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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 +21
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,728 4,999 8,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.81% 4.82% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.76% 5.04% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,235 2,900 3,767
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,963 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £44,372
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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%

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 3 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 3 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 +29 4,445 £52,500 -0.94% 1,562
England +25 4,276 £57,500 -4.17% 1,988
Work from Home +5 1,611 £60,000 +0.80% 706
Scotland +37 1,045 £55,000 -8.73% 129
London +9 1,020 £73,000 +0.69% 540
North of England +45 963 £52,500 - 442
Midlands +17 841 £52,500 - 269
South East +4 717 £52,500 -12.50% 333
West Midlands +16 633 £53,500 +1.42% 170
North West +45 523 £51,000 -2.86% 247
South West +13 464 £52,396 +4.79% 188
Yorkshire +38 338 £60,000 +12.15% 149
East of England +6 234 £55,000 +10.00% 168
East Midlands +11 197 £47,500 -5.00% 99
Wales +42 156 £51,997 +16.41% 66
North East +27 102 £45,000 +20.00% 58
Northern Ireland +42 28 £67,500 +50.00% 19
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 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 162 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 133 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 126 (2.20%) Confluence
5 83 (1.45%) Apache
6 35 (0.61%) FileNet
6 35 (0.61%) SAS
7 28 (0.49%) CMS
8 27 (0.47%) IIS
9 16 (0.28%) nginx
10 13 (0.23%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.19%) WordPress
12 10 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
13 9 (0.16%) Drupal
14 7 (0.12%) Appian
15 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.087%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.087%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.070%) NServiceBus
18 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 542 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
2 419 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 138 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.73%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) Simulink
9 5 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
9 5 (0.087%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.087%) SPSS
10 4 (0.070%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.070%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.070%) Trello
11 3 (0.052%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.052%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.052%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.052%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 39 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.59%) 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
5 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.14%) Magento
8 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 8 (0.14%) Shopify
9 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.10%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.10%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.10%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.10%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.10%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 895 (15.63%) Azure
2 815 (14.23%) AWS
3 382 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 354 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
5 185 (3.23%) GCP
6 173 (3.02%) SaaS
7 166 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
9 112 (1.96%) Serverless
10 108 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
11 97 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 80 (1.40%) GitHub
12 80 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 74 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 67 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 64 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
18 54 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
19 52 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.50%) Firewall
2 95 (1.66%) DNS
3 81 (1.41%) WAN
4 77 (1.34%) SAN
5 75 (1.31%) LAN
6 67 (1.17%) VoIP
7 62 (1.08%) Internet
7 62 (1.08%) VPN
8 52 (0.91%) VLAN
9 50 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (0.82%) TCP/IP
11 45 (0.79%) DHCP
11 45 (0.79%) Network Security
12 36 (0.63%) Broadband
13 31 (0.54%) SNMP
13 31 (0.54%) Wireless
14 28 (0.49%) Intranet
15 27 (0.47%) HTTP
16 26 (0.45%) BGP
16 26 (0.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (6.20%) NoSQL
2 314 (5.48%) Power BI
3 239 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 200 (3.49%) Big Data
5 161 (2.81%) Hadoop
6 119 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 113 (1.97%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.87%) Apache Hive
9 104 (1.82%) MySQL
10 89 (1.55%) Tableau
11 86 (1.50%) HBase
12 76 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
13 69 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 64 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
16 50 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
16 50 (0.87%) Power Query
17 45 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
18 42 (0.73%) RDBMS
18 42 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 287 (5.01%) Git
2 286 (4.99%) JIRA
3 218 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 96 (1.68%) JUnit
5 86 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 65 (1.13%) Selenium
7 54 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 38 (0.66%) WebDriver
9 35 (0.61%) GitLab
10 32 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 30 (0.52%) Android Studio
12 27 (0.47%) Jasmine
12 27 (0.47%) Visual Studio
13 21 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
13 21 (0.37%) Maven
13 21 (0.37%) Protractor
13 21 (0.37%) Subversion
14 16 (0.28%) Cucumber
15 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,235 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 2,038 (35.58%) Finance
3 1,181 (20.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,135 (19.81%) Law
5 1,123 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
6 823 (14.37%) Legal
7 401 (7.00%) Marketing
8 385 (6.72%) Influencing Skills
9 364 (6.35%) Banking
10 356 (6.22%) Manufacturing
11 323 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
12 262 (4.57%) Retail
13 248 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
14 218 (3.81%) Public Sector
15 130 (2.27%) Investment Banking
16 124 (2.16%) Telecoms
17 113 (1.97%) Military
18 74 (1.29%) Local Government
19 71 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
20 66 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 877 (15.31%) Software Engineer
2 698 (12.19%) Analyst
3 615 (10.74%) Lead
4 568 (9.92%) Senior
5 518 (9.04%) Developer
6 320 (5.59%) Java Engineer
7 306 (5.34%) Java Software Engineer
8 247 (4.31%) Project Manager
9 220 (3.84%) Graduate
10 217 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
11 200 (3.49%) Architect
12 198 (3.46%) IT Engineer
12 198 (3.46%) IT Manager
13 197 (3.44%) AWS Software Engineer
14 191 (3.33%) Data Engineer
15 139 (2.43%) Full Stack Engineer
16 134 (2.34%) Product Analyst
17 133 (2.32%) Big Data Engineer
17 133 (2.32%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 132 (2.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (5.69%) React
2 294 (5.13%) Spring
3 262 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 259 (4.52%) HTML
5 253 (4.42%) .NET
6 229 (4.00%) CSS
7 177 (3.09%) Node.js
8 163 (2.85%) JSON
9 152 (2.65%) Kafka
10 148 (2.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 140 (2.44%) RESTful
12 139 (2.43%) Web Services
13 123 (2.15%) XML
14 122 (2.13%) J2EE
15 114 (1.99%) JMS
16 111 (1.94%) Spring Boot
17 101 (1.76%) REST
18 99 (1.73%) Hibernate
18 99 (1.73%) jQuery
19 75 (1.31%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 790 (13.79%) Algorithms
2 386 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 382 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 226 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 222 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 216 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 143 (2.50%) FMCG
8 105 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 79 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 70 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 63 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 62 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 59 (1.03%) Clustering
16 58 (1.01%) Mobile App
17 48 (0.84%) Legacy Code
18 44 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
19 43 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
19 43 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 433 (7.56%) Windows
2 247 (4.31%) Linux
3 203 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 143 (2.50%) Unix
5 87 (1.52%) Android
5 87 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 55 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 46 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 18 (0.31%) Windows 7
11 18 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (0.26%) VMS
13 13 (0.23%) AIX
13 13 (0.23%) CentOS
13 13 (0.23%) SUSE
13 13 (0.23%) Windows 8
14 11 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
15 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,208 (38.55%) Agile
2 1,647 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 1,141 (19.92%) Software Engineering
4 1,095 (19.12%) CI/CD
5 972 (16.97%) SDLC
6 947 (16.53%) Visualisation
7 840 (14.66%) Project Management
8 804 (14.04%) Artificial Intelligence
9 766 (13.37%) Risk Management
10 750 (13.09%) Machine Learning
11 709 (12.38%) Community of Practice
12 703 (12.27%) Operational Stability
13 607 (10.60%) Customer Service
14 601 (10.49%) Mentoring
15 576 (10.06%) DevOps
16 499 (8.71%) Coaching
17 495 (8.64%) Project Delivery
18 470 (8.21%) Decision-Making
19 462 (8.07%) Roadmaps
20 451 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 952 (16.62%) SQL
2 790 (13.79%) Java
3 664 (11.59%) Python
4 367 (6.41%) JavaScript
5 304 (5.31%) C#
6 205 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 172 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 138 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 102 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 77 (1.34%) Scala
11 62 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 60 (1.05%) Bash
12 60 (1.05%) PHP
13 53 (0.93%) C
14 42 (0.73%) Bicep
14 42 (0.73%) C++
15 31 (0.54%) VB
16 25 (0.44%) R
16 25 (0.44%) VBA
17 24 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,387 (24.21%) Degree
2 193 (3.37%) Security Cleared
3 188 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 139 (2.43%) Master's Degree
5 117 (2.04%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 97 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 94 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 68 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 64 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 64 (1.12%) PMP
10 59 (1.03%) HNC
11 58 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 57 (1.00%) HND
12 57 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 56 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 48 (0.84%) CISSP
15 36 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 33 (0.58%) CISM
16 33 (0.58%) DV Cleared
16 33 (0.58%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (7.44%) QA
2 164 (2.86%) SLA
3 148 (2.58%) GDPR
4 144 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 110 (1.92%) PMO
6 93 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 80 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.27%) ISO 9001
9 62 (1.08%) 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 20 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 20 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.33%) GRC
16 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.31%) ISO 22301
18 13 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 300 (5.24%) Active Directory
2 215 (3.75%) Docker
3 143 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.64%) HDFS
5 60 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 44 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 36 (0.63%) vSphere
8 31 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.40%) Firmware
10 20 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.23%) vCloud
12 6 (0.10%) DFS Replication
12 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.087%) XenApp
14 4 (0.070%) pfSense
15 3 (0.052%) Ceph
15 3 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.035%) IAG
16 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 302 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 254 (4.43%) Terraform
3 85 (1.48%) Grafana
4 74 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (1.17%) Ansible
6 45 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 41 (0.72%) SCCM
8 36 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 33 (0.58%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.49%) Puppet
11 25 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.38%) Nagios
13 20 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 18 (0.31%) NetBackup
15 17 (0.30%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
18 11 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 10 (0.17%) Graphite
Vendors
1 1,008 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 283 (4.94%) Oracle
3 261 (4.56%) Databricks
4 202 (3.53%) VMware
5 198 (3.46%) SAP
6 148 (2.58%) Google
7 145 (2.53%) Cisco
8 111 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 109 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 86 (1.50%) Informatica
11 70 (1.22%) Citrix
12 64 (1.12%) Cloudera
13 57 (1.00%) Splunk
14 54 (0.94%) Dynatrace
15 52 (0.91%) Alteryx
16 50 (0.87%) Veeam
17 48 (0.84%) HP
18 32 (0.56%) Commvault
19 28 (0.49%) IBM
19 28 (0.49%) Meraki