Continuous Improvement Job Trends in Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 4 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 +15
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 412 440 236
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.67% 17.93% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.74% 18.99% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 248 112 184
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.17% +7.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £72,450
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,400 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,743 £57,900
% change year-on-year +2.89% +4.91% -5.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,233 2,317 4,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 75.91% 94.42% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 1,049 3,231
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,450 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
West Yorkshire -1 246 £64,038 +10.66% 88
North Yorkshire -3 57 £47,750 -23.60% 23
South Yorkshire -8 41 £55,000 -10.57% 43
East Yorkshire -32 9 £57,500 +27.78% 17
Humberside - 7 £24,500 - 3
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.97%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) Moodle
3 3 (0.73%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.73%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.46%) SAP CO
2 6 (1.46%) SAP FI
2 6 (1.46%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (1.46%) SAP PS
3 4 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.73%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.73%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.73%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.49%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 73 (17.72%) Azure
2 72 (17.48%) AWS
3 62 (15.05%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (10.19%) SaaS
5 33 (8.01%) Entra ID
6 31 (7.52%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (3.40%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.40%) Serverless
9 9 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.94%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.94%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.70%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.70%) GitHub
12 6 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.46%) GCP
13 5 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.21%) Apigee
13 5 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.55%) Firewall
2 15 (3.64%) DHCP
2 15 (3.64%) DNS
3 12 (2.91%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.67%) Network Security
5 7 (1.70%) Broadband
5 7 (1.70%) Internet
5 7 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.21%) LAN
6 5 (1.21%) WAN
7 4 (0.97%) VLAN
7 4 (0.97%) VPN
8 3 (0.73%) VoIP
9 2 (0.49%) Intranet
9 2 (0.49%) WPA
10 1 (0.24%) HTTP
10 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.52%) Power BI
2 26 (6.31%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.43%) Tableau
4 8 (1.94%) Power Query
5 6 (1.46%) PowerPivot
6 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.97%) Spark SQL
7 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.73%) MySQL
8 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.73%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.49%) Metadata
9 2 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 38 (9.22%) JIRA
2 17 (4.13%) Git
3 7 (1.70%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.70%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.21%) GitLab
5 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.97%) Maven
5 4 (0.97%) Selenium
6 3 (0.73%) JMeter
6 3 (0.73%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.49%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 187 (45.39%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (16.26%) Finance
4 30 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.55%) Retail
6 20 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.61%) Marketing
8 17 (4.13%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.88%) Legal
10 11 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.94%) Automotive
12 6 (1.46%) Law
12 6 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.21%) Advertising
13 5 (1.21%) Electronics
13 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.97%) Banking
14 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 60 (14.56%) Developer
2 54 (13.11%) Senior
3 52 (12.62%) Lead
4 48 (11.65%) Analyst
5 32 (7.77%) Development Manager
6 30 (7.28%) IT Support
7 25 (6.07%) Senior Manager
8 23 (5.58%) JIRA Developer
9 21 (5.10%) Support Engineer
10 19 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.61%) Software Manager
11 18 (4.37%) Software Development Manager
11 18 (4.37%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.37%) Technical Support
12 17 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (4.13%) IT Manager
13 16 (3.88%) Consultant
14 15 (3.64%) Principal Consultant
14 15 (3.64%) Principal SAP Consultant
14 15 (3.64%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.80%) .NET
2 25 (6.07%) React
3 19 (4.61%) CSS
4 15 (3.64%) HTML
5 12 (2.91%) Node.js
6 11 (2.67%) Vue
7 10 (2.43%) Spring
8 9 (2.18%) Django
8 9 (2.18%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.18%) Flask
8 9 (2.18%) REST
8 9 (2.18%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.94%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.70%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (1.46%) PySpark
11 6 (1.46%) SAP Basis
11 6 (1.46%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (1.46%) SAPUI5
12 5 (1.21%) Kafka
13 4 (0.97%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.31%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.34%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (4.37%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.43%) e-Learning
5 10 (2.43%) FMCG
5 10 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.18%) CMDB
6 9 (2.18%) NHS
6 9 (2.18%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.70%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.70%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.97%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.47%) Windows
2 17 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.94%) Linux
4 7 (1.70%) Android
5 6 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (21.12%) Agile
3 78 (18.93%) Mentoring
4 74 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (17.23%) Decision-Making
6 67 (16.26%) ITIL
7 60 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (12.62%) Change Management
8 52 (12.62%) Service Management
8 52 (12.62%) Software Engineering
9 49 (11.89%) Coaching
10 48 (11.65%) Incident Management
11 44 (10.68%) ITSM
12 42 (10.19%) DevOps
12 42 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
13 39 (9.47%) Incident Response
14 37 (8.98%) CI/CD
15 35 (8.50%) Computer Science
16 34 (8.25%) Analytics
17 33 (8.01%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.08%) JavaScript
2 44 (10.68%) SQL
3 42 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 29 (7.04%) Python
5 27 (6.55%) C#
6 14 (3.40%) Bash
6 14 (3.40%) Java
6 14 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.97%) Groovy
8 3 (0.73%) ABAP
8 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.49%) Bicep
9 2 (0.49%) R
9 2 (0.49%) VBA
10 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (15.05%) Degree
2 25 (6.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 9 (2.18%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.21%) CISSP
5 5 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (1.21%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.21%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.73%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.73%) GIAC
7 3 (0.73%) SANS
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CISMP
8 2 (0.49%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.65%) GDPR
2 43 (10.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (8.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 32 (7.77%) NIST
5 22 (5.34%) Data Quality
6 20 (4.85%) QA
7 13 (3.16%) Accessibility
8 10 (2.43%) SLA
9 8 (1.94%) PMO
10 7 (1.70%) GRC
11 6 (1.46%) P3O
12 5 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (1.21%) GMP
13 3 (0.73%) IEC 61131
13 3 (0.73%) NCSC
13 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.85%) Docker
3 11 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (5.34%) Terraform
2 13 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.70%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.46%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.49%) Ansible
6 2 (0.49%) Control-M
6 2 (0.49%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 107 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.07%) SAP
3 23 (5.58%) Atlassian
4 18 (4.37%) Oracle
5 15 (3.64%) VMware
6 12 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.18%) Google
8 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.70%) Apple
9 7 (1.70%) Citrix
9 7 (1.70%) Freshdesk
10 6 (1.46%) Ariba
10 6 (1.46%) Databricks
11 5 (1.21%) IFS
12 3 (0.73%) Adobe
12 3 (0.73%) Concur
12 3 (0.73%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.73%) IBM
12 3 (0.73%) Openreach
13 2 (0.49%) Genesys