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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 42 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 112 87 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.15% 4.53% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 4.93% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 44 52
10th Percentile £363 £379 £400
25th Percentile £463 £484 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £544
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +2.30% -9.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £641
90th Percentile £775 £746 £711
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.23% -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 1,635 1,764 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.74% 91.92% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,075 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 January 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 January 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 -
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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.79%) Trello
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.89%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.89%) Summit
2 1 (0.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) Azure
2 19 (16.96%) AWS
3 10 (8.93%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.46%) GCP
6 5 (4.46%) SaaS
7 4 (3.57%) GitHub
7 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.79%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) DNS
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
1 3 (2.68%) VPN
2 2 (1.79%) DHCP
2 2 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.79%) Modbus
3 1 (0.89%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
3 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.36%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.68%) MySQL
3 3 (2.68%) Tableau
4 2 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.79%) Metadata
4 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.79%) Redis
4 2 (1.79%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.89%) Informix
5 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.68%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.68%) Selenium
3 2 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.79%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) Postman
3 2 (1.79%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.79%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.89%) JUnit
4 1 (0.89%) TestRail
4 1 (0.89%) Vite
General
1 55 (49.11%) Social Skills
2 46 (41.07%) Finance
3 30 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.61%) Banking
5 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.14%) Legal
7 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.57%) Retail
9 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.68%) Marketing
9 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Back Office
11 1 (0.89%) French Language
11 1 (0.89%) Front Office
11 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (16.96%) Analyst
2 16 (14.29%) Lead
3 12 (10.71%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.71%) Senior
4 10 (8.93%) Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Architect
6 6 (5.36%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Consultant
7 4 (3.57%) Designer
7 4 (3.57%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.68%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.68%) Scrum Master
8 3 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Senior Manager
8 3 (2.68%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) .NET
2 4 (3.57%) React
3 3 (2.68%) Node.js
3 3 (2.68%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) CSS
4 2 (1.79%) HTML
4 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 2 (1.79%) RESTful
4 2 (1.79%) SOAP
4 2 (1.79%) Spring
4 2 (1.79%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.89%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.89%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.89%) JPA
5 1 (0.89%) Memcached
5 1 (0.89%) OAuth
5 1 (0.89%) OpenJDK
5 1 (0.89%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.89%) Spring Batch
5 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.68%) SCADA
6 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.79%) Life Science
6 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Windows
2 4 (3.57%) Linux
3 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.89%) Solaris
5 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) Agile
2 35 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (27.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (20.54%) DevOps
6 20 (17.86%) Roadmaps
7 18 (16.07%) ITIL
8 17 (15.18%) Project Management
9 15 (13.39%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.39%) Project Delivery
10 12 (10.71%) Analytics
10 12 (10.71%) Decision-Making
11 11 (9.82%) AI
11 11 (9.82%) Migration
11 11 (9.82%) Scrum
11 11 (9.82%) Service Delivery
12 10 (8.93%) Data Analysis
12 10 (8.93%) Validation
13 9 (8.04%) Business Analysis
13 9 (8.04%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.71%) SQL
2 11 (9.82%) Java
2 11 (9.82%) Python
3 9 (8.04%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.68%) Bash
4 3 (2.68%) C#
4 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.89%) Korn
6 1 (0.89%) PHP
6 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.89%) R
6 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) Degree
1 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.68%) CCNA
4 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.79%) CBAP
5 2 (1.79%) CCNP
5 2 (1.79%) ISEB
5 2 (1.79%) PMP
6 1 (0.89%) APMP
6 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) QA
2 8 (7.14%) SLA
3 6 (5.36%) GDPR
3 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.68%) PMO
7 2 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.79%) GRC
7 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.89%) Basel III
8 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.89%) EMIR
8 1 (0.89%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.89%) MiFID
8 1 (0.89%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (5.36%) Terraform
2 4 (3.57%) Ansible
3 2 (1.79%) SCCM
4 1 (0.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.89%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.04%) Salesforce
4 7 (6.25%) SAP
5 6 (5.36%) Oracle
6 5 (4.46%) Google
7 3 (2.68%) IBM
7 3 (2.68%) Informatica
8 2 (1.79%) Ariba
8 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.79%) Remedy
8 2 (1.79%) Rockwell
8 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 2 (1.79%) Workday
9 1 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.89%) Datto
9 1 (0.89%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.89%) Tanium
9 1 (0.89%) Xactly