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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 41 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 134 87 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.87% 4.95% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 5.32% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 41 38
10th Percentile £393 £330 £350
25th Percentile £440 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £647
90th Percentile £775 £838 £729
Central London median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £31.75 - -
25th Percentile £38.50 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.82% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £42.88 -
90th Percentile £71.85 £55.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £51.00 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.82% -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 1,942 1,636 1,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.14% 93.01% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,038 1,405
10th Percentile £363 £363 £359
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 29 April 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 29 April 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 7 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) Confluence
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) Appian
4 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.73%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.49%) Trello
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.49%) Actimize
2 2 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.49%) Summit
3 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.75%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.13%) Azure
2 20 (14.93%) AWS
3 15 (11.19%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.97%) SaaS
6 6 (4.48%) GitHub
6 6 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.73%) GCP
8 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.99%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.24%) Serverless
9 3 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.49%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.49%) Collibra
10 2 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) DHCP
1 4 (2.99%) DNS
2 3 (2.24%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) VPN
3 1 (0.75%) 4G
3 1 (0.75%) 5G
3 1 (0.75%) Broadband
3 1 (0.75%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.75%) NaaS
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) NGFW
3 1 (0.75%) NGN
3 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.72%) Power BI
2 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.24%) Metadata
3 3 (2.24%) Tableau
4 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.75%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.75%) QlikView
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (17.16%) JIRA
2 5 (3.73%) Git
3 3 (2.24%) GitLab
4 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.49%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) git-flow
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.75%) TestRail
5 1 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 63 (47.01%) Social Skills
2 56 (41.79%) Finance
3 33 (24.63%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.43%) Public Sector
5 16 (11.94%) Banking
6 10 (7.46%) Legal
7 7 (5.22%) Retail
8 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.24%) Front Office
10 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.49%) Marketing
11 2 (1.49%) Military
11 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.75%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (14.93%) Lead
2 19 (14.18%) Analyst
3 10 (7.46%) Business Analyst
4 9 (6.72%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (6.72%) Senior
5 8 (5.97%) Architect
6 7 (5.22%) Developer
6 7 (5.22%) Product Manager
6 7 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.73%) Consultant
8 4 (2.99%) Programme Manager
8 4 (2.99%) Scrum Master
9 3 (2.24%) CRM Manager
9 3 (2.24%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (2.24%) PMO Manager
9 3 (2.24%) Security Specialist
9 3 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.24%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.24%) Service Manager
9 3 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) REST
2 4 (2.99%) .NET
2 4 (2.99%) HTML
2 4 (2.99%) Playwright
2 4 (2.99%) React
3 3 (2.24%) CSS
3 3 (2.24%) Kafka
4 2 (1.49%) Next.js
4 2 (1.49%) Node.js
4 2 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.49%) SOAP
5 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.75%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.75%) Jest
5 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.75%) PySpark
5 1 (0.75%) Vert.x
5 1 (0.75%) Vitest
5 1 (0.75%) Web Services
5 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.24%) Derivative
4 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.75%) BYOD
6 1 (0.75%) CSOC
6 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Linux
2 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.33%) Agile
2 45 (33.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (20.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (20.15%) Roadmaps
5 26 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.91%) DevOps
7 20 (14.93%) AI
7 20 (14.93%) ITIL
7 20 (14.93%) Project Management
8 19 (14.18%) Analytics
8 19 (14.18%) CI/CD
9 16 (11.94%) Decision-Making
10 15 (11.19%) Migration
11 14 (10.45%) Risk Management
12 13 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (9.70%) Process Improvement
13 12 (8.96%) Project Delivery
13 12 (8.96%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (8.96%) Test Automation
13 12 (8.96%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.70%) SQL
2 10 (7.46%) Python
3 8 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.48%) Java
5 5 (3.73%) C#
6 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.75%) Bicep
7 1 (0.75%) C++
7 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.97%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) CISM
4 4 (2.99%) CISSP
5 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) CRISC
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.49%) CASP
6 2 (1.49%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) GIAC
6 2 (1.49%) GSEC
6 2 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) QA
2 9 (6.72%) GDPR
2 9 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.72%) PMO
3 8 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.97%) SLA
4 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.99%) NIST
6 3 (2.24%) GRC
7 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.75%) EMIR
8 1 (0.75%) GAAP
8 1 (0.75%) GMP
8 1 (0.75%) P3O
8 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Docker
2 4 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.22%) Terraform
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.99%) Ansible
4 2 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.75%) logstash
5 1 (0.75%) Packer
5 1 (0.75%) SCCM
5 1 (0.75%) vRealize
5 1 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.94%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.97%) SAP
4 7 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle
6 3 (2.24%) Foundry
6 3 (2.24%) Google
7 2 (1.49%) Databricks
7 2 (1.49%) IBM
7 2 (1.49%) Murex
7 2 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.49%) VMware
7 2 (1.49%) Workday
8 1 (0.75%) Adobe
8 1 (0.75%) BT
8 1 (0.75%) Datto
8 1 (0.75%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.75%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.75%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.75%) Qualtrics