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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 64
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 124 78 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.62% 4.25% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 4.64% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 33 38
10th Percentile £363 £340 £344
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.65% -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £775 £760 £713
Central London median daily rate £535 £526 £538
% change year-on-year +1.66% -2.09% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.19 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.39% -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 1,663 1,680 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.84% 91.45% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,003 1,534
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 9 February 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
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 9 February 2026. 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 +1 1 £725 - 2
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 (5.65%) Confluence
1 7 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.61%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.84%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.61%) Trello
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.61%) Summit
2 1 (0.81%) Actimize
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.16%) Azure
2 19 (15.32%) AWS
3 12 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.84%) SaaS
7 4 (3.23%) GCP
7 4 (3.23%) GitHub
7 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.42%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.61%) Slack
9 2 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.03%) DNS
2 4 (3.23%) DHCP
2 4 (3.23%) VPN
3 3 (2.42%) Firewall
4 2 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.61%) Modbus
5 1 (0.81%) Broadband
5 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) LAN
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) WAN
5 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.03%) Power BI
1 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.61%) Metadata
3 2 (1.61%) MySQL
3 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.61%) Redis
3 2 (1.61%) Tableau
4 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.81%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.81%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.81%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (17.74%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.42%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.42%) Selenium
4 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) Postman
4 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) TestRail
5 1 (0.81%) Vite
General
1 60 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 54 (43.55%) Finance
3 31 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.29%) Banking
5 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.06%) Legal
7 7 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.84%) Retail
9 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.42%) Marketing
9 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Back Office
10 2 (1.61%) Front Office
10 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 20 (16.13%) Analyst
2 18 (14.52%) Lead
3 11 (8.87%) Business Analyst
3 11 (8.87%) Senior
4 10 (8.06%) Developer
5 8 (6.45%) Architect
6 6 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.03%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.23%) Consultant
8 4 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.23%) Designer
8 4 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.42%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (2.42%) Security Specialist
9 3 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.42%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.42%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.42%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (2.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.84%) .NET
1 6 (4.84%) REST
2 3 (2.42%) CSS
2 3 (2.42%) HTML
2 3 (2.42%) Kafka
2 3 (2.42%) SOAP
3 2 (1.61%) Middleware
3 2 (1.61%) Node.js
3 2 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.61%) React
3 2 (1.61%) XML
4 1 (0.81%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.81%) JWT
4 1 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.81%) OpenJDK
4 1 (0.81%) Playwright
4 1 (0.81%) Spring
4 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.81%) Vert.x
4 1 (0.81%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.61%) CMDB
5 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.61%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.61%) Life Science
5 2 (1.61%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.61%) SCADA
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Solaris
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.71%) Agile
2 38 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (21.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (20.16%) Roadmaps
6 23 (18.55%) DevOps
7 19 (15.32%) ITIL
8 16 (12.90%) Project Management
9 15 (12.10%) Risk Management
10 14 (11.29%) CI/CD
10 14 (11.29%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.29%) Project Delivery
11 13 (10.48%) AI
12 12 (9.68%) Migration
12 12 (9.68%) Service Delivery
13 11 (8.87%) Analytics
13 11 (8.87%) Backlog Management
14 10 (8.06%) Customer Experience
14 10 (8.06%) Process Improvement
14 10 (8.06%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.29%) SQL
2 12 (9.68%) Python
3 10 (8.06%) Java
3 10 (8.06%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.42%) Bash
4 3 (2.42%) C#
5 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.81%) PHP
6 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Degree
1 13 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.42%) CCNA
6 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.42%) CISM
6 3 (2.42%) CISSP
6 3 (2.42%) CRISC
6 3 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.61%) CASP
7 2 (1.61%) CBAP
7 2 (1.61%) CCNP
7 2 (1.61%) GSEC
7 2 (1.61%) ISEB
7 2 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) QA
2 8 (6.45%) GDPR
2 8 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.65%) SLA
4 5 (4.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.23%) GRC
6 3 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.61%) NIST
7 2 (1.61%) PMO
7 2 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.81%) GAAP
8 1 (0.81%) GMP
8 1 (0.81%) IFRS
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.81%) MiFID
8 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.84%) Docker
3 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.84%) Terraform
3 5 (4.03%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) SCCM
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.81%) logstash
5 1 (0.81%) Packer
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.10%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.87%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.65%) SAP
5 5 (4.03%) Google
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) Informatica
6 3 (2.42%) VMware
6 3 (2.42%) Workday
7 2 (1.61%) Ariba
7 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.61%) IBM
7 2 (1.61%) Murex
7 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.61%) Remedy
7 2 (1.61%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.81%) Datto
8 1 (0.81%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.81%) Tanium
8 1 (0.81%) Xactly