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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 47 64
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 135 85 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.31% 4.09% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 4.44% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 43 43
10th Percentile £376 £353 £350
25th Percentile £463 £405 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% -7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £641
90th Percentile £775 £748 £713
London median daily rate £525 £575 £559
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.95% -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -63.33% -
75th Percentile £27.75 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £18.50 £30.81 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.94% +2.68% -52.00%

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 1,907 1,913 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.07% 92.02% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,208 1,649
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 27
10th Percentile £19.61 £21.93 £18.16
25th Percentile £24.24 £31.19 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.63 £40.92
90th Percentile £55.82 £55.08 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -16.67%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +21 129 £540 +5.37% 116
Southwark 0 2 £595 +58.67% 2
West End of London +5 1 £773 +23.60% 3
City of Westminster -3 1 £773 +40.45% 4
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 (5.19%) Confluence
2 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) Appian
4 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.44%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.48%) Trello
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.48%) Summit
3 1 (0.74%) Actimize
3 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.00%) Azure
2 18 (13.33%) AWS
3 13 (9.63%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.44%) GitHub
5 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.70%) SaaS
7 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.96%) GCP
7 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.48%) Collibra
9 2 (1.48%) Figma
9 2 (1.48%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.70%) DNS
2 4 (2.96%) DHCP
2 4 (2.96%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) LAN
3 1 (0.74%) NaaS
3 1 (0.74%) NGN
3 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.44%) Power BI
2 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.48%) Metadata
4 2 (1.48%) MySQL
4 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.48%) Redis
4 2 (1.48%) Tableau
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.74%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.74%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.74%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (17.04%) JIRA
2 5 (3.70%) Git
3 4 (2.96%) GitLab
3 4 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.96%) Selenium
4 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.22%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.48%) Postman
5 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.74%) TestRail
6 1 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 65 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 57 (42.22%) Finance
3 33 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.11%) Banking
5 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.41%) Legal
7 8 (5.93%) Retail
8 7 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.48%) Back Office
12 2 (1.48%) Front Office
12 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.48%) Marketing
12 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.74%) French Language
13 1 (0.74%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 22 (16.30%) Analyst
2 21 (15.56%) Lead
3 13 (9.63%) Business Analyst
4 10 (7.41%) Developer
4 10 (7.41%) Senior
5 8 (5.93%) Architect
6 7 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.70%) Product Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Consultant
9 4 (2.96%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.22%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (2.22%) Security Specialist
10 3 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.22%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (2.22%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.22%) Service Manager
10 3 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.22%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (2.22%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) .NET
2 5 (3.70%) REST
3 3 (2.22%) CSS
3 3 (2.22%) HTML
3 3 (2.22%) Kafka
3 3 (2.22%) SOAP
3 3 (2.22%) XML
4 2 (1.48%) Middleware
4 2 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.48%) Playwright
4 2 (1.48%) React
5 1 (0.74%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.74%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.74%) Next.js
5 1 (0.74%) PySpark
5 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.74%) Vert.x
5 1 (0.74%) Vitest
5 1 (0.74%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.48%) CMDB
5 2 (1.48%) Derivative
5 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.48%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.74%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.41%) Windows
2 5 (3.70%) Linux
3 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Solaris
5 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.30%) Agile
2 40 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (25.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (19.26%) Roadmaps
6 25 (18.52%) DevOps
7 20 (14.81%) ITIL
8 18 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 18 (13.33%) Project Management
9 17 (12.59%) CI/CD
9 17 (12.59%) Decision-Making
10 15 (11.11%) AI
10 15 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 14 (10.37%) Analytics
11 14 (10.37%) Migration
12 13 (9.63%) Backlog Management
12 13 (9.63%) Business Analysis
12 13 (9.63%) Process Improvement
12 13 (9.63%) Service Delivery
13 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.11%) Python
1 15 (11.11%) SQL
2 10 (7.41%) Java
2 10 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.96%) C#
4 3 (2.22%) Bash
4 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.74%) PHP
5 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.15%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) CISM
5 3 (2.22%) CISSP
5 3 (2.22%) CRISC
5 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.48%) CASP
6 2 (1.48%) CBAP
6 2 (1.48%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.48%) GIAC
6 2 (1.48%) GSEC
6 2 (1.48%) ISEB
6 2 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.85%) QA
2 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.19%) GDPR
3 7 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.19%) SLA
4 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.96%) GRC
6 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.22%) NIST
6 3 (2.22%) PMO
7 2 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.74%) EMIR
8 1 (0.74%) GAAP
8 1 (0.74%) GMP
8 1 (0.74%) IFRS
8 1 (0.74%) MiFID
8 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (5.19%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.93%) Terraform
2 7 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.44%) Ansible
3 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.22%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.74%) logstash
5 1 (0.74%) Packer
5 1 (0.74%) vRealize
5 1 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.85%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.19%) SAP
5 5 (3.70%) Google
5 5 (3.70%) Oracle
6 3 (2.22%) Informatica
6 3 (2.22%) VMware
7 2 (1.48%) Ariba
7 2 (1.48%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.48%) Databricks
7 2 (1.48%) Foundry
7 2 (1.48%) IBM
7 2 (1.48%) Murex
7 2 (1.48%) Remedy
7 2 (1.48%) Workday
8 1 (0.74%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.74%) Veeam
8 1 (0.74%) Veracode