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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 28 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 142 121 81
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.02% 6.48% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 6.89% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 77 51
10th Percentile £313 £281 £413
25th Percentile £425 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £686
90th Percentile £779 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £544 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +8.80% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £34.93 -
25th Percentile £72.25 £39.31 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £48.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.40% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.81 -
90th Percentile - £60.98 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +83.82% - -

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 2,060 1,757 1,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.40% 94.16% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,154 1,282
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +4.91% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.33% +7.67% -22.86%

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 13 August 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
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 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.11%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Appian
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.41%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) Actimize
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.70%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.70%) Maximo
3 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.70%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.70%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.42%) Azure
2 18 (12.68%) GitHub
3 14 (9.86%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.75%) AWS
5 11 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.93%) GCP
8 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.52%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.52%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.82%) SaaS
11 3 (2.11%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) DNS
1 2 (1.41%) Firewall
1 2 (1.41%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) 4G
2 1 (0.70%) 5G
2 1 (0.70%) BGP
2 1 (0.70%) DHCP
2 1 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.70%) NGFW
2 1 (0.70%) NX-OS
2 1 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.70%) TACACS
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Power BI
2 4 (2.82%) Metadata
3 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.41%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) DataStage
5 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) QlikView
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (10.56%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
2 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.11%) GitLab
3 3 (2.11%) Selenium
4 2 (1.41%) Git
4 2 (1.41%) JMeter
4 2 (1.41%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.41%) Postman
4 2 (1.41%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.70%) Appium
5 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.70%) Gatling
5 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.70%) Vite
5 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.70%) XCTest
5 1 (0.70%) XCUITest
General
1 66 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.58%) Finance
3 33 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (21.83%) Public Sector
5 21 (14.79%) Banking
6 9 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.34%) Military
7 7 (4.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.52%) Front Office
9 5 (3.52%) Marketing
9 5 (3.52%) Retail
10 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.82%) Legal
11 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.11%) Local Government
11 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (11.97%) Analyst
2 15 (10.56%) Lead
3 11 (7.75%) Developer
4 10 (7.04%) Senior
5 9 (6.34%) Product Manager
6 8 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (4.93%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.23%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Product Owner
9 5 (3.52%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.82%) Consultant
10 4 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) IT Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) IT Support
10 4 (2.82%) IT Support Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) Programme Manager
10 4 (2.82%) Scrum Master
11 3 (2.11%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.23%) .NET
1 6 (4.23%) React
2 5 (3.52%) AngularJS
2 5 (3.52%) Playwright
3 4 (2.82%) Kafka
3 4 (2.82%) RESTful
3 4 (2.82%) Web Services
4 3 (2.11%) HTML
4 3 (2.11%) JSON
4 3 (2.11%) Next.js
5 2 (1.41%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.41%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.41%) Node.js
5 2 (1.41%) REST
5 2 (1.41%) XML
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.70%) pytest
6 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.70%) UIKit
6 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.86%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.82%) Life Science
5 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.11%) Derivative
6 3 (2.11%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.41%) FMCG
7 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Windows
2 4 (2.82%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.03%) Agile
2 40 (28.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (23.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (21.83%) Decision-Making
6 29 (20.42%) DevOps
7 27 (19.01%) CI/CD
8 26 (18.31%) AI
9 24 (16.90%) Roadmaps
10 22 (15.49%) Analytics
11 21 (14.79%) Test Automation
12 17 (11.97%) Service Delivery
13 16 (11.27%) Validation
14 15 (10.56%) Migration
14 15 (10.56%) Sprint Planning
14 15 (10.56%) Translating Business Requirements
15 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (9.15%) Collaborative Working
16 13 (9.15%) Project Delivery
17 12 (8.45%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.86%) SQL
2 11 (7.75%) Python
3 9 (6.34%) C#
4 8 (5.63%) Java
5 7 (4.93%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.41%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.41%) Bicep
8 2 (1.41%) C++
8 2 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.41%) Korn
9 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.23%) Degree
4 4 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.11%) CSPO
5 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.11%) PMP
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.41%) CISSP
6 2 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.41%) GIAC
6 2 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CEH
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) QA
2 12 (8.45%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.04%) PMO
4 6 (4.23%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.52%) NIST
6 3 (2.11%) GDPR
6 3 (2.11%) GRC
6 3 (2.11%) NCSC
7 2 (1.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (1.41%) GxP
7 2 (1.41%) SLA
7 2 (1.41%) WCAG
8 1 (0.70%) Basel III
8 1 (0.70%) COBIT
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.70%) IFRS
8 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.70%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.41%) vSphere
3 1 (0.70%) UAG
3 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (7.04%) Terraform
2 9 (6.34%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.82%) Grafana
5 3 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Ansible
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.70%) Packer
6 1 (0.70%) SCCM
6 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.45%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.93%) SAP
4 6 (4.23%) Google
4 6 (4.23%) Oracle
5 5 (3.52%) Apple
5 5 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.11%) IBM
6 3 (2.11%) VMware
7 2 (1.41%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.41%) BMC
7 2 (1.41%) Databricks
7 2 (1.41%) Informatica
7 2 (1.41%) JDA
7 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.41%) RedPrairie
7 2 (1.41%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.41%) Remedy
8 1 (0.70%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.70%) OpenAI