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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 +21
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 103 65 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 9.49% 7.04% 14.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.35% 8.53% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 71 39 64
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,700 £22,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,625 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,307 £38,175
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% +23.92% -23.65%
75th Percentile £61,500 £54,500 £53,313
90th Percentile £74,679 £64,900 £71,649
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.64%

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 834 762 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.87% 82.56% 92.47%
Number of salaries quoted 576 384 587
10th Percentile £25,144 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -2.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
South Wales +7 72 £52,500 +10.53% 159
West Wales +7 14 £42,848 +14.26% 3
North Wales +11 13 £30,000 -29.41% 7
Dyfed - 1 - - 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 1 (0.97%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.94%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) iTrent
2 1 (0.97%) Magento
2 1 (0.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.48%) Azure
2 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.83%) AWS
3 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.88%) GCP
5 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.91%) SaaS
5 3 (2.91%) Serverless
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.94%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.94%) GitHub
6 2 (1.94%) PaaS
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.97%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.97%) Datadog
7 1 (0.97%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) Wireless
2 2 (1.94%) Profibus
3 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) Power BI
2 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.97%) GIS
3 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Git
1 3 (2.91%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.94%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.97%) git-flow
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) JMeter
3 1 (0.97%) Locust
3 1 (0.97%) Postman
3 1 (0.97%) Selenium
3 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.97%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (21.36%) Retail
3 17 (16.50%) Manufacturing
4 12 (11.65%) Finance
5 11 (10.68%) Legal
6 7 (6.80%) Law
7 6 (5.83%) Electronics
8 5 (4.85%) Military
8 5 (4.85%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.85%) Welsh Language
9 4 (3.88%) Automotive
9 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.91%) Back Office
10 3 (2.91%) Marketing
11 2 (1.94%) Aviation
12 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (12.62%) Lead
2 11 (10.68%) Analyst
3 9 (8.74%) QA Manager
3 9 (8.74%) Quality Manager
4 8 (7.77%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Applications Support
5 7 (6.80%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (6.80%) Coordinator
5 7 (6.80%) Senior
5 7 (6.80%) Support Analyst
5 7 (6.80%) Technical Coordinator
6 6 (5.83%) Architect
6 6 (5.83%) Auditor
6 6 (5.83%) Consultant
6 6 (5.83%) Report Manager
6 6 (5.83%) Systems Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.85%) IT Support
7 5 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.91%) Node.js
2 2 (1.94%) Kafka
2 2 (1.94%) Playwright
2 2 (1.94%) React
3 1 (0.97%) .NET
3 1 (0.97%) Django
3 1 (0.97%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.97%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.97%) Jest
3 1 (0.97%) Vitest
3 1 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.91%) SCADA
4 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.94%) CMDB
5 2 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.94%) FPGA
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.94%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.94%) Robotics
5 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Windows
1 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (28.16%) Agile
3 19 (18.45%) Decision-Making
4 15 (14.56%) CI/CD
4 15 (14.56%) Project Management
5 14 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (12.62%) Customer Service
6 13 (12.62%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.62%) Service Delivery
7 12 (11.65%) Time Management
8 10 (9.71%) DevOps
8 10 (9.71%) Internal Audit
8 10 (9.71%) Software Deployment
9 9 (8.74%) Analytics
9 9 (8.74%) Configuration Management
10 8 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.77%) Change Control
10 8 (7.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (7.77%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (7.77%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.74%) C#
2 4 (3.88%) C
2 4 (3.88%) C++
2 4 (3.88%) SQL
3 3 (2.91%) Python
4 2 (1.94%) Ladder Logic
4 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.97%) Java
5 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (26.21%) Degree
2 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.85%) HND
5 4 (3.88%) CIPD
5 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.91%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.97%) IIBA
8 1 (0.97%) PMP
8 1 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) QA
2 5 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.94%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.97%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.97%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) PMO
5 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Docker
3 2 (1.94%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.94%) Firmware
4 1 (0.97%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) Terraform
2 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.94%) Argo
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.91%) Cisco
3 3 (2.91%) Google
3 3 (2.91%) Siemens
4 2 (1.94%) IBM
4 2 (1.94%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.97%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.97%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.97%) Genesys
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.97%) Veeam
5 1 (0.97%) Verint
5 1 (0.97%) VMware
5 1 (0.97%) WooCommerce