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 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 56 60 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +47
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,626 1,948 3,840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.68% 5.06% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 5.28% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,207 1,358 2,007
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 £79,375 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
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 1 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 61 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.85%) SAS
4 24 (1.48%) Confluence
5 15 (0.92%) IIS
6 14 (0.86%) CMS
7 12 (0.74%) nginx
8 8 (0.49%) WordPress
9 5 (0.31%) Appian
10 4 (0.25%) Apache
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.062%) Luigi
12 1 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 117 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.68%) 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%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.11%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.74%) iTrent
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.62%) Infor SunSystems
5 10 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.49%) 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 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.18%) 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
1 374 (23.00%) Azure
2 184 (11.32%) Power Platform
3 167 (10.27%) AWS
4 146 (8.98%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (4.49%) GCP
5 73 (4.49%) SaaS
6 55 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
7 47 (2.89%) Serverless
8 46 (2.83%) Entra ID
9 39 (2.40%) PowerApps
10 36 (2.21%) Power Automate
11 34 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 32 (1.97%) Matillion
13 25 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (1.54%) Snowflake
14 22 (1.35%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.23%) GitHub
16 19 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.34%) DNS
2 36 (2.21%) Firewall
3 29 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.66%) Broadband
5 26 (1.60%) LAN
6 25 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (1.48%) WAN
8 22 (1.35%) HTTP
9 15 (0.92%) Internet
10 11 (0.68%) DHCP
10 11 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
11 10 (0.62%) 5G
11 10 (0.62%) SAN
11 10 (0.62%) tcpdump
12 9 (0.55%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.55%) RS-232
12 9 (0.55%) SNMP
13 8 (0.49%) FTP
13 8 (0.49%) VLAN
14 7 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (9.10%) Power BI
2 102 (6.27%) SQL Server
3 50 (3.08%) Tableau
4 46 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.64%) Data Lake
6 36 (2.21%) MySQL
6 36 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.66%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.35%) Metadata
9 20 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (0.80%) InfluxDB
11 13 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.74%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 75 (4.61%) JIRA
2 71 (4.37%) Git
3 50 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.35%) TeamCity
5 14 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.74%) Selenium
7 11 (0.68%) MLflow
8 10 (0.62%) Eclipse
9 9 (0.55%) Postman
10 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.49%) GitLab
11 7 (0.43%) webpack
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%) Maven
General
1 694 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 451 (27.74%) Finance
3 305 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (9.72%) Legal
5 119 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (7.01%) Public Sector
7 113 (6.95%) Retail
8 66 (4.06%) Marketing
9 62 (3.81%) Banking
10 60 (3.69%) Law
11 50 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 34 (2.09%) Local Government
15 31 (1.91%) Electronics
15 31 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (1.60%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (1.35%) Fire and Rescue
19 20 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (16.36%) Senior
2 252 (15.50%) Developer
3 243 (14.94%) Lead
4 242 (14.88%) Analyst
5 78 (4.80%) Senior Developer
6 64 (3.94%) Architect
7 60 (3.69%) Project Manager
8 56 (3.44%) Software Developer
9 50 (3.08%) IT Manager
10 48 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 45 (2.77%) Lead Developer
12 42 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (2.34%) Consultant
14 38 (2.34%) Data Engineer
15 37 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
16 36 (2.21%) C# Developer
17 33 (2.03%) Software Engineer
18 32 (1.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 30 (1.85%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (7.44%) .NET
2 80 (4.92%) HTML
3 75 (4.61%) CSS
4 73 (4.49%) RESTful
5 67 (4.12%) React
6 51 (3.14%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.71%) Web Services
8 34 (2.09%) Node.js
8 34 (2.09%) XML
9 33 (2.03%) .NET Framework
10 29 (1.78%) JSON
11 28 (1.72%) PySpark
12 27 (1.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 22 (1.35%) Entity Framework
13 22 (1.35%) JWT
14 21 (1.29%) ASP.NET
15 19 (1.17%) Kafka
15 19 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (1.11%) .NET Core
17 17 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 111 (6.83%) Management Information System
2 87 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.21%) Mobile App
5 36 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.15%) CMDB
7 34 (2.09%) Clustering
8 32 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.85%) Social Media
10 28 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 25 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.23%) Driving Licence
14 19 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.05%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (9.84%) Windows
2 68 (4.18%) Linux
3 66 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.03%) Android
5 32 (1.97%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.41%) 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 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.62%) Solaris
11 7 (0.43%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.062%) CentOS
13 1 (0.062%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.062%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (34.87%) Agile
2 498 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
3 299 (18.39%) Mentoring
4 273 (16.79%) Project Management
5 255 (15.68%) DevOps
6 221 (13.59%) Coaching
7 211 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 194 (11.93%) Project Delivery
9 182 (11.19%) Scrum
10 166 (10.21%) CI/CD
11 159 (9.78%) Customer Service
12 151 (9.29%) Analytics
12 151 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
13 144 (8.86%) Decision-Making
14 136 (8.36%) Change Management
15 134 (8.24%) Service Delivery
16 128 (7.87%) ITIL
17 118 (7.26%) Collaborative Culture
17 118 (7.26%) Software Engineering
18 117 (7.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 254 (15.62%) SQL
2 133 (8.18%) C#
3 130 (8.00%) Python
4 100 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 84 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 77 (4.74%) Java
7 58 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 33 (2.03%) Bash
10 26 (1.60%) PHP
11 24 (1.48%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.05%) VBA
13 14 (0.86%) RPG
14 13 (0.80%) C
15 12 (0.74%) Swift
16 11 (0.68%) C++
17 9 (0.55%) R
18 8 (0.49%) Perl
18 8 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 338 (20.79%) Degree
2 95 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 60 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 52 (3.20%) PMI Certification
5 48 (2.95%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.34%) PMP
7 35 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 32 (1.97%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.35%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.86%) CISSP
13 14 (0.86%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.74%) APMG
16 10 (0.62%) HND
16 10 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.49%) ACCA
17 8 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (12.24%) QA
2 70 (4.31%) GDPR
3 53 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (3.08%) PMO
5 38 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.34%) SLA
6 25 (1.54%) IFRS
7 23 (1.41%) ISO 9001
8 22 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (1.29%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.92%) NIST
11 13 (0.80%) ISO 14001
12 12 (0.74%) Good Clinical Practice
13 11 (0.68%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.55%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.43%) NEBOSH
16 6 (0.37%) IFRS 9
17 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.31%) GRC
17 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (5.72%) Docker
2 82 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.62%) 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 (0.062%) Ceph
10 1 (0.062%) Snort
10 1 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 99 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 67 (4.12%) Terraform
3 43 (2.64%) Ansible
4 38 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (2.09%) Grafana
6 27 (1.66%) vCenter Server
7 18 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
9 16 (0.98%) Puppet
10 14 (0.86%) Nagios
11 9 (0.55%) SCCM
12 8 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.49%) Graphite
12 8 (0.49%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.31%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.25%) Istio
16 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 376 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 68 (4.18%) Oracle
3 66 (4.06%) ServiceNow
4 59 (3.63%) SAP
5 54 (3.32%) Google
6 53 (3.26%) Databricks
7 48 (2.95%) VMware
8 38 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.17%) Commvault
9 19 (1.17%) Sun
10 18 (1.11%) NEC
11 15 (0.92%) Cisco
12 14 (0.86%) Remedy
13 12 (0.74%) BT
14 11 (0.68%) Veeam
14 11 (0.68%) Xamarin
15 10 (0.62%) IBM
15 10 (0.62%) Infor
15 10 (0.62%) Serena
15 10 (0.62%) Virgin Media