Continuous Improvement Jobs with Work from Home Options

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 56 58 68
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +46
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,630 1,911 3,915
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.62% 5.06% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 5.27% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,342 2,032
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Continuous Improvement salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 64 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.84%) SAS
4 23 (1.41%) Confluence
5 16 (0.98%) IIS
6 13 (0.80%) CMS
7 11 (0.67%) nginx
8 8 (0.49%) WordPress
9 5 (0.31%) Appian
10 4 (0.25%) Apache
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.061%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.061%) Luigi
12 1 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 117 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.061%) Notion
8 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.23%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.74%) iTrent
5 11 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.61%) Infor SunSystems
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
8 5 (0.31%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.25%) Shopify
9 4 (0.25%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Business ByDesign
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.12%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 377 (23.13%) Azure
2 183 (11.23%) Power Platform
3 166 (10.18%) AWS
4 147 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (4.60%) SaaS
6 74 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (3.93%) GCP
8 56 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (2.94%) Serverless
10 47 (2.88%) Entra ID
11 41 (2.52%) PowerApps
12 38 (2.33%) Power Automate
13 32 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (1.96%) Matillion
14 27 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (1.53%) Snowflake
16 22 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (1.29%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
19 19 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.21%) Firewall
2 35 (2.15%) DNS
3 28 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.66%) Broadband
5 25 (1.53%) LAN
5 25 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (1.47%) WAN
7 22 (1.35%) HTTP
8 15 (0.92%) Internet
9 11 (0.67%) DHCP
10 10 (0.61%) 5G
10 10 (0.61%) SAN
10 10 (0.61%) tcpdump
11 9 (0.55%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.55%) RS-232
11 9 (0.55%) SNMP
12 8 (0.49%) FTP
12 8 (0.49%) VLAN
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (8.96%) Power BI
2 103 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 50 (3.07%) Tableau
4 44 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 43 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 36 (2.21%) MySQL
8 27 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.29%) Metadata
10 18 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.80%) InfluxDB
14 12 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 74 (4.54%) JIRA
2 71 (4.36%) Git
3 47 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.35%) TeamCity
5 14 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.74%) MLflow
7 11 (0.67%) Selenium
8 10 (0.61%) Eclipse
9 9 (0.55%) Postman
10 8 (0.49%) GitLab
10 8 (0.49%) webpack
11 7 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.37%) Mocha
12 6 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.37%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.31%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.25%) JMeter
14 4 (0.25%) Moq
15 3 (0.18%) JUnit
General
1 700 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 443 (27.18%) Finance
3 311 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.88%) Legal
5 118 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 116 (7.12%) Retail
7 69 (4.23%) Marketing
8 62 (3.80%) Law
9 52 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (3.07%) Banking
12 40 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.21%) Local Government
14 31 (1.90%) Electronics
14 31 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.35%) Fire and Rescue
18 20 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 270 (16.56%) Senior
2 254 (15.58%) Developer
3 242 (14.85%) Analyst
4 239 (14.66%) Lead
5 80 (4.91%) Senior Developer
6 65 (3.99%) Architect
6 65 (3.99%) Project Manager
7 56 (3.44%) Software Developer
8 51 (3.13%) IT Manager
9 48 (2.94%) Senior Manager
10 46 (2.82%) Lead Developer
11 41 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 40 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
13 39 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (2.33%) Data Engineer
15 37 (2.27%) C# Developer
15 37 (2.27%) Consultant
16 31 (1.90%) Software Engineer
17 30 (1.84%) Business Analyst
18 27 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (7.48%) .NET
2 84 (5.15%) HTML
3 79 (4.85%) CSS
4 74 (4.54%) RESTful
5 67 (4.11%) React
6 54 (3.31%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.70%) Web Services
8 35 (2.15%) .NET Framework
9 34 (2.09%) Node.js
10 33 (2.02%) XML
11 29 (1.78%) JSON
11 29 (1.78%) PySpark
12 28 (1.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 24 (1.47%) Entity Framework
14 22 (1.35%) JWT
15 21 (1.29%) ASP.NET
16 19 (1.17%) .NET Core
17 18 (1.10%) EDI
17 18 (1.10%) Kafka
17 18 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 113 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.21%) Mobile App
4 36 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.15%) CMDB
6 34 (2.09%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.09%) Clustering
7 33 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.78%) Social Media
10 25 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.23%) Driving Licence
14 19 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.04%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 162 (9.94%) Windows
2 70 (4.29%) Linux
3 67 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.02%) Android
5 32 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.86%) Unix
9 13 (0.80%) Windows 7
9 13 (0.80%) Windows 8
10 10 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.61%) Solaris
11 7 (0.43%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.061%) CentOS
13 1 (0.061%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.061%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (34.23%) Agile
2 506 (31.04%) Problem-Solving
3 297 (18.22%) Mentoring
4 277 (16.99%) Project Management
5 251 (15.40%) DevOps
6 221 (13.56%) Coaching
7 214 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 200 (12.27%) Project Delivery
9 182 (11.17%) Scrum
10 168 (10.31%) CI/CD
11 161 (9.88%) Customer Service
12 157 (9.63%) Analytics
13 149 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
14 142 (8.71%) Decision-Making
15 141 (8.65%) Change Management
16 137 (8.40%) Service Delivery
17 132 (8.10%) ITIL
18 118 (7.24%) Software Engineering
19 117 (7.18%) Computer Science
20 116 (7.12%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 250 (15.34%) SQL
2 136 (8.34%) C#
3 129 (7.91%) Python
4 103 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 85 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.66%) Java
7 58 (3.56%) T-SQL
8 51 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 35 (2.15%) Bash
10 26 (1.60%) Kotlin
11 25 (1.53%) PHP
12 16 (0.98%) VBA
13 14 (0.86%) RPG
14 13 (0.80%) C
15 12 (0.74%) Swift
16 11 (0.67%) C++
17 9 (0.55%) R
18 8 (0.49%) Perl
18 8 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 343 (21.04%) Degree
2 100 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 61 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (3.25%) PMI Certification
5 49 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 38 (2.33%) PMP
7 34 (2.09%) DBS Check
8 27 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 22 (1.35%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.86%) CISSP
12 14 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.74%) APMG
14 10 (0.61%) HND
14 10 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (12.45%) QA
2 71 (4.36%) GDPR
3 54 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (3.07%) PMO
5 40 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 40 (2.45%) SLA
6 25 (1.53%) IFRS
7 23 (1.41%) ISO 9001
8 22 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (1.23%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.92%) NIST
11 13 (0.80%) ISO 14001
12 12 (0.74%) Good Clinical Practice
13 11 (0.67%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.55%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.49%) NEBOSH
16 6 (0.37%) IFRS 9
17 5 (0.31%) GRC
17 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (5.52%) Docker
2 82 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.61%) vSphere
8 5 (0.31%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.061%) Ceph
10 1 (0.061%) Snort
10 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 97 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.93%) Terraform
3 42 (2.58%) Ansible
4 37 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (2.09%) Grafana
6 27 (1.66%) vCenter Server
7 18 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.04%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
10 15 (0.92%) Puppet
11 14 (0.86%) Nagios
12 9 (0.55%) SCCM
13 8 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.49%) Graphite
13 8 (0.49%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.31%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 4 (0.25%) Istio
17 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 382 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.36%) Oracle
3 67 (4.11%) ServiceNow
4 60 (3.68%) SAP
5 53 (3.25%) Databricks
6 48 (2.94%) VMware
7 46 (2.82%) Google
8 39 (2.39%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.29%) NEC
10 19 (1.17%) Commvault
10 19 (1.17%) Sun
11 15 (0.92%) BT
11 15 (0.92%) Cisco
11 15 (0.92%) Remedy
12 11 (0.67%) BMC
12 11 (0.67%) Veeam
12 11 (0.67%) Xamarin
13 10 (0.61%) IBM
13 10 (0.61%) Infor
13 10 (0.61%) Serena