Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Wales

Continual Improvement
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 125 38 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 8.59% 7.38% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.56% 8.50% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 84 36 47
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £21,150
25th Percentile £38,803 £36,737 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £51,997
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.46% +16.41%
75th Percentile £65,118 £64,875 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,904 £76,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 995 447 1,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 68.38% 86.80% 78.18%
Number of salaries quoted 624 269 1,031
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,733 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,393 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% +11.98% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,797 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Wales

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Wales over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Wales

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
South Wales +14 93 £53,171 -10.07% 42
North Wales +2 16 £44,000 +10.00% 6
West Wales -4 12 £43,750 +16.67% 3
Dyfed - 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.40%) CANalyzer
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.80%) iTrent
2 1 (0.80%) Magento
2 1 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.80%) Azure
2 12 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.80%) Power Platform
3 11 (8.80%) Serverless
4 9 (7.20%) AWS
4 9 (7.20%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (7.20%) PowerApps
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Functions
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (6.40%) Power Automate
5 8 (6.40%) SaaS
6 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.00%) Slack
8 4 (3.20%) GCP
9 3 (2.40%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.60%) Datadog
10 2 (1.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Wireless
2 5 (4.00%) LAN
2 5 (4.00%) WAN
3 3 (2.40%) DHCP
3 3 (2.40%) DNS
3 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.40%) Power BI
2 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) CANoe
1 3 (2.40%) JMeter
2 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.60%) Git
2 2 (1.60%) Locust
3 1 (0.80%) git-flow
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) MSTest
3 1 (0.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (42.40%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.40%) Finance
4 20 (16.00%) Manufacturing
5 18 (14.40%) Retail
6 13 (10.40%) Law
7 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.80%) Marketing
8 6 (4.80%) Military
8 6 (4.80%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.80%) Welsh Language
9 5 (4.00%) Legal
9 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.80%) Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Billing
12 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.80%) Games
12 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (15.20%) Senior
2 11 (8.80%) Developer
2 11 (8.80%) Lead
2 11 (8.80%) Support Engineer
3 9 (7.20%) Delivery Manager
3 9 (7.20%) Software Engineer
4 8 (6.40%) IT Engineer
4 8 (6.40%) IT Support
4 8 (6.40%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (6.40%) Service Delivery Manager
4 8 (6.40%) Service Manager
5 7 (5.60%) Coordinator
5 7 (5.60%) Report Manager
5 7 (5.60%) Senior Manager
5 7 (5.60%) Technical Coordinator
6 6 (4.80%) Head of QA
7 5 (4.00%) Head of Support
7 5 (4.00%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.20%) Node.js
2 2 (1.60%) Gherkin
2 2 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (1.60%) Next.js
2 2 (1.60%) React
2 2 (1.60%) RESTful
2 2 (1.60%) Web Services
3 1 (0.80%) .NET
3 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.80%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.80%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.80%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.00%) SCADA
5 3 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.60%) CMDB
6 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.80%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.80%) Life Science
7 1 (0.80%) PMI
7 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Windows
2 6 (4.80%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (18.40%) Agile
3 21 (16.80%) Service Delivery
4 19 (15.20%) Decision-Making
5 18 (14.40%) DevOps
6 17 (13.60%) Customer Experience
7 16 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (12.00%) PRINCE2
8 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (11.20%) Analytics
9 14 (11.20%) CRM
10 13 (10.40%) Customer Service
10 13 (10.40%) Project Management
11 12 (9.60%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (9.60%) ITSM
11 12 (9.60%) Service Management
12 11 (8.80%) Acceptance Criteria
12 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.80%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (8.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.00%) Python
2 5 (4.00%) SQL
3 4 (3.20%) C#
3 4 (3.20%) Java
3 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.40%) C
4 3 (2.40%) C++
4 3 (2.40%) Embedded C
4 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 30 (24.00%) Degree
2 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) IRCA
5 5 (4.00%) HND
6 4 (3.20%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (2.40%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) HNC
8 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.80%) ACCA
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CIMA
9 1 (0.80%) CIPD
9 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) QA
2 9 (7.20%) GDPR
3 7 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.60%) ISO 9001
4 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.20%) SLA
6 3 (2.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (2.40%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.60%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.60%) NIST
7 2 (1.60%) PMO
7 2 (1.60%) WCAG
8 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.80%) COBIT
8 1 (0.80%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) Docker
4 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Terraform
2 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.60%) Argo
3 2 (1.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) VMware
3 3 (2.40%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.40%) Cisco
3 3 (2.40%) Google
3 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.40%) Siemens
4 2 (1.60%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.80%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.80%) Databricks
5 1 (0.80%) Genesys
5 1 (0.80%) Intapp
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle
5 1 (0.80%) Veeam
5 1 (0.80%) Verint
5 1 (0.80%) WooCommerce