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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 42 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +26
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 134 89 80
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.51% 4.22% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 4.59% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 43 44
10th Percentile £363 £353 £350
25th Percentile £460 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £531
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.24% -7.61%
75th Percentile £635 £659 £638
90th Percentile £775 £760 £705
London median daily rate £525 £580 £563
% change year-on-year -9.48% +3.11% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £19.71 - -
25th Percentile £20.97 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £23.19 £22.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% -63.33% -
75th Percentile £25.53 - £65.00
90th Percentile £26.86 - -
London median hourly rate £18.50 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -38.33% - -53.85%

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 1,830 1,941 2,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.96% 91.95% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,196 1,661
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.05%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 27
10th Percentile £19.98 £21.93 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.62 £29.79 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -4.10%
75th Percentile £41.89 £40.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £49.83 £55.08 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%

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 7 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 7 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 +17 124 £525 -0.24% 146
Southwark +1 3 £595 +58.67% 2
City of Westminster -3 2 £773 +40.45% 3
West End of London +8 1 £773 +23.60% 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 (5.22%) Confluence
1 7 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.49%) Apache
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) Appian
4 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.49%) Trello
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.49%) Summit
2 1 (0.75%) Actimize
2 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.15%) Azure
2 19 (14.18%) AWS
3 12 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.48%) SaaS
7 4 (2.99%) GCP
7 4 (2.99%) GitHub
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.99%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.24%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.49%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.49%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) DNS
2 4 (2.99%) DHCP
2 4 (2.99%) VPN
3 3 (2.24%) Firewall
4 2 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.49%) Modbus
5 1 (0.75%) Broadband
5 1 (0.75%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) LAN
5 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.75%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) Power BI
1 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.24%) Redis
2 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.49%) Metadata
3 2 (1.49%) MySQL
3 2 (1.49%) Tableau
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.75%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.75%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.75%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (17.16%) JIRA
2 5 (3.73%) Git
2 5 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.99%) REST Assured
3 4 (2.99%) Selenium
4 3 (2.24%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.24%) GitLab
4 3 (2.24%) Postman
4 3 (2.24%) SoapUI
4 3 (2.24%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Mockito
6 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.75%) Subversion
6 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 66 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 55 (41.04%) Finance
3 31 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.19%) Banking
5 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.46%) Legal
7 9 (6.72%) Retail
8 7 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.24%) Marketing
11 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.49%) Back Office
12 2 (1.49%) Front Office
12 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 21 (15.67%) Analyst
2 18 (13.43%) Lead
3 12 (8.96%) Senior
4 11 (8.21%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.46%) Developer
6 8 (5.97%) Architect
7 7 (5.22%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.73%) Product Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Designer
10 4 (2.99%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 3 (2.24%) Security Specialist
11 3 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
11 3 (2.24%) Senior Manager
11 3 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.24%) Systems Analyst
11 3 (2.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.22%) REST
2 6 (4.48%) .NET
3 4 (2.99%) CSS
3 4 (2.99%) HTML
3 4 (2.99%) Kafka
3 4 (2.99%) SOAP
4 3 (2.24%) XML
5 2 (1.49%) Middleware
5 2 (1.49%) Node.js
5 2 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.49%) React
5 2 (1.49%) Spring
5 2 (1.49%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.75%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.75%) JWT
6 1 (0.75%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.75%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.75%) Playwright
6 1 (0.75%) Vitest
6 1 (0.75%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.19%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.49%) CMDB
6 2 (1.49%) Derivative
6 2 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.49%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.49%) Life Science
6 2 (1.49%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.21%) Windows
2 5 (3.73%) Linux
3 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.49%) Unix
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 53 (39.55%) Agile
2 40 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (28.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (22.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 28 (20.90%) Roadmaps
6 23 (17.16%) DevOps
7 20 (14.93%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.18%) ITIL
9 16 (11.94%) CI/CD
9 16 (11.94%) Project Management
10 15 (11.19%) Decision-Making
10 15 (11.19%) Risk Management
11 13 (9.70%) AI
11 13 (9.70%) Backlog Management
11 13 (9.70%) Customer Experience
12 12 (8.96%) Business Analysis
12 12 (8.96%) Migration
12 12 (8.96%) Scrum
12 12 (8.96%) Service Delivery
13 11 (8.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.19%) SQL
2 13 (9.70%) Python
3 11 (8.21%) Java
4 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.24%) Bash
6 3 (2.24%) C#
7 1 (0.75%) Groovy
7 1 (0.75%) PHP
7 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) Degree
4 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.24%) CCNA
7 3 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.24%) CISM
7 3 (2.24%) CISSP
7 3 (2.24%) CRISC
7 3 (2.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.49%) CASP
8 2 (1.49%) CBAP
8 2 (1.49%) CCNP
8 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.49%) GSEC
8 2 (1.49%) ISEB
8 2 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.70%) QA
2 8 (5.97%) GDPR
2 8 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.22%) SLA
4 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.99%) GRC
6 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.49%) NIST
7 2 (1.49%) PMO
7 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.75%) EMIR
8 1 (0.75%) GAAP
8 1 (0.75%) GMP
8 1 (0.75%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.75%) MiFID
8 1 (0.75%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (5.97%) Docker
2 7 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.48%) Ansible
3 6 (4.48%) Terraform
4 3 (2.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.75%) logstash
5 1 (0.75%) Packer
5 1 (0.75%) vRealize
5 1 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.19%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.21%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.22%) SAP
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle
6 5 (3.73%) Google
7 3 (2.24%) Informatica
7 3 (2.24%) VMware
7 3 (2.24%) Workday
8 2 (1.49%) Ariba
8 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.49%) IBM
8 2 (1.49%) Murex
8 2 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.49%) Remedy
8 2 (1.49%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.75%) Marketo
9 1 (0.75%) Veracode