Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Central London

Continual Improvement
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 125 94 98
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.16% 4.36% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 4.72% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 48 60
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £455 £484 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £754 £697
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -63.33% -
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £18.50 £26.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.85% -56.67% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Continuous Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 1,993 2,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.50% 92.40% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,246 1,676
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £755 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 21
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.41 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.85 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £38.63 £38.94 £38.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £105.18 £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Central London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +11 115 £525 -6.67% 101
Southwark +2 3 £595 +58.67% 2
City of Westminster -5 2 £773 +40.45%
West End of London +9 1 £773 +12.36% 5
Continuous Improvement
London

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.80%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) Appian
5 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.60%) Trello
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.60%) Summit
2 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.80%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.80%) Azure
2 19 (15.20%) AWS
3 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.00%) GCP
5 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.00%) SaaS
6 4 (3.20%) GitHub
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.40%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) DNS
1 4 (3.20%) VPN
2 3 (2.40%) DHCP
2 3 (2.40%) Firewall
3 2 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.60%) Modbus
4 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.80%) LAN
4 1 (0.80%) WAN
4 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) Power BI
1 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.40%) MySQL
3 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.40%) Redis
4 2 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Spatial Data
4 2 (1.60%) Tableau
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.80%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.80%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 21 (16.80%) JIRA
2 4 (3.20%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.20%) Selenium
3 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.40%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.40%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) JUnit
4 2 (1.60%) Postman
4 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.80%) Maven
5 1 (0.80%) Mockito
5 1 (0.80%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.80%) Subversion
5 1 (0.80%) TestRail
5 1 (0.80%) Xcode
General
1 63 (50.40%) Social Skills
2 47 (37.60%) Finance
3 29 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.20%) Banking
4 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.20%) Legal
6 7 (5.60%) Retail
7 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.40%) Marketing
9 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.60%) Back Office
10 2 (1.60%) Front Office
10 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (14.40%) Analyst
2 16 (12.80%) Lead
3 14 (11.20%) Senior
4 11 (8.80%) Developer
5 10 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.60%) Architect
6 7 (5.60%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.00%) Consultant
7 5 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.20%) Designer
8 4 (3.20%) Product Manager
9 3 (2.40%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.40%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (2.40%) Lead Architect
9 3 (2.40%) Scrum Master
9 3 (2.40%) Security Specialist
9 3 (2.40%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.40%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.40%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) .NET
1 6 (4.80%) REST
2 4 (3.20%) CSS
2 4 (3.20%) HTML
2 4 (3.20%) React
2 4 (3.20%) SOAP
3 3 (2.40%) Node.js
3 3 (2.40%) Spring
3 3 (2.40%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.40%) XML
4 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.60%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.60%) JPA
4 2 (1.60%) Middleware
4 2 (1.60%) RESTful
5 1 (0.80%) CSS3
5 1 (0.80%) Kafka
5 1 (0.80%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.80%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.80%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.60%) CMDB
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.60%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.60%) Life Science
6 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.60%) SCADA
6 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Linux
3 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (39.20%) Agile
2 40 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (26.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (25.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (19.20%) Roadmaps
6 22 (17.60%) DevOps
7 20 (16.00%) Project Delivery
8 19 (15.20%) ITIL
9 17 (13.60%) Project Management
10 16 (12.80%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.40%) Customer Experience
11 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
11 13 (10.40%) Service Delivery
12 12 (9.60%) AI
12 12 (9.60%) Scrum
13 11 (8.80%) Analytics
13 11 (8.80%) Backlog Management
13 11 (8.80%) Business Analysis
13 11 (8.80%) Risk Management
14 10 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.40%) Python
1 13 (10.40%) SQL
2 12 (9.60%) Java
3 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.40%) Bash
5 3 (2.40%) C#
6 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.80%) Groovy
7 1 (0.80%) Korn
7 1 (0.80%) PHP
7 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.80%) R
7 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (11.20%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.40%) Degree
2 13 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.40%) CCNA
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.40%) CISM
6 3 (2.40%) CISSP
6 3 (2.40%) CRISC
6 3 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.60%) CASP
7 2 (1.60%) CBAP
7 2 (1.60%) CCNP
7 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.60%) GSEC
7 2 (1.60%) ISEB
7 2 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.60%) SLA
4 6 (4.80%) GDPR
5 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.20%) GRC
6 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.60%) PMO
7 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.80%) Basel III
8 1 (0.80%) EMIR
8 1 (0.80%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.80%) MiFID
8 1 (0.80%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.80%) NIST
8 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.80%) Ansible
3 6 (4.80%) Terraform
4 2 (1.60%) SCCM
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.80%) Packer
5 1 (0.80%) vRealize
5 1 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.20%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle
4 7 (5.60%) SAP
5 5 (4.00%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) IBM
6 3 (2.40%) Informatica
6 3 (2.40%) VMware
7 2 (1.60%) Ariba
7 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.60%) Murex
7 2 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.60%) Remedy
7 2 (1.60%) Rockwell
7 2 (1.60%) Workday
8 1 (0.80%) Databricks
8 1 (0.80%) Datto
8 1 (0.80%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.80%) Tenable