Continuous Improvement Jobs in the West Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 15 34 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 668 476 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.06% 7.45% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 7.69% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 358 221 268
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £84,964 £77,500 £78,385
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,104 6,186 6,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.82% 96.81% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,200 4,712
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,025 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +18 181 £56,641 +10.52% 57
Warwickshire +11 109 £50,000 -9.09% 25
Staffordshire +21 98 £32,500 -23.53% 30
Shropshire +28 40 £75,000 - 11
Coventry +45 38 £53,750 +2.38% 16
Wolverhampton +30 29 £53,500 +72.58% 13
Solihull +15 26 £43,000 -18.10% 7
Worcestershire -8 13 £35,000 -20.90% 12
Walsall +24 11 £37,500 -28.57% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 10 - - 3
Dudley - 8 £31,000 - 1
Wednesbury - 6 £35,000 - 1
Halesowen - 5 £52,500 - 1
Smethwick - 5 £42,500 -
Bilston - 4 - -
Brierley Hill - 4 - -
Rowley Regis - 4 - -
West Bromwich - 4 - - 1
Willenhall - 4 - -
Tipton - 4 - -
Herefordshire 0 1 £50,000 +21.21% 1
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 28 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.95%) Skype for Business
3 9 (1.35%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) Appian
4 6 (0.90%) IIS
5 5 (0.75%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 255 (38.17%) Microsoft Office
2 122 (18.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.60%) Trello
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.60%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 82 (12.28%) Azure
2 47 (7.04%) Power Platform
3 34 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.49%) AWS
6 28 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (2.84%) SaaS
8 9 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.20%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.05%) GCP
10 7 (1.05%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.75%) npm
12 4 (0.60%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.60%) Google Docs
12 4 (0.60%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.60%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.60%) Serverless
12 4 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.34%) WAN
2 23 (3.44%) Wi-Fi
3 21 (3.14%) LAN
4 15 (2.25%) Firewall
4 15 (2.25%) VoIP
5 14 (2.10%) VLAN
6 13 (1.95%) Skype
7 12 (1.80%) DNS
8 9 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.20%) DHCP
9 8 (1.20%) Network Security
9 8 (1.20%) SAN
10 6 (0.90%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.75%) BGP
11 5 (0.75%) MPLS
11 5 (0.75%) OSPF
12 4 (0.60%) HTTP
12 4 (0.60%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.60%) SNMP
12 4 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.89%) Power BI
2 20 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.10%) MySQL
4 10 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.35%) Data Mining
5 9 (1.35%) Tableau
6 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.20%) Power Query
7 5 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.60%) InfluxDB
8 4 (0.60%) Metadata
8 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.15%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.74%) JIRA
2 24 (3.59%) Git
3 7 (1.05%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.75%) webpack
6 4 (0.60%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 2 (0.30%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.30%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 305 (45.66%) Social Skills
2 195 (29.19%) Analytical Skills
3 148 (22.16%) Finance
4 137 (20.51%) Organisational Skills
5 133 (19.91%) Influencing Skills
6 93 (13.92%) Military
7 50 (7.49%) Retail
8 38 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (4.79%) Law
10 31 (4.64%) Manufacturing
11 24 (3.59%) Legal
12 17 (2.54%) Marketing
13 14 (2.10%) Environmental Health
14 13 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.65%) Automotive
15 11 (1.65%) Public Sector
16 8 (1.20%) Electronics
16 8 (1.20%) Police
16 8 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (30.09%) Analyst
2 120 (17.96%) Product Analyst
3 116 (17.37%) Sales Analyst
4 94 (14.07%) Graduate
5 50 (7.49%) Lead
6 42 (6.29%) Developer
7 31 (4.64%) Senior
8 29 (4.34%) IT Support
9 25 (3.74%) IT Engineer
10 24 (3.59%) IT Manager
11 21 (3.14%) Business Analyst
11 21 (3.14%) Help Desk Analyst
12 18 (2.69%) Project Manager
12 18 (2.69%) Support Engineer
13 15 (2.25%) Consultant
14 14 (2.10%) Operations Engineer
15 13 (1.95%) IT Director
15 13 (1.95%) IT Support Engineer
15 13 (1.95%) IT Support Specialist
15 13 (1.95%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.89%) .NET
2 18 (2.69%) React
3 15 (2.25%) HTML
4 14 (2.10%) CSS
5 12 (1.80%) Node.js
6 11 (1.65%) RESTful
7 9 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.35%) ASP.NET
7 9 (1.35%) jQuery
8 8 (1.20%) EDI
9 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.90%) Jest
10 5 (0.75%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.75%) HTML5
10 5 (0.75%) Laravel
10 5 (0.75%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (0.75%) LESS
10 5 (0.75%) Sass
10 5 (0.75%) Vue
10 5 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (14.82%) Onboarding
2 56 (8.38%) Management Information System
3 36 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.25%) NHS
5 13 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (1.65%) Fat Client
6 11 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.65%) Thin Client
7 10 (1.50%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.50%) SCADA
8 9 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 6 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.75%) IoT
13 4 (0.60%) Photography
13 4 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.19%) Windows
2 31 (4.64%) Windows 10
3 18 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.40%) Android
5 15 (2.25%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.65%) Windows 7
6 11 (1.65%) Windows 8
6 11 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (1.20%) Linux
7 8 (1.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (41.47%) Customer Service
2 227 (33.98%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (22.01%) Agile
4 128 (19.16%) Customer Requirements
5 121 (18.11%) Mathematics
6 120 (17.96%) Data Analysis
7 115 (17.22%) Process Improvement
8 111 (16.62%) Logistics
9 110 (16.47%) Project Management
10 106 (15.87%) Customer Experience
11 99 (14.82%) Creative Thinking
12 94 (14.07%) Performance Metrics
13 93 (13.92%) Contingency Planning
14 70 (10.48%) Service Delivery
15 66 (9.88%) DevOps
16 55 (8.23%) Decision-Making
16 55 (8.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (8.08%) Analytics
17 54 (8.08%) Project Delivery
18 52 (7.78%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (5.69%) SQL
2 32 (4.79%) JavaScript
3 21 (3.14%) C#
4 20 (2.99%) Python
5 14 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (1.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.05%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.05%) VB
8 5 (0.75%) Java
8 5 (0.75%) PHP
9 4 (0.60%) C++
9 4 (0.60%) R
10 3 (0.45%) Dart
11 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.30%) Swift
12 1 (0.15%) ABAP
12 1 (0.15%) C
12 1 (0.15%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 306 (45.81%) Degree
2 16 (2.40%) Security Cleared
3 12 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.65%) Azure Certification
4 11 (1.65%) PMI Certification
5 10 (1.50%) CISSP
6 8 (1.20%) PMP
6 8 (1.20%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.05%) APMG
7 7 (1.05%) CISA
7 7 (1.05%) CRISC
8 6 (0.90%) CISM
8 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.90%) GIAC
9 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.60%) ACCA
10 4 (0.60%) CIMA
10 4 (0.60%) MBA
10 4 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.19%) QA
2 24 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.44%) GDPR
4 18 (2.69%) SLA
5 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.20%) PMO
7 6 (0.90%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.60%) GRC
9 4 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.60%) NIST
10 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.65%) Docker
2 11 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.60%) pfSense
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.65%) SCCM
3 7 (1.05%) Terraform
4 5 (0.75%) Functional Safety
4 5 (0.75%) Grafana
5 4 (0.60%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 127 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.99%) Cisco
3 15 (2.25%) SAP
4 12 (1.80%) VMware
5 11 (1.65%) Dell
5 11 (1.65%) Google
5 11 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.20%) Oracle
7 7 (1.05%) Databricks
8 6 (0.90%) SolarWinds
8 6 (0.90%) Zscaler
9 5 (0.75%) Aruba
9 5 (0.75%) Avaya
9 5 (0.75%) Citrix
9 5 (0.75%) DevExpress
9 5 (0.75%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.75%) Juniper
9 5 (0.75%) Nokia
9 5 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.60%) HP