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 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 20 63 38
Rank change year-on-year +43 -25 +23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,026 185 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.00% 4.25% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.54% 4.51% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 153 131 155
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,168 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
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 1 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 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
Glasgow +63 890 £52,500 +16.67% 37
Edinburgh +4 66 £60,000 -10.54% 13
Aberdeen -8 12 £25,000 -35.06% 23
Dundee - 11 £40,144 - 2
Fife +1 10 £43,200 -21.45% 6
West Lothian +2 7 - - 4
Lanarkshire - 6 £41,000 - 13
South Lanarkshire -4 4 £105,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 3 £44,436 - 1
Perthshire +7 2 £35,000 -
North Lanarkshire -5 2 - - 3
Highlands - 2 £41,000 - 1
Stirling -5 1 £50,000 -44.44% 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £25,000 - 8
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 -
Inverclyde - 1 - - 1
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
1 195 (19.01%) Apache Spark
2 64 (6.24%) Apache
3 35 (3.41%) FileNet
4 24 (2.34%) Confluence
5 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.58%) SAS
8 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.097%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.097%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 396 (38.60%) AWS
2 64 (6.24%) Azure
3 52 (5.07%) GCP
4 49 (4.78%) Amazon EC2
4 49 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
4 49 (4.78%) Amazon EMR
4 49 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
4 49 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (4.78%) Serverless
5 44 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
6 35 (3.41%) Amazon S3
7 25 (2.44%) Google Play
8 24 (2.34%) BlazeMeter
8 24 (2.34%) SaaS
9 19 (1.85%) Datadog
10 18 (1.75%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.88%) Firewall
1 9 (0.88%) LAN
1 9 (0.88%) SAN
1 9 (0.88%) WAN
2 7 (0.68%) Broadband
2 7 (0.68%) NAS
2 7 (0.68%) VoIP
3 4 (0.39%) VPN
4 3 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) IPsec
5 2 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.19%) OSPF
5 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Wireless
5 2 (0.19%) WLAN
6 1 (0.097%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (27.29%) NoSQL
2 156 (15.20%) Big Data
3 144 (14.04%) Hadoop
4 95 (9.26%) Apache Hive
5 84 (8.19%) HBase
6 50 (4.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 50 (4.87%) Electronic Patient Records
7 44 (4.29%) Relational Database
8 43 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (3.80%) Data Lake
9 39 (3.80%) Qlik Sense
10 18 (1.75%) Power BI
11 16 (1.56%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.36%) MySQL
13 13 (1.27%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.97%) Flink
15 7 (0.68%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.58%) Redis
16 6 (0.58%) Tableau
17 2 (0.19%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 110 (10.72%) Jenkins
2 96 (9.36%) Git
3 95 (9.26%) JUnit
4 84 (8.19%) Bitbucket Server
5 52 (5.07%) JIRA
6 30 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 29 (2.83%) Selenium
8 25 (2.44%) Android Studio
9 21 (2.05%) Jasmine
9 21 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (2.05%) Protractor
9 21 (2.05%) WebDriver
10 19 (1.85%) Maven
11 9 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.88%) Gradle
11 9 (0.88%) JMeter
12 6 (0.58%) Moq
13 2 (0.19%) GitLab
13 2 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 859 (83.72%) Finance
2 829 (80.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 811 (79.04%) Law
4 478 (46.59%) Legal
5 194 (18.91%) Marketing
6 155 (15.11%) Banking
6 155 (15.11%) Social Skills
7 92 (8.97%) Investment Banking
8 51 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (3.41%) Private Banking
10 17 (1.66%) Public Sector
11 13 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.78%) Local Government
12 8 (0.78%) Police
12 8 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.49%) Retail
14 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 769 (74.95%) Software Engineer
2 289 (28.17%) Java Engineer
2 289 (28.17%) Java Software Engineer
3 192 (18.71%) AWS Engineer
3 192 (18.71%) AWS Software Engineer
4 127 (12.38%) Big Data Engineer
4 127 (12.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 122 (11.89%) Full Stack Engineer
5 122 (11.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 119 (11.60%) Data Engineer
7 117 (11.40%) Python Engineer
7 117 (11.40%) Python Software Engineer
8 90 (8.77%) Developer
9 76 (7.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 55 (5.36%) Lead
11 54 (5.26%) Database Developer
11 54 (5.26%) Database Engineer
12 49 (4.78%) Scala Engineer
12 49 (4.78%) Scala Software Engineer
13 37 (3.61%) AWS Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (23.49%) Spring
2 176 (17.15%) React
3 167 (16.28%) AngularJS
4 118 (11.50%) HTML
4 118 (11.50%) J2EE
5 113 (11.01%) JMS
6 111 (10.82%) Node.js
7 110 (10.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 107 (10.43%) Kafka
9 87 (8.48%) CSS
9 87 (8.48%) Hibernate
10 83 (8.09%) JSON
11 82 (7.99%) Spring Boot
12 81 (7.89%) jQuery
13 59 (5.75%) Web Services
14 46 (4.48%) XML
15 39 (3.80%) PySpark
16 38 (3.70%) HTML5
16 38 (3.70%) JavaBeans
17 37 (3.61%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 724 (70.57%) Algorithms
2 156 (15.20%) Onboarding
3 142 (13.84%) Cloud Native
4 51 (4.97%) Data Structures
5 48 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 47 (4.58%) Management Information System
7 41 (4.00%) Legacy Code
8 14 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.07%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.88%) Market Risk
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.68%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.68%) IoT
15 7 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 105 (10.23%) Unix
2 49 (4.78%) Linux
3 29 (2.83%) Android
4 18 (1.75%) Windows
5 10 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (84.89%) Agile
2 791 (77.10%) Software Engineering
3 766 (74.66%) Visualisation
4 754 (73.49%) CI/CD
5 717 (69.88%) SDLC
6 665 (64.81%) Community of Practice
6 665 (64.81%) Operational Stability
7 647 (63.06%) Artificial Intelligence
8 625 (60.92%) Machine Learning
9 483 (47.08%) Risk Management
10 155 (15.11%) Client Onboarding
11 153 (14.91%) Microservices
12 149 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 133 (12.96%) Full Stack Development
14 125 (12.18%) Test Automation
15 123 (11.99%) TDD
16 121 (11.79%) KYC
17 85 (8.28%) Open Source
18 84 (8.19%) Batch Processing
18 84 (8.19%) OO
Programming Languages
1 570 (55.56%) Java
2 414 (40.35%) SQL
3 358 (34.89%) Python
4 126 (12.28%) JavaScript
5 121 (11.79%) PL/SQL
6 78 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 49 (4.78%) Scala
8 30 (2.92%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.85%) C#
10 12 (1.17%) Go
11 8 (0.78%) C++
12 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.39%) Swift
15 3 (0.29%) Bash
15 3 (0.29%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.19%) R
17 1 (0.097%) Perl
17 1 (0.097%) PHP
Qualifications
1 102 (9.94%) Degree
2 15 (1.46%) DBS Check
3 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (0.68%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.29%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.29%) CCNP
7 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.29%) MCDST
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.29%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.19%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.19%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.19%) HND
8 2 (0.19%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.19%) PhD
9 1 (0.097%) MAPM
9 1 (0.097%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.70%) QA
2 10 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.68%) ISO 14001
3 7 (0.68%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.29%) PMO
5 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.19%) IFRS
5 2 (0.19%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.097%) GDPR
6 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.097%) NIST
6 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (8.19%) HDFS
2 33 (3.22%) Docker
3 12 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (11.40%) Terraform
2 104 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.39%) Grafana
4 19 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.68%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.39%) Ansible
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 177 (17.25%) Databricks
2 125 (12.18%) Oracle
3 84 (8.19%) Informatica
4 54 (5.26%) Cloudera
5 45 (4.39%) Dynatrace
5 45 (4.39%) Splunk
6 42 (4.09%) Microsoft
7 39 (3.80%) Alteryx
8 35 (3.41%) Google
9 13 (1.27%) SAP
10 12 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.88%) Cisco
11 9 (0.88%) TOWER Software
11 9 (0.88%) VMware
12 8 (0.78%) NEC
13 7 (0.68%) Mitel
14 5 (0.49%) BiZZdesign
15 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.29%) Citrix
16 2 (0.19%) IBM