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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 +36
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 483 441 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.41% 16.98% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.76% 18.07% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 364 97 243
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £33,150
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% +1.24% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £72,466
90th Percentile £82,938 £95,656 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

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 4,490 2,440 4,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.84% 93.95% 81.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,997 1,205 3,749
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -4 235 £58,445 -16.51% 78
South Yorkshire -5 93 £48,692 -4.99% 55
North Yorkshire -5 69 £47,500 -13.64% 20
East Yorkshire -12 24 £35,000 -33.33% 3
Humberside - 9 £24,500 - 1
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 30 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.24%) Moodle
4 3 (0.62%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) CICS
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 39 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) iTrent
1 3 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (17.60%) Microsoft 365
2 77 (15.94%) Azure
3 65 (13.46%) AWS
4 47 (9.73%) Entra ID
5 46 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 37 (7.66%) SaaS
7 23 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (4.14%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.90%) Serverless
10 12 (2.48%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.07%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (1.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (1.45%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.24%) GitHub
15 6 (1.24%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.04%) Firewall
2 21 (4.35%) DHCP
2 21 (4.35%) DNS
3 17 (3.52%) Network Security
3 17 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.86%) VPN
5 8 (1.66%) LAN
5 8 (1.66%) WAN
6 7 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.24%) VLAN
8 3 (0.62%) Broadband
8 3 (0.62%) Internet
8 3 (0.62%) VoIP
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.41%) Wireless
10 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.90%) Power BI
2 22 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.86%) MySQL
3 9 (1.86%) Power Query
4 7 (1.45%) PowerPivot
4 7 (1.45%) Tableau
5 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.62%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.41%) Metadata
9 2 (0.41%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.41%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (4.14%) JIRA
2 17 (3.52%) Git
3 9 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.24%) GitLab
5 5 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.83%) Maven
7 3 (0.62%) JUnit
7 3 (0.62%) Selenium
8 2 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) JMeter
9 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 207 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (18.43%) Finance
4 42 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.42%) Manufacturing
6 29 (6.00%) Retail
7 25 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.97%) Law
8 24 (4.97%) Marketing
9 20 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.31%) Legal
11 8 (1.66%) Automotive
12 6 (1.24%) Advertising
13 5 (1.04%) Electronics
13 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Banking
14 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (13.04%) Analyst
2 55 (11.39%) Lead
2 55 (11.39%) Senior
3 42 (8.70%) Developer
4 32 (6.63%) IT Support
5 31 (6.42%) Support Engineer
6 29 (6.00%) Senior Manager
7 28 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 27 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 26 (5.38%) Product Manager
10 24 (4.97%) Development Manager
11 21 (4.35%) Data Analyst
12 20 (4.14%) Technical Support
13 16 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.11%) C# Developer
14 15 (3.11%) Software Manager
15 14 (2.90%) .NET Developer
15 14 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
15 14 (2.90%) C# .NET Developer
15 14 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.21%) .NET
2 19 (3.93%) CSS
3 18 (3.73%) HTML
4 17 (3.52%) React
5 16 (3.31%) Vue
6 11 (2.28%) Node.js
7 9 (1.86%) Spring
8 8 (1.66%) REST
8 8 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.24%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.24%) PySpark
10 5 (1.04%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.83%) Flask
11 4 (0.83%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.83%) Jest
11 4 (0.83%) Kafka
11 4 (0.83%) Middleware
11 4 (0.83%) RESTful
12 3 (0.62%) OAuth
12 3 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.42%) Management Information System
2 22 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.73%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.90%) e-Learning
5 12 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.28%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.86%) FMCG
8 8 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.66%) NHS
9 7 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.04%) CMDB
11 5 (1.04%) Replication
11 5 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.56%) Windows
2 19 (3.93%) Windows Server
3 15 (3.11%) Windows 10
4 10 (2.07%) Linux
5 8 (1.66%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.45%) Android
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (17.60%) Agile
3 84 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (17.18%) Decision-Making
5 79 (16.36%) Mentoring
6 78 (16.15%) Coaching
7 63 (13.04%) ITIL
8 59 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
9 56 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 55 (11.39%) Analytics
11 53 (10.97%) Software Engineering
12 48 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
12 48 (9.94%) Incident Response
13 45 (9.32%) User Experience
14 44 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (8.70%) Roadmaps
16 40 (8.28%) Service Delivery
17 39 (8.07%) Business Continuity
17 39 (8.07%) DevOps
18 38 (7.87%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.22%) SQL
2 35 (7.25%) Python
3 32 (6.63%) C#
4 27 (5.59%) JavaScript
5 24 (4.97%) PowerShell
6 16 (3.31%) Bash
7 15 (3.11%) Java
7 15 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.83%) Groovy
10 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.62%) PHP
10 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.41%) ABAP
11 2 (0.41%) VBA
12 1 (0.21%) CLIST
12 1 (0.21%) JCL
12 1 (0.21%) REXX
12 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (11.80%) Degree
2 19 (3.93%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (2.90%) DBS Check
4 14 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.07%) CISSP
6 6 (1.24%) IRCA
6 6 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.04%) CCSP
7 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.62%) CISM
9 3 (0.62%) GIAC
9 3 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.14%) GDPR
2 42 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (7.66%) Data Quality
4 35 (7.25%) QA
5 33 (6.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (6.21%) NIST
7 14 (2.90%) SLA
8 12 (2.48%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.66%) GMP
10 7 (1.45%) ISO 9001
11 6 (1.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.83%) P3O
12 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.41%) PMO
14 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (9.11%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.31%) Docker
3 9 (1.86%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 24 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.11%) Terraform
3 6 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.04%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.41%) Ansible
6 2 (0.41%) Kibana
6 2 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 138 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.52%) Oracle
3 14 (2.90%) VMware
4 11 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.86%) Workday
6 8 (1.66%) Citrix
6 8 (1.66%) SAP
6 8 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.45%) Apple
7 7 (1.45%) Freshdesk
8 6 (1.24%) Databricks
8 6 (1.24%) Google
9 5 (1.04%) IFS
10 4 (0.83%) Adobe
10 4 (0.83%) Cisco
10 4 (0.83%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.83%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.83%) Juniper
10 4 (0.83%) Siemens
11 3 (0.62%) IBM