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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 162 119 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.16% 6.75% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 7.16% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 80 61
10th Percentile £310 £281 £425
25th Percentile £431 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £697 £684
90th Percentile £788 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +8.66% -15.64% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £48.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +76.47% - -

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 2,014 1,661 1,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.96% 94.27% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,107 1,213
10th Percentile £368 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +34.62%

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 17 September 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 10 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.94%) Confluence
3 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.23%) Apache
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.62%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (1.23%) Orchestrade
1 2 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.62%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.62%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.67%) Azure
2 21 (12.96%) GitHub
3 20 (12.35%) AWS
4 18 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (8.64%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.94%) Serverless
9 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (3.70%) GCP
11 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.09%) dbt
11 5 (3.09%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.47%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.47%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.47%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.09%) DNS
2 4 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.85%) DHCP
3 3 (1.85%) VPN
4 2 (1.23%) Firewall
4 2 (1.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.62%) BGP
5 1 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.62%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.62%) SSH
5 1 (0.62%) TACACS
5 1 (0.62%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) Power BI
2 7 (4.32%) Metadata
3 5 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.85%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.85%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.23%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.23%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.62%) DataStage
7 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.62%) QlikView
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (13.58%) JIRA
2 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.09%) Git
4 4 (2.47%) GitLab
5 3 (1.85%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.85%) JUnit
5 3 (1.85%) Selenium
5 3 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.23%) JMeter
6 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.23%) Maven
6 2 (1.23%) Mockito
6 2 (1.23%) Postman
6 2 (1.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.62%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) Vite
7 1 (0.62%) XCTest
7 1 (0.62%) XCUITest
General
1 74 (45.68%) Social Skills
2 58 (35.80%) Finance
3 40 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (21.60%) Public Sector
5 28 (17.28%) Banking
6 12 (7.41%) Front Office
6 12 (7.41%) Military
7 9 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.32%) Legal
10 5 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.09%) Investment Banking
10 5 (3.09%) Retail
11 4 (2.47%) Back Office
11 4 (2.47%) Marketing
12 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.85%) Local Government
13 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (12.96%) Senior
2 18 (11.11%) Analyst
2 18 (11.11%) Lead
3 15 (9.26%) Developer
4 10 (6.17%) Product Manager
5 7 (4.32%) Project Manager
5 7 (4.32%) Support Engineer
6 6 (3.70%) Architect
6 6 (3.70%) Business Analyst
6 6 (3.70%) Consultant
6 6 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (3.70%) IT Support
6 6 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.09%) Data Engineer
7 5 (3.09%) IT Engineer
7 5 (3.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (3.09%) Product Owner
7 5 (3.09%) Scrum Master
7 5 (3.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.02%) Terraform
2 7 (4.32%) .NET
3 6 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.70%) Web Services
4 5 (3.09%) React
4 5 (3.09%) RESTful
5 4 (2.47%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.47%) Kafka
6 3 (1.85%) JSON
6 3 (1.85%) PySpark
6 3 (1.85%) REST
6 3 (1.85%) SOAP
6 3 (1.85%) Spring
6 3 (1.85%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.23%) HTML
7 2 (1.23%) JPA
7 2 (1.23%) Playwright
7 2 (1.23%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Product Ownership
2 15 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 13 (8.02%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.47%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.47%) Life Science
7 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.85%) Derivative
8 3 (1.85%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.23%) FMCG
9 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.17%) Windows
2 5 (3.09%) Linux
3 4 (2.47%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.85%) Unix
4 3 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.62%) Android
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.89%) Agile
2 54 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (22.84%) CI/CD
5 35 (21.60%) Decision-Making
6 34 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 30 (18.52%) DevOps
8 29 (17.90%) Roadmaps
9 28 (17.28%) AI
10 23 (14.20%) Analytics
11 22 (13.58%) Sprint Planning
11 22 (13.58%) Test Automation
12 21 (12.96%) Translating Business Requirements
13 20 (12.35%) Migration
14 18 (11.11%) Validation
15 17 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (10.49%) Project Delivery
15 17 (10.49%) Scrum
15 17 (10.49%) Service Delivery
15 17 (10.49%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.73%) SQL
2 18 (11.11%) Python
3 9 (5.56%) C#
3 9 (5.56%) Java
4 7 (4.32%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.85%) Korn
6 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.23%) Bicep
6 2 (1.23%) C++
6 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.62%) Bash
7 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.94%) PMI Certification
4 7 (4.32%) Degree
4 7 (4.32%) PMP
5 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.85%) CSPO
6 3 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) OSCP
8 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.62%) RIBA
8 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.73%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.49%) QA
3 11 (6.79%) PMO
4 6 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.47%) NIST
6 3 (1.85%) GRC
6 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.85%) NCSC
7 2 (1.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (1.23%) GDPR
7 2 (1.23%) GxP
7 2 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (1.23%) WCAG
8 1 (0.62%) Basel III
8 1 (0.62%) COBIT
8 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.62%) IFRS
8 1 (0.62%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.62%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.62%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.23%) vSphere
4 1 (0.62%) UAG
4 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.70%) Grafana
3 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.85%) Ansible
4 3 (1.85%) SCCM
5 1 (0.62%) Argo
5 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.62%) Packer
5 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.17%) Oracle
4 7 (4.32%) SAP
5 6 (3.70%) Google
6 5 (3.09%) Apple
6 5 (3.09%) Databricks
6 5 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.47%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.47%) IBM
7 4 (2.47%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.85%) VMware
9 2 (1.23%) BMC
9 2 (1.23%) Informatica
9 2 (1.23%) JDA
9 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.23%) RedPrairie
9 2 (1.23%) Remedy
9 2 (1.23%) Splunk
9 2 (1.23%) Teradata