Continuous Improvement Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 29 54
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +5
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 223 94 96
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 12.03% 6.55% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 7.41% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 132 55 79
10th Percentile £41,172 £31,250 £38,123
25th Percentile £54,125 £35,625 £47,047
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £52,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -11.85% -4.71%
75th Percentile £86,563 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £96,539
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,250 £47,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year +31.05% -20.24% +0.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,487 1,268 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.20% 88.36% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 872 629 1,426
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Leeds +7 160 £67,500 +35.00% 45
Bradford +4 41 £75,000 +93.55% 6
Huddersfield +4 7 - - 1
Brighouse - 4 £30,500 -
Wakefield -1 3 - - 8
Halifax - 3 £60,000 -
Ossett - 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.79%) CMS
2 4 (1.79%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.35%) Moodle
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) Drupal
4 2 (0.90%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.79%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (1.79%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.90%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.69%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.69%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (2.69%) SAP PS
3 4 (1.79%) Sage 200
4 3 (1.35%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.35%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.35%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.90%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.70%) AWS
2 42 (18.83%) Azure
3 37 (16.59%) SaaS
4 18 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.28%) Serverless
6 10 (4.48%) GCP
7 8 (3.59%) GitHub
8 7 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.69%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.24%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (2.24%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.24%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.79%) Apigee
12 3 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.79%) DNS
2 3 (1.35%) DHCP
2 3 (1.35%) Firewall
2 3 (1.35%) Network Security
2 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.90%) AMQP
3 2 (0.90%) Intranet
3 2 (0.90%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) BGP
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) VoIP
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.62%) Power BI
3 8 (3.59%) Tableau
4 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.35%) Metadata
6 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.35%) MySQL
6 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.35%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.35%) Spark SQL
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.90%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.90%) Power Query
7 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 24 (10.76%) JIRA
2 9 (4.04%) Git
3 8 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.69%) GitLab
6 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.79%) Maven
6 4 (1.79%) Selenium
7 3 (1.35%) JMeter
7 3 (1.35%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.90%) Grunt
8 2 (0.90%) gulp
8 2 (0.90%) webpack
9 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 98 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.70%) Finance
3 23 (10.31%) Retail
4 21 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.73%) Legal
6 13 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.38%) Marketing
8 8 (3.59%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.24%) Electronics
10 5 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Banking
11 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.35%) Advertising
12 3 (1.35%) Games
12 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.90%) Law
13 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 44 (19.73%) Developer
2 31 (13.90%) Lead
3 25 (11.21%) Senior
4 21 (9.42%) Development Manager
4 21 (9.42%) JIRA Developer
5 19 (8.52%) Software Development Manager
5 19 (8.52%) Software Manager
6 17 (7.62%) Consultant
7 15 (6.73%) IT Manager
7 15 (6.73%) Principal Consultant
7 15 (6.73%) Principal SAP Consultant
7 15 (6.73%) SAP Consultant
8 14 (6.28%) .NET Development Manager
9 12 (5.38%) Support Engineer
9 12 (5.38%) Technical Support
10 11 (4.93%) Architect
11 10 (4.48%) Analyst
11 10 (4.48%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.48%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.76%) React
2 22 (9.87%) .NET
3 12 (5.38%) CSS
3 12 (5.38%) HTML
4 11 (4.93%) Spring
5 10 (4.48%) Node.js
5 10 (4.48%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.04%) Django
6 9 (4.04%) FastAPI
6 9 (4.04%) Flask
7 8 (3.59%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.59%) REST
7 8 (3.59%) Vue
8 6 (2.69%) RESTful
8 6 (2.69%) SAP Basis
8 6 (2.69%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (2.69%) SAPUI5
9 5 (2.24%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.24%) Kafka
10 4 (1.79%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.69%) CMDB
5 6 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.24%) NHS
7 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.35%) FMCG
8 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.35%) Replication
8 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.90%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.38%) Windows
2 7 (3.14%) Linux
3 6 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.24%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.35%) SUSE
5 3 (1.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (34.53%) Agile
2 73 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (21.08%) Mentoring
4 45 (20.18%) Software Engineering
5 43 (19.28%) ITIL
6 39 (17.49%) ITSM
7 34 (15.25%) Change Management
7 34 (15.25%) Service Management
8 31 (13.90%) Computer Science
8 31 (13.90%) DevOps
9 30 (13.45%) CI/CD
9 30 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.00%) Asset Management
11 28 (12.56%) Incident Management
12 25 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (10.76%) Decision-Making
14 23 (10.31%) Collaborative Culture
15 22 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (9.42%) Product Vision
16 21 (9.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.52%) JavaScript
2 31 (13.90%) SQL
3 30 (13.45%) Python
4 27 (12.11%) PowerShell
5 26 (11.66%) C#
6 15 (6.73%) Java
7 14 (6.28%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.59%) Bash
9 4 (1.79%) Delphi
9 4 (1.79%) Groovy
9 4 (1.79%) Ruby
10 3 (1.35%) ABAP
10 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) R
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (16.14%) Degree
2 22 (9.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 9 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (3.59%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.79%) CISSP
6 4 (1.79%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.90%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.90%) ACCA
8 2 (0.90%) CIMA
8 2 (0.90%) CIPD
8 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.45%) OSCP
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
9 1 (0.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.83%) GDPR
3 11 (4.93%) QA
4 10 (4.48%) PMO
5 9 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (3.14%) Accessibility
6 7 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.24%) P3O
8 4 (1.79%) GRC
8 4 (1.79%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.79%) SLA
9 3 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.90%) WCAG
11 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (10.76%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (8.07%) Terraform
2 8 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.14%) HP Fortify
4 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.35%) Ansible
6 2 (0.90%) Control-M
6 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.90%) SCCM
7 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.45%) Grafana
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.21%) SAP
3 21 (9.42%) Atlassian
4 9 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.14%) Google
6 6 (2.69%) Ariba
7 5 (2.24%) VMware
8 4 (1.79%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.79%) Sage
9 3 (1.35%) Concur
9 3 (1.35%) Databricks
9 3 (1.35%) IBM
9 3 (1.35%) Openreach
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle
10 2 (0.90%) Genesys
10 2 (0.90%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.90%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.90%) Sophos
10 2 (0.90%) Verint
11 1 (0.45%) Avaya