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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 169 117 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.82% 6.79% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.59% 7.20% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 84 57
10th Percentile £313 £281 £435
25th Percentile £463 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £527 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -12.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £684
90th Percentile £786 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £599
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.32% +8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £26.44 -
% change year-on-year +126.97% - -

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 1,967 1,625 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.06% 94.26% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 1,114 1,215
10th Percentile £365 £326 £371
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% -22.76% +27.27%

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 October 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 8 (4.73%) Confluence
1 8 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Maximo
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.59%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.59%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.59%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.93%) Azure
2 23 (13.61%) GitHub
3 18 (10.65%) AWS
3 18 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.73%) Serverless
6 7 (4.14%) GCP
6 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.96%) dbt
7 5 (2.96%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.37%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.37%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) DNS
2 4 (2.37%) DHCP
2 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.78%) VPN
4 2 (1.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.59%) BGP
5 1 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.59%) Firewall
5 1 (0.59%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.59%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.59%) SSH
5 1 (0.59%) TACACS
5 1 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.51%) Power BI
2 8 (4.73%) Metadata
3 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.78%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.18%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.59%) DataStage
8 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.59%) QlikView
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (12.43%) JIRA
2 9 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.73%) Git
4 7 (4.14%) Postman
4 7 (4.14%) Selenium
5 6 (3.55%) GitLab
6 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.37%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.78%) JUnit
8 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.18%) eggPlant
8 2 (1.18%) JMeter
8 2 (1.18%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.18%) Maven
8 2 (1.18%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) Vite
9 1 (0.59%) XCTest
9 1 (0.59%) XCUITest
General
1 73 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 58 (34.32%) Finance
3 40 (23.67%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (20.12%) Public Sector
5 27 (15.98%) Banking
6 13 (7.69%) Front Office
7 12 (7.10%) Military
8 11 (6.51%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (4.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.55%) Legal
12 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.96%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.96%) Retail
13 4 (2.37%) Back Office
13 4 (2.37%) Marketing
14 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.78%) Local Government
15 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.18%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (13.02%) Senior
2 18 (10.65%) Lead
3 17 (10.06%) Analyst
4 15 (8.88%) Developer
5 11 (6.51%) Product Manager
6 8 (4.73%) Architect
7 7 (4.14%) Product Owner
7 7 (4.14%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.14%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.55%) Consultant
8 6 (3.55%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) IT Support
8 6 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.96%) C# Developer
9 5 (2.96%) Data Manager
9 5 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.88%) Terraform
2 8 (4.73%) .NET
3 7 (4.14%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.55%) Kafka
4 6 (3.55%) REST
5 5 (2.96%) JSON
5 5 (2.96%) RESTful
5 5 (2.96%) Web Services
6 4 (2.37%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (2.37%) HTML
6 4 (2.37%) Playwright
6 4 (2.37%) React
6 4 (2.37%) SOAP
7 3 (1.78%) Middleware
7 3 (1.78%) PySpark
7 3 (1.78%) Spring
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.78%) XBRL
8 2 (1.18%) JPA
8 2 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.47%) Onboarding
3 15 (8.88%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.55%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.78%) Life Science
8 3 (1.78%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.78%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.78%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.51%) Windows
2 6 (3.55%) Linux
3 4 (2.37%) macOS
4 3 (1.78%) Unix
4 3 (1.78%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.46%) Agile
2 59 (34.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (24.85%) CI/CD
5 37 (21.89%) Decision-Making
6 34 (20.12%) DevOps
7 33 (19.53%) Roadmaps
8 31 (18.34%) AI
8 31 (18.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 29 (17.16%) Test Automation
10 23 (13.61%) Analytics
11 21 (12.43%) Translating Business Requirements
11 21 (12.43%) Validation
12 20 (11.83%) Migration
12 20 (11.83%) Sprint Planning
13 19 (11.24%) Data Engineering
13 19 (11.24%) User Stories
14 18 (10.65%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (10.65%) Data Governance
15 17 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.20%) Python
2 20 (11.83%) SQL
3 10 (5.92%) C#
3 10 (5.92%) Java
3 10 (5.92%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.73%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.78%) Korn
7 2 (1.18%) Bash
7 2 (1.18%) Bicep
8 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.59%) C++
8 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (24.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.14%) Degree
3 7 (4.14%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.14%) PMP
4 4 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.78%) CSPO
5 3 (1.78%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) RIBA
7 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.02%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.06%) QA
3 8 (4.73%) PMO
4 6 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.78%) GDPR
5 3 (1.78%) GRC
5 3 (1.78%) NIST
6 2 (1.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (1.18%) GxP
6 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.18%) SLA
6 2 (1.18%) WCAG
7 1 (0.59%) Basel III
7 1 (0.59%) COBIT
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.59%) EMIR
7 1 (0.59%) IFRS
7 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.59%) MiFID
7 1 (0.59%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.73%) Docker
3 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.78%) vSphere
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) UAG
5 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.96%) Grafana
3 5 (2.96%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.37%) Ansible
4 4 (2.37%) SCCM
5 2 (1.18%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.59%) Argo
6 1 (0.59%) Packer
6 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.10%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.33%) Oracle
4 8 (4.73%) Databricks
5 7 (4.14%) Google
5 7 (4.14%) IBM
6 6 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.55%) SAP
7 5 (2.96%) Apple
8 4 (2.37%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.37%) Refinitiv
8 4 (2.37%) VMware
9 3 (1.78%) Informatica
10 2 (1.18%) BMC
10 2 (1.18%) JDA
10 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.18%) RedPrairie
10 2 (1.18%) Remedy
10 2 (1.18%) Splunk
10 2 (1.18%) Teradata