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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 44 60
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 +41
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 118 97 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.57% 4.55% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.07% 4.96% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 53 57
10th Percentile £320 £378 £373
25th Percentile £458 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.21% -9.40%
75th Percentile £637 £684 £638
90th Percentile £775 £770 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 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 1,670 1,954 2,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.93% 91.69% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,194 1,709
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £760 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 13
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% +54.55% -47.62%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.71% +30.84% -48.06%

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 25 November 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 25 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
London Bridge 0 1 £725 - 1
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 8 (6.78%) Confluence
1 8 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.85%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Endur
1 2 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.85%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.64%) Azure
2 18 (15.25%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.24%) GitHub
6 5 (4.24%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.24%) SaaS
7 4 (3.39%) GCP
7 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.39%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.54%) Serverless
8 3 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Firewall
2 2 (1.69%) DNS
2 2 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.69%) Modbus
2 2 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.85%) LAN
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) Power BI
2 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.54%) MySQL
3 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.69%) Airbyte
4 2 (1.69%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.69%) Redis
4 2 (1.69%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) Informix
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) Power Query
5 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (16.10%) JIRA
2 6 (5.08%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.54%) Postman
3 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.54%) Selenium
4 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.69%) GitLab
4 2 (1.69%) Gradle
4 2 (1.69%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.69%) TestRail
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) JUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 51 (43.22%) Finance
1 51 (43.22%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.27%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.71%) Banking
4 11 (9.32%) Legal
5 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
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%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.64%) Analyst
2 16 (13.56%) Business Analyst
3 15 (12.71%) Lead
4 14 (11.86%) Developer
5 12 (10.17%) Senior
6 7 (5.93%) Consultant
7 5 (4.24%) Architect
7 5 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.39%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.54%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Designer
9 3 (2.54%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.54%) Lead Architect
9 3 (2.54%) Product Manager
9 3 (2.54%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (2.54%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) .NET
2 5 (4.24%) React
2 5 (4.24%) REST
3 4 (3.39%) RESTful
4 3 (2.54%) Node.js
4 3 (2.54%) OAuth
4 3 (2.54%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.54%) Spring
5 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.69%) CSS
5 2 (1.69%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.69%) HTML
5 2 (1.69%) Middleware
5 2 (1.69%) SOAP
5 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.85%) Flutter
6 1 (0.85%) JWT
6 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.85%) Playwright
6 1 (0.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.54%) SCADA
5 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.69%) FMCG
5 2 (1.69%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Life Science
5 2 (1.69%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.69%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.63%) 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 48 (40.68%) Agile
2 40 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (22.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (19.49%) DevOps
5 19 (16.10%) Roadmaps
5 19 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (13.56%) CI/CD
7 13 (11.02%) Analytics
7 13 (11.02%) Project Delivery
7 13 (11.02%) Project Management
7 13 (11.02%) Scrum
8 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
8 12 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (8.47%) Risk Management
9 10 (8.47%) Service Delivery
10 9 (7.63%) AI
10 9 (7.63%) Business Analysis
10 9 (7.63%) Data Analysis
10 9 (7.63%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.41%) SQL
2 14 (11.86%) Python
3 13 (11.02%) Java
4 7 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.24%) C#
5 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.39%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.69%) VBA
8 1 (0.85%) C++
8 1 (0.85%) Go
8 1 (0.85%) Korn
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PHP
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) PromQL
8 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Degree
2 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.69%) CBAP
6 2 (1.69%) CCNA
6 2 (1.69%) CCNP
6 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) ISEB
6 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.69%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) APMG
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
2 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.69%) Basel II
3 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.69%) GRC
3 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.69%) PMO
3 2 (1.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) Basel III
4 1 (0.85%) COBIT
4 1 (0.85%) COSO
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.85%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 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 7 (5.93%) Terraform
2 6 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.54%) Ansible
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.69%) SCCM
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Packer
6 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) SAP
3 7 (5.93%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle
5 4 (3.39%) Informatica
6 2 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.69%) Ariba
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%) Splunk
6 2 (1.69%) Workday
7 1 (0.85%) Databricks
7 1 (0.85%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.85%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.85%) Tanium
7 1 (0.85%) Xactly