Continuous Improvement Job Trends in West Lothian

Continual Improvement
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 23 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 10 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 8.00% 6.71% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 7.58% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +64.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,813 £72,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £53,750 - -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 132 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 88.00% 88.59% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 69 63 58
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £20,750
25th Percentile £26,929 £35,625 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,851 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +41.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £61,125
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% - -

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Lothian.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in West Lothian

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in West Lothian

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Livingston +10 3 - - 3
Bathgate - 1 - - 2
Continuous Improvement
Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
1 4 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Games
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Support Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) JPA
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) Redux
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (20.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) CAFM
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Facilities Management
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SOQL
1 2 (20.00%) SOSL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) Solace
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk