Process Improvement Jobs

Process Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 207 235
Rank change year-on-year +79 +28 +44
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 2,225 1,699 3,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.12% 1.80% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.88% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 890 1,436
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £36,072
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £44,703
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,375 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Process 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +85 2,038 £55,000 -8.33% 692
UK excluding London +56 1,527 £50,000 -4.76% 496
Work from Home +51 781 £55,000 -4.35% 276
London +125 600 £70,000 +7.69% 237
Midlands +67 494 £52,500 - 105
North of England +44 333 £47,500 -5.00% 144
South East -10 316 £45,000 -21.74% 96
West Midlands +56 315 £55,000 +4.76% 71
South West +59 172 £52,396 -6.85% 45
North West +13 166 £47,500 -4.04% 78
East Midlands +42 157 £42,000 -16.00% 34
Yorkshire +42 118 £45,000 -14.29% 38
East of England +16 96 £50,000 -4.76% 50
Scotland -54 70 £55,380 +15.22% 37
North East +32 49 £42,500 - 31
Northern Ireland +40 24 £37,500 -16.67% 9
Wales +16 24 £42,000 +10.16% 22

Process 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
1 130 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.81%) Confluence
4 17 (0.76%) SAS
5 12 (0.54%) CMS
6 9 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.27%) IBM Notes
8 5 (0.22%) Apache
8 5 (0.22%) IIS
8 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.22%) WordPress
9 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.13%) Luigi
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.090%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.090%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.090%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.045%) Drupal
12 1 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 437 (19.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 310 (13.93%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.27%) Simulink
8 4 (0.18%) InfoPath
8 4 (0.18%) SPSS
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.13%) InDesign
9 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 35 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 15 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.54%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
9 10 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (0.36%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.31%) Primavera
11 7 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
12 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.22%) Teamcenter
13 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 206 (9.26%) Azure
2 202 (9.08%) Power Platform
3 139 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (5.26%) AWS
5 82 (3.69%) SaaS
6 60 (2.70%) GCP
7 56 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (1.53%) PowerApps
9 31 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 22 (0.99%) Serverless
14 21 (0.94%) OCI
15 20 (0.90%) Amazon S3
15 20 (0.90%) Power Automate
16 16 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 12 (0.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 184 (8.27%) Broadband
2 56 (2.52%) Firewall
3 34 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.30%) WAN
5 27 (1.21%) Network Security
6 25 (1.12%) DNS
6 25 (1.12%) LAN
7 17 (0.76%) VPN
8 14 (0.63%) Wireshark
9 13 (0.58%) Internet
10 9 (0.40%) VoIP
11 8 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.31%) Wireless
13 6 (0.27%) DHCP
13 6 (0.27%) HTTP
14 5 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
14 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.18%) FTP
15 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (7.91%) Power BI
2 77 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.02%) Tableau
5 41 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 23 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 20 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 20 (0.90%) MySQL
9 19 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 16 (0.72%) Data Mining
12 15 (0.67%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.63%) Big Data
14 13 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (0.58%) SAP BW
15 12 (0.54%) Metadata
15 12 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
16 11 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 113 (5.08%) JIRA
2 34 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.44%) Git
4 18 (0.81%) Selenium
5 12 (0.54%) Cucumber
6 9 (0.40%) Postman
6 9 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.36%) Jaeger
7 8 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.36%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.31%) gulp
8 7 (0.31%) WebDriver
9 5 (0.22%) eggPlant
9 5 (0.22%) MSTest
9 5 (0.22%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 4 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 813 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 677 (30.43%) Finance
3 415 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (13.80%) Legal
5 247 (11.10%) Marketing
6 223 (10.02%) Banking
7 190 (8.54%) Military
8 186 (8.36%) Advertising
9 154 (6.92%) Law
10 153 (6.88%) Retail
11 106 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
12 104 (4.67%) Manufacturing
13 99 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 79 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
15 66 (2.97%) Public Sector
16 65 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
17 63 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 38 (1.71%) Fire and Rescue
19 32 (1.44%) Telecoms
20 28 (1.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 515 (23.15%) Analyst
2 387 (17.39%) Lead
3 355 (15.96%) Senior
4 193 (8.67%) Graduate
5 156 (7.01%) Business Analyst
6 147 (6.61%) Senior Analyst
7 106 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 95 (4.27%) IT Manager
9 85 (3.82%) Consultant
10 66 (2.97%) Developer
11 56 (2.52%) Team Leader
12 55 (2.47%) Architect
13 52 (2.34%) Data Analyst
14 46 (2.07%) Senior Manager
15 41 (1.84%) Business Manager
16 38 (1.71%) IT Analyst
17 33 (1.48%) IT Support
18 31 (1.39%) Data Engineer
19 30 (1.35%) Technical Analyst
20 29 (1.30%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.46%) .NET
2 48 (2.16%) REST
3 35 (1.57%) .NET Framework
3 35 (1.57%) React
4 34 (1.53%) Web Services
5 29 (1.30%) HTML
5 29 (1.30%) JSON
5 29 (1.30%) XML
6 20 (0.90%) CSS
7 19 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 19 (0.85%) Node.js
8 17 (0.76%) .NET Core
9 16 (0.72%) SignalR
9 16 (0.72%) WCF
9 16 (0.72%) WF
10 14 (0.63%) FastAPI
10 14 (0.63%) Flask
10 14 (0.63%) Gherkin
11 13 (0.58%) Middleware
11 13 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 286 (12.85%) Onboarding
2 184 (8.27%) Marketing Technology
3 132 (5.93%) Management Information System
4 76 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.75%) Virtual Team
6 38 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 29 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 28 (1.26%) PMI
9 26 (1.17%) Product Ownership
10 24 (1.08%) Life Science
10 24 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
13 19 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
14 18 (0.81%) Credit Risk
14 18 (0.81%) Robotics
15 16 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.58%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 132 (5.93%) Windows
2 51 (2.29%) Linux
3 27 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.03%) Android
6 16 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.54%) Unix
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.18%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.045%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
2 487 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 372 (16.72%) Customer Service
4 351 (15.78%) Agile
5 346 (15.55%) Matrix Organization
6 345 (15.51%) Project Management
7 317 (14.25%) Logistics
8 316 (14.20%) Data Analysis
9 306 (13.75%) Analytics
10 243 (10.92%) Customer Experience
11 239 (10.74%) Business Case
12 234 (10.52%) Coaching
13 230 (10.34%) Performance Metrics
14 225 (10.11%) Data Management
15 222 (9.98%) Data Collection
16 210 (9.44%) ITIL
16 210 (9.44%) Regulatory Change
17 206 (9.26%) Creative Thinking
18 205 (9.21%) Contingency Planning
19 201 (9.03%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 262 (11.78%) SQL
2 126 (5.66%) Python
3 84 (3.78%) C#
4 60 (2.70%) Java
5 53 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 36 (1.62%) T-SQL
8 21 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.90%) R
10 17 (0.76%) MATLAB
11 16 (0.72%) Scala
12 13 (0.58%) Bash
13 11 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.45%) VBA
15 7 (0.31%) C++
16 6 (0.27%) C
16 6 (0.27%) Perl
16 6 (0.27%) Ruby
17 5 (0.22%) Groovy
17 5 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 689 (30.97%) Degree
2 70 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 49 (2.20%) Master's Degree
4 47 (2.11%) PMI Certification
5 42 (1.89%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.12%) CISSP
10 24 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.08%) PMP
11 22 (0.99%) APMP
12 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 21 (0.94%) CEH
13 20 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 19 (0.85%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.76%) MCSE
15 17 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (7.78%) QA
2 167 (7.51%) GDPR
3 120 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 62 (2.79%) SLA
5 35 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.26%) Good Clinical Practice
7 23 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.03%) PMO
7 23 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (0.85%) NIST
9 17 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.67%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.54%) ITGC
12 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.45%) CDISC
13 9 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.31%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.31%) ISO 9002
14 7 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 79 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 40 (1.80%) Docker
3 35 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.31%) Firmware
9 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.045%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (1.08%) Terraform
4 17 (0.76%) Ansible
5 14 (0.63%) Nmap
6 8 (0.36%) Kiali
7 5 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.22%) logstash
8 4 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.13%) SCCM
10 2 (0.090%) Argo
10 2 (0.090%) Autotask
10 2 (0.090%) Grafana
10 2 (0.090%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.045%) FTK
11 1 (0.045%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.045%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.045%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 373 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 83 (3.73%) SAP
3 71 (3.19%) Oracle
4 60 (2.70%) Google
5 43 (1.93%) VMware
6 42 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.26%) Splunk
8 21 (0.94%) Cisco
8 21 (0.94%) IFS
9 17 (0.76%) Qualys
10 14 (0.63%) IBM
10 14 (0.63%) Rapid7
10 14 (0.63%) Thycotic
11 12 (0.54%) Apple
12 11 (0.49%) AppDynamics
13 9 (0.40%) Citrix
13 9 (0.40%) Workday
14 8 (0.36%) Adobe
14 8 (0.36%) Allen-Bradley
15 7 (0.31%) Atlassian