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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 26 52
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +5
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 346 213 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.98% 6.85% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 7.55% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 186 115 127
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.24% +0.05%
75th Percentile £79,694 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £95,616
England median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% - -4.00%

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 2,705 2,821 3,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.04% 90.74% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,575 1,095 2,452
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £51,498
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +1.95% -4.63%
75th Percentile £69,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,478 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 17 January 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 17 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
West Yorkshire +18 224 £67,500 +28.57% 82
North Yorkshire +16 51 £47,500 -35.59% 29
South Yorkshire -8 24 £43,250 -29.67% 40
East Yorkshire -24 11 £50,000 +11.11% 20
Humberside - 1 - - 5
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 8 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.45%) CMS
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.16%) Confluence
3 4 (1.16%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.87%) Moodle
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 2 (0.58%) Drupal
5 2 (0.58%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.60%) SOLIDWORKS
4 6 (1.73%) AutoCAD
4 6 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.87%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.58%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.29%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.29%) Revit
8 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.73%) SAP CO
2 6 (1.73%) SAP FI
2 6 (1.73%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (1.73%) SAP PS
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.87%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.87%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.87%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.87%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.58%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 73 (21.10%) AWS
2 60 (17.34%) Azure
3 39 (11.27%) SaaS
4 38 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 15 (4.34%) Serverless
7 11 (3.18%) Power Automate
8 10 (2.89%) GCP
9 9 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.60%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.31%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.31%) GitHub
10 8 (2.31%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.02%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.76%) Firewall
2 11 (3.18%) Network Security
3 9 (2.60%) DNS
4 8 (2.31%) DHCP
5 7 (2.02%) Broadband
5 7 (2.02%) Internet
5 7 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.16%) LAN
6 4 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.16%) VLAN
6 4 (1.16%) VPN
6 4 (1.16%) WAN
7 3 (0.87%) VoIP
7 3 (0.87%) WPA
8 2 (0.58%) AMQP
8 2 (0.58%) Intranet
9 1 (0.29%) BGP
9 1 (0.29%) MPLS
9 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.65%) Power BI
3 8 (2.31%) Tableau
4 7 (2.02%) MySQL
5 5 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.45%) Power Query
5 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.16%) Metadata
6 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.87%) PowerPivot
7 3 (0.87%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.87%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.58%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (8.67%) JIRA
2 19 (5.49%) Git
3 9 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.73%) GitLab
6 4 (1.16%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.16%) Maven
6 4 (1.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.87%) JMeter
7 3 (0.87%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.58%) Grunt
8 2 (0.58%) gulp
8 2 (0.58%) webpack
9 1 (0.29%) JUnit
9 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 151 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.63%) Finance
3 48 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.51%) Manufacturing
4 26 (7.51%) Marketing
4 26 (7.51%) Retail
5 17 (4.91%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.62%) Legal
7 15 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.60%) Law
9 6 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Electronics
10 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.16%) Advertising
11 4 (1.16%) Automotive
11 4 (1.16%) Banking
11 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 60 (17.34%) Developer
2 38 (10.98%) Lead
3 36 (10.40%) Development Manager
4 34 (9.83%) Senior
5 33 (9.54%) Analyst
6 23 (6.65%) JIRA Developer
7 19 (5.49%) Software Development Manager
7 19 (5.49%) Software Manager
7 19 (5.49%) Support Engineer
8 17 (4.91%) Consultant
8 17 (4.91%) IT Support
8 17 (4.91%) Technical Support
9 16 (4.62%) IT Manager
10 15 (4.34%) Principal Consultant
10 15 (4.34%) Principal SAP Consultant
10 15 (4.34%) SAP Consultant
11 14 (4.05%) .NET Development Manager
11 14 (4.05%) Product Manager
11 14 (4.05%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.05%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.38%) React
2 27 (7.80%) .NET
3 22 (6.36%) CSS
4 16 (4.62%) Node.js
5 13 (3.76%) HTML
6 11 (3.18%) Spring
7 10 (2.89%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.60%) Django
8 9 (2.60%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.60%) Flask
9 8 (2.31%) GraphQL
9 8 (2.31%) REST
9 8 (2.31%) Vue
10 6 (1.73%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.73%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (1.73%) PySpark
10 6 (1.73%) SAP Basis
10 6 (1.73%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (1.73%) SAPUI5
11 5 (1.45%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.91%) FMCG
3 16 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.60%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.60%) NHS
7 8 (2.31%) CMDB
7 8 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.02%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.02%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.73%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.45%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.38%) Windows
2 13 (3.76%) Linux
3 10 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.73%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.87%) SUSE
6 3 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (25.14%) Agile
3 57 (16.47%) Mentoring
4 55 (15.90%) ITIL
5 52 (15.03%) Decision-Making
6 50 (14.45%) Software Engineering
7 46 (13.29%) Computer Science
7 46 (13.29%) ITSM
7 46 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (12.72%) Change Management
9 41 (11.85%) CI/CD
9 41 (11.85%) Service Management
10 40 (11.56%) DevOps
10 40 (11.56%) Project Management
11 38 (10.98%) Incident Management
12 34 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.25%) Project Delivery
15 31 (8.96%) Asset Management
16 28 (8.09%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 63 (18.21%) JavaScript
2 47 (13.58%) SQL
3 37 (10.69%) PowerShell
4 33 (9.54%) Python
5 30 (8.67%) C#
6 18 (5.20%) Java
6 18 (5.20%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.18%) Bash
8 4 (1.16%) Groovy
8 4 (1.16%) PHP
9 3 (0.87%) ABAP
9 3 (0.87%) C++
9 3 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.87%) Delphi
9 3 (0.87%) Ruby
9 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.58%) Bicep
10 2 (0.58%) R
10 2 (0.58%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (21.97%) Degree
2 25 (7.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.31%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.45%) CISSP
6 5 (1.45%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.87%) GIAC
7 3 (0.87%) SANS
8 2 (0.58%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.58%) CCSP
8 2 (0.58%) CIMA
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.58%) CISMP
8 2 (0.58%) MBA
8 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.94%) GDPR
1 24 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (5.20%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.62%) NIST
5 12 (3.47%) QA
6 11 (3.18%) PMO
7 9 (2.60%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.02%) GRC
8 7 (2.02%) SLA
9 6 (1.73%) IEC 61131
9 6 (1.73%) P3O
10 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.87%) NCSC
11 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.58%) WCAG
13 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 23 (6.65%) Docker
2 12 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.89%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (6.36%) Terraform
2 10 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.02%) HP Fortify
5 4 (1.16%) Ansible
6 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.58%) Control-M
6 2 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.58%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.51%) SAP
3 23 (6.65%) Atlassian
4 16 (4.62%) Oracle
5 10 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.60%) VMware
7 8 (2.31%) Google
7 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.73%) Ariba
8 6 (1.73%) Databricks
9 4 (1.16%) IBM
10 3 (0.87%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.87%) Concur
10 3 (0.87%) IFS
10 3 (0.87%) Openreach
10 3 (0.87%) Sage
11 2 (0.58%) Genesys
11 2 (0.58%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.58%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.58%) Verint