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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 46 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 136 77 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.15% 4.41% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 4.76% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 33 34
10th Percentile £404 £332 £333
25th Percentile £456 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £638
90th Percentile £776 £793 £734
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 1,912 1,617 2,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.44% 92.66% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,030 1,415
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.39
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +42.72% -39.07%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £32.83 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.03% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.41%) Confluence
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) Appian
4 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.47%) Trello
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.47%) Actimize
2 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.47%) Summit
3 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.74%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.79%) Azure
2 21 (15.44%) AWS
3 14 (10.29%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.88%) SaaS
6 7 (5.15%) GitHub
7 5 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.68%) GCP
7 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.94%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.21%) Serverless
9 3 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.47%) Collibra
10 2 (1.47%) Figma
10 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) DHCP
1 4 (2.94%) DNS
2 3 (2.21%) Firewall
2 3 (2.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) 4G
3 1 (0.74%) 5G
3 1 (0.74%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) NaaS
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) NGFW
3 1 (0.74%) NGN
3 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.88%) Power BI
2 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.21%) Metadata
4 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.47%) Tableau
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (16.18%) JIRA
2 5 (3.68%) Git
3 3 (2.21%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.21%) GitLab
3 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.21%) Selenium
4 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.47%) Postman
4 2 (1.47%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.74%) git-flow
5 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.74%) TestRail
5 1 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 66 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 60 (44.12%) Finance
3 32 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.24%) Banking
5 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.09%) Legal
7 7 (5.15%) Retail
8 6 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.21%) Front Office
11 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.47%) Marketing
12 2 (1.47%) Military
12 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (15.44%) Lead
2 20 (14.71%) Analyst
3 10 (7.35%) Business Analyst
4 9 (6.62%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (6.62%) Developer
4 9 (6.62%) Senior
5 7 (5.15%) Architect
5 7 (5.15%) Project Manager
6 6 (4.41%) Product Manager
7 5 (3.68%) Consultant
8 4 (2.94%) Programme Manager
8 4 (2.94%) Scrum Master
9 3 (2.21%) CRM Manager
9 3 (2.21%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) Security Specialist
9 3 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.21%) Service Manager
9 3 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.41%) REST
2 5 (3.68%) .NET
3 4 (2.94%) HTML
3 4 (2.94%) Playwright
3 4 (2.94%) React
4 3 (2.21%) CSS
4 3 (2.21%) Kafka
4 3 (2.21%) SOAP
5 2 (1.47%) Next.js
5 2 (1.47%) Node.js
5 2 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.74%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.74%) Jest
6 1 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.74%) PySpark
6 1 (0.74%) RESTful
6 1 (0.74%) Sass
6 1 (0.74%) Vert.x
6 1 (0.74%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Onboarding
1 12 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.21%) Derivative
3 3 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.47%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.74%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (0.74%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) PMI
5 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Windows
2 3 (2.21%) Linux
2 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.50%) Agile
2 44 (32.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (22.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (19.85%) DevOps
5 25 (18.38%) Roadmaps
6 21 (15.44%) CI/CD
7 20 (14.71%) ITIL
8 19 (13.97%) AI
8 19 (13.97%) Analytics
8 19 (13.97%) Project Management
9 16 (11.76%) Decision-Making
10 15 (11.03%) Migration
11 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (9.56%) Service Delivery
12 13 (9.56%) Sprint Planning
12 13 (9.56%) Test Automation
12 13 (9.56%) Validation
13 12 (8.82%) Process Improvement
13 12 (8.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.56%) SQL
2 11 (8.09%) Python
3 9 (6.62%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.15%) Java
5 6 (4.41%) C#
6 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.74%) Bash
7 1 (0.74%) Bicep
7 1 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.94%) CISM
5 4 (2.94%) CISSP
6 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) CRISC
6 3 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.47%) CASP
7 2 (1.47%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) GIAC
7 2 (1.47%) GSEC
7 2 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.50%) QA
2 9 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.62%) GDPR
2 9 (6.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.88%) SLA
4 7 (5.15%) PMO
5 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.94%) NIST
7 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.21%) GRC
8 2 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.74%) EMIR
9 1 (0.74%) GAAP
9 1 (0.74%) GMP
9 1 (0.74%) IFRS
9 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.88%) Terraform
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.94%) Ansible
4 2 (1.47%) Grafana
4 2 (1.47%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.74%) logstash
5 1 (0.74%) Packer
5 1 (0.74%) vRealize
5 1 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.03%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.62%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.15%) SAP
5 4 (2.94%) Oracle
6 3 (2.21%) Foundry
6 3 (2.21%) Google
7 2 (1.47%) Ariba
7 2 (1.47%) Databricks
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) Murex
7 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.47%) VMware
7 2 (1.47%) Workday
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) BT
8 1 (0.74%) Datto
8 1 (0.74%) HP
8 1 (0.74%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.74%) Qualtrics