Continuous Improvement Jobs in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 62 45
Rank change year-on-year +33 -17 +29
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4,579 2,943 4,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.19% 5.07% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 5.30% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,649 2,054
10th Percentile £31,110 £30,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +46 1,042 £55,000 -12.36% 127
North of England +41 958 £52,500 +5.00% 435
Midlands +15 958 £52,500 +2.44% 343
South East +5 736 £52,500 -12.50% 364
West Midlands +16 729 £53,500 +1.90% 216
North West +42 524 £51,500 -1.90% 242
South West +13 454 £52,396 -0.20% 211
Yorkshire +37 325 £60,000 +14.29% 145
East of England -3 239 £55,000 +22.22% 181
East Midlands +16 218 £47,500 -5.00% 127
Wales +53 160 £51,997 +22.83% 65
North East +27 109 £45,000 +20.00% 57
Northern Ireland +46 36 £67,500 +50.00% 22
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 201 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 133 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 92 (2.01%) Confluence
3 92 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 70 (1.53%) Apache
5 35 (0.76%) FileNet
6 26 (0.57%) SAS
7 18 (0.39%) IIS
8 17 (0.37%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.24%) CMS
10 8 (0.17%) WordPress
11 7 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.13%) Appian
12 6 (0.13%) nginx
13 5 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.044%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.022%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.022%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.022%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 609 (13.30%) Microsoft Office
2 472 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 128 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.92%) AutoCAD
6 38 (0.83%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.20%) Simulink
9 5 (0.11%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.087%) Trello
11 3 (0.066%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.044%) Revit
13 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 14 (0.31%) iTrent
3 14 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.17%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 8 (0.17%) Shopify
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.087%) Primavera
8 4 (0.087%) ResourceLink
8 4 (0.087%) SAP IS-U
8 4 (0.087%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.087%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.087%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 657 (14.35%) AWS
2 566 (12.36%) Azure
3 293 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 244 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 121 (2.64%) SaaS
6 120 (2.62%) GCP
7 93 (2.03%) Serverless
8 89 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
9 83 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
10 67 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (1.27%) PowerApps
12 57 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
13 56 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
14 51 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
15 50 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
15 50 (1.09%) Power Automate
16 49 (1.07%) Amazon S3
17 48 (1.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.27%) Firewall
2 74 (1.62%) WAN
3 67 (1.46%) LAN
4 62 (1.35%) VoIP
5 59 (1.29%) DNS
6 56 (1.22%) SAN
7 50 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (0.90%) VLAN
9 39 (0.85%) Network Security
10 36 (0.79%) DHCP
10 36 (0.79%) Internet
11 32 (0.70%) Broadband
12 29 (0.63%) VPN
13 26 (0.57%) Wireless
14 25 (0.55%) Intranet
15 24 (0.52%) NAS
16 21 (0.46%) TCP/IP
17 19 (0.41%) HTTP
17 19 (0.41%) Skype
18 18 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (6.79%) NoSQL
2 248 (5.42%) Power BI
3 169 (3.69%) Big Data
4 152 (3.32%) SQL Server
5 147 (3.21%) Hadoop
6 97 (2.12%) Apache Hive
7 94 (2.05%) Relational Database
8 85 (1.86%) HBase
9 80 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 76 (1.66%) MySQL
11 72 (1.57%) Tableau
12 52 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
13 51 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
14 50 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
15 45 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
16 43 (0.94%) Power Query
17 38 (0.83%) RDBMS
18 35 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 29 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
19 29 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 235 (5.13%) Git
2 202 (4.41%) JIRA
3 160 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.07%) JUnit
5 85 (1.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 51 (1.11%) Selenium
7 40 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 30 (0.66%) Android Studio
9 27 (0.59%) Jasmine
10 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 24 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.50%) GitLab
12 22 (0.48%) WebDriver
13 21 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
13 21 (0.46%) Protractor
14 20 (0.44%) Maven
15 15 (0.33%) PHPUnit
16 13 (0.28%) Subversion
17 11 (0.24%) Moq
17 11 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 1,694 (36.99%) Finance
2 1,664 (36.34%) Social Skills
3 1,060 (23.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,035 (22.60%) Law
5 884 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
6 740 (16.16%) Legal
7 343 (7.49%) Marketing
8 293 (6.40%) Manufacturing
9 291 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
10 278 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
11 269 (5.87%) Banking
12 225 (4.91%) Retail
13 209 (4.56%) Military
14 175 (3.82%) Public Sector
15 146 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (2.56%) Investment Banking
17 99 (2.16%) Telecoms
18 64 (1.40%) Electronics
19 56 (1.22%) Local Government
20 53 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 839 (18.32%) Software Engineer
2 595 (12.99%) Analyst
3 411 (8.98%) Lead
4 397 (8.67%) Developer
5 359 (7.84%) Senior
6 299 (6.53%) Java Engineer
7 293 (6.40%) Java Software Engineer
8 276 (6.03%) Graduate
9 207 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
10 196 (4.28%) AWS Software Engineer
11 180 (3.93%) Project Manager
12 152 (3.32%) IT Manager
13 150 (3.28%) Data Engineer
14 144 (3.14%) IT Engineer
15 140 (3.06%) Architect
16 136 (2.97%) Full Stack Engineer
17 134 (2.93%) Product Analyst
18 130 (2.84%) Big Data Engineer
18 130 (2.84%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 130 (2.84%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (6.07%) React
2 271 (5.92%) Spring
3 240 (5.24%) AngularJS
4 225 (4.91%) HTML
5 199 (4.35%) CSS
6 168 (3.67%) .NET
7 167 (3.65%) Node.js
8 146 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 129 (2.82%) JSON
10 119 (2.60%) J2EE
11 114 (2.49%) JMS
12 112 (2.45%) Kafka
13 111 (2.42%) RESTful
14 108 (2.36%) Web Services
15 97 (2.12%) jQuery
15 97 (2.12%) Spring Boot
16 91 (1.99%) XML
17 88 (1.92%) Hibernate
18 66 (1.44%) REST
19 60 (1.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 769 (16.79%) Algorithms
2 426 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 330 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 202 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 185 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 177 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 86 (1.88%) FMCG
8 79 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 76 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 76 (1.66%) Driving Licence
10 56 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 49 (1.07%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 46 (1.00%) Legacy Code
14 44 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (0.81%) NHS
17 32 (0.70%) Operational Technology
18 30 (0.66%) CMDB
18 30 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 303 (6.62%) Windows
2 164 (3.58%) Linux
3 121 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.53%) Unix
5 85 (1.86%) Android
6 74 (1.62%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.39%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.28%) VMS
10 13 (0.28%) Windows 8
11 12 (0.26%) AIX
11 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
16 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.066%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,734 (37.87%) Agile
2 1,243 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
3 978 (21.36%) Software Engineering
4 954 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 897 (19.59%) SDLC
6 887 (19.37%) Visualisation
7 753 (16.44%) Artificial Intelligence
8 707 (15.44%) Community of Practice
9 695 (15.18%) Operational Stability
10 692 (15.11%) Machine Learning
11 671 (14.65%) Risk Management
12 657 (14.35%) Project Management
13 649 (14.17%) Customer Service
14 415 (9.06%) Data Analysis
15 413 (9.02%) Mentoring
16 407 (8.89%) Process Improvement
17 401 (8.76%) Coaching
18 376 (8.21%) DevOps
19 374 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 370 (8.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 761 (16.62%) SQL
2 675 (14.74%) Java
3 517 (11.29%) Python
4 323 (7.05%) JavaScript
5 193 (4.21%) C#
6 137 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 130 (2.84%) PL/SQL
8 101 (2.21%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 54 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 51 (1.11%) PHP
11 51 (1.11%) Scala
12 47 (1.03%) C
13 33 (0.72%) C++
14 29 (0.63%) VB
15 22 (0.48%) Bash
16 17 (0.37%) R
17 16 (0.35%) Bicep
18 15 (0.33%) MATLAB
18 15 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,191 (26.01%) Degree
2 176 (3.84%) Security Cleared
3 119 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 89 (1.94%) SC Cleared
5 82 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 78 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.57%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 56 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.22%) PMP
9 50 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.09%) HNC
10 49 (1.07%) HND
11 45 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 43 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 39 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.81%) CISSP
15 30 (0.66%) DV Cleared
16 29 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
17 26 (0.57%) CCNA
17 26 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (7.10%) QA
2 144 (3.14%) SLA
3 133 (2.90%) GDPR
4 125 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 96 (2.10%) PMO
6 77 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.49%) ISO 9001
8 53 (1.16%) Data Quality
9 42 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 41 (0.90%) NIST
11 32 (0.70%) ISO 14001
12 21 (0.46%) NEBOSH
13 17 (0.37%) GRC
13 17 (0.37%) NCSC
14 13 (0.28%) IFRS
14 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.22%) COSHH
System Software
1 199 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 122 (2.66%) Docker
3 102 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 85 (1.86%) HDFS
5 47 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.52%) Firmware
7 22 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.46%) vSphere
9 17 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) XenApp
12 4 (0.087%) pfSense
13 3 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.022%) Snort
15 1 (0.022%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 191 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 183 (4.00%) Terraform
3 57 (1.24%) Grafana
4 45 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.79%) SCCM
6 25 (0.55%) Ansible
7 24 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.35%) Functional Safety
9 14 (0.31%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.26%) Backup Exec
10 12 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.24%) Nagios
11 11 (0.24%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.15%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.15%) SCOM
14 5 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
14 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.11%) Opsview
Vendors
1 793 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 232 (5.07%) Oracle
3 218 (4.76%) Databricks
4 154 (3.36%) SAP
5 132 (2.88%) VMware
6 116 (2.53%) Google
7 107 (2.34%) Cisco
8 89 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 85 (1.86%) Informatica
10 80 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.20%) Cloudera
11 55 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 52 (1.14%) Citrix
13 48 (1.05%) Splunk
14 45 (0.98%) Alteryx
15 31 (0.68%) Veeam
16 26 (0.57%) NEC
17 24 (0.52%) Dell
18 23 (0.50%) Meraki
19 21 (0.46%) HP