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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 67 39
Rank change year-on-year +46 -28 +28
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 986 184 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.32% 4.27% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.94% 4.51% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 150 131 161
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £119,168 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% -0.79% +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 6,184 4,076 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.82% 94.61% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 2,038 2,896
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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
Glasgow +61 850 £52,500 +16.67% 37
Edinburgh +2 64 £60,000 -9.38% 16
Aberdeen -7 12 £25,000 -35.06% 23
Dundee - 11 £40,144 - 2
Fife -1 10 £43,200 -21.45% 5
West Lothian +2 7 - - 4
Lanarkshire - 6 £41,000 - 12
South Lanarkshire -4 3 £105,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 1
Perthshire +5 2 £35,000 -
North Lanarkshire -7 2 - - 3
Highlands - 2 £41,000 - 4
Inverclyde - 2 - - 1
Stirling -4 1 £50,000 -44.44% 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £25,000 - 8
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
1 177 (17.95%) Apache Spark
2 56 (5.68%) Apache
3 35 (3.55%) FileNet
4 24 (2.43%) Confluence
5 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.61%) SAS
8 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 374 (37.93%) AWS
2 59 (5.98%) Azure
3 47 (4.77%) GCP
4 45 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
4 45 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
4 45 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
4 45 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
4 45 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
4 45 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (4.56%) Serverless
5 41 (4.16%) Cloud Computing
6 35 (3.55%) Amazon S3
7 25 (2.54%) Google Play
8 24 (2.43%) BlazeMeter
9 23 (2.33%) SaaS
10 19 (1.93%) Datadog
11 18 (1.83%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) Firewall
1 9 (0.91%) LAN
1 9 (0.91%) SAN
1 9 (0.91%) WAN
2 7 (0.71%) Broadband
2 7 (0.71%) NAS
2 7 (0.71%) VoIP
3 4 (0.41%) VPN
4 3 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.20%) BGP
5 2 (0.20%) IPsec
5 2 (0.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.20%) OSPF
5 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.20%) Wireless
5 2 (0.20%) WLAN
6 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (26.98%) NoSQL
2 135 (13.69%) Big Data
3 133 (13.49%) Hadoop
4 89 (9.03%) Apache Hive
5 81 (8.22%) HBase
6 50 (5.07%) Apache Cassandra
7 46 (4.67%) Electronic Patient Records
8 43 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (4.06%) Relational Database
10 39 (3.96%) Data Lake
10 39 (3.96%) Qlik Sense
11 18 (1.83%) Power BI
12 16 (1.62%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.42%) MySQL
14 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.71%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.61%) Flink
16 6 (0.61%) Redis
16 6 (0.61%) Tableau
17 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 106 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 95 (9.63%) JUnit
3 93 (9.43%) Git
4 81 (8.22%) Bitbucket Server
5 48 (4.87%) JIRA
6 30 (3.04%) Cypress.io
7 29 (2.94%) Selenium
8 25 (2.54%) Android Studio
9 21 (2.13%) Jasmine
9 21 (2.13%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (2.13%) Protractor
9 21 (2.13%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.83%) Maven
11 9 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.91%) Gradle
11 9 (0.91%) JMeter
12 6 (0.61%) Moq
13 2 (0.20%) GitLab
13 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 816 (82.76%) Finance
2 787 (79.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 769 (77.99%) Law
4 459 (46.55%) Legal
5 174 (17.65%) Marketing
6 154 (15.62%) Social Skills
7 150 (15.21%) Banking
8 92 (9.33%) Investment Banking
9 51 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (3.25%) Private Banking
11 17 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.81%) Local Government
13 8 (0.81%) Police
14 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Retail
15 3 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 735 (74.54%) Software Engineer
2 273 (27.69%) Java Engineer
2 273 (27.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 184 (18.66%) AWS Engineer
3 184 (18.66%) AWS Software Engineer
4 116 (11.76%) Big Data Engineer
4 116 (11.76%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 114 (11.56%) Data Engineer
5 114 (11.56%) Full Stack Engineer
5 114 (11.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 114 (11.56%) Python Engineer
5 114 (11.56%) Python Software Engineer
6 83 (8.42%) Developer
7 70 (7.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 55 (5.58%) Lead
9 51 (5.17%) Database Developer
9 51 (5.17%) Database Engineer
10 45 (4.56%) Scala Engineer
10 45 (4.56%) Scala Software Engineer
11 37 (3.75%) AWS Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (22.72%) Spring
2 171 (17.34%) React
3 159 (16.13%) AngularJS
4 118 (11.97%) HTML
5 114 (11.56%) J2EE
6 111 (11.26%) Node.js
7 110 (11.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 109 (11.05%) JMS
9 101 (10.24%) Kafka
10 87 (8.82%) CSS
11 86 (8.72%) Hibernate
12 82 (8.32%) JSON
13 81 (8.22%) jQuery
14 72 (7.30%) Spring Boot
15 54 (5.48%) Web Services
16 41 (4.16%) XML
17 39 (3.96%) PySpark
18 38 (3.85%) HTML5
19 37 (3.75%) Spring Integration
20 35 (3.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 690 (69.98%) Algorithms
2 145 (14.71%) Onboarding
3 132 (13.39%) Cloud Native
4 48 (4.87%) Data Structures
5 46 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 44 (4.46%) Management Information System
7 37 (3.75%) Legacy Code
8 12 (1.22%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.91%) Market Risk
12 8 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.71%) Credit Risk
13 7 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.71%) IoT
13 7 (0.71%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.71%) Social Media
14 6 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 102 (10.34%) Unix
2 48 (4.87%) Linux
3 29 (2.94%) Android
4 18 (1.83%) Windows
5 10 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (84.28%) Agile
2 753 (76.37%) Software Engineering
3 732 (74.24%) Visualisation
4 723 (73.33%) CI/CD
5 687 (69.68%) SDLC
6 636 (64.50%) Community of Practice
7 632 (64.10%) Operational Stability
8 618 (62.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 596 (60.45%) Machine Learning
10 461 (46.75%) Risk Management
11 146 (14.81%) Microservices
12 143 (14.50%) Client Onboarding
13 141 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (12.68%) Full Stack Development
15 119 (12.07%) TDD
16 117 (11.87%) Test Automation
17 110 (11.16%) KYC
18 82 (8.32%) Open Source
19 81 (8.22%) Batch Processing
20 79 (8.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 534 (54.16%) Java
2 393 (39.86%) SQL
3 336 (34.08%) Python
4 126 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 117 (11.87%) PL/SQL
6 78 (7.91%) TypeScript
7 45 (4.56%) Scala
8 30 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.62%) C#
10 8 (0.81%) C++
10 8 (0.81%) Go
11 6 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.41%) Swift
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.20%) R
16 1 (0.10%) Perl
16 1 (0.10%) PHP
16 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (9.74%) Degree
2 15 (1.52%) DBS Check
3 8 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.61%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.30%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.30%) CCNP
7 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.30%) MCDST
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.30%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.20%) HND
8 2 (0.20%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.20%) MAPM
8 2 (0.20%) MBCS
8 2 (0.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.06%) QA
2 9 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.71%) ISO 14001
3 7 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.30%) PMO
5 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.20%) IFRS
5 2 (0.20%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) GDPR
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.10%) NIST
6 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (8.22%) HDFS
2 31 (3.14%) Docker
3 12 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (10.75%) Terraform
2 101 (10.24%) Kubernetes
3 42 (4.26%) Grafana
4 19 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.71%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.41%) Ansible
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 169 (17.14%) Databricks
2 122 (12.37%) Oracle
3 81 (8.22%) Informatica
4 51 (5.17%) Cloudera
5 44 (4.46%) Microsoft
6 42 (4.26%) Dynatrace
6 42 (4.26%) Splunk
7 39 (3.96%) Alteryx
8 34 (3.45%) Google
9 13 (1.32%) SAP
10 12 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.91%) Cisco
11 9 (0.91%) TOWER Software
11 9 (0.91%) VMware
12 8 (0.81%) NEC
13 7 (0.71%) Mitel
14 5 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
15 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.30%) Citrix
16 2 (0.20%) IBM