PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PDCA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PDCA over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 899 934 1259
Rank change year-on-year +35 +325 -299
Permanent jobs citing PDCA 9 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.001% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.001% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £49,900 - £41,300
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile £63,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

PDCA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90,509 88,622 165,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.69% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,528 53,835 83,218
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,950 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%

PDCA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PDCA in the UK

PDCA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PDCA.

Salary trend for PDCA in the UK

PDCA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PDCA over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PDCA in the UK

PDCA
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PDCA within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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 -47 9 £60,000 - 10
Work from Home - 9 £60,000 - 4
England +55 8 £60,000 - 12
South West - 7 £60,000 - 1
South East - 1 £38,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

PDCA
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Head of IT
1 7 (77.78%) Head of Support
1 7 (77.78%) IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) Head of IT Services
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Controller
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Customer Service
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
1 7 (77.78%) Problem Management
1 7 (77.78%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Co-Creation
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Physics
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Requirements Management
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (33.33%) MCSE
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) SLA
2 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Thales