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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 +52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 124 95 113
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.67% 4.09% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 4.45% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 53 75
10th Percentile £281 £400 £400
25th Percentile £365 £484 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% +8.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £675
90th Percentile £783 £775 £698
London median daily rate £526 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.18 - -
25th Percentile £22.15 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £26.44 - £60.00
75th Percentile £31.72 - £65.00
90th Percentile £34.29 - -
London median hourly rate £19.44 £41.88 £41.50
% change year-on-year -53.59% +0.90% -44.43%

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 1,745 2,134 2,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.87% 91.78% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,336 1,887
10th Percentile £331 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £811
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 19
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.86 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%
75th Percentile £38.88 £74.38 £52.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £124.75 £69.75
London median hourly rate £30.25 £38.29 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.99% +2.09% -1.15%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 3 November 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 +16 109 £515 -13.99% 336
Southwark +3 3 £595 +58.67% 2
City of Westminster -2 3 £699 +52.90% 9
West End of London +7 2 £699 - 6
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 6 (4.84%) Confluence
1 6 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Appian
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Endur
2 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.81%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.81%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.77%) Azure
2 18 (14.52%) AWS
3 11 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.65%) SaaS
6 6 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.03%) GitHub
8 4 (3.23%) GCP
8 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.42%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.42%) Serverless
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.61%) IaaS
10 2 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) Firewall
1 2 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (1.61%) LAN
1 2 (1.61%) Modbus
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) VPN
2 1 (0.81%) WAN
2 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) Power BI
2 6 (4.84%) Redis
3 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.23%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.42%) MySQL
6 2 (1.61%) Airbyte
6 2 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.61%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.81%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Power Query
7 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (16.13%) JIRA
2 9 (7.26%) Git
3 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.65%) Postman
4 6 (4.84%) REST Assured
5 5 (4.03%) JUnit
5 5 (4.03%) SoapUI
5 5 (4.03%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (3.23%) Maven
6 4 (3.23%) Mockito
6 4 (3.23%) Selenium
6 4 (3.23%) Subversion
6 4 (3.23%) Xcode
6 4 (3.23%) XCTest
7 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.61%) Gradle
7 2 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.61%) TestRail
General
1 58 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 45 (36.29%) Finance
3 27 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (15.32%) Banking
5 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.45%) Legal
7 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Retail
9 4 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Back Office
11 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.81%) French Language
12 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.81%) International Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (19.35%) Analyst
2 12 (9.68%) Business Analyst
2 12 (9.68%) Developer
2 12 (9.68%) Senior
3 11 (8.87%) Lead
4 8 (6.45%) Consultant
5 6 (4.84%) Endur Support
5 6 (4.84%) OpenLink Support
6 5 (4.03%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (3.23%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.23%) Risk Consultant
7 4 (3.23%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.42%) Designer
8 3 (2.42%) IT Analyst
8 3 (2.42%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.42%) Programme Manager
8 3 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.42%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) REST
2 7 (5.65%) Spring
3 6 (4.84%) .NET
3 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
3 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.03%) CSS
4 5 (4.03%) Hibernate
4 5 (4.03%) HTML
4 5 (4.03%) JPA
4 5 (4.03%) SOAP
5 4 (3.23%) Bootstrap
5 4 (3.23%) CSS3
5 4 (3.23%) HTML5
5 4 (3.23%) J2EE
5 4 (3.23%) Kafka
5 4 (3.23%) RESTful
5 4 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (3.23%) Spring MVC
5 4 (3.23%) Swagger
5 4 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.23%) Market Risk
3 4 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.42%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.42%) SCADA
5 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.61%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.61%) Life Science
5 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.65%) Unix
1 7 (5.65%) Windows
2 3 (2.42%) Linux
3 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Solaris
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.55%) Agile
2 44 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (20.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 25 (20.16%) DevOps
5 18 (14.52%) Project Delivery
6 17 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (12.90%) Scrum
8 15 (12.10%) CI/CD
9 14 (11.29%) Analytics
9 14 (11.29%) SDLC
10 12 (9.68%) Project Management
10 12 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
11 11 (8.87%) Mentoring
11 11 (8.87%) Service Delivery
12 10 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (7.26%) Business Analysis
13 9 (7.26%) Risk Management
13 9 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.74%) SQL
2 14 (11.29%) Java
2 14 (11.29%) Python
3 9 (7.26%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.23%) C#
5 4 (3.23%) Groovy
5 4 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.42%) Bash
6 3 (2.42%) VBA
7 2 (1.61%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Go
8 1 (0.81%) Korn
8 1 (0.81%) Perl
8 1 (0.81%) PHP
8 1 (0.81%) PromQL
8 1 (0.81%) R
8 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.68%) Degree
1 12 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.61%) CBAP
4 2 (1.61%) CCNA
4 2 (1.61%) CCNP
4 2 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.61%) ISEB
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.61%) PMP
4 2 (1.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.81%) CCAB
5 1 (0.81%) CISSP
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.81%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.81%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Basel II
3 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.61%) GRC
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.61%) PMO
4 2 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) Basel III
5 1 (0.81%) COBIT
5 1 (0.81%) COSO
5 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.81%) GAAP
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.81%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.06%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.84%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (4.03%) Terraform
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.42%) SCCM
5 2 (1.61%) Ansible
5 2 (1.61%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.81%) Consul
6 1 (0.81%) Grafana
6 1 (0.81%) Packer
6 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.81%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Oracle
3 6 (4.84%) SAP
3 6 (4.84%) Splunk
4 5 (4.03%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.42%) Informatica
7 2 (1.61%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.61%) Ariba
7 2 (1.61%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.61%) Google
7 2 (1.61%) HP
7 2 (1.61%) Rockwell
7 2 (1.61%) UiPath
7 2 (1.61%) Workday
8 1 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.81%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.81%) Xactly