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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +46
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 135 100 108
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.66% 4.30% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 4.66% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 55 70
10th Percentile £359 £363 £400
25th Percentile £456 £469 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £745 £696
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.09% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £20.18 - -
25th Percentile £22.15 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £26.44 £22.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.16% -63.33% -
75th Percentile £31.72 - £65.00
90th Percentile £34.29 - -
London median hourly rate £18.50 £33.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -45.19% -43.75% -7.69%

All Process and 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 1,834 2,144 2,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.43% 92.22% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,345 1,726
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £46.53 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £36.65 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.05% +12.77% -15.72%

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 26 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Central London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Central London

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 26 December 2025. 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 +11 120 £525 -6.67% 183
Southwark +2 3 £595 +58.67% 2
City of Westminster -2 3 £699 +27.05% 1
West End of London +8 2 £699 +1.64% 3
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 9 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.19%) Confluence
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) Appian
4 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.70%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.48%) Trello
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.74%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.74%) Summit
3 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.74%) Azure
2 19 (14.07%) AWS
3 11 (8.15%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (3.70%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.70%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.96%) GCP
7 4 (2.96%) GitHub
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.96%) SaaS
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.22%) Serverless
8 3 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) DNS
1 3 (2.22%) Firewall
1 3 (2.22%) VPN
2 2 (1.48%) DHCP
2 2 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.48%) Modbus
3 1 (0.74%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.74%) LAN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.19%) Power BI
2 5 (3.70%) Redis
3 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.22%) MySQL
4 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.48%) Airbyte
5 2 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.48%) Metadata
5 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.48%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.48%) Tableau
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.74%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Power Query
6 1 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 22 (16.30%) JIRA
2 7 (5.19%) Git
3 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.70%) Postman
4 5 (3.70%) REST Assured
4 5 (3.70%) SoapUI
5 4 (2.96%) JUnit
5 4 (2.96%) Selenium
5 4 (2.96%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.22%) GitLab
6 3 (2.22%) Maven
6 3 (2.22%) Mockito
6 3 (2.22%) Subversion
6 3 (2.22%) Xcode
6 3 (2.22%) XCTest
7 2 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
General
1 63 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 56 (41.48%) Finance
3 30 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.33%) Banking
5 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.41%) Legal
7 8 (5.93%) Retail
8 6 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.96%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.22%) Marketing
12 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.74%) Back Office
13 1 (0.74%) French Language
13 1 (0.74%) Front Office
13 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (16.30%) Analyst
2 14 (10.37%) Business Analyst
2 14 (10.37%) Developer
2 14 (10.37%) Lead
2 14 (10.37%) Senior
3 8 (5.93%) Project Manager
4 7 (5.19%) Architect
5 6 (4.44%) Consultant
6 5 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (2.96%) Designer
7 4 (2.96%) Product Manager
7 4 (2.96%) Programme Manager
7 4 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (2.96%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (2.96%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.22%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.22%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.22%) Senior Manager
8 3 (2.22%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) .NET
1 6 (4.44%) REST
2 5 (3.70%) CSS
2 5 (3.70%) HTML
2 5 (3.70%) SOAP
2 5 (3.70%) Spring
2 5 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.96%) Hibernate
3 4 (2.96%) JPA
3 4 (2.96%) React
3 4 (2.96%) RESTful
4 3 (2.22%) CSS3
4 3 (2.22%) HTML5
4 3 (2.22%) J2EE
4 3 (2.22%) Kafka
4 3 (2.22%) Node.js
4 3 (2.22%) OAuth
4 3 (2.22%) Spring MVC
4 3 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.22%) SCADA
7 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.48%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.48%) Life Science
7 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Windows
2 5 (3.70%) Linux
2 5 (3.70%) Unix
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.74%) Agile
2 42 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (17.78%) Roadmaps
6 22 (16.30%) DevOps
6 22 (16.30%) Project Delivery
7 21 (15.56%) Project Management
8 17 (12.59%) CI/CD
9 16 (11.85%) ITIL
10 14 (10.37%) Decision-Making
10 14 (10.37%) Scrum
11 13 (9.63%) Analytics
11 13 (9.63%) Customer Experience
12 12 (8.89%) Mentoring
13 11 (8.15%) AI
13 11 (8.15%) Business Analysis
13 11 (8.15%) Strategic Thinking
14 10 (7.41%) Data Analysis
14 10 (7.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.59%) SQL
2 14 (10.37%) Java
2 14 (10.37%) Python
3 9 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.22%) Bash
5 3 (2.22%) C#
5 3 (2.22%) Groovy
5 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.22%) VBA
6 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.74%) Korn
7 1 (0.74%) PHP
7 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) Degree
3 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) CCNA
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) PMP
6 2 (1.48%) CBAP
6 2 (1.48%) CCNP
6 2 (1.48%) ISEB
6 2 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) GDPR
2 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.44%) SLA
3 5 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.22%) PMO
6 2 (1.48%) GRC
6 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.74%) Basel III
7 1 (0.74%) COBIT
7 1 (0.74%) COSO
7 1 (0.74%) EMIR
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.74%) MiFID
7 1 (0.74%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.44%) Terraform
4 5 (3.70%) Ansible
5 2 (1.48%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.48%) SCCM
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.89%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.67%) Oracle
3 9 (6.67%) SAP
4 8 (5.93%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.96%) Google
6 3 (2.22%) Ariba
6 3 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.22%) IBM
6 3 (2.22%) Informatica
6 3 (2.22%) Splunk
7 2 (1.48%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.48%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.48%) HP
7 2 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.48%) Remedy
7 2 (1.48%) Rockwell
7 2 (1.48%) VMware
7 2 (1.48%) Workday