Continuous Improvement Jobs in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 65 39
Rank change year-on-year +46 -26 +22
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,042 201 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.34% 4.49% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.81% 4.76% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 155 134 153
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,759 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +14.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,588 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,197 4,226 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.25% 94.48% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 2,092 2,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +70 903 £51,250 +13.89% 34
Edinburgh +1 69 £60,000 -10.54% 16
Aberdeen -10 12 £25,000 -35.06% 22
Dundee - 11 £40,144 - 2
Fife +2 10 £43,200 -21.45% 7
West Lothian +1 7 - - 3
Lanarkshire - 6 £41,000 - 12
South Lanarkshire -4 4 £105,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 1
Perthshire +7 2 £35,000 -
North Lanarkshire -6 2 - - 4
Highlands - 2 £41,000 - 1
Stirling -5 1 £50,000 -44.44%
Aberdeenshire - 1 £25,000 - 8
Inverclyde - 1 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 -
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 199 (19.10%) Apache Spark
2 65 (6.24%) Apache
3 35 (3.36%) FileNet
4 24 (2.30%) Confluence
5 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.58%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 404 (38.77%) AWS
2 65 (6.24%) Azure
3 53 (5.09%) GCP
4 50 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
4 50 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
4 50 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (4.80%) Amazon EMR
4 50 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
4 50 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (4.80%) Serverless
5 45 (4.32%) Cloud Computing
6 35 (3.36%) Amazon S3
7 25 (2.40%) Google Play
8 24 (2.30%) BlazeMeter
8 24 (2.30%) SaaS
9 19 (1.82%) Datadog
10 18 (1.73%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (0.67%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.86%) Firewall
1 9 (0.86%) LAN
1 9 (0.86%) SAN
1 9 (0.86%) WAN
2 7 (0.67%) Broadband
2 7 (0.67%) NAS
2 7 (0.67%) VoIP
3 4 (0.38%) VPN
4 3 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) IPsec
5 2 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.19%) OSPF
5 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Wireless
5 2 (0.19%) WLAN
6 1 (0.096%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (27.26%) NoSQL
2 162 (15.55%) Big Data
3 147 (14.11%) Hadoop
4 97 (9.31%) Apache Hive
5 85 (8.16%) HBase
6 51 (4.89%) Electronic Patient Records
7 50 (4.80%) Apache Cassandra
8 45 (4.32%) Relational Database
9 44 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
10 40 (3.84%) Data Lake
11 39 (3.74%) Qlik Sense
12 18 (1.73%) Power BI
13 16 (1.54%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.34%) MySQL
14 14 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.96%) Flink
16 8 (0.77%) SQL Server
17 7 (0.67%) Redis
18 6 (0.58%) Tableau
19 2 (0.19%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 112 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 98 (9.40%) Git
3 95 (9.12%) JUnit
4 85 (8.16%) Bitbucket Server
5 53 (5.09%) JIRA
6 30 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 29 (2.78%) Selenium
8 25 (2.40%) Android Studio
9 21 (2.02%) Jasmine
9 21 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (2.02%) Protractor
9 21 (2.02%) WebDriver
10 20 (1.92%) Maven
11 9 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.86%) Gradle
11 9 (0.86%) JMeter
12 7 (0.67%) Moq
13 2 (0.19%) GitLab
13 2 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 876 (84.07%) Finance
2 844 (81.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 826 (79.27%) Law
4 482 (46.26%) Legal
5 203 (19.48%) Marketing
6 160 (15.36%) Banking
7 158 (15.16%) Social Skills
8 92 (8.83%) Investment Banking
9 50 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
10 37 (3.55%) Private Banking
11 17 (1.63%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.77%) Local Government
13 8 (0.77%) Police
13 8 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.48%) Retail
15 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 783 (75.14%) Software Engineer
2 293 (28.12%) Java Engineer
2 293 (28.12%) Java Software Engineer
3 195 (18.71%) AWS Engineer
3 195 (18.71%) AWS Software Engineer
4 130 (12.48%) Big Data Engineer
4 130 (12.48%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 125 (12.00%) Full Stack Engineer
5 125 (12.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 121 (11.61%) Data Engineer
7 120 (11.52%) Python Engineer
7 120 (11.52%) Python Software Engineer
8 93 (8.93%) Developer
9 78 (7.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 55 (5.28%) Database Developer
10 55 (5.28%) Database Engineer
10 55 (5.28%) Lead
11 50 (4.80%) Scala Engineer
11 50 (4.80%) Scala Software Engineer
12 37 (3.55%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (23.61%) Spring
2 177 (16.99%) React
3 170 (16.31%) AngularJS
4 119 (11.42%) HTML
4 119 (11.42%) J2EE
5 114 (10.94%) JMS
6 111 (10.65%) Node.js
7 110 (10.56%) Kafka
7 110 (10.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 88 (8.45%) CSS
8 88 (8.45%) Hibernate
9 85 (8.16%) Spring Boot
10 84 (8.06%) JSON
11 82 (7.87%) jQuery
12 61 (5.85%) Web Services
13 48 (4.61%) XML
14 39 (3.74%) HTML5
14 39 (3.74%) JavaBeans
14 39 (3.74%) PySpark
15 37 (3.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 737 (70.73%) Algorithms
2 158 (15.16%) Onboarding
3 148 (14.20%) Cloud Native
4 52 (4.99%) Data Structures
5 49 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 48 (4.61%) Management Information System
7 42 (4.03%) Legacy Code
8 15 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.06%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.06%) Private Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.86%) Market Risk
14 8 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.67%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.67%) IoT
15 7 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 105 (10.08%) Unix
2 51 (4.89%) Linux
3 29 (2.78%) Android
4 18 (1.73%) Windows
5 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (85.32%) Agile
2 805 (77.26%) Software Engineering
3 780 (74.86%) Visualisation
4 766 (73.51%) CI/CD
5 730 (70.06%) SDLC
6 675 (64.78%) Community of Practice
6 675 (64.78%) Operational Stability
7 655 (62.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 633 (60.75%) Machine Learning
9 489 (46.93%) Risk Management
10 158 (15.16%) Client Onboarding
11 155 (14.88%) Microservices
12 150 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (13.05%) Full Stack Development
14 128 (12.28%) Test Automation
15 125 (12.00%) TDD
16 123 (11.80%) KYC
17 86 (8.25%) Open Source
17 86 (8.25%) Scrum
18 85 (8.16%) OO
Programming Languages
1 581 (55.76%) Java
2 424 (40.69%) SQL
3 365 (35.03%) Python
4 129 (12.38%) JavaScript
5 124 (11.90%) PL/SQL
6 78 (7.49%) TypeScript
7 50 (4.80%) Scala
8 30 (2.88%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.92%) C#
10 13 (1.25%) Go
11 7 (0.67%) C++
11 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.38%) Swift
14 3 (0.29%) Bash
14 3 (0.29%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.096%) PHP
Qualifications
1 103 (9.88%) Degree
2 15 (1.44%) DBS Check
3 8 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (0.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.29%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.29%) CCNP
7 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.29%) MCDST
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.29%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.19%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.19%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.19%) HND
8 2 (0.19%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.19%) PhD
9 1 (0.096%) MAPM
9 1 (0.096%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.65%) QA
2 10 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.67%) ISO 14001
3 7 (0.67%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.29%) PMO
5 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.19%) IFRS
5 2 (0.19%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.096%) GDPR
6 1 (0.096%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.096%) NIST
6 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (8.16%) HDFS
2 36 (3.45%) Docker
3 12 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (11.42%) Terraform
2 108 (10.36%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.32%) Grafana
4 19 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.67%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.38%) Ansible
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 179 (17.18%) Databricks
2 128 (12.28%) Oracle
3 85 (8.16%) Informatica
4 55 (5.28%) Cloudera
5 45 (4.32%) Dynatrace
5 45 (4.32%) Splunk
6 43 (4.13%) Microsoft
7 39 (3.74%) Alteryx
8 36 (3.45%) Google
9 12 (1.15%) SAP
9 12 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.86%) Cisco
10 9 (0.86%) TOWER Software
10 9 (0.86%) VMware
11 8 (0.77%) NEC
12 7 (0.67%) Mitel
13 5 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.29%) Citrix
15 2 (0.19%) IBM