Process Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 206 228
Rank change year-on-year +73 +22 +56
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 2,136 1,855 2,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.16% 1.83% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.91% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 946 1,445
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £35,720
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Process 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement.

Salary trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
England +70 1,950 £55,000 -8.33% 654
UK excluding London +36 1,439 £50,000 -4.76% 476
Work from Home +39 759 £55,000 -4.35% 293
London +123 595 £70,000 +7.69% 204
Midlands +35 400 £52,500 +5.00% 95
North of England +52 341 £47,500 -5.00% 119
South East -18 314 £45,000 -18.18% 111
West Midlands +20 251 £53,250 +1.43% 64
South West +45 170 £52,396 -6.85% 62
North West +24 168 £47,500 -4.04% 70
East Midlands +32 127 £44,000 -12.00% 31
Yorkshire +63 123 £45,000 -17.88% 31
East of England +35 101 £50,000 -13.04% 58
Scotland -53 68 £56,440 +20.56% 29
North East +39 50 £47,500 +5.56% 22
Wales +15 26 £42,000 +20.00% 17
Northern Ireland +43 21 £37,500 -16.67% 9

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 128 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 48 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.80%) Confluence
4 15 (0.70%) SAS
5 11 (0.51%) CMS
6 9 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.33%) IIS
8 6 (0.28%) IBM Notes
9 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.23%) WordPress
10 4 (0.19%) Apache
10 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.094%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.094%) Luigi
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.094%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.047%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.047%) Drupal
13 1 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 402 (18.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 273 (12.78%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.28%) Simulink
8 4 (0.19%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.14%) InDesign
9 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.14%) SPSS
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 37 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.12%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 14 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
5 13 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.56%) SAP CO
6 12 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
8 9 (0.42%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.33%) Primavera
9 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.23%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.23%) SAP WM
10 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.19%) SAP GTS
11 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 202 (9.46%) Power Platform
2 196 (9.18%) Azure
3 140 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (5.43%) AWS
5 86 (4.03%) SaaS
6 66 (3.09%) GCP
7 44 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (1.64%) PowerApps
9 31 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 29 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (1.08%) Entra ID
13 21 (0.98%) Power Automate
13 21 (0.98%) Serverless
14 19 (0.89%) Amazon S3
15 18 (0.84%) OCI
16 16 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 184 (8.61%) Broadband
2 57 (2.67%) Firewall
3 36 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.50%) WAN
5 28 (1.31%) Network Security
6 26 (1.22%) LAN
7 25 (1.17%) DNS
8 23 (1.08%) VPN
9 15 (0.70%) Internet
10 14 (0.66%) Wireshark
11 9 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.42%) VoIP
12 8 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.33%) Wireless
14 6 (0.28%) HTTP
15 5 (0.23%) DHCP
15 5 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
16 4 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.19%) FTP
16 4 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (8.19%) Power BI
2 73 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 52 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 44 (2.06%) Tableau
5 24 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 22 (1.03%) DynamoDB
7 19 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (0.89%) MySQL
8 18 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
10 15 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 14 (0.66%) Data Mining
11 14 (0.66%) SAP BW
11 14 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.61%) Big Data
13 12 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.51%) Metadata
14 11 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 111 (5.20%) JIRA
2 33 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.45%) Git
4 18 (0.84%) Selenium
5 12 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 9 (0.42%) Postman
6 9 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.37%) Jaeger
7 8 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.33%) gulp
8 7 (0.33%) WebDriver
8 7 (0.33%) webpack
9 5 (0.23%) MSTest
9 5 (0.23%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 836 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 697 (32.63%) Finance
3 410 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (12.45%) Legal
5 252 (11.80%) Marketing
6 228 (10.67%) Banking
7 186 (8.71%) Advertising
8 148 (6.93%) Law
9 127 (5.95%) Military
10 105 (4.92%) Manufacturing
10 105 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (4.87%) Retail
12 98 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 82 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
14 76 (3.56%) Public Sector
15 65 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 39 (1.83%) Fire and Rescue
18 35 (1.64%) Telecoms
19 29 (1.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 482 (22.57%) Analyst
2 358 (16.76%) Senior
3 355 (16.62%) Lead
4 149 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
5 130 (6.09%) Graduate
6 115 (5.38%) Business Analyst
7 104 (4.87%) Project Manager
8 94 (4.40%) IT Manager
9 85 (3.98%) Consultant
10 63 (2.95%) Developer
11 57 (2.67%) Architect
12 53 (2.48%) Data Analyst
13 41 (1.92%) Business Manager
13 41 (1.92%) IT Analyst
14 40 (1.87%) Senior Manager
15 37 (1.73%) IT Support
16 36 (1.69%) Team Leader
17 33 (1.54%) Change Manager
18 32 (1.50%) Data Engineer
19 31 (1.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.37%) .NET
2 52 (2.43%) REST
3 37 (1.73%) Web Services
4 35 (1.64%) HTML
5 34 (1.59%) React
6 32 (1.50%) .NET Framework
7 29 (1.36%) JSON
7 29 (1.36%) XML
8 23 (1.08%) CSS
9 22 (1.03%) Node.js
10 17 (0.80%) .NET Core
11 16 (0.75%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.75%) SignalR
11 16 (0.75%) WCF
11 16 (0.75%) WF
12 15 (0.70%) FastAPI
12 15 (0.70%) Flask
13 14 (0.66%) Gherkin
14 13 (0.61%) Middleware
14 13 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 225 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 184 (8.61%) Marketing Technology
3 151 (7.07%) Management Information System
4 95 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 39 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.31%) PMI
8 26 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.03%) Credit Risk
11 21 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 19 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
12 19 (0.89%) Robotics
12 19 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (0.84%) Taxonomies
14 17 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (0.75%) Life Science
16 14 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.18%) Windows
2 50 (2.34%) Linux
3 25 (1.17%) Windows 10
4 23 (1.08%) Android
4 23 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.51%) Unix
7 5 (0.23%) CentOS
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
9 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
2 437 (20.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 356 (16.67%) Agile
4 347 (16.25%) Matrix Organization
5 340 (15.92%) Project Management
6 313 (14.65%) Customer Service
7 307 (14.37%) Analytics
8 262 (12.27%) Data Analysis
9 239 (11.19%) Data Management
10 237 (11.10%) Business Case
11 223 (10.44%) Data Collection
12 210 (9.83%) Regulatory Change
13 208 (9.74%) Logistics
14 201 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
15 200 (9.36%) Use Case
16 192 (8.99%) Coaching
16 192 (8.99%) Digital Marketing
17 191 (8.94%) Risk Management
18 190 (8.90%) Data Strategy
19 180 (8.43%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 261 (12.22%) SQL
2 128 (5.99%) Python
3 89 (4.17%) C#
4 59 (2.76%) Java
5 51 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 50 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 38 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 24 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.94%) R
10 16 (0.75%) MATLAB
11 14 (0.66%) Scala
12 13 (0.61%) Bash
13 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.47%) VBA
14 8 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.33%) C
15 7 (0.33%) C++
16 6 (0.28%) Ruby
17 5 (0.23%) Groovy
17 5 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 565 (26.45%) Degree
2 65 (3.04%) Security Cleared
3 48 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (2.15%) PMI Certification
5 45 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 28 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 24 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.08%) PMP
12 22 (1.03%) APMP
12 22 (1.03%) CISSP
13 21 (0.98%) DBS Check
14 20 (0.94%) CEH
14 20 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 19 (0.89%) AWS Certification
16 17 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
16 17 (0.80%) MCSE
17 16 (0.75%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (7.68%) GDPR
2 125 (5.85%) QA
3 124 (5.81%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.00%) SLA
5 33 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 24 (1.12%) PMO
8 23 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 22 (1.03%) Good Clinical Practice
10 19 (0.89%) NIST
11 15 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.66%) ISO 9001
13 12 (0.56%) ITGC
14 10 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.47%) CDISC
15 9 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 8 (0.37%) GRC
17 7 (0.33%) ISO 14001
17 7 (0.33%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 82 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 37 (1.73%) Docker
3 36 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.33%) Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 21 (0.98%) Terraform
4 16 (0.75%) Ansible
5 14 (0.66%) Nmap
6 8 (0.37%) Kiali
7 5 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.23%) logstash
8 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
9 3 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.14%) SCCM
10 2 (0.094%) Argo
10 2 (0.094%) Autotask
10 2 (0.094%) Grafana
11 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.047%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 397 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.07%) SAP
3 70 (3.28%) Oracle
4 60 (2.81%) Google
5 47 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.01%) VMware
7 31 (1.45%) Splunk
8 24 (1.12%) Cisco
9 20 (0.94%) IFS
10 17 (0.80%) Qualys
11 14 (0.66%) IBM
11 14 (0.66%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.66%) Thycotic
12 12 (0.56%) Apple
13 11 (0.51%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.42%) Citrix
15 8 (0.37%) Adobe
15 8 (0.37%) Allen-Bradley
15 8 (0.37%) Bloomberg
15 8 (0.37%) Workday