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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +43
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 133 103 113
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.78% 4.32% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 4.72% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 58 70
10th Percentile £350 £372 £400
25th Percentile £454 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £686 £684
90th Percentile £775 £783 £701
London median daily rate £536 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -4.88% -1.96% -
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% -19.30%

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 1,808 2,181 2,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.10% 91.52% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,366 1,812
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 18
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -50.00%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.13 £51.44
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £67.63
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £36.28
% change year-on-year -20.81% +2.67% -9.30%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +7 119 £528 -8.17% 89
Southwark +2 3 £595 +58.67% 1
City of Westminster -4 3 £699 +27.05% 11
West End of London +10 2 £699 +1.64% 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 9 (6.77%) Confluence
1 9 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Appian
3 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.76%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.31%) Azure
2 17 (12.78%) AWS
3 11 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.01%) GCP
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub
7 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.01%) SaaS
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.26%) Serverless
8 3 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) DNS
1 3 (2.26%) Firewall
1 3 (2.26%) VPN
2 2 (1.50%) DHCP
2 2 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.50%) Modbus
3 1 (0.75%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.75%) LAN
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) WAN
3 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) Power BI
2 5 (3.76%) Redis
3 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.26%) MySQL
4 3 (2.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.50%) Airbyte
5 2 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.50%) Metadata
5 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.50%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) Power Query
6 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (15.79%) JIRA
2 10 (7.52%) Git
3 7 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.51%) Postman
4 6 (4.51%) REST Assured
5 5 (3.76%) SoapUI
6 4 (3.01%) JUnit
6 4 (3.01%) Selenium
6 4 (3.01%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.26%) GitLab
7 3 (2.26%) Maven
7 3 (2.26%) Mockito
7 3 (2.26%) Subversion
7 3 (2.26%) Xcode
7 3 (2.26%) XCTest
8 2 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.50%) TestRail
General
1 63 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 57 (42.86%) Finance
3 31 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Banking
5 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.27%) Legal
7 6 (4.51%) Retail
8 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.75%) Automotive
12 1 (0.75%) Back Office
12 1 (0.75%) French Language
12 1 (0.75%) Law
12 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (18.05%) Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Business Analyst
3 15 (11.28%) Developer
3 15 (11.28%) Lead
4 12 (9.02%) Senior
5 8 (6.02%) Consultant
6 5 (3.76%) Architect
6 5 (3.76%) Project Manager
6 5 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.01%) Programme Manager
7 4 (3.01%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (3.01%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.26%) Designer
8 3 (2.26%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.26%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.26%) Product Manager
8 3 (2.26%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (2.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) REST
2 6 (4.51%) .NET
2 6 (4.51%) Spring
3 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.76%) CSS
3 5 (3.76%) HTML
3 5 (3.76%) React
3 5 (3.76%) SOAP
3 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.01%) Hibernate
4 4 (3.01%) JPA
4 4 (3.01%) RESTful
5 3 (2.26%) CSS3
5 3 (2.26%) HTML5
5 3 (2.26%) J2EE
5 3 (2.26%) Kafka
5 3 (2.26%) Node.js
5 3 (2.26%) OAuth
5 3 (2.26%) Spring MVC
5 3 (2.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.01%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.26%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.26%) SCADA
5 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.50%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.50%) Life Science
5 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.02%) Windows
2 6 (4.51%) Unix
3 5 (3.76%) Linux
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.75%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.61%) Agile
2 44 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (25.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (18.80%) DevOps
6 22 (16.54%) Roadmaps
7 20 (15.04%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 16 (12.03%) Project Management
10 14 (10.53%) Scrum
11 13 (9.77%) Analytics
12 12 (9.02%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.02%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (8.27%) Business Analysis
13 11 (8.27%) ITIL
13 11 (8.27%) Mentoring
13 11 (8.27%) Risk Management
14 10 (7.52%) AI
14 10 (7.52%) SDLC
14 10 (7.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.29%) SQL
2 16 (12.03%) Java
3 15 (11.28%) Python
4 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.01%) Bash
6 4 (3.01%) C#
7 3 (2.26%) Groovy
7 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.26%) VBA
8 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) Korn
9 1 (0.75%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) PromQL
9 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) Degree
2 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.26%) CCNA
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.50%) CBAP
7 2 (1.50%) CCNP
7 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.50%) ISEB
7 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.50%) PMP
7 2 (1.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.75%) APMG
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.77%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) GDPR
2 6 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.50%) GRC
5 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.50%) PMO
5 2 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Basel II
6 1 (0.75%) Basel III
6 1 (0.75%) COBIT
6 1 (0.75%) COSO
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.75%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.75%) NIST
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.27%) Docker
2 6 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.02%) Terraform
3 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.76%) Ansible
5 2 (1.50%) Grafana
5 2 (1.50%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.50%) Packer
5 2 (1.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.75%) Consul
6 1 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) Oracle
2 8 (6.02%) SAP
2 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.26%) Ariba
5 3 (2.26%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.26%) Informatica
6 2 (1.50%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.50%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) HP
6 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.50%) Remedy
6 2 (1.50%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.50%) VMware
6 2 (1.50%) Workday
7 1 (0.75%) Xactly