Continuous Improvement Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 53 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,348 1,577 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.54% 4.63% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 5.19% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 831 1,126 1,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,298 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.83% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,203 30,363 34,629
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.10% 89.23% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,245 22,461 25,124
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Continuous Improvement salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 174 (12.91%) Confluence
2 47 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.48%) CMS
5 15 (1.11%) Appian
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 13 (0.96%) IIS
7 7 (0.52%) Drupal
8 6 (0.45%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.37%) SAS
10 4 (0.30%) Moodle
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) MTS
12 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.074%) Apache
Applications
1 82 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.89%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.59%) Trello
8 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.22%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.15%) Notion
11 2 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.15%) Sketch
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.074%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.074%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 22 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite
4 7 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 6 (0.45%) Adaptiv
5 6 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.37%) Shopify
7 4 (0.30%) Maximo
7 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.30%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.15%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 451 (33.46%) Azure
2 284 (21.07%) AWS
3 199 (14.76%) GCP
4 115 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (7.49%) Power Platform
6 72 (5.34%) SaaS
7 36 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 30 (2.23%) GitHub
9 28 (2.08%) Serverless
10 23 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.63%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.56%) OCI
13 17 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.04%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.04%) PaaS
15 14 (1.04%) Snowflake
16 13 (0.96%) IaaS
17 12 (0.89%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.41%) Firewall
2 23 (1.71%) VPN
2 23 (1.71%) WAN
3 18 (1.34%) Network Security
4 17 (1.26%) SD-WAN
5 16 (1.19%) LAN
5 16 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.11%) BGP
6 15 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
7 14 (1.04%) OSPF
8 11 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (0.82%) DNS
9 9 (0.67%) VLAN
10 8 (0.59%) Internet
10 8 (0.59%) IPsec
10 8 (0.59%) WLAN
11 5 (0.37%) MPLS
11 5 (0.37%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (18.32%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.23%) Power BI
3 42 (3.12%) MySQL
4 30 (2.23%) Tableau
5 22 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.26%) Data Hub
8 16 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.96%) SQL CLR
10 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.67%) Metadata
14 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.59%) Big Data
15 7 (0.52%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.45%) GIS
16 6 (0.45%) Power Query
17 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 212 (15.73%) JIRA
2 169 (12.54%) GitLab
3 165 (12.24%) Selenium
4 162 (12.02%) Maven
5 159 (11.80%) SonarQube
5 159 (11.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 158 (11.72%) Cucumber
7 157 (11.65%) Bitbucket
8 41 (3.04%) Git
9 13 (0.96%) Jenkins
10 6 (0.45%) JUnit
10 6 (0.45%) Postman
10 6 (0.45%) Subversion
11 4 (0.30%) Mocha
11 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.22%) Appium
12 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 583 (43.25%) Social Skills
2 555 (41.17%) Finance
3 247 (18.32%) Banking
4 244 (18.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 229 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (8.61%) Marketing
7 100 (7.42%) Public Sector
8 68 (5.04%) Legal
9 59 (4.38%) Manufacturing
10 49 (3.64%) Advertising
11 46 (3.41%) Retail
12 44 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.30%) Law
14 31 (2.30%) Local Government
15 30 (2.23%) Back Office
16 24 (1.78%) Automotive
16 24 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (1.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 197 (14.61%) Software Engineer
2 173 (12.83%) Lead
3 161 (11.94%) Analyst
4 159 (11.80%) Developer
5 135 (10.01%) Senior
6 42 (3.12%) Architect
7 38 (2.82%) Business Analyst
8 37 (2.74%) Graduate
8 37 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (2.60%) IT Graduate
9 35 (2.60%) Team Leader
10 34 (2.52%) Account Manager
10 34 (2.52%) Graduate Developer
10 34 (2.52%) Senior Developer
10 34 (2.52%) Strategic Account Manager
11 33 (2.45%) Product Manager
12 29 (2.15%) IT Manager
13 27 (2.00%) Support Analyst
14 26 (1.93%) Senior Manager
15 25 (1.85%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (16.77%) CSS
2 205 (15.21%) React
3 199 (14.76%) HTML
4 175 (12.98%) Spring
5 171 (12.69%) Spring Boot
6 164 (12.17%) Kafka
7 163 (12.09%) Redux
8 160 (11.87%) JPA
9 159 (11.80%) Hibernate
10 124 (9.20%) .NET
11 41 (3.04%) ASP.NET
12 38 (2.82%) jQuery
13 27 (2.00%) .NET Core
13 27 (2.00%) .NET Framework
13 27 (2.00%) REST
14 24 (1.78%) Node.js
14 24 (1.78%) RESTful
15 23 (1.71%) Entity Framework
16 21 (1.56%) AngularJS
17 18 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 273 (20.25%) Product Ownership
2 167 (12.39%) Enterprise Software
3 85 (6.31%) Management Information System
4 45 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 42 (3.12%) NHS
6 40 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 34 (2.52%) Digital Media
7 34 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
8 31 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.78%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.48%) PMI
12 20 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.41%) Social Media
13 19 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 16 (1.19%) Driving Licence
14 16 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 105 (7.79%) Windows
2 29 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.78%) Linux
4 23 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.59%) Windows Vista
6 4 (0.30%) Android
6 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.15%) Debian
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 1 (0.074%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (42.95%) Agile
2 366 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
3 318 (23.59%) DevOps
4 264 (19.58%) Software Engineering
5 261 (19.36%) CI/CD
6 228 (16.91%) SDLC
7 225 (16.69%) Microservices
8 215 (15.95%) Project Management
9 208 (15.43%) Mentoring
10 203 (15.06%) Test Automation
11 191 (14.17%) TDD
12 188 (13.95%) Containerisation
13 187 (13.87%) Clean Code
14 186 (13.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 182 (13.50%) Front End Development
16 170 (12.61%) Performance Optimisation
17 153 (11.35%) Decision-Making
18 152 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
19 149 (11.05%) Analytics
20 137 (10.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 344 (25.52%) SQL
2 254 (18.84%) Java
3 245 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 132 (9.79%) C#
5 112 (8.31%) Python
6 47 (3.49%) PHP
7 38 (2.82%) C++
8 31 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.89%) C
11 11 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.82%) VBA
12 10 (0.74%) R
13 9 (0.67%) Embedded C
13 9 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.52%) C-shell
14 7 (0.52%) Korn
14 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.52%) VB
15 6 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 258 (19.14%) Degree
2 98 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 62 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.45%) SC Cleared
5 56 (4.15%) DBS Check
6 54 (4.01%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.45%) PMP
8 28 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.19%) CISSP
10 16 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
10 16 (1.19%) Postgraduate
11 15 (1.11%) ACCA
12 14 (1.04%) CIMA
12 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.89%) CFA
15 11 (0.82%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (18.10%) QA
2 55 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.97%) GDPR
5 36 (2.67%) SLA
6 22 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.26%) PMO
8 12 (0.89%) NIST
9 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.67%) COBIT
10 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.59%) GRC
12 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.37%) GMP
14 5 (0.37%) NCSC
15 4 (0.30%) IFRS
15 4 (0.30%) IFRS 9
15 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 192 (14.24%) Docker
2 43 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.074%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 201 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.85%) Terraform
3 19 (1.41%) Ansible
3 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.74%) Grafana
6 6 (0.45%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.30%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Salt
10 1 (0.074%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.074%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.074%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.074%) Matomo
10 1 (0.074%) Nessus
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.074%) SCCM
10 1 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.074%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 265 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 157 (11.65%) Solace
3 60 (4.45%) SAP
4 59 (4.38%) Oracle
5 48 (3.56%) Google
6 44 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 41 (3.04%) Cisco
8 28 (2.08%) VMware
9 26 (1.93%) Databricks
9 26 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.34%) Tenable
11 17 (1.26%) Qualys
12 14 (1.04%) Concur
13 12 (0.89%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.89%) Citrix
13 12 (0.89%) Guidewire
13 12 (0.89%) Murex
14 11 (0.82%) Sage
15 10 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.74%) SolarWinds