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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 40 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 125 89 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.41% 5.13% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 5.48% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 45 39
10th Percentile £363 £292 £345
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -9.66%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £681
90th Percentile £753 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £510 £531
% change year-on-year +2.94% -4.00% -9.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £31.75 - -
25th Percentile £38.50 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.82% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £42.88 -
90th Percentile £71.85 £55.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £51.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +131.82% - -

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 1,954 1,625 1,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.52% 93.61% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,017 1,379
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

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 20 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

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 6 (4.80%) Confluence
1 6 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.80%) Appian
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.60%) Trello
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Actimize
2 2 (1.60%) Summit
3 1 (0.80%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.80%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.80%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.60%) Azure
2 17 (13.60%) AWS
3 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.60%) GitHub
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.60%) SaaS
5 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.00%) GCP
7 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.40%) Serverless
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.60%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) DHCP
1 3 (2.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.60%) Firewall
2 2 (1.60%) VPN
3 1 (0.80%) 4G
3 1 (0.80%) 5G
3 1 (0.80%) Broadband
3 1 (0.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.80%) NaaS
3 1 (0.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.80%) NGFW
3 1 (0.80%) NGN
3 1 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Power BI
2 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.40%) Tableau
3 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.60%) Metadata
3 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.80%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.80%) QlikView
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (17.60%) JIRA
2 4 (3.20%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) GitLab
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.80%) git-flow
4 1 (0.80%) Postman
4 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
4 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.80%) Vite
General
1 55 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 47 (37.60%) Finance
3 26 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Banking
4 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.60%) Legal
6 5 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Retail
7 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Front Office
8 3 (2.40%) Marketing
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Military
9 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (14.40%) Lead
2 17 (13.60%) Analyst
3 10 (8.00%) Senior
4 9 (7.20%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (6.40%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.60%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.80%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Scrum Master
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Consultant
9 4 (3.20%) CRM Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Developer
9 4 (3.20%) Operations Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.40%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 3 (2.40%) PMO Lead
10 3 (2.40%) PMO Manager
10 3 (2.40%) Security Specialist
10 3 (2.40%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.20%) REST
2 3 (2.40%) .NET
2 3 (2.40%) HTML
2 3 (2.40%) Kafka
2 3 (2.40%) Next.js
2 3 (2.40%) Playwright
2 3 (2.40%) React
3 2 (1.60%) CSS
3 2 (1.60%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.80%) ADO
4 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.80%) Jest
4 1 (0.80%) Node.js
4 1 (0.80%) PySpark
4 1 (0.80%) RESTful
4 1 (0.80%) SOAP
4 1 (0.80%) Vert.x
4 1 (0.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.40%) Derivative
4 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.80%) BYOD
6 1 (0.80%) CSOC
6 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.80%) DTCC
6 1 (0.80%) Life Science
6 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (32.80%) Agile
3 26 (20.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (18.40%) DevOps
5 22 (17.60%) Project Management
6 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (15.20%) Decision-Making
7 19 (15.20%) Roadmaps
8 18 (14.40%) AI
8 18 (14.40%) Analytics
8 18 (14.40%) CI/CD
9 17 (13.60%) ITIL
10 15 (12.00%) Migration
11 14 (11.20%) Risk Management
12 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (10.40%) Project Delivery
12 13 (10.40%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (8.80%) Test Automation
14 10 (8.00%) Scrum
14 10 (8.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.00%) SQL
2 8 (6.40%) Python
3 7 (5.60%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.20%) C#
4 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.40%) Java
6 1 (0.80%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.80%) Bicep
6 1 (0.80%) C++
6 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) CISSP
5 4 (3.20%) CISM
5 4 (3.20%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.20%) PMP
6 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.40%) CRISC
7 2 (1.60%) CASP
7 2 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.60%) GIAC
7 2 (1.60%) GSEC
7 2 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.80%) CEH
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) QA
2 9 (7.20%) PMO
3 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.40%) SLA
4 7 (5.60%) GDPR
5 6 (4.80%) NIST
6 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.40%) GRC
8 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.60%) NCSC
9 1 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.80%) EMIR
9 1 (0.80%) GAAP
9 1 (0.80%) IFRS
9 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.80%) P3O
9 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Terraform
2 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) logstash
5 1 (0.80%) Packer
5 1 (0.80%) SCCM
5 1 (0.80%) vRealize
5 1 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.60%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle
4 5 (4.00%) SAP
5 3 (2.40%) Google
6 2 (1.60%) Foundry
6 2 (1.60%) IBM
6 2 (1.60%) Murex
6 2 (1.60%) VMware
7 1 (0.80%) Adobe
7 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.80%) Ariba
7 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.80%) BT
7 1 (0.80%) Charles River
7 1 (0.80%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.80%) Nokia
7 1 (0.80%) Palantir
7 1 (0.80%) SimCorp