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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 43 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 116 92 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.67% 4.33% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 4.73% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 51 64
10th Percentile £281 £450 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £682 £650
90th Percentile £783 £775 £709
Central London median daily rate £519 £599 £550
% change year-on-year -13.36% +8.86% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.44 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +197.18%

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 1,634 1,946 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.66% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,194 1,750
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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 7 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 7 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 - 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 6 (5.17%) Confluence
1 6 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Apache
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.86%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Endur
2 2 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.86%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.97%) Azure
2 19 (16.38%) AWS
3 10 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.03%) SaaS
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.31%) GitHub
8 4 (3.45%) GCP
8 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.59%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.59%) Serverless
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.72%) IaaS
10 2 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.72%) LAN
2 2 (1.72%) Modbus
2 2 (1.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.86%) DHCP
3 1 (0.86%) Network Security
3 1 (0.86%) WAN
3 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) Power BI
2 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.59%) MySQL
4 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.72%) Airbyte
5 2 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.72%) Redis
5 2 (1.72%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.86%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.86%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Power Query
6 1 (0.86%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) JIRA
2 5 (4.31%) Git
3 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.59%) Postman
3 3 (2.59%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.59%) Selenium
4 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.72%) Gradle
4 2 (1.72%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.72%) TestRail
5 1 (0.86%) Appium
5 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.86%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) JUnit
General
1 53 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 46 (39.66%) Finance
3 29 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.79%) Banking
5 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.90%) Legal
7 6 (5.17%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.72%) Back Office
10 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.86%) Automotive
11 1 (0.86%) French Language
11 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.86%) International Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (19.83%) Analyst
2 14 (12.07%) Lead
3 13 (11.21%) Business Analyst
4 12 (10.34%) Developer
4 12 (10.34%) Senior
5 8 (6.90%) Consultant
6 5 (4.31%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (3.45%) Architect
7 4 (3.45%) Endur Support
7 4 (3.45%) OpenLink Support
7 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.45%) Risk Consultant
7 4 (3.45%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Designer
8 3 (2.59%) IT Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.59%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) .NET
2 5 (4.31%) REST
3 4 (3.45%) RESTful
4 3 (2.59%) Middleware
4 3 (2.59%) OAuth
4 3 (2.59%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.59%) React
4 3 (2.59%) Spring
5 2 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.72%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.72%) Node.js
5 2 (1.72%) SOAP
5 2 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.86%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.86%) Flutter
6 1 (0.86%) JWT
6 1 (0.86%) Memcached
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.86%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.86%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.45%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.59%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.59%) SCADA
5 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Life Science
5 2 (1.72%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.86%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Solaris
4 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.52%) Agile
2 42 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (22.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (19.83%) DevOps
5 15 (12.93%) CI/CD
5 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (12.07%) Analytics
6 14 (12.07%) Roadmaps
6 14 (12.07%) Scrum
7 12 (10.34%) Project Delivery
7 12 (10.34%) Project Management
7 12 (10.34%) Service Delivery
8 10 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (8.62%) Decision-Making
8 10 (8.62%) Risk Management
8 10 (8.62%) SDLC
8 10 (8.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (7.76%) Test Automation
9 9 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (6.90%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.38%) SQL
2 13 (11.21%) Python
3 11 (9.48%) Java
4 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.31%) C#
6 4 (3.45%) Bash
6 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (0.86%) C++
8 1 (0.86%) Go
8 1 (0.86%) Korn
8 1 (0.86%) Perl
8 1 (0.86%) PHP
8 1 (0.86%) PromQL
8 1 (0.86%) R
8 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CBAP
6 2 (1.72%) CCNA
6 2 (1.72%) CCNP
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.72%) ISEB
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.72%) PMP
7 1 (0.86%) CCAB
7 1 (0.86%) CISSP
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.86%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.45%) Basel II
2 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.72%) GRC
4 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.72%) PMO
4 2 (1.72%) SLA
5 1 (0.86%) COBIT
5 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.86%) GAAP
5 1 (0.86%) IFRS
5 1 (0.86%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.17%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) Terraform
2 5 (4.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.59%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) SCCM
5 2 (1.72%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.86%) Consul
6 1 (0.86%) Grafana
6 1 (0.86%) Packer
6 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.31%) Oracle
2 5 (4.31%) Salesforce
2 5 (4.31%) SAP
2 5 (4.31%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.59%) Informatica
4 2 (1.72%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.72%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.72%) Google
4 2 (1.72%) HP
4 2 (1.72%) Remedy
4 2 (1.72%) Rockwell
4 2 (1.72%) Splunk
4 2 (1.72%) UiPath
4 2 (1.72%) Workday
5 1 (0.86%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.86%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.86%) Tanium
5 1 (0.86%) Xactly