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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +55
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 119 99 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.64% 4.74% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 5.15% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 61 70
10th Percentile £281 £413 £400
25th Percentile £409 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -3.34%
75th Percentile £697 £675 £684
90th Percentile £838 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £503 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -15.90% +3.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.93 - -
25th Percentile £39.31 - -
Median hourly rate £48.25 - -
75th Percentile £56.81 - -
90th Percentile £60.98 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

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 1,686 1,923 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.14% 92.10% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,231 1,943
10th Percentile £325 £388 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.94% +27.27% -35.29%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement 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 13 September 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
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 13 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

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 13 September 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 - 1 £725 -
Continuous Improvement
Central London

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.72%) Confluence
1 8 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.68%) Apache
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.84%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Endur
2 1 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.37%) Azure
2 17 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 16 (13.45%) AWS
4 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.56%) SaaS
5 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.36%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.36%) GCP
6 4 (3.36%) GitHub
6 4 (3.36%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.52%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.52%) Serverless
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.84%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) LAN
1 3 (2.52%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.68%) Modbus
2 2 (1.68%) WAN
2 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) Power BI
2 8 (6.72%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.52%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.68%) Airbyte
4 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.68%) Spatial Data
4 2 (1.68%) Tableau
5 1 (0.84%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.84%) Flink
5 1 (0.84%) Metadata
5 1 (0.84%) MySQL
5 1 (0.84%) Parquet
5 1 (0.84%) Power Query
5 1 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (10.92%) JIRA
2 9 (7.56%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.68%) Gradle
3 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.68%) Postman
4 1 (0.84%) Appium
4 1 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) JUnit
4 1 (0.84%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
4 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.84%) TestRail
General
1 57 (47.90%) Social Skills
2 46 (38.66%) Finance
3 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.45%) Banking
5 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.72%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.04%) Legal
8 4 (3.36%) Back Office
8 4 (3.36%) Law
8 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.68%) International Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Police
11 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (19.33%) Analyst
2 20 (16.81%) Senior
3 13 (10.92%) Consultant
4 12 (10.08%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.24%) Developer
6 8 (6.72%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.72%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (5.88%) Risk Consultant
8 6 (5.04%) Endur Support
8 6 (5.04%) OpenLink Support
9 4 (3.36%) IT Analyst
9 4 (3.36%) OpenLink Developer
9 4 (3.36%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) IT Business Analyst
10 3 (2.52%) Java Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Security Consultant
10 3 (2.52%) Security Manager
10 3 (2.52%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.52%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) .NET
2 4 (3.36%) REST
2 4 (3.36%) RESTful
3 3 (2.52%) OAuth
3 3 (2.52%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.52%) React
3 3 (2.52%) Spring
4 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.68%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.68%) Node.js
4 2 (1.68%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.84%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.84%) Flutter
5 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.84%) JWT
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.84%) Spring Batch
5 1 (0.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.72%) Market Risk
3 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) PMI
5 4 (3.36%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.52%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.52%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.52%) SCADA
7 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.68%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.68%) Life Science
7 2 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.84%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.82%) Agile
2 42 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (19.33%) DevOps
4 19 (15.97%) Analytics
5 18 (15.13%) Project Management
6 17 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.45%) Scrum
7 16 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (12.61%) Service Delivery
8 15 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (11.76%) Risk Management
10 13 (10.92%) SDLC
11 12 (10.08%) Decision-Making
11 12 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (9.24%) Project Delivery
13 9 (7.56%) Change Management
13 9 (7.56%) Scenario Testing
13 9 (7.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.17%) SQL
2 15 (12.61%) Python
3 12 (10.08%) Java
4 7 (5.88%) C#
5 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.68%) VBA
8 1 (0.84%) Bash
8 1 (0.84%) C++
8 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.84%) Go
8 1 (0.84%) Korn
8 1 (0.84%) Perl
8 1 (0.84%) PromQL
8 1 (0.84%) R
8 1 (0.84%) Scala
8 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Degree
2 11 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.04%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.68%) CCNA
7 2 (1.68%) CCNP
7 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.68%) CISSP
7 2 (1.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.84%) CCAB
8 1 (0.84%) CEH
8 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.84%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) QA
2 7 (5.88%) Basel II
3 5 (4.20%) PMO
4 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.36%) GDPR
4 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) COBIT
6 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.68%) NIST
7 1 (0.84%) Basel III
7 1 (0.84%) COSO
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.84%) GAAP
7 1 (0.84%) IFRS
7 1 (0.84%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (4.20%) Terraform
3 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.36%) SCCM
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.84%) Consul
5 1 (0.84%) Grafana
5 1 (0.84%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.84%) Packer
5 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.84%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.36%) OpenLink
2 4 (3.36%) SAP
3 3 (2.52%) Google
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle
4 2 (1.68%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.68%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.68%) Databricks
4 2 (1.68%) Rockwell
4 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.68%) Splunk
4 2 (1.68%) UiPath
5 1 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (0.84%) Exabeam
5 1 (0.84%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.84%) Marketo
5 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) Workday
5 1 (0.84%) Xactly