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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 61 67
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +42
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,609 2,049 3,565
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.75% 5.07% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.21% 5.28% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 1,440 1,952
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,188 £42,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,386 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 58 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.86%) SAS
4 29 (1.80%) Confluence
5 14 (0.87%) CMS
5 14 (0.87%) IIS
6 13 (0.81%) nginx
7 8 (0.50%) WordPress
8 5 (0.31%) Appian
9 4 (0.25%) Apache
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.062%) Luigi
11 1 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 120 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.062%) Notion
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.93%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.75%) iTrent
4 10 (0.62%) Infor SunSystems
4 10 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 5 (0.31%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.25%) Shopify
8 4 (0.25%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.19%) SAP Business ByDesign
10 2 (0.12%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 371 (23.06%) Azure
2 185 (11.50%) Power Platform
3 166 (10.32%) AWS
4 141 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (4.97%) GCP
6 75 (4.66%) SaaS
7 73 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (3.05%) Serverless
10 45 (2.80%) Entra ID
11 39 (2.42%) PowerApps
12 36 (2.24%) Power Automate
13 33 (2.05%) Matillion
14 32 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (1.68%) GitHub
16 26 (1.62%) Snowflake
17 25 (1.55%) Amazon S3
18 24 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
19 18 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
19 18 (1.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.80%) DNS
2 34 (2.11%) Firewall
3 31 (1.93%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.55%) LAN
4 25 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (1.43%) Broadband
6 22 (1.37%) HTTP
7 21 (1.31%) WAN
8 15 (0.93%) Internet
9 12 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (0.68%) tcpdump
11 10 (0.62%) DHCP
11 10 (0.62%) SAN
11 10 (0.62%) SNMP
12 9 (0.56%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.56%) RS-232
12 9 (0.56%) VPN
13 8 (0.50%) FTP
14 7 (0.44%) VLAN
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (9.26%) Power BI
2 101 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 49 (3.05%) Tableau
4 44 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (2.42%) Data Lake
6 36 (2.24%) MySQL
7 35 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.62%) Metadata
10 21 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (0.87%) InfluxDB
13 13 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 80 (4.97%) JIRA
2 73 (4.54%) Git
3 58 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 14 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 13 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 13 (0.81%) Selenium
7 11 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.62%) Eclipse
8 10 (0.62%) MLflow
9 9 (0.56%) GitLab
9 9 (0.56%) Postman
10 6 (0.37%) Mocha
10 6 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.37%) SoapUI
10 6 (0.37%) webpack
11 5 (0.31%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.31%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.25%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 680 (42.26%) Social Skills
2 455 (28.28%) Finance
3 300 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.45%) Legal
5 111 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 109 (6.77%) Retail
7 106 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (5.03%) Banking
9 63 (3.92%) Marketing
10 57 (3.54%) Law
11 46 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 33 (2.05%) Electronics
15 31 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.86%) Local Government
17 26 (1.62%) Telecoms
18 23 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
20 19 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 252 (15.66%) Senior
2 248 (15.41%) Developer
3 244 (15.16%) Analyst
4 243 (15.10%) Lead
5 77 (4.79%) Senior Developer
6 63 (3.92%) Architect
7 58 (3.60%) Project Manager
8 57 (3.54%) Software Developer
9 50 (3.11%) IT Manager
10 45 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
11 44 (2.73%) Lead Developer
12 42 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (2.61%) Senior Manager
13 40 (2.49%) Consultant
14 36 (2.24%) Software Engineer
15 35 (2.18%) Data Engineer
16 34 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (2.11%) C# Developer
17 32 (1.99%) Business Analyst
18 31 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (7.46%) .NET
2 78 (4.85%) HTML
3 73 (4.54%) CSS
4 71 (4.41%) RESTful
5 69 (4.29%) React
6 50 (3.11%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.73%) Web Services
8 35 (2.18%) XML
9 33 (2.05%) Node.js
10 31 (1.93%) .NET Framework
11 29 (1.80%) JSON
12 26 (1.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 23 (1.43%) PySpark
14 22 (1.37%) ASP.NET
14 22 (1.37%) JWT
15 20 (1.24%) Entity Framework
15 20 (1.24%) Kafka
16 19 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
17 18 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 106 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 87 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 66 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 36 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.18%) Clustering
7 33 (2.05%) CMDB
8 32 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.86%) Social Media
10 28 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 24 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 20 (1.24%) Driving Licence
15 19 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (1.12%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 161 (10.01%) Windows
2 70 (4.35%) Linux
3 66 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.99%) Android
5 31 (1.93%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 17 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.87%) Unix
9 13 (0.81%) Windows 7
9 13 (0.81%) Windows 8
10 10 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.62%) Solaris
11 8 (0.50%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.062%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (35.24%) Agile
2 489 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
3 280 (17.40%) Mentoring
4 263 (16.35%) DevOps
5 260 (16.16%) Project Management
6 207 (12.87%) Coaching
7 203 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 185 (11.50%) Project Delivery
9 182 (11.31%) Scrum
10 162 (10.07%) CI/CD
11 159 (9.88%) Customer Service
12 154 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
13 142 (8.83%) Analytics
14 141 (8.76%) Decision-Making
15 135 (8.39%) Service Delivery
16 131 (8.14%) Change Management
17 123 (7.64%) ITIL
18 122 (7.58%) Software Engineering
19 120 (7.46%) Collaborative Culture
20 114 (7.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 249 (15.48%) SQL
2 133 (8.27%) C#
3 131 (8.14%) Python
4 99 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 87 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 81 (5.03%) Java
7 59 (3.67%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.11%) TypeScript
9 35 (2.18%) Bash
10 27 (1.68%) PHP
11 24 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.12%) VBA
13 15 (0.93%) C
14 14 (0.87%) RPG
15 12 (0.75%) C++
15 12 (0.75%) Swift
16 11 (0.68%) Perl
17 9 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.56%) R
18 8 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 328 (20.39%) Degree
2 85 (5.28%) Security Cleared
3 56 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 50 (3.11%) PMI Certification
5 41 (2.55%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.30%) PMP
7 32 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.87%) CISSP
12 13 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.75%) APMG
13 12 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.62%) HND
16 9 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.50%) ACCA
17 8 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (12.00%) QA
2 68 (4.23%) GDPR
3 51 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (3.05%) PMO
5 38 (2.36%) SLA
6 35 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.55%) IFRS
8 23 (1.43%) ISO 9001
9 21 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (1.18%) Data Quality
11 15 (0.93%) NIST
12 13 (0.81%) ISO 14001
13 12 (0.75%) Good Clinical Practice
14 11 (0.68%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.56%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.44%) NEBOSH
17 6 (0.37%) IFRS 9
18 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (0.31%) GRC
18 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (6.40%) Docker
2 82 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
3 32 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.62%) vSphere
7 5 (0.31%) DFS Replication
7 5 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.062%) Snort
10 1 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 107 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.72%) Terraform
3 48 (2.98%) Ansible
4 38 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (2.30%) Grafana
6 31 (1.93%) vCenter Server
7 21 (1.31%) Puppet
8 18 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
10 15 (0.93%) Nagios
11 9 (0.56%) Graphite
11 9 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.50%) SCCM
13 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.31%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 367 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 67 (4.16%) Oracle
4 64 (3.98%) Google
5 59 (3.67%) SAP
6 50 (3.11%) VMware
7 48 (2.98%) Databricks
8 35 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.18%) Commvault
9 19 (1.18%) Sun
10 15 (0.93%) NEC
11 14 (0.87%) Cisco
12 12 (0.75%) Remedy
13 11 (0.68%) Veeam
13 11 (0.68%) Xamarin
14 10 (0.62%) IBM
14 10 (0.62%) Infor
14 10 (0.62%) Serena
15 9 (0.56%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.56%) BT