HNC
13 14 (1.23%) ISTQB
13 14 (1.23%) MCSE
14 13 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (9.25%) QA
2 83 (7.31%) Data Quality
3 73 (6.43%) SLA
4 28 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.47%) GDPR
5 11 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.70%) GLP
7 8 (0.70%) GMP
7 8 (0.70%) PMO
8 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.53%) IFRS
9 5 (0.44%) COBIT
10 4 (0.35%) NIST
11 3 (0.26%) CDISC
11 3 (0.26%) GRC
11 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.26%) PMBOK
System Software
1 53 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.73%) Docker
3 26 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.79%) Firmware
6 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.088%) NDS
Systems Management
1 35 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.73%) Terraform
3 18 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.15%) SCCM
5 12 (1.06%) Ansible
5 12 (1.06%) NetBackup
6 11 (0.97%) SCOM
7 9 (0.79%) QRadar
8 7 (0.62%) Grafana
9 6 (0.53%) ArcSight ESM
10 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.18%) Mesos
12 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.088%) Avamar
13 1 (0.088%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.088%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 228 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 176 (15.51%) SAP
3 53 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 51 (4.49%) Google
5 41 (3.61%) Workday
6 38 (3.35%) Oracle
6 38 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.91%) VMware
8 26 (2.29%) Concur
9 25 (2.20%) Cisco
10 22 (1.94%) SolarWinds
11 18 (1.59%) Splunk
12 15 (1.32%) Veeam
13 13 (1.15%) Meraki
14 12 (1.06%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.97%) Anaplan
16 10 (0.88%) CheckPoint
16 10 (0.88%) Fortinet
16 10 (0.88%) Sage
17 8 (0.70%) Databricks