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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 14 33
Rank change year-on-year -37 +19 +15
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 200 692 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.58% 9.28% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 11.24% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 127 363 221
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,850 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,964 £75,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -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 3,983 6,154 6,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.27% 82.50% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 4,565 3,148
10th Percentile £28,964 £26,250 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 18 May 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 18 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
Birmingham -15 85 £55,000 -2.90% 98
Warwickshire -54 34 £50,887 +1.77% 53
Staffordshire -28 28 £53,688 +65.19% 71
Herefordshire +14 7 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Willenhall -1 7 £46,500 -
Shropshire -14 7 £42,500 -43.33% 35
Worcestershire +16 6 £55,000 +57.14% 21
Coventry -36 3 £46,000 -14.42% 27
Halesowen +8 2 £36,000 -31.43%
Walsall -6 2 £47,500 +26.67% 6
Wolverhampton -8 2 £64,000 +19.63% 12
Solihull -18 2 - - 14
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 15 (7.50%) Confluence
2 12 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.50%) CMS
5 2 (1.00%) MTS
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.00%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (1.00%) Infor M3
3 2 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Maximo
4 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.50%) Azure
2 36 (18.00%) AWS
3 22 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.50%) GCP
5 12 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (5.00%) SaaS
7 9 (4.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.00%) OCI
9 6 (3.00%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.50%) Serverless
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.00%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.50%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Firewall
2 12 (6.00%) WAN
3 7 (3.50%) LAN
4 5 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.50%) VLAN
5 4 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.50%) DHCP
6 3 (1.50%) DNS
6 3 (1.50%) Internet
6 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.50%) VPN
7 2 (1.00%) Network Security
8 1 (0.50%) PBX
8 1 (0.50%) PSTN
8 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (2.00%) MySQL
3 4 (2.00%) Power BI
4 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.50%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.50%) SQL CLR
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (11.50%) JIRA
2 16 (8.00%) Selenium
3 15 (7.50%) GitLab
4 13 (6.50%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.50%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.50%) Maven
4 13 (6.50%) SonarQube
4 13 (6.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.50%) Git
6 2 (1.00%) Mocha
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.50%) JMeter
7 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.50%) LSMW
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.50%) Subversion
7 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.50%) Finance
3 37 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (16.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.50%) Banking
6 13 (6.50%) Marketing
7 12 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.50%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.50%) Retail
9 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.50%) Billing
10 7 (3.50%) Legal
10 7 (3.50%) Police
11 6 (3.00%) Law
12 5 (2.50%) Local Government
13 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.50%) Automotive
15 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.00%) Multimedia
15 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (11.00%) Analyst
2 19 (9.50%) Developer
3 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
4 13 (6.50%) Senior
5 10 (5.00%) Lead
6 9 (4.50%) Support Engineer
7 8 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.50%) Consultant
8 7 (3.50%) Development Manager
8 7 (3.50%) IT Analyst
9 6 (3.00%) Cloud Specialist
9 6 (3.00%) IT Manager
9 6 (3.00%) Oracle Specialist
9 6 (3.00%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (3.00%) Technical Support
9 6 (3.00%) Technical Support Engineer
10 5 (2.50%) Network Engineer
10 5 (2.50%) Service Manager
10 5 (2.50%) Test Analyst
11 4 (2.00%) Development Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.00%) .NET
2 20 (10.00%) CSS
3 18 (9.00%) HTML
4 16 (8.00%) React
5 15 (7.50%) Spring
6 14 (7.00%) Hibernate
6 14 (7.00%) JPA
6 14 (7.00%) Spring Boot
7 13 (6.50%) Kafka
7 13 (6.50%) Redux
8 7 (3.50%) Web Services
9 5 (2.50%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.00%) jQuery
11 3 (1.50%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.50%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.50%) Node.js
12 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (1.00%) Blazor
12 2 (1.00%) Playwright
12 2 (1.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.50%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.00%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.50%) Learning Management System
5 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.00%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.00%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.50%) FMCG
8 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.50%) NHS
8 3 (1.50%) PKI
8 3 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.50%) Windows
2 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Android
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.00%) Agile
2 59 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (24.00%) Project Management
4 34 (17.00%) DevOps
5 31 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (13.50%) Roadmaps
7 26 (13.00%) CI/CD
7 26 (13.00%) ITIL
8 25 (12.50%) SDLC
9 23 (11.50%) Mentoring
9 23 (11.50%) Software Engineering
10 22 (11.00%) Test Automation
11 21 (10.50%) Collaborative Working
12 20 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 19 (9.50%) Service Delivery
14 18 (9.00%) Decision-Making
14 18 (9.00%) ITSM
14 18 (9.00%) Microservices
15 17 (8.50%) Project Delivery
15 17 (8.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.50%) SQL
2 27 (13.50%) JavaScript
3 22 (11.00%) Java
4 20 (10.00%) C#
5 10 (5.00%) Python
6 6 (3.00%) PHP
7 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.50%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (19.50%) Degree
2 8 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.00%) CISM
5 4 (2.00%) CISSP
5 4 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.00%) PMP
5 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) APMG
6 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.50%) CITP
7 2 (1.00%) APMP
7 2 (1.00%) CRISC
7 2 (1.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.00%) QA
2 12 (6.00%) SLA
3 10 (5.00%) PMO
4 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.00%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.50%) COBIT
8 3 (1.50%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.50%) NIST
8 3 (1.50%) PMBOK
9 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.00%) GDPR
10 1 (0.50%) NCSC
10 1 (0.50%) P3O
10 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (7.50%) Docker
2 10 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.50%) Terraform
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.50%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.50%) Nessus
5 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.50%) Cisco
2 13 (6.50%) Solace
3 12 (6.00%) Oracle
4 10 (5.00%) VMware
5 9 (4.50%) Dell
6 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.00%) Infor
7 6 (3.00%) Juniper
7 6 (3.00%) McAfee
8 5 (2.50%) Avaya
8 5 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.50%) Zscaler
9 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.50%) Apple
10 3 (1.50%) Citrix
10 3 (1.50%) HP
10 3 (1.50%) IBM
10 3 (1.50%) Sophos
10 3 (1.50%) Veeam