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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 37 62
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 132 96 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.55% 5.63% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.49% 6.01% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 53 40
10th Percentile £355 £281 £348
25th Percentile £428 £400 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £544
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.29% -9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £677
90th Percentile £733 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £498 £531
% change year-on-year +7.44% -6.35% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.75 - -
25th Percentile £38.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £71.85 - -
Central London median hourly rate £55.25 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -11.60% - -

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 2,034 1,598 1,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.53% 93.78% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,016 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.48% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Appian
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.52%) Actimize
2 2 (1.52%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.76%) Maximo
3 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.76%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.76%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) Summit
3 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.42%) Azure
2 13 (9.85%) AWS
2 13 (9.85%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.30%) GitHub
4 7 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.30%) SaaS
5 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.79%) GCP
6 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.27%) Serverless
6 3 (2.27%) Slack
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.52%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.52%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) DHCP
1 2 (1.52%) DNS
1 2 (1.52%) Firewall
1 2 (1.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) 4G
2 1 (0.76%) 5G
2 1 (0.76%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) NaaS
2 1 (0.76%) NGFW
2 1 (0.76%) NGN
2 1 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.06%) Power BI
2 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.27%) Tableau
4 2 (1.52%) Metadata
4 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.76%) DataStage
5 1 (0.76%) QlikView
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.27%) Git
2 3 (2.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.76%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.76%) git-flow
4 1 (0.76%) Postman
4 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.76%) Vite
4 1 (0.76%) XCTest
4 1 (0.76%) XCUITest
General
1 60 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 44 (33.33%) Finance
3 29 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.39%) Public Sector
5 17 (12.88%) Banking
6 7 (5.30%) Legal
6 7 (5.30%) Retail
7 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Military
9 3 (2.27%) Marketing
9 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.52%) Front Office
10 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (12.88%) Lead
2 16 (12.12%) Analyst
3 9 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
3 9 (6.82%) Project Manager
3 9 (6.82%) Senior
4 8 (6.06%) Product Manager
5 7 (5.30%) Business Analyst
6 6 (4.55%) Developer
6 6 (4.55%) Scrum Master
7 5 (3.79%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.03%) Consultant
8 4 (3.03%) Operations Analyst
8 4 (3.03%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.27%) Architect
9 3 (2.27%) Change Manager
9 3 (2.27%) CRM Manager
9 3 (2.27%) Programme Manager
9 3 (2.27%) Release Manager
9 3 (2.27%) Security Specialist
9 3 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) .NET
1 4 (3.03%) React
1 4 (3.03%) REST
2 3 (2.27%) HTML
2 3 (2.27%) Kafka
2 3 (2.27%) Next.js
2 3 (2.27%) Playwright
3 2 (1.52%) CSS
3 2 (1.52%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.52%) JSON
3 2 (1.52%) RESTful
3 2 (1.52%) Web Services
3 2 (1.52%) XML
4 1 (0.76%) ADO
4 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.76%) EDI
4 1 (0.76%) Node.js
4 1 (0.76%) OpenJDK
4 1 (0.76%) SOAP
4 1 (0.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.88%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.27%) Derivative
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Life Science
6 2 (1.52%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.52%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.76%) CMDB
7 1 (0.76%) Equities
7 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.76%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.76%) NHS
7 1 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.82%) Agile
2 40 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (21.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (18.94%) Decision-Making
6 24 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 22 (16.67%) DevOps
8 20 (15.15%) Analytics
8 20 (15.15%) Project Management
9 19 (14.39%) AI
10 17 (12.88%) CI/CD
10 17 (12.88%) Risk Management
10 17 (12.88%) Sprint Planning
11 16 (12.12%) Migration
12 15 (11.36%) ITIL
12 15 (11.36%) Project Delivery
12 15 (11.36%) Service Delivery
13 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (9.09%) Scrum
13 12 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.58%) SQL
2 8 (6.06%) Python
3 5 (3.79%) C#
3 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.03%) Java
4 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.52%) C++
5 2 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.76%) Bicep
6 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.82%) Degree
4 5 (3.79%) CISSP
5 4 (3.03%) CISM
5 4 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.03%) PMP
6 3 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) CRISC
7 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.52%) CASP
7 2 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.52%) GIAC
7 2 (1.52%) GSEC
7 2 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.76%) CEH
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) QA
2 10 (7.58%) PMO
3 9 (6.82%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.55%) NIST
5 5 (3.79%) GDPR
6 4 (3.03%) SLA
7 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.27%) GRC
8 2 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.52%) NCSC
9 1 (0.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.76%) GAAP
9 1 (0.76%) GMP
9 1 (0.76%) GxP
9 1 (0.76%) IFRS
9 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) Terraform
2 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) logstash
4 1 (0.76%) SCCM
4 1 (0.76%) vRealize
4 1 (0.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.55%) SAP
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle
6 4 (3.03%) Google
7 2 (1.52%) Apple
7 2 (1.52%) BMC
7 2 (1.52%) Foundry
7 2 (1.52%) JDA
7 2 (1.52%) Palantir
7 2 (1.52%) RedPrairie
7 2 (1.52%) Remedy
8 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.76%) Charles River
8 1 (0.76%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.76%) IBM
8 1 (0.76%) Nokia
8 1 (0.76%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.76%) Pega