Lean Thinking Jobs

Lean Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Lean Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Lean Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 778 753 973
Rank change year-on-year -25 +220 +74
Permanent jobs citing Lean Thinking 12 8 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.014% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.015% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 96
10th Percentile £67,375 £46,306 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £51,903 £53,123
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £77,835
90th Percentile - £67,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,263
% change year-on-year +25.00% -0.44% -1.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean Thinking 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,881 54,318 133,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.08% 94.30% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,489 39,141 76,332
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,439 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.69% - +5.00%

Lean Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lean Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

Lean Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lean Thinking.

Salary trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

Lean Thinking
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
England -30 12 £75,000 +25.00% 1
UK excluding London -21 10 £75,000 +25.00% 1
South East - 10 £75,000 - 1
Work from Home +29 7 £75,000 +25.00% 1
London +24 2 - -

Lean Thinking
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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Artifactory
1 10 (83.33%) Git
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
1 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Senior
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (83.33%) Senior DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture Director
4 2 (16.67%) IT Director
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Coaching
2 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (83.33%) Critical Thinking
2 10 (83.33%) Customer Experience
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Information Security
2 10 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 10 (83.33%) SDLC
3 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 6 (50.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Product Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Bash
1 10 (83.33%) PowerShell
1 10 (83.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Veracode