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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 51 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 139 67 56
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.58% 3.84% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 4.16% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 27 29
10th Percentile £401 £321 £330
25th Percentile £456 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £638
90th Percentile £775 £748 £695
Central London median daily rate £540 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £31.75 - -
25th Percentile £38.50 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.82% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £42.88 -
90th Percentile £71.85 £55.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £51.00 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.82% -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 1,859 1,610 2,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.98% 92.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,027 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -13.07% +8.00% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 7 (5.04%) Confluence
2 6 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Appian
4 1 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.04%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.44%) Trello
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.44%) Actimize
2 2 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.44%) Summit
3 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.02%) Azure
2 20 (14.39%) AWS
3 16 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.07%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.04%) GitHub
6 6 (4.32%) SaaS
7 5 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.88%) GCP
8 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.88%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.44%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.44%) Collibra
10 2 (1.44%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.44%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.60%) DNS
2 4 (2.88%) DHCP
3 3 (2.16%) VPN
4 2 (1.44%) Firewall
5 1 (0.72%) 4G
5 1 (0.72%) 5G
5 1 (0.72%) Broadband
5 1 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.72%) Internet
5 1 (0.72%) NaaS
5 1 (0.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) NGFW
5 1 (0.72%) NGN
5 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.04%) Power BI
2 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.44%) Metadata
3 2 (1.44%) MySQL
3 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.44%) Tableau
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.72%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.72%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.72%) Informix
4 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.72%) Redis
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (17.99%) JIRA
2 5 (3.60%) Git
3 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.16%) GitLab
3 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.16%) Selenium
4 2 (1.44%) Postman
4 2 (1.44%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.72%) TestRail
5 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 67 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 64 (46.04%) Finance
3 34 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Banking
5 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.19%) Legal
7 9 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (4.32%) Retail
10 5 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.16%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.16%) Front Office
11 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.16%) Marketing
11 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.44%) Back Office
12 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.44%) Military
12 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.72%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 25 (17.99%) Analyst
2 20 (14.39%) Lead
3 14 (10.07%) Business Analyst
4 10 (7.19%) Senior
5 9 (6.47%) Architect
5 9 (6.47%) Developer
6 8 (5.76%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.60%) Consultant
8 5 (3.60%) Product Manager
9 4 (2.88%) Scrum Master
9 4 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (2.88%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (2.16%) CRM Manager
10 3 (2.16%) Lead Architect
10 3 (2.16%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (2.16%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.16%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.16%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.76%) .NET
2 6 (4.32%) REST
3 4 (2.88%) HTML
3 4 (2.88%) Playwright
4 3 (2.16%) CSS
4 3 (2.16%) Kafka
4 3 (2.16%) React
4 3 (2.16%) SOAP
5 2 (1.44%) Middleware
5 2 (1.44%) Next.js
5 2 (1.44%) Node.js
5 2 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.44%) XML
6 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.72%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.72%) Jest
6 1 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.72%) PySpark
6 1 (0.72%) Vert.x
6 1 (0.72%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.63%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.44%) CMDB
5 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.44%) Derivative
5 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.44%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.72%) Equities
6 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.72%) NHS
6 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.47%) Windows
2 4 (2.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Solaris
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.13%) Agile
2 41 (29.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (23.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 29 (20.86%) DevOps
6 24 (17.27%) Roadmaps
7 20 (14.39%) ITIL
8 19 (13.67%) AI
8 19 (13.67%) CI/CD
9 17 (12.23%) Analytics
9 17 (12.23%) Project Management
10 15 (10.79%) Decision-Making
10 15 (10.79%) Migration
10 15 (10.79%) Project Delivery
11 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (9.35%) Backlog Management
12 13 (9.35%) Process Improvement
12 13 (9.35%) Risk Management
12 13 (9.35%) Service Delivery
13 12 (8.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.79%) Python
1 15 (10.79%) SQL
2 10 (7.19%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.47%) Java
4 6 (4.32%) C#
5 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.16%) Bash
6 3 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.72%) PHP
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.88%) CISM
5 4 (2.88%) CISSP
6 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.16%) CRISC
6 3 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.44%) CASP
7 2 (1.44%) CBAP
7 2 (1.44%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.44%) GIAC
7 2 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.95%) QA
2 9 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.47%) GDPR
3 8 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.76%) SLA
4 5 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.60%) PMO
5 4 (2.88%) GRC
6 3 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.16%) NIST
7 2 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.72%) EMIR
8 1 (0.72%) GAAP
8 1 (0.72%) GMP
8 1 (0.72%) IFRS
8 1 (0.72%) MiFID
8 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (5.04%) Docker
2 5 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.76%) Terraform
2 7 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.60%) Ansible
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.44%) SCCM
5 1 (0.72%) Grafana
5 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.72%) logstash
5 1 (0.72%) Packer
5 1 (0.72%) vRealize
5 1 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.51%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.19%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.32%) SAP
5 5 (3.60%) Oracle
6 3 (2.16%) Foundry
6 3 (2.16%) Google
6 3 (2.16%) Informatica
6 3 (2.16%) VMware
7 2 (1.44%) Ariba
7 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.44%) Databricks
7 2 (1.44%) IBM
7 2 (1.44%) Murex
7 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.44%) Workday
8 1 (0.72%) Datto
8 1 (0.72%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.72%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.72%) Tenable