Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 65 60
Rank change year-on-year +30 -5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,782 4,745 8,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.79% 4.78% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 5.00% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,231 2,744 3,783
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,680 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,356 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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
UK excluding London +29 4,496 £52,500 - 1,687
England +28 4,335 £57,500 -4.17% 2,166
Work from Home +4 1,608 £62,500 +8.70% 731
Scotland +44 1,045 £55,000 -9.12% 115
London +13 1,027 £73,000 +0.69% 625
North of England +46 956 £52,500 +5.00% 430
Midlands +19 908 £52,500 - 304
South East +2 727 £52,500 -12.50% 437
West Midlands +18 692 £53,500 +1.90% 195
North West +41 518 £51,587 -3.92% 241
South West +12 445 £52,396 -0.20% 190
Yorkshire +38 329 £60,000 +14.29% 146
East of England 0 236 £55,000 +10.00% 179
East Midlands +10 205 £47,500 -5.00% 109
Wales +50 155 £51,997 +16.41% 69
North East +25 109 £45,000 +18.42% 52
Northern Ireland +39 28 £67,500 +50.00% 16
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 215 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 158 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 129 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 126 (2.18%) Confluence
5 82 (1.42%) Apache
6 35 (0.61%) FileNet
6 35 (0.61%) SAS
7 26 (0.45%) CMS
8 22 (0.38%) IIS
9 15 (0.26%) nginx
9 15 (0.26%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 10 (0.17%) WordPress
11 9 (0.16%) Drupal
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
13 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.086%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.086%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.035%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 601 (10.39%) Microsoft Office
2 490 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 51 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.73%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) Simulink
9 5 (0.086%) Oracle Smart View
9 5 (0.086%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.086%) SPSS
10 4 (0.069%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.069%) Trello
11 3 (0.052%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.052%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.052%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 39 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.28%) iTrent
6 13 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
7 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.14%) Magento
10 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.14%) Shopify
11 5 (0.086%) HFM
11 5 (0.086%) Hyperion Planning
11 5 (0.086%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
11 5 (0.086%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 4 (0.069%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 900 (15.57%) Azure
2 830 (14.35%) AWS
3 384 (6.64%) Power Platform
4 345 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 188 (3.25%) GCP
6 175 (3.03%) SaaS
7 166 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
8 114 (1.97%) Serverless
9 111 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
10 99 (1.71%) Entra ID
11 81 (1.40%) GitHub
12 79 (1.37%) PowerApps
13 75 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 66 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
15 66 (1.14%) Amazon S3
16 57 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
17 54 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
18 52 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (2.44%) Firewall
2 94 (1.63%) DNS
3 81 (1.40%) WAN
4 75 (1.30%) LAN
5 72 (1.25%) SAN
6 65 (1.12%) VoIP
7 60 (1.04%) Internet
8 55 (0.95%) VPN
9 51 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (0.86%) VLAN
11 48 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 46 (0.80%) DHCP
12 46 (0.80%) Network Security
13 37 (0.64%) Broadband
14 31 (0.54%) Wireless
15 30 (0.52%) SNMP
16 27 (0.47%) HTTP
17 26 (0.45%) Intranet
18 25 (0.43%) BGP
19 24 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (6.19%) NoSQL
2 317 (5.48%) Power BI
3 233 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 199 (3.44%) Big Data
5 160 (2.77%) Hadoop
6 121 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 114 (1.97%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.85%) Apache Hive
9 100 (1.73%) MySQL
10 90 (1.56%) Tableau
11 86 (1.49%) HBase
12 75 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 68 (1.18%) MongoDB
14 62 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
16 50 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
17 48 (0.83%) Power Query
18 45 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
19 42 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 41 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 288 (4.98%) Git
2 281 (4.86%) JIRA
3 219 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.71%) JUnit
5 86 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 69 (1.19%) Selenium
7 54 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 42 (0.73%) GitLab
9 34 (0.59%) WebDriver
10 32 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 30 (0.52%) Android Studio
13 29 (0.50%) Jasmine
14 27 (0.47%) Visual Studio
15 21 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
15 21 (0.36%) Protractor
16 20 (0.35%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Subversion
18 16 (0.28%) Cucumber
19 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,219 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 2,044 (35.35%) Finance
3 1,185 (20.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,135 (19.63%) Law
5 1,121 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
6 826 (14.29%) Legal
7 406 (7.02%) Marketing
8 384 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
9 359 (6.21%) Banking
10 353 (6.11%) Manufacturing
11 328 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
12 262 (4.53%) Retail
13 248 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
14 233 (4.03%) Public Sector
15 174 (3.01%) Military
16 129 (2.23%) Telecoms
17 128 (2.21%) Investment Banking
18 74 (1.28%) Local Government
19 72 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
20 68 (1.18%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 877 (15.17%) Software Engineer
2 708 (12.24%) Analyst
3 591 (10.22%) Lead
4 580 (10.03%) Senior
5 516 (8.92%) Developer
6 320 (5.53%) Java Engineer
7 306 (5.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 283 (4.89%) Graduate
9 245 (4.24%) Project Manager
10 218 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
11 200 (3.46%) Architect
12 198 (3.42%) IT Engineer
13 197 (3.41%) AWS Software Engineer
14 194 (3.36%) Data Engineer
15 192 (3.32%) IT Manager
16 138 (2.39%) Full Stack Engineer
17 134 (2.32%) Product Analyst
18 133 (2.30%) Big Data Engineer
18 133 (2.30%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 132 (2.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (5.74%) React
2 294 (5.08%) Spring
3 266 (4.60%) AngularJS
4 260 (4.50%) HTML
5 258 (4.46%) .NET
6 230 (3.98%) CSS
7 178 (3.08%) Node.js
8 160 (2.77%) JSON
9 156 (2.70%) Kafka
10 150 (2.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 141 (2.44%) RESTful
12 134 (2.32%) Web Services
13 122 (2.11%) J2EE
14 119 (2.06%) XML
15 114 (1.97%) JMS
16 109 (1.89%) Spring Boot
17 99 (1.71%) jQuery
17 99 (1.71%) REST
18 98 (1.69%) Hibernate
19 74 (1.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 792 (13.70%) Algorithms
2 446 (7.71%) Onboarding
3 386 (6.68%) Management Information System
4 227 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
5 222 (3.84%) Cloud Native
6 220 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 141 (2.44%) FMCG
8 105 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 81 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 69 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 69 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 65 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 59 (1.02%) Clustering
14 59 (1.02%) Mobile App
15 48 (0.83%) Legacy Code
16 45 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
16 45 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 429 (7.42%) Windows
2 258 (4.46%) Linux
3 192 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 150 (2.59%) Unix
5 89 (1.54%) Android
5 89 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 58 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 40 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 18 (0.31%) Windows 7
12 16 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.26%) VMS
14 13 (0.22%) AIX
14 13 (0.22%) CentOS
14 13 (0.22%) Windows 8
15 12 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,202 (38.08%) Agile
2 1,661 (28.73%) Problem-Solving
3 1,118 (19.34%) Software Engineering
4 1,102 (19.06%) CI/CD
5 975 (16.86%) SDLC
6 938 (16.22%) Visualisation
7 845 (14.61%) Project Management
8 807 (13.96%) Artificial Intelligence
9 779 (13.47%) Risk Management
10 749 (12.95%) Machine Learning
11 719 (12.44%) Community of Practice
12 704 (12.18%) Operational Stability
13 675 (11.67%) Customer Service
14 616 (10.65%) Mentoring
15 585 (10.12%) DevOps
16 505 (8.73%) Coaching
17 503 (8.70%) Project Delivery
18 470 (8.13%) Roadmaps
19 468 (8.09%) Decision-Making
20 459 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 954 (16.50%) SQL
2 790 (13.66%) Java
3 675 (11.67%) Python
4 368 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 301 (5.21%) C#
6 194 (3.36%) PowerShell
7 169 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 139 (2.40%) PL/SQL
9 102 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 77 (1.33%) Scala
11 65 (1.12%) Bash
12 61 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 60 (1.04%) PHP
14 53 (0.92%) C
15 44 (0.76%) C++
16 38 (0.66%) Bicep
17 30 (0.52%) VB
18 24 (0.42%) Go
18 24 (0.42%) R
18 24 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,456 (25.18%) Degree
2 199 (3.44%) Security Cleared
3 186 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 117 (2.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 101 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 100 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 72 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 70 (1.21%) PMP
10 66 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 59 (1.02%) HNC
12 58 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 57 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 56 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
15 54 (0.93%) HND
16 52 (0.90%) CISSP
17 37 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
18 36 (0.62%) ACCA
19 34 (0.59%) CISM
20 31 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 438 (7.58%) QA
2 161 (2.78%) SLA
3 152 (2.63%) GDPR
4 147 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (1.82%) PMO
6 100 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 83 (1.44%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.26%) ISO 9001
9 63 (1.09%) NIST
10 56 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.61%) ISO 14001
12 34 (0.59%) IFRS
13 27 (0.47%) NEBOSH
14 23 (0.40%) NCSC
15 21 (0.36%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.35%) GRC
17 19 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.29%) ISO 22301
19 13 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 13 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 291 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 219 (3.79%) Docker
3 134 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.63%) HDFS
5 57 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 42 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (0.57%) vSphere
8 31 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.42%) Firmware
10 18 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.19%) vCloud
12 5 (0.086%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.086%) XenApp
13 4 (0.069%) pfSense
14 3 (0.052%) Ceph
14 3 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.035%) IAG
15 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 306 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 265 (4.58%) Terraform
3 93 (1.61%) Grafana
4 75 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (1.16%) Ansible
6 45 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 44 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 43 (0.74%) SCCM
9 33 (0.57%) Functional Safety
10 25 (0.43%) Puppet
10 25 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (0.36%) Nagios
12 20 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
13 17 (0.29%) NetBackup
14 16 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
16 12 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
17 10 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,009 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 290 (5.02%) Oracle
3 261 (4.51%) Databricks
4 197 (3.41%) SAP
5 195 (3.37%) VMware
6 149 (2.58%) Google
7 148 (2.56%) Cisco
8 110 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 109 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 86 (1.49%) Informatica
11 65 (1.12%) Citrix
12 64 (1.11%) Cloudera
13 57 (0.99%) Splunk
14 55 (0.95%) Dynatrace
15 52 (0.90%) Alteryx
16 47 (0.81%) Veeam
17 45 (0.78%) HP
18 32 (0.55%) Commvault
19 29 (0.50%) IBM
20 28 (0.48%) Meraki