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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 28 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 141 119 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.89% 6.34% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 6.75% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 72 48
10th Percentile £329 £281 £359
25th Percentile £431 £400 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +8.89%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £697
90th Percentile £788 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £505 £600
% change year-on-year +8.92% -15.84% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £31.75 £34.93 -
25th Percentile £38.50 £39.31 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £48.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £56.81 -
90th Percentile £71.85 £60.98 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £48.25 -
% change year-on-year +24.35% - -

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 2,083 1,763 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.05% 93.98% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,149 1,284
10th Percentile £368 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.53
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 6 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Appian
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.42%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.42%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Actimize
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.71%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.71%) Maximo
3 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.71%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.71%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.44%) Azure
2 15 (10.64%) Power Platform
3 12 (8.51%) AWS
4 11 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.80%) GitHub
4 11 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.55%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.55%) GCP
5 5 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.84%) SaaS
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.13%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.13%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.13%) Serverless
8 2 (1.42%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.42%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) DNS
1 2 (1.42%) Firewall
1 2 (1.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) 4G
2 1 (0.71%) 5G
2 1 (0.71%) DHCP
2 1 (0.71%) NaaS
2 1 (0.71%) NGFW
2 1 (0.71%) NGN
2 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.51%) Power BI
2 4 (2.84%) Metadata
3 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.42%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.71%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.71%) DataStage
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.71%) QlikView
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (10.64%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.42%) GitLab
3 2 (1.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.71%) Appium
4 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.71%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) Gatling
4 1 (0.71%) Git
4 1 (0.71%) git-flow
4 1 (0.71%) JMeter
4 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.71%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.71%) Vite
4 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.71%) XCTest
4 1 (0.71%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (45.39%) Social Skills
2 45 (31.91%) Finance
3 33 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (19.86%) Public Sector
5 22 (15.60%) Banking
6 9 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.38%) Military
7 6 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.26%) Retail
8 5 (3.55%) Front Office
8 5 (3.55%) Legal
8 5 (3.55%) Marketing
9 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Local Government
10 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (12.06%) Analyst
1 17 (12.06%) Lead
2 10 (7.09%) Product Manager
3 8 (5.67%) Business Analyst
3 8 (5.67%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (5.67%) Developer
3 8 (5.67%) Senior
4 7 (4.96%) Support Engineer
5 6 (4.26%) Product Owner
6 5 (3.55%) Architect
6 5 (3.55%) Project Manager
7 4 (2.84%) Consultant
7 4 (2.84%) IT Engineer
7 4 (2.84%) IT Support
7 4 (2.84%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (2.84%) PMO Lead
7 4 (2.84%) Programme Manager
7 4 (2.84%) Scrum Master
8 3 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) .NET
1 5 (3.55%) Playwright
1 5 (3.55%) React
2 4 (2.84%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.13%) Kafka
3 3 (2.13%) Next.js
4 2 (1.42%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.42%) JSON
4 2 (1.42%) Node.js
4 2 (1.42%) RESTful
4 2 (1.42%) Web Services
5 1 (0.71%) ADO
5 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.71%) EDI
5 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.71%) HTML
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.71%) Vue
5 1 (0.71%) XML
5 1 (0.71%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.22%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.55%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.13%) Derivative
6 3 (2.13%) Life Science
6 3 (2.13%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.42%) FMCG
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.26%) Windows
2 4 (2.84%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.59%) Agile
2 46 (32.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (23.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 32 (22.70%) Decision-Making
5 29 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (19.15%) Roadmaps
7 26 (18.44%) DevOps
8 25 (17.73%) AI
9 23 (16.31%) CI/CD
10 22 (15.60%) Analytics
11 16 (11.35%) Service Delivery
11 16 (11.35%) Sprint Planning
12 15 (10.64%) Translating Business Requirements
13 14 (9.93%) Migration
13 14 (9.93%) Project Management
13 14 (9.93%) Test Automation
13 14 (9.93%) Validation
14 13 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (9.22%) Project Delivery
14 13 (9.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.80%) SQL
2 8 (5.67%) Python
3 7 (4.96%) C#
4 6 (4.26%) Java
4 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.42%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.42%) Bicep
6 2 (1.42%) C++
6 2 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.42%) Korn
7 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.26%) Degree
4 4 (2.84%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.13%) CSPO
5 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) PMP
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.42%) CISSP
6 2 (1.42%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.42%) GIAC
6 2 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CEH
7 1 (0.71%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.71%) CISM
7 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.77%) QA
2 12 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.09%) PMO
4 6 (4.26%) NIST
5 5 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.84%) GDPR
7 3 (2.13%) GRC
7 3 (2.13%) NCSC
8 2 (1.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (1.42%) GxP
8 2 (1.42%) SLA
9 1 (0.71%) Basel III
9 1 (0.71%) COBIT
9 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.71%) IFRS
9 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.71%) P3O
9 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) vSphere
3 1 (0.71%) UAG
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.96%) Terraform
2 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.13%) Grafana
4 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Argo
5 1 (0.71%) SCCM
5 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.09%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.26%) SAP
4 5 (3.55%) Apple
4 5 (3.55%) Oracle
4 5 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.13%) Databricks
5 3 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (1.42%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.42%) BMC
6 2 (1.42%) Foundry
6 2 (1.42%) Informatica
6 2 (1.42%) JDA
6 2 (1.42%) Palantir
6 2 (1.42%) RedPrairie
6 2 (1.42%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.42%) Remedy
6 2 (1.42%) VMware
7 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.71%) Pega