Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,692 4,875 8,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.78% 4.80% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 5.02% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,211 2,811 3,742
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,680 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £76,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London +32 4,426 £52,500 - 1,771
England +24 4,246 £57,500 -4.17% 2,296
Work from Home +3 1,598 £62,261 +4.60% 806
Scotland +44 1,039 £55,000 -8.33% 128
London +8 1,005 £73,000 +0.69% 629
North of England +46 961 £52,500 +5.00% 490
Midlands +16 840 £52,500 - 321
South East +3 715 £52,500 -12.50% 383
West Midlands +18 632 £53,500 +1.90% 209
North West +45 524 £51,000 -2.86% 281
South West +12 455 £52,396 +4.79% 207
Yorkshire +39 334 £60,000 +14.29% 160
East of England +3 234 £55,000 +10.00% 201
East Midlands +8 197 £47,500 -5.00% 112
Wales +47 156 £51,997 +16.41% 73
North East +27 103 £45,000 +18.42% 60
Northern Ireland +44 28 £67,500 +50.00% 20
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

Continuous 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
1 215 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 161 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 131 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 124 (2.18%) Confluence
5 82 (1.44%) Apache
6 35 (0.61%) FileNet
6 35 (0.61%) SAS
7 28 (0.49%) CMS
8 24 (0.42%) IIS
9 15 (0.26%) nginx
10 13 (0.23%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.19%) WordPress
12 10 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
13 9 (0.16%) Drupal
14 7 (0.12%) Appian
15 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.088%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.088%) Tomcat
17 3 (0.053%) NServiceBus
17 3 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 539 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
2 415 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 136 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.74%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) Simulink
9 5 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
9 5 (0.088%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.088%) SPSS
10 4 (0.070%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.070%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.070%) Trello
11 3 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.053%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.053%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 40 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.33%) NEC Housing
4 16 (0.28%) iTrent
4 16 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
6 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.14%) Magento
9 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
9 8 (0.14%) Shopify
10 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.088%) HFM
11 5 (0.088%) Hyperion Planning
11 5 (0.088%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.070%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.070%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.070%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 894 (15.71%) Azure
2 815 (14.32%) AWS
3 382 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 348 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 184 (3.23%) GCP
6 172 (3.02%) SaaS
7 164 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
9 111 (1.95%) Serverless
10 107 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
11 96 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 81 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 80 (1.41%) GitHub
14 74 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (1.21%) Power Automate
16 68 (1.19%) Amazon S3
17 64 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
18 57 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
20 52 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (2.48%) Firewall
2 96 (1.69%) DNS
3 79 (1.39%) WAN
4 76 (1.34%) SAN
5 73 (1.28%) LAN
6 67 (1.18%) VoIP
7 61 (1.07%) Internet
8 57 (1.00%) VPN
9 51 (0.90%) VLAN
10 50 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 48 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 47 (0.83%) DHCP
13 45 (0.79%) Network Security
14 36 (0.63%) Broadband
15 31 (0.54%) SNMP
16 30 (0.53%) Wireless
17 28 (0.49%) Intranet
18 27 (0.47%) HTTP
19 26 (0.46%) NAS
20 25 (0.44%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (6.22%) NoSQL
2 312 (5.48%) Power BI
3 235 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 199 (3.50%) Big Data
5 161 (2.83%) Hadoop
6 118 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 113 (1.99%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.88%) Apache Hive
9 103 (1.81%) MySQL
10 89 (1.56%) Tableau
11 86 (1.51%) HBase
12 76 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
13 68 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 64 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
16 50 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
17 49 (0.86%) Power Query
18 45 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
19 42 (0.74%) RDBMS
19 42 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 286 (5.02%) Git
2 283 (4.97%) JIRA
3 217 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.72%) JUnit
5 86 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
6 66 (1.16%) Selenium
7 54 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 36 (0.63%) WebDriver
9 34 (0.60%) GitLab
10 32 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 30 (0.53%) Android Studio
12 27 (0.47%) Jasmine
12 27 (0.47%) Visual Studio
13 21 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
13 21 (0.37%) Protractor
14 20 (0.35%) Maven
14 20 (0.35%) Subversion
15 17 (0.30%) Cucumber
16 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,223 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 2,018 (35.45%) Finance
3 1,182 (20.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,134 (19.92%) Law
5 1,109 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
6 822 (14.44%) Legal
7 402 (7.06%) Marketing
8 384 (6.75%) Influencing Skills
9 353 (6.20%) Banking
9 353 (6.20%) Manufacturing
10 325 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
11 257 (4.52%) Retail
12 248 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
13 223 (3.92%) Public Sector
14 129 (2.27%) Investment Banking
15 123 (2.16%) Telecoms
16 113 (1.99%) Military
17 73 (1.28%) Local Government
18 70 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 66 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 876 (15.39%) Software Engineer
2 694 (12.19%) Analyst
3 608 (10.68%) Lead
4 562 (9.87%) Senior
5 515 (9.05%) Developer
6 320 (5.62%) Java Engineer
7 306 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 239 (4.20%) Project Manager
9 220 (3.87%) Graduate
10 218 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
11 199 (3.50%) Architect
12 197 (3.46%) AWS Software Engineer
12 197 (3.46%) IT Manager
13 195 (3.43%) IT Engineer
14 191 (3.36%) Data Engineer
15 139 (2.44%) Full Stack Engineer
16 134 (2.35%) Product Analyst
17 133 (2.34%) Big Data Engineer
17 133 (2.34%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 132 (2.32%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (5.71%) React
2 293 (5.15%) Spring
3 261 (4.59%) AngularJS
3 261 (4.59%) HTML
4 254 (4.46%) .NET
5 230 (4.04%) CSS
6 177 (3.11%) Node.js
7 159 (2.79%) JSON
8 153 (2.69%) Kafka
9 148 (2.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 140 (2.46%) RESTful
11 137 (2.41%) Web Services
12 122 (2.14%) J2EE
12 122 (2.14%) XML
13 114 (2.00%) JMS
14 109 (1.91%) Spring Boot
15 99 (1.74%) jQuery
15 99 (1.74%) REST
16 98 (1.72%) Hibernate
17 74 (1.30%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 790 (13.88%) Algorithms
2 384 (6.75%) Management Information System
3 382 (6.71%) Onboarding
4 225 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 222 (3.90%) Cloud Native
6 215 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 141 (2.48%) FMCG
8 104 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.41%) Driving Licence
11 79 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 68 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 63 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 61 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 60 (1.05%) Clustering
16 59 (1.04%) Mobile App
17 48 (0.84%) Legacy Code
18 44 (0.77%) NHS
19 43 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
19 43 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 429 (7.54%) Windows
2 248 (4.36%) Linux
3 198 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 143 (2.51%) Unix
5 87 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 86 (1.51%) Android
7 55 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 43 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 26 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 18 (0.32%) Windows 7
12 17 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 14 (0.25%) VMS
14 13 (0.23%) AIX
14 13 (0.23%) CentOS
14 13 (0.23%) Windows 8
15 12 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,188 (38.44%) Agile
2 1,641 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
3 1,136 (19.96%) Software Engineering
4 1,094 (19.22%) CI/CD
5 971 (17.06%) SDLC
6 939 (16.50%) Visualisation
7 833 (14.63%) Project Management
8 804 (14.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 770 (13.53%) Risk Management
10 749 (13.16%) Machine Learning
11 712 (12.51%) Community of Practice
12 703 (12.35%) Operational Stability
13 608 (10.68%) Customer Service
14 601 (10.56%) Mentoring
15 575 (10.10%) DevOps
16 498 (8.75%) Coaching
17 489 (8.59%) Project Delivery
18 465 (8.17%) Decision-Making
19 461 (8.10%) Roadmaps
20 451 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 949 (16.67%) SQL
2 786 (13.81%) Java
3 668 (11.74%) Python
4 368 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 303 (5.32%) C#
6 200 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 171 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 138 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 101 (1.77%) T-SQL
10 77 (1.35%) Scala
11 62 (1.09%) Bash
12 61 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 60 (1.05%) PHP
14 53 (0.93%) C
15 42 (0.74%) C++
16 41 (0.72%) Bicep
17 30 (0.53%) VB
18 25 (0.44%) R
19 24 (0.42%) Go
19 24 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,379 (24.23%) Degree
2 195 (3.43%) Security Cleared
3 185 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 137 (2.41%) Master's Degree
5 117 (2.06%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 99 (1.74%) SC Cleared
7 98 (1.72%) PMI Certification
8 69 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 68 (1.19%) PMP
10 64 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 59 (1.04%) HNC
12 58 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 57 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 56 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
15 54 (0.95%) HND
16 50 (0.88%) CISSP
17 36 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
18 32 (0.56%) ACCA
18 32 (0.56%) CISM
18 32 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (7.45%) QA
2 163 (2.86%) SLA
3 151 (2.65%) GDPR
4 144 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (1.91%) PMO
6 97 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 81 (1.42%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.28%) ISO 9001
9 61 (1.07%) NIST
10 56 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.61%) ISO 14001
12 32 (0.56%) IFRS
13 27 (0.47%) NEBOSH
14 23 (0.40%) NCSC
15 19 (0.33%) GRC
15 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 19 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.32%) ISO 22301
17 13 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
17 13 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 296 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 213 (3.74%) Docker
3 138 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.65%) HDFS
5 59 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.60%) vSphere
8 31 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.40%) Firmware
10 18 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.21%) vCloud
12 6 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.088%) XenApp
14 4 (0.070%) pfSense
15 3 (0.053%) Ceph
15 3 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.035%) IAG
16 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 300 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 257 (4.52%) Terraform
3 86 (1.51%) Grafana
4 74 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 69 (1.21%) Ansible
6 45 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 42 (0.74%) SCCM
8 38 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 33 (0.58%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.49%) Puppet
11 25 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.39%) Nagios
13 20 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 18 (0.32%) NetBackup
15 17 (0.30%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
17 12 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
18 11 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,004 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 283 (4.97%) Oracle
3 260 (4.57%) Databricks
4 197 (3.46%) VMware
5 194 (3.41%) SAP
6 148 (2.60%) Google
7 144 (2.53%) Cisco
8 110 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 108 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 86 (1.51%) Informatica
11 68 (1.19%) Citrix
12 64 (1.12%) Cloudera
13 57 (1.00%) Splunk
14 55 (0.97%) Dynatrace
15 52 (0.91%) Alteryx
16 49 (0.86%) Veeam
17 45 (0.79%) HP
18 32 (0.56%) Commvault
19 28 (0.49%) IBM
19 28 (0.49%) Meraki