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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 63
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 123 83 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.56% 4.41% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 4.80% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 38 40
10th Percentile £364 £346 £350
25th Percentile £459 £484 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.17% -10.29%
75th Percentile £636 £679 £638
90th Percentile £775 £754 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -2.78% +0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.23% -63.33% -

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 1,671 1,728 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.12% 91.87% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,049 1,555
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 30 January 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
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 30 January 2026. 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 +1 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 7 (5.69%) Confluence
1 7 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.63%) Apache
3 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.63%) Trello
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.63%) Summit
2 1 (0.81%) Actimize
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.33%) Azure
2 20 (16.26%) AWS
3 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.88%) SaaS
7 5 (4.07%) GCP
7 5 (4.07%) GitHub
8 4 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (3.25%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) DNS
2 4 (3.25%) DHCP
2 4 (3.25%) VPN
3 3 (2.44%) Firewall
4 2 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.63%) Modbus
5 1 (0.81%) Broadband
5 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) LAN
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) WAN
5 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.25%) Power BI
2 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.44%) MySQL
4 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.63%) Metadata
4 2 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.63%) Redis
4 2 (1.63%) Tableau
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.81%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) JIRA
2 4 (3.25%) Git
2 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.44%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.44%) Selenium
4 2 (1.63%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.63%) GitLab
4 2 (1.63%) Postman
4 2 (1.63%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) JUnit
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) TestRail
5 1 (0.81%) Vite
General
1 60 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 54 (43.90%) Finance
3 31 (25.20%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Banking
5 11 (8.94%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.13%) Legal
7 7 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.07%) Retail
10 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.44%) Marketing
10 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Back Office
11 2 (1.63%) Front Office
11 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 21 (17.07%) Analyst
2 17 (13.82%) Lead
3 12 (9.76%) Business Analyst
3 12 (9.76%) Senior
4 10 (8.13%) Developer
5 7 (5.69%) Architect
5 7 (5.69%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.25%) Consultant
6 4 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (3.25%) Designer
6 4 (3.25%) Product Manager
6 4 (3.25%) Scrum Master
6 4 (3.25%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (2.44%) Lead Architect
7 3 (2.44%) Security Specialist
7 3 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (2.44%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (2.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) .NET
1 6 (4.88%) REST
2 4 (3.25%) React
3 3 (2.44%) CSS
3 3 (2.44%) HTML
3 3 (2.44%) Node.js
3 3 (2.44%) SOAP
4 2 (1.63%) Kafka
4 2 (1.63%) Middleware
4 2 (1.63%) RESTful
4 2 (1.63%) Spring
4 2 (1.63%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.63%) XML
5 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.81%) JPA
5 1 (0.81%) Memcached
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.81%) OpenJDK
5 1 (0.81%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.63%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.63%) Life Science
6 2 (1.63%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.63%) SCADA
6 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Windows
2 4 (3.25%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.63%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (38.21%) Agile
2 40 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (23.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (19.51%) DevOps
6 22 (17.89%) Roadmaps
7 18 (14.63%) ITIL
8 17 (13.82%) Project Management
9 15 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 15 (12.20%) Project Delivery
10 14 (11.38%) Risk Management
11 13 (10.57%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.76%) AI
12 12 (9.76%) Migration
12 12 (9.76%) Service Delivery
13 11 (8.94%) Analytics
13 11 (8.94%) Business Analysis
13 11 (8.94%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (8.94%) Scrum
13 11 (8.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.38%) SQL
2 11 (8.94%) Python
3 10 (8.13%) Java
3 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.44%) Bash
4 3 (2.44%) C#
5 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.81%) PHP
6 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.44%) CCNA
7 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.44%) CISM
7 3 (2.44%) CISSP
7 3 (2.44%) CRISC
7 3 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.63%) CASP
8 2 (1.63%) CBAP
8 2 (1.63%) CCNP
8 2 (1.63%) GSEC
8 2 (1.63%) ISEB
8 2 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) QA
2 8 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.69%) GDPR
3 7 (5.69%) SLA
4 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.25%) GRC
6 3 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.63%) PMO
7 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.81%) Basel III
8 1 (0.81%) EMIR
8 1 (0.81%) GAAP
8 1 (0.81%) GMP
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.81%) MiFID
8 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Active Directory
1 7 (5.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.69%) Terraform
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.07%) Ansible
4 3 (2.44%) SCCM
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.81%) logstash
5 1 (0.81%) Packer
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.20%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.94%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.69%) SAP
5 6 (4.88%) Oracle
6 5 (4.07%) Google
7 3 (2.44%) IBM
7 3 (2.44%) Informatica
7 3 (2.44%) VMware
7 3 (2.44%) Workday
8 2 (1.63%) Ariba
8 2 (1.63%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.63%) Murex
8 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.63%) Remedy
8 2 (1.63%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.81%) Foundry
9 1 (0.81%) Qualys
9 1 (0.81%) Talend
9 1 (0.81%) Veeam