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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 58
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 118 97 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.57% 4.54% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 4.95% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 53 55
10th Percentile £359 £378 £359
25th Percentile £463 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +9.52% -11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £775 £773 £708
Central London median daily rate £527 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.43% +4.55% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.44 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.16% -63.33% -

All Process and 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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 9 December 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 9 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
London Bridge 0 1 £725 -
Continuous Improvement
Central 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 9 (7.63%) Confluence
1 9 (7.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Azure
2 16 (13.56%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.24%) Power Automate
5 5 (4.24%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.39%) GCP
6 4 (3.39%) GitHub
6 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.54%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.54%) SaaS
7 3 (2.54%) Serverless
7 3 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.69%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) DNS
1 3 (2.54%) Firewall
1 3 (2.54%) VPN
2 2 (1.69%) DHCP
2 2 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.69%) Modbus
3 1 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.85%) LAN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.93%) Power BI
2 3 (2.54%) MySQL
2 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.69%) Airbyte
3 2 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.69%) Metadata
3 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.69%) Redis
3 2 (1.69%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.85%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.85%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Power Query
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (16.10%) JIRA
2 7 (5.93%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.54%) Postman
4 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.54%) Selenium
5 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) Gradle
5 2 (1.69%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.69%) TestRail
6 1 (0.85%) Appium
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 56 (47.46%) Finance
2 53 (44.92%) Social Skills
3 31 (26.27%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.86%) Banking
5 10 (8.47%) Legal
5 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Retail
10 1 (0.85%) Automotive
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) French Language
10 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (18.64%) Analyst
2 16 (13.56%) Business Analyst
2 16 (13.56%) Lead
3 14 (11.86%) Developer
4 12 (10.17%) Senior
5 6 (5.08%) Consultant
6 5 (4.24%) Architect
6 5 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.39%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.39%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.39%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.54%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.54%) Designer
8 3 (2.54%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.54%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.54%) Programme Manager
8 3 (2.54%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (2.54%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) .NET
2 4 (3.39%) React
2 4 (3.39%) REST
2 4 (3.39%) RESTful
3 3 (2.54%) Node.js
3 3 (2.54%) OAuth
3 3 (2.54%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.54%) Spring
4 2 (1.69%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.69%) Middleware
4 2 (1.69%) SOAP
4 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) Flutter
5 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.85%) JWT
5 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.85%) Playwright
5 1 (0.85%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.85%) Spring Batch
5 1 (0.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.54%) SCADA
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.69%) Life Science
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Windows
2 5 (4.24%) Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Solaris
4 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.37%) Agile
2 39 (33.05%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (26.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (20.34%) DevOps
4 24 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (16.95%) Roadmaps
6 18 (15.25%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.56%) Project Management
8 14 (11.86%) Project Delivery
9 12 (10.17%) Analytics
9 12 (10.17%) Scrum
9 12 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (9.32%) Decision-Making
10 11 (9.32%) ITIL
10 11 (9.32%) Risk Management
11 10 (8.47%) AI
12 9 (7.63%) Business Analysis
12 9 (7.63%) Data Analysis
12 9 (7.63%) Data Governance
12 9 (7.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.71%) SQL
2 13 (11.02%) Java
2 13 (11.02%) Python
3 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.39%) Bash
5 3 (2.54%) C#
5 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.69%) VBA
7 1 (0.85%) C++
7 1 (0.85%) Go
7 1 (0.85%) Korn
7 1 (0.85%) PHP
7 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.85%) PromQL
7 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
2 9 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.54%) CCNA
6 3 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.69%) CBAP
7 2 (1.69%) CCNP
7 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.69%) ISEB
7 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.69%) PMP
8 1 (0.85%) APMG
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) GDPR
2 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.69%) GRC
6 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.69%) PMO
6 2 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.85%) Basel III
7 1 (0.85%) COBIT
7 1 (0.85%) COSO
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.85%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.78%) Terraform
2 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.39%) Ansible
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.69%) Packer
5 2 (1.69%) SCCM
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.93%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.93%) SAP
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle
5 3 (2.54%) Informatica
6 2 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.69%) Ariba
6 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.69%) Google
6 2 (1.69%) HP
6 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.69%) Remedy
6 2 (1.69%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.69%) VMware
6 2 (1.69%) Workday
7 1 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.85%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.85%) Tanium
7 1 (0.85%) Xactly