Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Continual Improvement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 163 118 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.60% 6.84% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 7.25% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 84 59
10th Percentile £310 £281 £408
25th Percentile £463 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £527 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -12.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £686
90th Percentile £788 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £26.44 -
% change year-on-year +126.97% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,939 1,628 1,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.44% 94.43% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,094 1,210
10th Percentile £363 £326 £367
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.91%) Confluence
3 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.23%) Apache
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.61%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.23%) Maximo
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.61%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.61%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.79%) Azure
2 22 (13.50%) GitHub
3 19 (11.66%) AWS
4 18 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.91%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.91%) Serverless
8 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (3.68%) GCP
10 5 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.07%) dbt
10 5 (3.07%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.07%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.45%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.45%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.45%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) DNS
2 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.84%) DHCP
3 3 (1.84%) VPN
4 2 (1.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) BGP
5 1 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.61%) Firewall
5 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.61%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.61%) SSH
5 1 (0.61%) TACACS
5 1 (0.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) Power BI
2 8 (4.91%) Metadata
3 6 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.84%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.84%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.23%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.23%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.61%) DataStage
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.61%) QlikView
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (12.88%) JIRA
2 8 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.29%) Git
4 5 (3.07%) GitLab
5 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.45%) Postman
5 4 (2.45%) Selenium
5 4 (2.45%) SoapUI
5 4 (2.45%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.84%) JUnit
7 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.23%) eggPlant
7 2 (1.23%) JMeter
7 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.23%) Maven
7 2 (1.23%) Mockito
8 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.61%) Vite
8 1 (0.61%) XCTest
8 1 (0.61%) XCUITest
General
1 70 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 57 (34.97%) Finance
3 38 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (20.86%) Public Sector
5 26 (15.95%) Banking
6 13 (7.98%) Front Office
7 12 (7.36%) Military
8 10 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.68%) Legal
12 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (3.07%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.45%) Back Office
13 4 (2.45%) Marketing
13 4 (2.45%) Retail
14 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.84%) Local Government
15 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (13.50%) Senior
2 17 (10.43%) Analyst
2 17 (10.43%) Lead
3 15 (9.20%) Developer
4 10 (6.13%) Product Manager
5 8 (4.91%) Architect
6 7 (4.29%) Project Manager
6 7 (4.29%) Support Engineer
7 6 (3.68%) Business Analyst
7 6 (3.68%) Consultant
7 6 (3.68%) IT Support
7 6 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (3.68%) Product Owner
7 6 (3.68%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.07%) C# Developer
8 5 (3.07%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.07%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.59%) Terraform
2 8 (4.91%) .NET
3 7 (4.29%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.68%) Kafka
5 5 (3.07%) JSON
5 5 (3.07%) REST
5 5 (3.07%) RESTful
5 5 (3.07%) Web Services
6 4 (2.45%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (2.45%) HTML
6 4 (2.45%) React
6 4 (2.45%) SOAP
7 3 (1.84%) Middleware
7 3 (1.84%) Playwright
7 3 (1.84%) PySpark
7 3 (1.84%) Spring
7 3 (1.84%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.84%) XBRL
8 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.50%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.82%) Onboarding
3 15 (9.20%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.45%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.84%) Life Science
8 3 (1.84%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.84%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Windows
2 6 (3.68%) Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.84%) Unix
4 3 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (39.88%) Agile
2 55 (33.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (25.15%) CI/CD
5 35 (21.47%) Decision-Making
6 31 (19.02%) Roadmaps
6 31 (19.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 30 (18.40%) DevOps
8 29 (17.79%) AI
9 26 (15.95%) Test Automation
10 22 (13.50%) Analytics
11 21 (12.88%) Translating Business Requirements
12 20 (12.27%) Sprint Planning
12 20 (12.27%) Validation
13 19 (11.66%) Migration
13 19 (11.66%) User Stories
14 18 (11.04%) Data Engineering
15 17 (10.43%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (10.43%) Data Governance
15 17 (10.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.11%) Python
2 20 (12.27%) SQL
3 10 (6.13%) Java
4 9 (5.52%) C#
4 9 (5.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.91%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.84%) Korn
8 2 (1.23%) Bash
8 2 (1.23%) Bicep
9 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.29%) Degree
3 7 (4.29%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.29%) PMP
4 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.84%) CSPO
5 3 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.61%) RIBA
7 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.59%) QA
3 8 (4.91%) PMO
4 6 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.45%) NIST
6 3 (1.84%) GDPR
6 3 (1.84%) GRC
6 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (1.23%) GxP
7 2 (1.23%) NCSC
7 2 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (1.23%) WCAG
8 1 (0.61%) COBIT
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.61%) EMIR
8 1 (0.61%) IFRS
8 1 (0.61%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.61%) MiFID
8 1 (0.61%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (4.91%) Active Directory
1 8 (4.91%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.23%) vSphere
3 1 (0.61%) UAG
3 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.07%) Grafana
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.84%) Ansible
3 3 (1.84%) SCCM
4 2 (1.23%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.61%) Argo
5 1 (0.61%) Packer
5 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.52%) Oracle
4 8 (4.91%) Databricks
5 7 (4.29%) IBM
6 6 (3.68%) Google
6 6 (3.68%) SAP
7 5 (3.07%) Apple
7 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.45%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.45%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.84%) Informatica
9 3 (1.84%) VMware
10 2 (1.23%) BMC
10 2 (1.23%) JDA
10 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.23%) RedPrairie
10 2 (1.23%) Remedy
10 2 (1.23%) Splunk
10 2 (1.23%) Teradata