Continuous Improvement Job Trends in London

Continual Improvement
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 28 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 +8
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,228 1,155 789
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.96% 7.31% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.13% 7.75% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 822 596 600
10th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,025
25th Percentile £53,875 £57,500 £57,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £119,060 £107,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.67% -4.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Continuous Improvement 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 in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Central London +8 254 £75,000 - 340
East London -6 24 £105,000 +13.51% 26
West London -3 21 £40,000 -47.71% 26
South London +4 14 £62,645 +1.62% 12
North London 0 1 £42,500 -5.56% 5
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 46 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.04%) Confluence
4 13 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.65%) CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) nginx
8 4 (0.33%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.33%) Appian
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) MTS
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.081%) Luigi
11 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.81%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.49%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.41%) Trello
8 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.24%) Sketch
10 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.081%) InVision
11 1 (0.081%) Maya
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.81%) Elite 3E
2 10 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) SAP FS
4 7 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.57%) Shopify
5 5 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.24%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.24%) Sage CRM
8 2 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 289 (23.53%) Azure
2 213 (17.35%) AWS
3 117 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
4 104 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 100 (8.14%) SaaS
6 87 (7.08%) GCP
7 55 (4.48%) GitHub
8 54 (4.40%) Entra ID
9 48 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (3.58%) Serverless
11 34 (2.77%) Power Automate
12 29 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (2.28%) Figma
14 27 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (2.12%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.87%) PaaS
16 23 (1.87%) PowerApps
17 22 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
17 22 (1.79%) OneDrive
18 20 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.01%) Firewall
2 21 (1.71%) DHCP
3 20 (1.63%) DNS
3 20 (1.63%) WAN
4 19 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.47%) Network Security
5 18 (1.47%) VPN
6 14 (1.14%) LAN
7 13 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.81%) Broadband
9 9 (0.73%) VoIP
10 6 (0.49%) WebEx
10 6 (0.49%) Wireless
11 4 (0.33%) AMQP
11 4 (0.33%) HTTP
11 4 (0.33%) RTP
12 3 (0.24%) SSL
12 3 (0.24%) VLAN
13 2 (0.16%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.16%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (7.08%) Power BI
2 63 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 38 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 36 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.44%) MySQL
7 25 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.22%) Tableau
10 14 (1.14%) Power Query
11 13 (1.06%) Big Data
11 13 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 12 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (0.98%) BigQuery
12 12 (0.98%) DataStage
12 12 (0.98%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.98%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.90%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.90%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 87 (7.08%) JIRA
2 59 (4.80%) Git
3 28 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.14%) Selenium
5 13 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.98%) GitLab
7 10 (0.81%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.73%) webpack
9 8 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.57%) JMeter
10 7 (0.57%) Vite
11 5 (0.41%) gulp
12 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.33%) Postman
12 4 (0.33%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.24%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.16%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 597 (48.62%) Social Skills
2 415 (33.79%) Finance
3 276 (22.48%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (11.73%) Legal
5 129 (10.50%) Law
6 124 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (8.31%) Banking
8 87 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
9 70 (5.70%) Retail
10 65 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
10 65 (5.29%) Marketing
11 63 (5.13%) Public Sector
12 40 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.44%) Financial Institution
15 29 (2.36%) French Language
16 24 (1.95%) Aviation
16 24 (1.95%) Billing
17 23 (1.87%) Fire and Rescue
17 23 (1.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 198 (16.12%) Lead
2 165 (13.44%) Senior
3 146 (11.89%) Analyst
4 123 (10.02%) Developer
5 60 (4.89%) Architect
6 52 (4.23%) Service Manager
7 42 (3.42%) Senior Manager
8 41 (3.34%) Support Engineer
9 40 (3.26%) Business Analyst
10 39 (3.18%) Software Engineer
11 36 (2.93%) Consultant
12 34 (2.77%) Data Analyst
12 34 (2.77%) Operations Manager
13 30 (2.44%) Senior Developer
14 29 (2.36%) IT Manager
15 28 (2.28%) Project Manager
16 27 (2.20%) Applications Support
17 25 (2.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 25 (2.04%) Python Developer
17 25 (2.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.86%) .NET
2 66 (5.37%) React
3 52 (4.23%) RESTful
4 49 (3.99%) HTML
5 47 (3.83%) CSS
6 43 (3.50%) Node.js
7 39 (3.18%) REST
8 21 (1.71%) OAuth
9 20 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 20 (1.63%) Django
9 20 (1.63%) Spring
9 20 (1.63%) Spring Boot
10 19 (1.55%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.55%) Kafka
11 17 (1.38%) Vue
12 14 (1.14%) SAML
13 13 (1.06%) GraphQL
13 13 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
14 12 (0.98%) SOAP
15 11 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 85 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 81 (6.60%) Management Information System
4 62 (5.05%) Onboarding
5 58 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 39 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 35 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 34 (2.77%) Data Structures
10 33 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.87%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.79%) Robotics
14 21 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.71%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.63%) Virtual Team
16 19 (1.55%) Public Cloud
17 15 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 88 (7.17%) Windows
2 55 (4.48%) Linux
3 33 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.81%) Unix
7 8 (0.65%) VMS
8 7 (0.57%) Android
8 7 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.24%) SUSE
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.16%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.081%) AIX
12 1 (0.081%) Debian
12 1 (0.081%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (34.04%) Agile
2 350 (28.50%) Problem-Solving
3 212 (17.26%) CI/CD
4 193 (15.72%) Roadmaps
5 186 (15.15%) DevOps
6 178 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 177 (14.41%) Mentoring
8 172 (14.01%) AI
9 159 (12.95%) Analytics
10 156 (12.70%) Decision-Making
11 141 (11.48%) ITIL
12 134 (10.91%) Software Engineering
13 133 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 127 (10.34%) Computer Science
15 126 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
16 125 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
16 125 (10.18%) User Experience
17 120 (9.77%) Collaborative Culture
18 116 (9.45%) Information Security
19 115 (9.36%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 165 (13.44%) Python
2 156 (12.70%) SQL
3 100 (8.14%) Java
4 83 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 70 (5.70%) C#
6 52 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 36 (2.93%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.30%) Bash
9 13 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.81%) Scala
12 9 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.65%) Bicep
13 8 (0.65%) Go
13 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.49%) C++
14 6 (0.49%) PHP
14 6 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 253 (20.60%) Degree
2 74 (6.03%) Security Cleared
3 71 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (5.29%) CISSP
5 52 (4.23%) CISM
6 50 (4.07%) Master's Degree
7 40 (3.26%) SC Cleared
8 35 (2.85%) CISA
9 33 (2.69%) DV Cleared
10 31 (2.52%) CRISC
11 28 (2.28%) PMI Certification
12 26 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (2.12%) PMP
13 20 (1.63%) Azure Certification
14 17 (1.38%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.81%) MCSE
17 9 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (9.53%) QA
2 112 (9.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (6.35%) Accessibility
4 70 (5.70%) Data Quality
5 64 (5.21%) GDPR
6 53 (4.32%) NIST
7 31 (2.52%) SLA
8 29 (2.36%) GRC
9 22 (1.79%) PMO
10 21 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (1.63%) SOC 2
12 18 (1.47%) WCAG
13 14 (1.14%) PCI DSS
14 13 (1.06%) IFRS
15 12 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.81%) COBIT
18 9 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.73%) SEPA
18 9 (0.73%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 73 (5.94%) Docker
3 20 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.49%) Firmware
6 5 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.24%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (6.60%) Terraform
2 80 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 58 (4.72%) Ansible
4 54 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.47%) Grafana
8 15 (1.22%) SCCM
9 7 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.41%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.33%) Argo
11 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.33%) Nagios
12 3 (0.24%) Autotask
12 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.16%) logstash
13 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.16%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 253 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 52 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 42 (3.42%) Oracle
5 38 (3.09%) SAP
6 33 (2.69%) Google
7 29 (2.36%) VMware
8 28 (2.28%) Adobe
9 25 (2.04%) Workday
10 21 (1.71%) Guidewire
11 18 (1.47%) Cisco
12 16 (1.30%) Foundry
12 16 (1.30%) Palantir
12 16 (1.30%) Talend
13 15 (1.22%) Databricks
13 15 (1.22%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.22%) Informatica
13 15 (1.22%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 12 (0.98%) HP