Continuous Improvement Job Trends in South London

Continual Improvement
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 42 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 13 45 31
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 2.77% 7.80% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 8.01% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 27
10th Percentile - £42,881 £36,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £51,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £61,644 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +29.78% -7.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,272 £61,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £67,054 £65,950
London median annual salary £76,000 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 409 562 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 87.21% 97.40% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 171 181 282
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% -6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in South London

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in South London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in South London

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Croydon +11 7 £35,500 -42.41% 5
Kingston Upon Thames -5 4 £71,250 +66.16% 2
Bromley +13 2 £61,000 - 13
Merton - 1 £77,500 - 7
Continuous Improvement
London

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.69%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure App Service
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Manager
1 5 (38.46%) IT Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Monitoring Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) AI
3 5 (38.46%) CRM
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Log Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Trend Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Management
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) City & Guilds
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) IIBA
3 1 (7.69%) MAPM
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) NEBOSH
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk