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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 41 66
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 -23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 262 220 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.96% 4.47% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 5.67% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 118 119 141
10th Percentile £30,950 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,619 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £84,964 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,971 £60,000 £64,519
% change year-on-year -6.72% -7.00% +7.53%

All Process and 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 2,855 3,882 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.78% 78.81% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,991 2,641
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,004
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.34%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +27 146 £62,375 +13.41% 85
North Yorkshire +15 51 £47,500 -22.76% 24
South Yorkshire +1 33 £38,250 -28.84% 41
East Yorkshire -4 23 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 6 (2.29%) Confluence
1 6 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) CMS
2 2 (0.76%) Drupal
2 2 (0.76%) EPiServer
2 2 (0.76%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.38%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.82%) SOLIDWORKS
3 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.29%) AutoCAD
4 6 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.29%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.53%) Autodesk Inventor
6 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Sage 200
1 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.76%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.76%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Primavera
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.79%) Azure
2 36 (13.74%) AWS
3 22 (8.40%) SaaS
4 20 (7.63%) GCP
5 17 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.44%) GitHub
8 7 (2.67%) OCI
9 6 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (2.29%) Serverless
10 4 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.53%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.15%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.76%) Datadog
12 2 (0.76%) Figma
12 2 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.73%) Firewall
2 12 (4.58%) VLAN
3 9 (3.44%) DNS
4 8 (3.05%) DHCP
4 8 (3.05%) VPN
5 7 (2.67%) BGP
5 7 (2.67%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.29%) Network Security
6 6 (2.29%) OSPF
7 2 (0.76%) AMQP
7 2 (0.76%) LAN
7 2 (0.76%) WAN
8 1 (0.38%) Broadband
8 1 (0.38%) Internet
8 1 (0.38%) MPLS
8 1 (0.38%) VoIP
8 1 (0.38%) Wireless
8 1 (0.38%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.82%) MySQL
2 7 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.91%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.15%) Power BI
5 2 (0.76%) Metadata
5 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.38%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.05%) JIRA
2 6 (2.29%) Git
3 5 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.76%) Grunt
4 2 (0.76%) gulp
4 2 (0.76%) webpack
5 1 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 117 (44.66%) Finance
2 115 (43.89%) Manufacturing
3 70 (26.72%) Social Skills
4 32 (12.21%) Marketing
5 15 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.20%) Retail
7 10 (3.82%) Law
8 6 (2.29%) Banking
8 6 (2.29%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.91%) Legal
10 4 (1.53%) Electronics
10 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (33.59%) Automation Engineer
2 78 (29.77%) Systems Engineer
3 32 (12.21%) Lead
4 26 (9.92%) Developer
5 21 (8.02%) Development Manager
6 16 (6.11%) Product Manager
7 14 (5.34%) Product Development Manager
8 13 (4.96%) Senior
9 11 (4.20%) Software Developer
9 11 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.82%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.44%) Graduate
12 7 (2.67%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Team Leader
13 6 (2.29%) Consultant
13 6 (2.29%) IT Support Engineer
13 6 (2.29%) Network Engineer
13 6 (2.29%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.11%) .NET
2 15 (5.73%) CSS
3 13 (4.96%) React
4 11 (4.20%) Node.js
5 10 (3.82%) REST
5 10 (3.82%) RESTful
6 7 (2.67%) ASP.NET
6 7 (2.67%) Redux
7 5 (1.91%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.91%) jQuery
7 5 (1.91%) SOAP
7 5 (1.91%) Web Services
8 4 (1.53%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.53%) HTML
8 4 (1.53%) React Native
8 4 (1.53%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (1.15%) Spring
9 3 (1.15%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.76%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 105 (40.08%) FMCG
2 76 (29.01%) Management Information System
3 72 (27.48%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 72 (27.48%) Operational Technology
4 20 (7.63%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.05%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.91%) CMDB
9 5 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.38%) NHS
12 1 (0.38%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.63%) Windows
2 7 (2.67%) Linux
2 7 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (31.68%) Budgeting
3 82 (31.30%) Quality Management
4 72 (27.48%) Data Collection
4 72 (27.48%) Energy Management
5 50 (19.08%) Agile
6 43 (16.41%) Project Management
7 31 (11.83%) Project Delivery
8 27 (10.31%) Decision-Making
8 27 (10.31%) Software Engineering
9 25 (9.54%) ITIL
9 25 (9.54%) Mentoring
10 24 (9.16%) DevOps
11 23 (8.78%) CI/CD
12 22 (8.40%) Process Improvement
13 21 (8.02%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.63%) Coaching
15 19 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (6.49%) Change Management
17 16 (6.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.40%) C#
2 21 (8.02%) JavaScript
3 19 (7.25%) SQL
4 18 (6.87%) Python
5 12 (4.58%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.58%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.20%) Java
7 6 (2.29%) PHP
8 5 (1.91%) C++
9 4 (1.53%) Bash
9 4 (1.53%) Delphi
9 4 (1.53%) Ruby
10 1 (0.38%) ABAP
10 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (27.48%) HNC
2 55 (20.99%) Degree
3 14 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (1.91%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.91%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.76%) CISSP
7 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.76%) MBA
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.76%) PMP
8 1 (0.38%) ACCA
8 1 (0.38%) CEH
8 1 (0.38%) CIMA
8 1 (0.38%) CIPD
8 1 (0.38%) CISA
8 1 (0.38%) CISM
8 1 (0.38%) GCIA
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.67%) PMO
2 6 (2.29%) GDPR
2 6 (2.29%) IEC 61131
3 4 (1.53%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) P3O
5 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.76%) GRC
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) GMP
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.38%) QA
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (4.58%) Docker
2 8 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.82%) Ansible
3 9 (3.44%) Terraform
4 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) QRadar
6 1 (0.38%) SCOM
6 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (27.48%) Rockwell
1 72 (27.48%) Siemens
2 32 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.82%) SAP
4 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.29%) Sophos
7 4 (1.53%) Autodesk
7 4 (1.53%) Sage
8 3 (1.15%) Splunk
9 2 (0.76%) Ariba
9 2 (0.76%) Google
9 2 (0.76%) IBM
9 2 (0.76%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle
10 1 (0.38%) Cisco
10 1 (0.38%) Dell
10 1 (0.38%) HP
10 1 (0.38%) Instagram
10 1 (0.38%) Qualtrics