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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 55 58
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,175 1,604 2,212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.75% 4.74% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 5.18% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 768 1,202 1,537
10th Percentile £35,500 £33,087 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,813 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 3 May 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 72 (6.13%) Confluence
2 36 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.04%) CMS
4 17 (1.45%) nginx
5 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.28%) WordPress
7 11 (0.94%) Drupal
8 10 (0.85%) Apache Solr
9 9 (0.77%) SAS
10 6 (0.51%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.43%) IIS
12 4 (0.34%) Apache
12 4 (0.34%) Moodle
13 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.085%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.94%) Trello
6 9 (0.77%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.17%) Notion
8 2 (0.17%) Sketch
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.085%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.085%) Maple
9 1 (0.085%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.085%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.085%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.43%) Shopify
5 4 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.34%) Maximo
6 3 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.17%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.17%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.085%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 353 (30.04%) Azure
2 231 (19.66%) AWS
3 101 (8.60%) GCP
4 99 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (7.66%) Power Platform
6 61 (5.19%) SaaS
7 37 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (3.15%) Serverless
8 28 (2.38%) GitHub
9 27 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (1.96%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.79%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.53%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 14 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (1.11%) PaaS
17 12 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.68%) Firewall
2 28 (2.38%) DNS
3 26 (2.21%) WAN
4 21 (1.79%) LAN
5 20 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 18 (1.53%) VPN
8 17 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (1.36%) IPsec
10 15 (1.28%) Network Security
11 13 (1.11%) BGP
11 13 (1.11%) DHCP
11 13 (1.11%) HTTPS
11 13 (1.11%) VLAN
12 12 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (0.94%) Intranet
14 9 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.60%) OSPF
16 6 (0.51%) HSRP
16 6 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.40%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.79%) Power BI
3 53 (4.51%) MySQL
4 36 (3.06%) Tableau
5 34 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 21 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.53%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.94%) Couchbase
12 8 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.68%) Big Data
12 8 (0.68%) Data Hub
12 8 (0.68%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.51%) MariaDB
13 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 119 (10.13%) JIRA
2 76 (6.47%) GitLab
3 69 (5.87%) Selenium
4 66 (5.62%) Maven
5 63 (5.36%) SonarQube
6 62 (5.28%) Bitbucket
6 62 (5.28%) Cucumber
7 61 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 49 (4.17%) Git
9 17 (1.45%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.60%) JUnit
11 6 (0.51%) Postman
11 6 (0.51%) Subversion
12 4 (0.34%) LSMW
12 4 (0.34%) Mocha
13 3 (0.26%) Appium
13 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 511 (43.49%) Social Skills
2 386 (32.85%) Finance
3 215 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 140 (11.91%) Banking
6 114 (9.70%) Marketing
7 82 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 54 (4.60%) Manufacturing
9 52 (4.43%) Retail
10 51 (4.34%) Legal
11 47 (4.00%) Law
12 43 (3.66%) Advertising
13 39 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (2.38%) Electronics
15 27 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (1.62%) Automotive
18 19 (1.62%) Publishing
19 18 (1.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (14.04%) Lead
2 153 (13.02%) Senior
3 144 (12.26%) Developer
4 105 (8.94%) Software Engineer
5 100 (8.51%) Analyst
6 48 (4.09%) Architect
7 36 (3.06%) Product Manager
8 35 (2.98%) Account Manager
9 34 (2.89%) Senior Developer
9 34 (2.89%) Strategic Account Manager
10 31 (2.64%) Project Manager
11 30 (2.55%) Graduate
12 29 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (2.47%) IT Graduate
13 28 (2.38%) Graduate Developer
13 28 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (2.30%) Consultant
14 27 (2.30%) Team Leader
15 26 (2.21%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (11.66%) CSS
2 128 (10.89%) React
3 117 (9.96%) HTML
4 100 (8.51%) .NET
5 78 (6.64%) Spring
6 74 (6.30%) Spring Boot
7 69 (5.87%) Kafka
8 68 (5.79%) Redux
9 63 (5.36%) Hibernate
9 63 (5.36%) JPA
10 40 (3.40%) ASP.NET
11 36 (3.06%) jQuery
12 30 (2.55%) AngularJS
13 25 (2.13%) .NET Core
13 25 (2.13%) .NET Framework
14 24 (2.04%) Node.js
14 24 (2.04%) RESTful
15 21 (1.79%) REST
16 19 (1.62%) React Native
17 16 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 170 (14.47%) Product Ownership
2 77 (6.55%) Management Information System
3 76 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (4.85%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.06%) Digital Media
5 36 (3.06%) Marketing Technology
6 29 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.87%) PMI
10 21 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
11 20 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.70%) NHS
11 20 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 20 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.62%) Mobile App
13 18 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
13 18 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.64%) Windows
2 38 (3.23%) Linux
3 24 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.68%) Windows Vista
5 5 (0.43%) Android
5 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Unix
5 5 (0.43%) VMS
6 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.17%) AIX
8 2 (0.17%) CentOS
8 2 (0.17%) Debian
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.17%) SUSE
9 1 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (38.72%) Agile
2 333 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (23.40%) DevOps
4 223 (18.98%) Project Management
5 211 (17.96%) Mentoring
6 187 (15.91%) CI/CD
7 185 (15.74%) Software Engineering
8 176 (14.98%) Roadmaps
9 146 (12.43%) Decision-Making
10 137 (11.66%) Analytics
11 135 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 132 (11.23%) Microservices
13 130 (11.06%) Project Delivery
14 127 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
14 127 (10.81%) Test Automation
15 124 (10.55%) SDLC
16 105 (8.94%) Collaborative Culture
17 104 (8.85%) Containerisation
18 99 (8.43%) Risk Management
19 98 (8.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 201 (17.11%) SQL
2 180 (15.32%) JavaScript
3 145 (12.34%) Java
4 140 (11.91%) Python
5 107 (9.11%) C#
6 55 (4.68%) PHP
7 36 (3.06%) C++
8 30 (2.55%) PowerShell
8 30 (2.55%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.53%) C
10 14 (1.19%) Bash
11 12 (1.02%) R
11 12 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.94%) Go
13 10 (0.85%) Embedded C
13 10 (0.85%) Ruby
13 10 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.77%) Korn
15 8 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.60%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 235 (20.00%) Degree
2 80 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.79%) DBS Check
4 60 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.00%) PMI Certification
6 42 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 28 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 25 (2.13%) PMP
10 24 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 16 (1.36%) CISSP
12 15 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.94%) CCNP
14 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.94%) PhD
15 10 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.68%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.36%) QA
2 38 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.98%) GDPR
5 31 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.21%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.62%) PMO
7 19 (1.62%) SLA
8 14 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.94%) NIST
11 9 (0.77%) PERC
12 7 (0.60%) Basel II
12 7 (0.60%) Basel III
12 7 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
12 7 (0.60%) IFRS
12 7 (0.60%) IFRS 9
13 6 (0.51%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.43%) GMP
System Software
1 101 (8.60%) Docker
2 44 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.51%) Firmware
8 4 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.34%) vSphere
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.17%) KVM
10 2 (0.17%) Postfix
10 2 (0.17%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.085%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 130 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.57%) Terraform
3 21 (1.79%) Ansible
4 12 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.68%) Grafana
7 7 (0.60%) SCCM
8 6 (0.51%) Puppet
8 6 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.26%) CASB
10 3 (0.26%) Istio
10 3 (0.26%) linkerd
10 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Nessus
11 2 (0.17%) Salt
11 2 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 232 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.45%) Google
3 61 (5.19%) Solace
4 59 (5.02%) SAP
5 49 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.66%) Oracle
7 31 (2.64%) Databricks
8 29 (2.47%) Cisco
8 29 (2.47%) VMware
9 21 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.70%) Adobe
11 19 (1.62%) Tenable
12 17 (1.45%) Qualys
13 12 (1.02%) Meraki
14 11 (0.94%) Citrix
14 11 (0.94%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.94%) IBM
15 10 (0.85%) CheckPoint
15 10 (0.85%) OneTrust
16 9 (0.77%) SolarWinds