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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 30 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 137 109 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.59% 6.18% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 6.59% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 61 39
10th Percentile £339 £281 £359
25th Percentile £425 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £728
90th Percentile £760 £838 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £512 £600
% change year-on-year +2.45% -14.59% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £31.75 £34.93 -
25th Percentile £38.50 £39.31 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £48.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £56.81 -
90th Percentile £71.85 £60.98 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £48.25 -
% change year-on-year +24.35% - -

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 2,101 1,653 1,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.79% 93.76% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,058 1,337
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.74 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -16.87% +11.47% -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 1 July 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
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 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the City of 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 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.73%) Appian
3 1 (0.73%) CMS
3 1 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Actimize
1 2 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.46%) Orchestrade
1 2 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.73%) Maximo
2 1 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.73%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.73%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.73%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.73%) Summit
2 1 (0.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.06%) Azure
2 12 (8.76%) AWS
2 12 (8.76%) Power Platform
3 11 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.38%) GitHub
5 6 (4.38%) SaaS
6 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.65%) GCP
7 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.19%) Serverless
9 2 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.46%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.46%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) DHCP
1 2 (1.46%) DNS
1 2 (1.46%) Firewall
1 2 (1.46%) Network Security
2 1 (0.73%) 4G
2 1 (0.73%) 5G
2 1 (0.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.73%) Internet
2 1 (0.73%) NaaS
2 1 (0.73%) NGFW
2 1 (0.73%) NGN
2 1 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) Power BI
2 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.46%) Metadata
3 2 (1.46%) Tableau
4 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.73%) DataStage
4 1 (0.73%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (13.87%) JIRA
2 3 (2.19%) Git
2 3 (2.19%) GitLab
3 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.73%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.73%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.73%) git-flow
4 1 (0.73%) Postman
4 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.73%) Selenium
4 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.73%) Vite
4 1 (0.73%) XCTest
4 1 (0.73%) XCUITest
General
1 61 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 46 (33.58%) Finance
3 33 (24.09%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.60%) Banking
4 20 (14.60%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.11%) Legal
6 6 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.65%) Military
7 5 (3.65%) Retail
8 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Front Office
9 3 (2.19%) Local Government
9 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (13.14%) Lead
2 17 (12.41%) Analyst
3 8 (5.84%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (5.84%) Product Manager
3 8 (5.84%) Senior
4 7 (5.11%) Business Analyst
4 7 (5.11%) Project Manager
5 6 (4.38%) Product Owner
5 6 (4.38%) Support Engineer
6 5 (3.65%) Developer
6 5 (3.65%) Scrum Master
7 4 (2.92%) Architect
7 4 (2.92%) Consultant
7 4 (2.92%) IT Engineer
7 4 (2.92%) IT Support
7 4 (2.92%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (2.92%) PMO Lead
8 3 (2.19%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (2.19%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.92%) Kafka
1 4 (2.92%) Playwright
1 4 (2.92%) React
1 4 (2.92%) REST
2 3 (2.19%) .NET
2 3 (2.19%) Next.js
3 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.46%) HTML
3 2 (1.46%) JSON
3 2 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.46%) RESTful
3 2 (1.46%) Web Services
3 2 (1.46%) XML
4 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.73%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.73%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.73%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.73%) SwiftUI
4 1 (0.73%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.41%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.76%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.92%) Derivative
5 4 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.19%) Life Science
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.73%) CSOC
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Exotic Derivative
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Windows
2 4 (2.92%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.85%) Agile
2 41 (29.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (21.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (19.71%) Decision-Making
6 25 (18.25%) Roadmaps
7 22 (16.06%) DevOps
8 20 (14.60%) AI
8 20 (14.60%) Analytics
9 18 (13.14%) Risk Management
10 17 (12.41%) CI/CD
11 16 (11.68%) Process Improvement
11 16 (11.68%) Project Management
11 16 (11.68%) Service Delivery
11 16 (11.68%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (10.22%) ITIL
12 14 (10.22%) Project Delivery
13 13 (9.49%) Migration
14 12 (8.76%) Translating Business Requirements
14 12 (8.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.57%) SQL
2 7 (5.11%) Python
3 6 (4.38%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.65%) C#
4 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.92%) Java
5 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.46%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.46%) C++
6 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.73%) Bicep
7 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) Degree
4 5 (3.65%) CISSP
5 4 (2.92%) CISM
5 4 (2.92%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.19%) CRISC
6 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) PMP
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.46%) CASP
7 2 (1.46%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.46%) CSPO
7 2 (1.46%) GIAC
7 2 (1.46%) GSEC
7 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.73%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.76%) QA
2 10 (7.30%) PMO
3 9 (6.57%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.38%) NIST
5 5 (3.65%) GDPR
6 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.19%) GRC
6 3 (2.19%) NCSC
6 3 (2.19%) SLA
7 2 (1.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.46%) GxP
8 1 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.73%) COBIT
8 1 (0.73%) GAAP
8 1 (0.73%) GMP
8 1 (0.73%) IFRS
8 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.46%) Docker
3 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (4.38%) Terraform
2 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.73%) Ansible
3 1 (0.73%) Argo
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) logstash
3 1 (0.73%) SCCM
3 1 (0.73%) vRealize
3 1 (0.73%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.03%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.65%) Apple
4 5 (3.65%) SAP
5 4 (2.92%) Oracle
6 3 (2.19%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) BMC
7 2 (1.46%) Foundry
7 2 (1.46%) JDA
7 2 (1.46%) Murex
7 2 (1.46%) Palantir
7 2 (1.46%) RedPrairie
7 2 (1.46%) Remedy
8 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.73%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.73%) IBM
8 1 (0.73%) Nokia
8 1 (0.73%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.73%) Pega