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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 33 61
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +6
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,431 965 987
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.41% 7.48% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 7.78% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 952 545 739
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £59,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% -1.37% +3.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 16,098 12,402 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.39% 96.08% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,521 7,547 16,086
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,042
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +9 273 £80,000 +14.29% 179
West London -19 37 £38,000 -43.84% 27
South London +11 23 £80,000 +29.78% 11
East London -9 15 £105,000 +12.00% 23
North London +6 12 £70,000 +7.69%
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 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (2.73%) Confluence
4 19 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.26%) CMS
6 11 (0.77%) Apache
6 11 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.14%) JBoss
9 2 (0.14%) MTS
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.070%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.28%) Trello
6 3 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.21%) SPSS
7 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.070%) Civil 3D
7 1 (0.070%) InVision
7 1 (0.070%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.070%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.070%) Revit
7 1 (0.070%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (0.70%) Workday HCM
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.35%) Shopify
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.21%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.21%) Sage CRM
8 2 (0.14%) Misys Equation
8 2 (0.14%) Misys Midas
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 371 (25.93%) Azure
2 275 (19.22%) AWS
3 144 (10.06%) GCP
4 142 (9.92%) SaaS
5 104 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 96 (6.71%) GitHub
7 93 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
8 71 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
9 64 (4.47%) Entra ID
10 55 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (3.35%) Serverless
12 47 (3.28%) Power Automate
13 34 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
15 30 (2.10%) PowerApps
16 28 (1.96%) Amazon S3
17 27 (1.89%) Figma
18 25 (1.75%) Datadog
19 24 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
19 24 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.26%) Firewall
2 40 (2.80%) Broadband
3 38 (2.66%) VPN
4 31 (2.17%) WAN
5 27 (1.89%) DNS
5 27 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.47%) DHCP
7 20 (1.40%) Network Security
8 18 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (1.19%) LAN
10 9 (0.63%) VoIP
10 9 (0.63%) Wireless
11 6 (0.42%) VLAN
12 5 (0.35%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.35%) Intranet
12 5 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.28%) BGP
13 4 (0.28%) RTP
14 3 (0.21%) MPLS
14 3 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.94%) Power BI
2 46 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (3.14%) SQL Server
4 29 (2.03%) BigQuery
5 26 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 21 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (1.47%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.12%) Tableau
11 12 (0.84%) Metabase
11 12 (0.84%) Power Query
12 11 (0.77%) MySQL
12 11 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.63%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.56%) Big Data
14 8 (0.56%) Parquet
15 7 (0.49%) Impala
15 7 (0.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (4.40%) JIRA
2 61 (4.26%) Git
3 43 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.54%) GitLab
5 16 (1.12%) Visual Studio
6 12 (0.84%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.56%) JMeter
8 8 (0.56%) Selenium
9 7 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
10 6 (0.42%) Postman
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.28%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.28%) MLflow
12 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 587 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 522 (36.48%) Finance
3 276 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (10.62%) Law
5 146 (10.20%) Banking
6 134 (9.36%) Legal
7 129 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (6.78%) Marketing
9 94 (6.57%) Retail
10 72 (5.03%) Public Sector
11 70 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
13 50 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (2.87%) Financial Institution
15 32 (2.24%) Back Office
16 31 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.61%) Telecoms
18 22 (1.54%) Health Technology
19 20 (1.40%) Games
20 18 (1.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 223 (15.58%) Senior
2 200 (13.98%) Lead
3 157 (10.97%) Analyst
4 120 (8.39%) Developer
5 73 (5.10%) Software Engineer
6 52 (3.63%) Senior Developer
7 51 (3.56%) IT Manager
8 46 (3.21%) Architect
9 45 (3.14%) Consultant
10 41 (2.87%) Senior Manager
11 40 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 36 (2.52%) Python Developer
14 34 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (2.38%) IT Support
14 34 (2.38%) Service Manager
15 33 (2.31%) Applications Manager
15 33 (2.31%) Business Analyst
15 33 (2.31%) Principal Engineer
15 33 (2.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (4.96%) React
2 64 (4.47%) .NET
3 60 (4.19%) Node.js
4 45 (3.14%) REST
4 45 (3.14%) RESTful
5 44 (3.07%) CSS
6 43 (3.00%) HTML
7 35 (2.45%) Django
8 34 (2.38%) Spring
8 34 (2.38%) Spring Boot
9 24 (1.68%) SOAP
10 22 (1.54%) OAuth
11 21 (1.47%) Kafka
12 20 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (1.26%) Playwright
13 18 (1.26%) SAML
14 17 (1.19%) ADO
14 17 (1.19%) JSON
15 16 (1.12%) .NET Core
16 15 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 145 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 108 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 55 (3.84%) Management Information System
4 55 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
5 51 (3.56%) Security Posture
6 47 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 41 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (2.73%) Data Structures
10 35 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (2.31%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.96%) Data Centre
13 23 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.19%) CMDB
14 17 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.05%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.98%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.08%) Windows
2 58 (4.05%) Linux
3 31 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.61%) VMS
5 21 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 21 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.05%) Unix
7 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.42%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.21%) SUSE
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.14%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (29.63%) Agile
2 308 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 307 (21.45%) CI/CD
4 233 (16.28%) Roadmaps
5 230 (16.07%) DevOps
6 220 (15.37%) AI
7 207 (14.47%) Mentoring
8 205 (14.33%) Analytics
9 202 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 162 (11.32%) Decision-Making
11 159 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 155 (10.83%) Software Engineering
13 138 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
14 134 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
15 128 (8.94%) Computer Science
16 125 (8.74%) Change Management
16 125 (8.74%) ITIL
17 115 (8.04%) Test Automation
18 114 (7.97%) User Experience
19 112 (7.83%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 239 (16.70%) Python
2 165 (11.53%) SQL
3 104 (7.27%) Java
4 94 (6.57%) JavaScript
5 70 (4.89%) TypeScript
6 60 (4.19%) PowerShell
7 55 (3.84%) C#
8 26 (1.82%) Bash
9 22 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 21 (1.47%) Apex Code
11 20 (1.40%) SOQL
12 17 (1.19%) Go
13 16 (1.12%) Bicep
14 14 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.70%) C++
16 8 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.42%) Rust
19 5 (0.35%) PHP
20 4 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 255 (17.82%) Degree
2 92 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 86 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 63 (4.40%) CISSP
5 59 (4.12%) SC Cleared
6 46 (3.21%) CISM
7 40 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.89%) CISA
9 27 (1.89%) CRISC
9 27 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.19%) ACCA
11 17 (1.19%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.12%) PMP
13 15 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.55%) QA
2 80 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (5.24%) GDPR
4 67 (4.68%) Accessibility
5 61 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 61 (4.26%) SLA
6 50 (3.49%) NIST
7 33 (2.31%) GRC
7 33 (2.31%) PMO
8 28 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 26 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 26 (1.82%) SOC 2
10 24 (1.68%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.54%) WCAG
12 20 (1.40%) ITGC
13 18 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (1.19%) COBIT
15 15 (1.05%) IFRS
16 10 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 98 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 92 (6.43%) Docker
3 29 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.35%) Firmware
5 5 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.28%) vSphere
7 3 (0.21%) IAG
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 129 (9.01%) Terraform
2 109 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 70 (4.89%) Ansible
4 40 (2.80%) Grafana
5 35 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.98%) SCCM
8 13 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.49%) CASB
10 7 (0.49%) Podman
11 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.28%) Argo
12 4 (0.28%) Packer
13 3 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.21%) Rancher
14 2 (0.14%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.14%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.14%) SmoothWall
14 2 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 238 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.31%) ServiceNow
3 71 (4.96%) Google
4 69 (4.82%) Oracle
5 53 (3.70%) SAP
6 48 (3.35%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.61%) Workday
8 22 (1.54%) Zscaler
9 20 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.33%) Adobe
10 19 (1.33%) VMware
11 18 (1.26%) Cisco
12 16 (1.12%) Foundry
12 16 (1.12%) Xero
13 14 (0.98%) IFS
14 12 (0.84%) iManage
14 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.77%) Splunk
15 11 (0.77%) Talend