Continuous Improvement Job Trends in West Wales

Continual Improvement
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 16 12 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 14.04% 11.11% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.78% 12.77% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 7
10th Percentile - £33,575 £51,793
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,688 £53,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,848 £37,500 £55,238
Median % change year-on-year +14.26% -32.11% +10.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £41,250 £69,298
90th Percentile £72,838 - £70,798
Wales median annual salary £52,107 £47,307 £41,351
% change year-on-year +10.15% +14.40% -17.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 94 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 78.95% 87.04% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 55 37 103
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £31,521
25th Percentile £39,582 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year - -2.45% +2.57%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,252 £60,625
90th Percentile £84,424 £65,000 £72,438
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in West Wales

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in West Wales

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in West Wales over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in West Wales

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Swansea +10 16 £42,848 +14.26% 2
Continuous Improvement
Wales

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) EPLAN
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Wireless
2 2 (12.50%) Profibus
3 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Law
2 6 (37.50%) Military
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 6 (37.50%) Welsh Language
3 2 (12.50%) Electronics
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Report Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Robotics
2 2 (12.50%) SCADA
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 7 (43.75%) Decision-Making
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
3 6 (37.50%) Time Management
3 6 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Change Control
5 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Line Management
5 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Six Sigma
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Ladder Logic
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) IIBA
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) IEC 61131
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
2 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Argo
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) PagerDuty
1 2 (12.50%) Siemens
2 1 (6.25%) VMware
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