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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 212 229
Rank change year-on-year +81 +17 +55
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 2,167 1,790 2,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.17% 1.81% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 1.89% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 917 1,462
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,750 £36,144
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% +12.75%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +8.42%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 +77 1,979 £55,000 -8.33% 711
UK excluding London +46 1,467 £50,000 -4.76% 519
Work from Home +52 768 £55,000 -4.35% 298
London +128 599 £70,000 +7.69% 242
Midlands +51 435 £52,500 +5.00% 115
North of England +54 337 £47,500 -5.00% 131
South East -4 312 £45,000 -21.74% 126
West Midlands +38 276 £54,000 +5.37% 79
South West +42 170 £52,396 -0.20% 56
North West +18 165 £47,500 -4.04% 71
East Midlands +40 137 £40,000 -20.00% 36
Yorkshire +61 121 £45,000 -14.29% 42
East of England +25 99 £50,000 -13.04% 59
Scotland -51 69 £55,380 +18.30% 28
North East +39 51 £42,500 -5.56% 22
Wales +15 25 £44,302 +16.20% 23
Northern Ireland +38 22 £37,500 -16.67% 4

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 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.78%) Confluence
3 17 (0.78%) SAS
4 11 (0.51%) CMS
5 9 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.28%) IBM Notes
6 6 (0.28%) IIS
7 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.23%) WordPress
8 4 (0.18%) Apache
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.092%) Luigi
10 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.092%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.046%) Drupal
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 418 (19.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 288 (13.29%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.28%) Simulink
7 4 (0.18%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.18%) SPSS
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.14%) InDesign
8 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.14%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 37 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.74%) SAP FI
4 14 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 13 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 12 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
8 10 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
9 9 (0.42%) SAP BPC
10 7 (0.32%) Primavera
10 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.23%) Fidessa
11 5 (0.23%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.18%) SAP GTS
12 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 204 (9.41%) Power Platform
2 202 (9.32%) Azure
3 139 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (5.45%) AWS
5 84 (3.88%) SaaS
6 63 (2.91%) GCP
7 51 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (1.62%) PowerApps
9 30 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 29 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
11 23 (1.06%) Entra ID
12 21 (0.97%) Power Automate
12 21 (0.97%) Serverless
13 20 (0.92%) Amazon S3
14 18 (0.83%) OCI
15 16 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (0.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 184 (8.49%) Broadband
2 57 (2.63%) Firewall
3 35 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.43%) WAN
5 28 (1.29%) Network Security
6 26 (1.20%) DNS
6 26 (1.20%) LAN
7 21 (0.97%) VPN
8 14 (0.65%) Internet
8 14 (0.65%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (0.42%) VoIP
10 7 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.32%) Wireless
11 6 (0.28%) DHCP
11 6 (0.28%) HTTP
12 5 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
13 4 (0.18%) FTP
13 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (8.17%) Power BI
2 76 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (2.17%) Tableau
5 41 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.11%) NoSQL
7 23 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 20 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (0.88%) MySQL
10 18 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
11 17 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.74%) Data Mining
13 15 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.65%) SAP BW
15 13 (0.60%) Big Data
15 13 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
17 11 (0.51%) Metadata
17 11 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 112 (5.17%) JIRA
2 34 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.38%) Git
4 18 (0.83%) Selenium
5 12 (0.55%) 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 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.32%) gulp
8 7 (0.32%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.28%) webpack
10 5 (0.23%) MSTest
10 5 (0.23%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.18%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 833 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 691 (31.89%) Finance
3 421 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (12.74%) Legal
5 249 (11.49%) Marketing
6 225 (10.38%) Banking
7 186 (8.58%) Advertising
8 148 (6.83%) Military
9 147 (6.78%) Law
10 119 (5.49%) Retail
11 105 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
12 103 (4.75%) Manufacturing
13 99 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 82 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
15 72 (3.32%) Public Sector
16 64 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
17 57 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
18 39 (1.80%) Fire and Rescue
19 33 (1.52%) Telecoms
20 28 (1.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 490 (22.61%) Analyst
2 358 (16.52%) Lead
3 357 (16.47%) Senior
4 151 (6.97%) Graduate
5 149 (6.88%) Senior Analyst
6 126 (5.81%) Business Analyst
7 104 (4.80%) Project Manager
8 93 (4.29%) IT Manager
9 85 (3.92%) Consultant
10 64 (2.95%) Developer
11 58 (2.68%) Architect
12 53 (2.45%) Data Analyst
13 40 (1.85%) Business Manager
13 40 (1.85%) Senior Manager
14 38 (1.75%) IT Analyst
15 37 (1.71%) Team Leader
16 36 (1.66%) IT Support
17 30 (1.38%) Change Manager
17 30 (1.38%) Technical Analyst
18 29 (1.34%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.41%) .NET
2 51 (2.35%) REST
3 36 (1.66%) Web Services
4 34 (1.57%) React
5 33 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 32 (1.48%) HTML
7 29 (1.34%) JSON
7 29 (1.34%) XML
8 21 (0.97%) CSS
8 21 (0.97%) Node.js
9 17 (0.78%) .NET Core
9 17 (0.78%) AngularJS
10 16 (0.74%) SignalR
10 16 (0.74%) WCF
10 16 (0.74%) WF
11 15 (0.69%) FastAPI
11 15 (0.69%) Flask
12 14 (0.65%) Gherkin
13 13 (0.60%) Middleware
13 13 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 247 (11.40%) Onboarding
2 184 (8.49%) Marketing Technology
3 148 (6.83%) Management Information System
4 94 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 39 (1.80%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 28 (1.29%) PMI
8 27 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 25 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.06%) Life Science
10 23 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 20 (0.92%) Credit Risk
11 20 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
13 18 (0.83%) Robotics
13 18 (0.83%) Taxonomies
14 16 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 135 (6.23%) Windows
2 50 (2.31%) Linux
3 27 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.06%) Android
6 16 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.51%) Unix
8 5 (0.23%) CentOS
9 4 (0.18%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (24.97%) Problem-Solving
2 450 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 355 (16.38%) Agile
4 347 (16.01%) Matrix Organization
5 341 (15.74%) Project Management
6 330 (15.23%) Customer Service
7 310 (14.31%) Analytics
8 281 (12.97%) Data Analysis
9 242 (11.17%) Logistics
10 239 (11.03%) Business Case
10 239 (11.03%) Data Management
11 223 (10.29%) Data Collection
12 210 (9.69%) Regulatory Change
13 205 (9.46%) Coaching
14 201 (9.28%) Use Case
15 200 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
15 200 (9.23%) Customer Experience
16 192 (8.86%) Data Strategy
17 191 (8.81%) Digital Marketing
17 191 (8.81%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 259 (11.95%) SQL
2 127 (5.86%) Python
3 87 (4.01%) C#
4 59 (2.72%) Java
5 52 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 48 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 36 (1.66%) T-SQL
8 23 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.97%) R
10 17 (0.78%) MATLAB
11 14 (0.65%) Scala
12 13 (0.60%) Bash
13 11 (0.51%) VBA
14 10 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.32%) C++
16 6 (0.28%) C
16 6 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.23%) Groovy
17 5 (0.23%) Perl
17 5 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 610 (28.15%) Degree
2 69 (3.18%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.35%) Master's Degree
4 47 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 45 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 39 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.11%) CISSP
9 24 (1.11%) PMP
10 23 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.02%) APMP
12 21 (0.97%) CEH
12 21 (0.97%) DBS Check
13 20 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 19 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.78%) MCSE
15 17 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.61%) GDPR
2 140 (6.46%) QA
3 121 (5.58%) Data Quality
4 63 (2.91%) SLA
5 34 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 23 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.06%) PMO
8 22 (1.02%) Good Clinical Practice
9 20 (0.92%) NIST
10 17 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.65%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.55%) ITGC
13 11 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.46%) CDISC
15 9 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 8 (0.37%) GRC
17 7 (0.32%) ISO 14001
17 7 (0.32%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.32%) ISO 9002
System Software
1 81 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 39 (1.80%) Docker
3 35 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.32%) Firmware
9 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (1.43%) Kubernetes
1 31 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (1.06%) Terraform
3 17 (0.78%) Ansible
4 14 (0.65%) Nmap
5 8 (0.37%) Kiali
6 5 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.23%) logstash
7 4 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.14%) SCCM
8 3 (0.14%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (0.092%) Argo
9 2 (0.092%) Autotask
9 2 (0.092%) Grafana
9 2 (0.092%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.046%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 397 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.01%) SAP
3 70 (3.23%) Oracle
4 60 (2.77%) Google
5 45 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 43 (1.98%) VMware
7 30 (1.38%) Splunk
8 23 (1.06%) Cisco
9 21 (0.97%) IFS
10 17 (0.78%) Qualys
11 14 (0.65%) IBM
11 14 (0.65%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.65%) Thycotic
12 12 (0.55%) 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