Hybrid/Remote Continuous Improvement Job Trends

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +4
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,986 1,297 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.03% 8.48% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.25% 8.96% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 778 1,191
10th Percentile £38,984 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -4.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

All Process & 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 16,218 14,474 30,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.95% 94.61% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,673 8,396 23,766
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Continuous Improvement salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 129 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 68 (3.42%) Confluence
3 43 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (1.91%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.25%) WordPress
7 3 (0.15%) Apache
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.15%) Drupal
7 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.10%) IIS
8 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.10%) Moodle
9 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 96 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Trello
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.050%) CATIA
9 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.050%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.35%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.30%) Magento
5 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.30%) Shopify
6 5 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.15%) Academy Housing
8 3 (0.15%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 459 (23.11%) Azure
2 394 (19.84%) AWS
3 210 (10.57%) Microsoft 365
4 182 (9.16%) Power Platform
5 167 (8.41%) SaaS
6 120 (6.04%) Entra ID
7 113 (5.69%) GCP
8 78 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (3.83%) Serverless
10 57 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
11 53 (2.67%) GitHub
11 53 (2.67%) Power Automate
12 51 (2.57%) PowerApps
13 41 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (1.86%) Figma
15 29 (1.46%) Adobe Analytics
15 29 (1.46%) OneDrive
16 26 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 25 (1.26%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.95%) Broadband
2 60 (3.02%) Firewall
3 52 (2.62%) DNS
4 38 (1.91%) WAN
5 37 (1.86%) DHCP
6 35 (1.76%) VPN
7 29 (1.46%) LAN
8 25 (1.26%) Network Security
8 25 (1.26%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.65%) VLAN
12 11 (0.55%) VoIP
13 7 (0.35%) MPLS
13 7 (0.35%) Wireless
13 7 (0.35%) WLAN
14 6 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.30%) Internet
14 6 (0.30%) IPsec
14 6 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.59%) Power BI
2 72 (3.63%) SQL Server
3 68 (3.42%) MongoDB
4 64 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 26 (1.31%) Power Query
7 23 (1.16%) Metadata
8 21 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 18 (0.91%) MySQL
10 15 (0.76%) Tableau
11 12 (0.60%) Redis
12 8 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.35%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.35%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.35%) PowerPivot
14 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.30%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 103 (5.19%) JIRA
2 58 (2.92%) GitLab
3 57 (2.87%) Git
4 56 (2.82%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 19 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.65%) JMeter
8 12 (0.60%) CircleCI
8 12 (0.60%) Selenium
8 12 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 10 (0.50%) Postman
10 8 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.25%) JUnit
13 5 (0.25%) Locust
13 5 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 818 (41.19%) Social Skills
2 518 (26.08%) Finance
3 355 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (12.49%) Public Sector
5 190 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 152 (7.65%) Legal
7 138 (6.95%) Law
8 116 (5.84%) Marketing
9 111 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
9 111 (5.59%) Retail
10 110 (5.54%) Games
11 104 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
12 77 (3.88%) Back Office
13 65 (3.27%) Banking
14 49 (2.47%) Manufacturing
15 48 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.61%) Local Government
17 28 (1.41%) Financial Institution
18 27 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
19 26 (1.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 328 (16.52%) Senior
2 248 (12.49%) Lead
3 197 (9.92%) Developer
4 194 (9.77%) Analyst
5 121 (6.09%) Architect
6 106 (5.34%) Senior Manager
7 92 (4.63%) Support Engineer
8 89 (4.48%) Software Engineer
9 86 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
10 79 (3.98%) IT Manager
11 56 (2.82%) Project Manager
12 55 (2.77%) Senior Developer
13 54 (2.72%) Service Manager
14 50 (2.52%) Business Analyst
15 49 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
16 46 (2.32%) Lead Developer
17 45 (2.27%) Consultant
17 45 (2.27%) Security Manager
18 44 (2.22%) Site Engineer
19 43 (2.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (5.84%) React
2 105 (5.29%) .NET
3 92 (4.63%) REST
4 68 (3.42%) HTML
5 64 (3.22%) CSS
6 53 (2.67%) SOAP
7 50 (2.52%) Node.js
8 46 (2.32%) RESTful
8 46 (2.32%) Spring
9 42 (2.11%) Vue
10 40 (2.01%) Spring Boot
11 38 (1.91%) Lightning Web Components
12 36 (1.81%) Visualforce
13 31 (1.56%) Playwright
14 23 (1.16%) .NET Core
15 22 (1.11%) Web Services
16 21 (1.06%) Kafka
16 21 (1.06%) Next.js
17 19 (0.96%) AWS CDK
17 19 (0.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 203 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 174 (8.76%) Cloud Native
3 127 (6.39%) Onboarding
4 55 (2.77%) Security Posture
5 54 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (2.17%) Low-Code
8 41 (2.06%) Data Centre
9 39 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 37 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 31 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (1.51%) PMI
14 29 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.41%) Virtual Team
16 25 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
18 22 (1.11%) Driving Licence
19 20 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 155 (7.80%) Windows
2 67 (3.37%) Linux
3 57 (2.87%) Windows 10
4 55 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 14 (0.70%) Android
6 14 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.45%) Unix
8 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.15%) Debian
12 2 (0.10%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.10%) VMS
13 1 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.050%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (34.39%) Agile
2 450 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
3 395 (19.89%) Mentoring
4 385 (19.39%) CI/CD
5 360 (18.13%) Roadmaps
6 337 (16.97%) DevOps
7 304 (15.31%) Decision-Making
8 293 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 289 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 282 (14.20%) AI
11 277 (13.95%) Coaching
12 250 (12.59%) ITIL
13 235 (11.83%) Analytics
14 233 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
15 226 (11.38%) Scrum
15 226 (11.38%) Software Engineering
16 200 (10.07%) Test Automation
17 183 (9.21%) Collaborative Culture
18 181 (9.11%) User Experience
19 171 (8.61%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 215 (10.83%) Python
2 164 (8.26%) SQL
3 130 (6.55%) JavaScript
4 117 (5.89%) C#
5 110 (5.54%) Java
6 99 (4.98%) TypeScript
7 60 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.96%) Apex Code
8 39 (1.96%) Go
9 37 (1.86%) SOQL
10 36 (1.81%) SOSL
11 33 (1.66%) Bash
12 19 (0.96%) Bicep
13 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.60%) PHP
15 9 (0.45%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) C++
17 7 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.35%) R
18 6 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 304 (15.31%) Degree
2 230 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 195 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.17%) DBS Check
5 56 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.77%) CISSP
7 52 (2.62%) ACCA
8 47 (2.37%) Azure Certification
9 44 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (2.06%) CISM
11 40 (2.01%) CTC Cleared
12 36 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (1.61%) CIMA
14 29 (1.46%) DV Cleared
15 26 (1.31%) PMP
16 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
17 23 (1.16%) CISA
18 17 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 15 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
20 13 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (10.02%) QA
2 118 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 114 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (4.58%) GDPR
5 85 (4.28%) SLA
6 60 (3.02%) NIST
7 59 (2.97%) Data Quality
8 42 (2.11%) WCAG
9 40 (2.01%) GRC
10 35 (1.76%) PMO
11 34 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (1.61%) PCI DSS
13 24 (1.21%) IFRS
14 18 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.86%) NCSC
16 16 (0.81%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.81%) SOC 2
17 14 (0.70%) COBIT
18 12 (0.60%) P3O
System Software
1 113 (5.69%) Docker
2 103 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.20%) Firmware
7 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.050%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.050%) KVM
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.050%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 136 (6.85%) Terraform
2 128 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 47 (2.37%) Ansible
3 47 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (2.32%) Grafana
5 24 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.65%) SCCM
7 12 (0.60%) Podman
8 11 (0.55%) Packer
9 9 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.40%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.35%) Argo
12 6 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.15%) Autotask
15 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.15%) QRadar
16 2 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
16 2 (0.10%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 478 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.04%) Salesforce
3 86 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.27%) Cisco
5 51 (2.57%) Google
6 49 (2.47%) SAP
7 46 (2.32%) Oracle
7 46 (2.32%) Splunk
8 41 (2.06%) Adobe
9 38 (1.91%) VMware
10 18 (0.91%) Workday
11 13 (0.65%) Sage
11 13 (0.65%) SolarWinds
12 12 (0.60%) Databricks
13 11 (0.55%) ConnectWise
13 11 (0.55%) Xero
14 10 (0.50%) Meraki
15 9 (0.45%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.45%) HubSpot
15 9 (0.45%) iManage