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 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 29 62 47
Rank change year-on-year +33 -15 +27
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4,639 2,759 4,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.87% 4.96% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 5.19% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 1,597 2,063
10th Percentile £31,110 £30,500 £32,581
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 £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,056 £82,500
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
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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
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 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 9 June 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 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
Midlands +8 995 £51,700 +0.88% 331
Scotland +46 986 £54,000 -16.92% 132
North of England +44 975 £52,500 +5.00% 419
South East +9 767 £52,500 -12.50% 343
West Midlands +12 749 £53,500 +1.90% 210
North West +41 539 £51,150 -2.57% 240
South West +22 472 £52,396 +5.00% 217
Yorkshire +36 325 £60,000 +20.00% 131
East of England -4 245 £55,000 +22.22% 165
East Midlands +12 236 £47,500 - 121
Wales +59 166 £52,500 +17.54% 44
North East +27 111 £45,000 +18.42% 60
Northern Ireland +47 38 £63,750 +41.67% 22
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
1 179 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 139 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 94 (2.03%) Confluence
4 92 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 61 (1.31%) Apache
6 35 (0.75%) FileNet
7 26 (0.56%) SAS
8 19 (0.41%) IIS
8 19 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.24%) CMS
10 8 (0.17%) WordPress
11 7 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.13%) Appian
13 5 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.11%) nginx
13 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.043%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.022%) Drupal
15 1 (0.022%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.022%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 650 (14.01%) Microsoft Office
2 505 (10.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 129 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.91%) AutoCAD
6 38 (0.82%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.19%) Simulink
9 5 (0.11%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.086%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.086%) Trello
11 3 (0.065%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.043%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.043%) Revit
13 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.54%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.32%) iTrent
3 15 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 10 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 10 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 9 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.17%) Magento
7 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.17%) Shopify
8 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
9 5 (0.11%) Primavera
9 5 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
9 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 628 (13.54%) AWS
2 576 (12.42%) Azure
3 298 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 248 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (2.69%) SaaS
6 104 (2.24%) GCP
7 99 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (1.94%) Serverless
9 88 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 86 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (1.29%) PowerApps
13 52 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
13 52 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
15 49 (1.06%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.03%) Entra ID
17 46 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
18 45 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
18 45 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 110 (2.37%) Firewall
2 79 (1.70%) WAN
3 68 (1.47%) LAN
4 63 (1.36%) VoIP
5 57 (1.23%) DNS
6 56 (1.21%) SAN
7 51 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (0.93%) VLAN
9 42 (0.91%) Network Security
10 37 (0.80%) DHCP
11 36 (0.78%) Internet
12 32 (0.69%) Broadband
13 27 (0.58%) Wireless
14 26 (0.56%) VPN
15 25 (0.54%) Intranet
16 24 (0.52%) NAS
17 23 (0.50%) TCP/IP
18 21 (0.45%) Skype
19 20 (0.43%) HTTP
20 18 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.29%) NoSQL
2 252 (5.43%) Power BI
3 155 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 143 (3.08%) Big Data
5 133 (2.87%) Hadoop
6 90 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 89 (1.92%) Apache Hive
8 81 (1.75%) HBase
9 79 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 75 (1.62%) MySQL
11 72 (1.55%) Tableau
12 50 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
12 50 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
14 45 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
15 40 (0.86%) Power Query
16 37 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 36 (0.78%) RDBMS
18 30 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
19 28 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 228 (4.91%) Git
2 201 (4.33%) JIRA
3 152 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.05%) JUnit
5 81 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 50 (1.08%) Selenium
7 39 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 30 (0.65%) Android Studio
9 26 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 25 (0.54%) Jasmine
11 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.47%) GitLab
12 22 (0.47%) WebDriver
13 21 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
13 21 (0.45%) Protractor
14 18 (0.39%) Maven
15 15 (0.32%) PHPUnit
16 13 (0.28%) Subversion
17 11 (0.24%) TeamCity
18 10 (0.22%) Eclipse
General
1 1,700 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 1,647 (35.50%) Finance
3 1,003 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 976 (21.04%) Law
5 903 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
6 727 (15.67%) Legal
7 318 (6.85%) Marketing
8 304 (6.55%) Manufacturing
9 296 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
10 279 (6.01%) Influencing Skills
11 243 (5.24%) Retail
12 240 (5.17%) Banking
13 231 (4.98%) Military
14 177 (3.82%) Public Sector
15 146 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (2.52%) Investment Banking
17 104 (2.24%) Telecoms
18 69 (1.49%) Electronics
19 67 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
20 58 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 792 (17.07%) Software Engineer
2 613 (13.21%) Analyst
3 411 (8.86%) Lead
4 399 (8.60%) Developer
5 365 (7.87%) Senior
6 300 (6.47%) Graduate
7 279 (6.01%) Java Engineer
8 273 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
9 196 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
10 192 (4.14%) Project Manager
11 185 (3.99%) AWS Software Engineer
12 154 (3.32%) IT Manager
13 149 (3.21%) Architect
14 144 (3.10%) IT Engineer
15 143 (3.08%) Data Engineer
16 134 (2.89%) Product Analyst
17 124 (2.67%) Full Stack Engineer
18 120 (2.59%) Sales Analyst
19 118 (2.54%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 116 (2.50%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (5.86%) React
2 250 (5.39%) Spring
3 231 (4.98%) AngularJS
4 229 (4.94%) HTML
5 202 (4.35%) CSS
6 173 (3.73%) .NET
7 167 (3.60%) Node.js
8 148 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 126 (2.72%) JSON
10 114 (2.46%) J2EE
11 111 (2.39%) RESTful
12 109 (2.35%) JMS
13 104 (2.24%) Web Services
14 103 (2.22%) Kafka
15 98 (2.11%) jQuery
16 86 (1.85%) Hibernate
16 86 (1.85%) XML
17 85 (1.83%) Spring Boot
18 63 (1.36%) REST
19 60 (1.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 726 (15.65%) Algorithms
2 435 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 332 (7.16%) Management Information System
4 190 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
5 177 (3.82%) Cloud Native
6 174 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 87 (1.88%) FMCG
8 83 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 78 (1.68%) Driving Licence
10 72 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 57 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 49 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 44 (0.95%) Virtual Team
14 42 (0.91%) Operational Technology
15 41 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.88%) Legacy Code
16 37 (0.80%) NHS
17 35 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
18 31 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
19 30 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 306 (6.60%) Windows
2 162 (3.49%) Linux
3 121 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.44%) Unix
5 87 (1.88%) Android
6 73 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 56 (1.21%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.39%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.28%) Windows 8
11 12 (0.26%) AIX
11 12 (0.26%) VMS
11 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
16 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.065%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,682 (36.26%) Agile
2 1,265 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 926 (19.96%) Software Engineering
4 915 (19.72%) CI/CD
5 862 (18.58%) SDLC
6 838 (18.06%) Visualisation
7 716 (15.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 670 (14.44%) Customer Service
9 669 (14.42%) Community of Practice
10 665 (14.33%) Project Management
11 658 (14.18%) Machine Learning
12 652 (14.05%) Operational Stability
13 644 (13.88%) Risk Management
14 434 (9.36%) Data Analysis
15 426 (9.18%) Process Improvement
16 412 (8.88%) Coaching
17 410 (8.84%) Mentoring
18 391 (8.43%) Project Delivery
19 384 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
20 372 (8.02%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 745 (16.06%) SQL
2 631 (13.60%) Java
3 493 (10.63%) Python
4 325 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 196 (4.23%) C#
6 138 (2.97%) TypeScript
7 123 (2.65%) PL/SQL
8 96 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 70 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 54 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 51 (1.10%) PHP
12 49 (1.06%) C
13 46 (0.99%) Scala
14 38 (0.82%) C++
15 29 (0.63%) VB
16 25 (0.54%) VBA
17 23 (0.50%) Bash
18 17 (0.37%) R
19 16 (0.34%) MATLAB
20 15 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,249 (26.92%) Degree
2 190 (4.10%) Security Cleared
3 121 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 96 (2.07%) SC Cleared
5 83 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 83 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 73 (1.57%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 57 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.21%) PMP
9 54 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 52 (1.12%) HNC
11 49 (1.06%) HND
12 48 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
15 40 (0.86%) CISSP
16 33 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
17 30 (0.65%) DV Cleared
18 29 (0.63%) CCNA
18 29 (0.63%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (7.48%) QA
2 145 (3.13%) SLA
3 136 (2.93%) GDPR
4 128 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (2.05%) PMO
6 75 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.47%) ISO 9001
8 54 (1.16%) Data Quality
9 43 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (0.93%) NIST
10 32 (0.69%) ISO 14001
11 22 (0.47%) NEBOSH
12 17 (0.37%) NCSC
13 16 (0.34%) GRC
14 13 (0.28%) IFRS
14 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 12 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 198 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 118 (2.54%) Docker
3 100 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (1.75%) HDFS
5 46 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 26 (0.56%) Firmware
7 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.45%) vSphere
9 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) XenApp
12 4 (0.086%) pfSense
13 3 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.043%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.022%) Snort
15 1 (0.022%) Varnish
15 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 183 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 166 (3.58%) Terraform
3 53 (1.14%) Grafana
4 42 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.82%) SCCM
6 27 (0.58%) Ansible
7 24 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.34%) Functional Safety
9 14 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.26%) Backup Exec
10 12 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.24%) Nagios
12 10 (0.22%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.15%) SCOM
15 5 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.11%) Opsview
Vendors
1 814 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 228 (4.91%) Oracle
3 209 (4.51%) Databricks
4 169 (3.64%) SAP
5 132 (2.85%) VMware
6 108 (2.33%) Cisco
7 103 (2.22%) Google
8 88 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 81 (1.75%) Informatica
10 80 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 52 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 51 (1.10%) Citrix
12 51 (1.10%) Cloudera
13 45 (0.97%) Alteryx
13 45 (0.97%) Splunk
14 32 (0.69%) Veeam
15 27 (0.58%) NEC
16 24 (0.52%) Dell
16 24 (0.52%) Meraki
17 20 (0.43%) HP