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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 40 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +40
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 118 96 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.70% 4.60% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 5.02% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 53 60
10th Percentile £286 £378 £393
25th Percentile £441 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £598 £534
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% +11.94% -7.17%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £650
90th Percentile £775 £770 £713
Central London median daily rate £523 £598 £550
% change year-on-year -12.55% +8.64% -5.98%
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

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 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 18 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 18 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 0 1 £725 -
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 7 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.08%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Endur
2 2 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.85%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.49%) Azure
2 19 (16.10%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.24%) GitHub
6 5 (4.24%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.24%) SaaS
7 4 (3.39%) GCP
7 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.39%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.54%) Serverless
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.69%) Collibra
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Firewall
2 2 (1.69%) DNS
2 2 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.69%) LAN
2 2 (1.69%) Modbus
2 2 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) Power BI
2 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.54%) MySQL
3 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.69%) Airbyte
4 2 (1.69%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.69%) Redis
4 2 (1.69%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Informix
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) Power Query
5 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (14.41%) JIRA
2 6 (5.08%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.54%) Postman
3 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.54%) Selenium
4 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.69%) GitLab
4 2 (1.69%) Gradle
4 2 (1.69%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.69%) TestRail
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) JUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 53 (44.92%) Social Skills
2 51 (43.22%) Finance
3 30 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.71%) Banking
5 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.63%) Legal
7 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.85%) Automotive
11 1 (0.85%) Back Office
11 1 (0.85%) French Language
11 1 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.64%) Analyst
2 14 (11.86%) Business Analyst
2 14 (11.86%) Developer
2 14 (11.86%) Lead
3 10 (8.47%) Senior
4 7 (5.93%) Consultant
5 5 (4.24%) Architect
6 4 (3.39%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.39%) Security Engineer
6 4 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (2.54%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (2.54%) Endur Support
7 3 (2.54%) IT Analyst
7 3 (2.54%) Java Developer
7 3 (2.54%) Lead Architect
7 3 (2.54%) OpenLink Support
7 3 (2.54%) Product Manager
7 3 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.54%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) .NET
2 5 (4.24%) React
2 5 (4.24%) REST
3 4 (3.39%) RESTful
4 3 (2.54%) Node.js
4 3 (2.54%) OAuth
4 3 (2.54%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.54%) Spring
5 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.69%) CSS
5 2 (1.69%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.69%) HTML
5 2 (1.69%) Middleware
5 2 (1.69%) SOAP
5 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.85%) Flutter
6 1 (0.85%) JWT
6 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.85%) Playwright
6 1 (0.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.54%) SCADA
5 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.69%) FMCG
5 2 (1.69%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Life Science
5 2 (1.69%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.69%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.63%) Windows
2 5 (4.24%) Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Solaris
4 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) Agile
2 41 (34.75%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (22.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (20.34%) DevOps
5 18 (15.25%) Roadmaps
6 16 (13.56%) CI/CD
6 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (11.86%) Analytics
8 13 (11.02%) Project Management
8 13 (11.02%) Scrum
9 12 (10.17%) Project Delivery
9 12 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (8.47%) Decision-Making
10 10 (8.47%) Risk Management
10 10 (8.47%) Service Delivery
11 9 (7.63%) ITIL
11 9 (7.63%) Test Automation
12 8 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (6.78%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.56%) SQL
2 14 (11.86%) Python
3 13 (11.02%) Java
4 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.24%) C#
5 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.39%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.69%) VBA
8 1 (0.85%) C++
8 1 (0.85%) Go
8 1 (0.85%) Korn
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PHP
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) PromQL
8 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Degree
2 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.69%) CBAP
6 2 (1.69%) CCNA
6 2 (1.69%) CCNP
6 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) ISEB
6 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.69%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) APMG
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
2 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.69%) Basel II
3 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.69%) GRC
3 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.69%) PMO
3 2 (1.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) Basel III
4 1 (0.85%) COBIT
4 1 (0.85%) COSO
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.85%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.93%) Terraform
2 6 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.54%) Ansible
4 3 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.54%) SCCM
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Packer
6 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.93%) Salesforce
2 7 (5.93%) SAP
2 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle
4 4 (3.39%) Informatica
5 2 (1.69%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.69%) Google
5 2 (1.69%) HP
5 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.69%) Remedy
5 2 (1.69%) Rockwell
5 2 (1.69%) Splunk
5 2 (1.69%) Workday
6 1 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.85%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.85%) Tanium
6 1 (0.85%) Xactly