Continuous Improvement Jobs in the West Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 17 35
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 230 624 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.15% 8.62% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 10.37% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 124 348 219
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £40,563 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,692 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,625 £84,964 £76,100
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham -18 84 £55,000 -2.28% 88
Warwickshire -31 61 £52,387 +4.77% 51
Staffordshire -21 26 £52,137 +54.48% 65
Coventry -23 9 £59,500 +10.70% 24
Willenhall -1 8 £47,250 -
Worcestershire +17 7 £58,750 +67.86% 7
Herefordshire +12 5 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Shropshire -9 5 £42,500 -43.33% 12
Solihull -10 4 - - 14
Sutton Coldfield -2 3 - - 1
Halesowen +8 2 £36,000 -31.43%
Wolverhampton -7 1 £64,000 +19.63% 8
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.17%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 59 (25.65%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (23.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.87%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.30%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.43%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.43%) Azure
2 21 (9.13%) AWS
2 21 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.35%) SaaS
5 9 (3.91%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (3.91%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.61%) OCI
7 5 (2.17%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.74%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.74%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.43%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.43%) Figma
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub
10 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.22%) Firewall
1 12 (5.22%) WAN
2 7 (3.04%) LAN
3 5 (2.17%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.17%) VLAN
4 4 (1.74%) DNS
4 4 (1.74%) Internet
4 4 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.30%) DHCP
5 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) VPN
7 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.43%) MQTT
7 1 (0.43%) Network Security
7 1 (0.43%) PBX
7 1 (0.43%) PSTN
7 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.74%) MySQL
2 4 (1.74%) Power BI
3 3 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.43%) SQL CLR
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.78%) JIRA
2 6 (2.61%) Git
3 3 (1.30%) LSMW
3 3 (1.30%) Selenium
4 2 (0.87%) Mocha
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
5 1 (0.43%) JMeter
5 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
5 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.09%) Finance
3 35 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.78%) Marketing
7 10 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.91%) Police
9 8 (3.48%) Retail
10 7 (3.04%) Legal
10 7 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.04%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.61%) Law
12 5 (2.17%) Billing
12 5 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.74%) Local Government
14 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.87%) Automotive
15 2 (0.87%) Banking
15 2 (0.87%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 51 (22.17%) Graduate
2 20 (8.70%) Analyst
3 17 (7.39%) Developer
4 12 (5.22%) Lead
4 12 (5.22%) Senior
5 8 (3.48%) Consultant
5 8 (3.48%) IT Analyst
6 7 (3.04%) Development Manager
6 7 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (3.04%) Project Manager
7 6 (2.61%) Cloud Specialist
7 6 (2.61%) IT Manager
7 6 (2.61%) Oracle Specialist
7 6 (2.61%) Support Engineer
7 6 (2.61%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (2.61%) Technical Support
7 6 (2.61%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (2.17%) Development Specialist
8 5 (2.17%) Network Engineer
8 5 (2.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.96%) .NET
2 7 (3.04%) CSS
3 5 (2.17%) HTML
4 4 (1.74%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.74%) jQuery
4 4 (1.74%) Web Services
5 3 (1.30%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.30%) Node.js
6 2 (0.87%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.87%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.87%) Jest
6 2 (0.87%) Laravel
6 2 (0.87%) Middleware
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.87%) Playwright
6 2 (0.87%) React
6 2 (0.87%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.43%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.91%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.48%) Learning Management System
2 8 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.61%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.17%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.74%) PKI
6 4 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.30%) FMCG
7 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.30%) NHS
7 3 (1.30%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.83%) Windows
2 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.83%) Customer Service
2 59 (25.65%) Logistics
2 59 (25.65%) Process Improvement
3 57 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (23.48%) Customer Experience
5 53 (23.04%) Performance Metrics
6 52 (22.61%) Creative Thinking
7 50 (21.74%) Agile
8 49 (21.30%) Data Analysis
9 48 (20.87%) Contingency Planning
10 46 (20.00%) Project Management
11 34 (14.78%) Roadmaps
12 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (11.30%) Mentoring
14 25 (10.87%) ITIL
14 25 (10.87%) Project Delivery
15 24 (10.43%) DevOps
16 19 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
17 18 (7.83%) Collaborative Culture
17 18 (7.83%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.70%) SQL
2 18 (7.83%) C#
3 15 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.48%) Python
5 6 (2.61%) PHP
5 6 (2.61%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.74%) Java
7 3 (1.30%) C++
8 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (38.26%) Degree
2 9 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.17%) CISSP
5 5 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.17%) PMP
6 4 (1.74%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.30%) APMG
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.30%) CISM
7 3 (1.30%) CITP
7 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.30%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.87%) GIAC
8 2 (0.87%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) QA
2 11 (4.78%) SLA
3 9 (3.91%) PMO
4 8 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.61%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.74%) COBIT
7 4 (1.74%) NIST
8 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.30%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.30%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.87%) NCSC
10 1 (0.43%) COSO
10 1 (0.43%) GDPR
10 1 (0.43%) ITGC
10 1 (0.43%) P3O
10 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) Docker
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (2.61%) Terraform
2 3 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.87%) Nessus
4 1 (0.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.43%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.65%) Cisco
3 11 (4.78%) Oracle
4 9 (3.91%) VMware
5 8 (3.48%) Dell
6 6 (2.61%) Juniper
6 6 (2.61%) McAfee
6 6 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.17%) Avaya
7 5 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.17%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.74%) SAP
8 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.30%) Adobe
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) Infor
10 2 (0.87%) Apple
10 2 (0.87%) HP
10 2 (0.87%) Sophos
10 2 (0.87%) Veeam