Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in London

Continual Improvement
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 35 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,735 784 629
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.54% 5.82% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 6.29% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 515 373
10th Percentile £348 £318 £353
25th Percentile £438 £421 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £688
90th Percentile £761 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £529
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.44% -8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 12
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £18.04
25th Percentile £25.25 £18.87 £29.17
Median hourly rate £29.15 £25.15 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% -48.41% +20.49%
75th Percentile £52.88 £46.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £62.85 £67.50 £74.63
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.17 £48.75
% change year-on-year +32.42% -50.43% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,055 12,462 14,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,241 9,589
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 183
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.04 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Central London -1 192 £550 +5.77% 373
West London -1 56 £520 +4.00% 128
South London +21 44 £530 -8.90% 45
East London +1 10 £600 +215.79% 46
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 3
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 80 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.55%) Confluence
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.04%) CMS
7 14 (0.81%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 73 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Magento
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.17%) Endur
9 3 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 390 (22.48%) Azure
2 330 (19.02%) AWS
3 142 (8.18%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (6.57%) GitHub
6 107 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (5.59%) GCP
8 81 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 72 (4.15%) Serverless
10 63 (3.63%) SaaS
11 59 (3.40%) Amazon S3
11 59 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
14 39 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (2.02%) Snowflake
17 33 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
18 30 (1.73%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.73%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.19%) Firewall
2 35 (2.02%) Network Security
3 33 (1.90%) DNS
4 22 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.10%) WAN
6 18 (1.04%) VPN
7 13 (0.75%) DHCP
8 12 (0.69%) LAN
9 9 (0.52%) VoIP
10 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.29%) HTTP
13 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.29%) WebEx
14 4 (0.23%) DKIM
14 4 (0.23%) DMARC
14 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.23%) SAN
14 4 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.94%) Power BI
2 60 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 51 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (2.65%) Metadata
5 42 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.44%) Delta Lake
10 23 (1.33%) Tableau
11 20 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 15 (0.86%) Power Query
13 14 (0.81%) Parquet
14 13 (0.75%) MySQL
15 12 (0.69%) Oracle Database
16 11 (0.63%) Big Data
16 11 (0.63%) MongoDB
17 8 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
18 7 (0.40%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (8.82%) JIRA
2 112 (6.46%) Git
3 92 (5.30%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.94%) GitLab
5 36 (2.07%) Selenium
6 15 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.81%) Postman
8 13 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.75%) JUnit
9 10 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.52%) Maven
11 7 (0.40%) Gradle
11 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.35%) Mockito
12 6 (0.35%) XCTest
12 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 779 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 527 (30.37%) Finance
3 400 (23.05%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (17.06%) Public Sector
5 209 (12.05%) Banking
6 77 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (3.40%) Legal
9 50 (2.88%) Front Office
9 50 (2.88%) Retail
10 48 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.13%) Marketing
12 36 (2.07%) Local Government
13 35 (2.02%) Investment Banking
14 33 (1.90%) Law
15 27 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.38%) Military
17 24 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 222 (12.80%) Lead
2 200 (11.53%) Senior
3 174 (10.03%) Developer
4 171 (9.86%) Analyst
5 84 (4.84%) Architect
6 68 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 67 (3.86%) Project Manager
8 58 (3.34%) Data Engineer
9 54 (3.11%) Consultant
9 54 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.94%) Business Analyst
11 48 (2.77%) Software Engineer
12 40 (2.31%) Product Manager
12 40 (2.31%) Scrum Master
13 38 (2.19%) Senior Manager
14 37 (2.13%) Product Owner
15 32 (1.84%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.79%) Applications Support
16 31 (1.79%) IT Manager
17 30 (1.73%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (8.41%) Terraform
2 100 (5.76%) REST
3 79 (4.55%) RESTful
4 59 (3.40%) Kafka
5 58 (3.34%) .NET
6 52 (3.00%) React
7 51 (2.94%) Spring
8 48 (2.77%) Spring Boot
9 44 (2.54%) Web Services
10 43 (2.48%) AngularJS
10 43 (2.48%) HTML
11 36 (2.07%) CSS
12 35 (2.02%) SOAP
13 32 (1.84%) Django
14 31 (1.79%) PySpark
15 24 (1.38%) JSON
15 24 (1.38%) Node.js
15 24 (1.38%) XML
16 23 (1.33%) Middleware
17 21 (1.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 220 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 140 (8.07%) Onboarding
3 127 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 53 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 40 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 39 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 39 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.90%) Security Posture
12 28 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.44%) CMDB
13 25 (1.44%) Data Centre
14 24 (1.38%) NHS
15 21 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.15%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.92%) Windows
2 93 (5.36%) Linux
3 35 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.56%) Unix
5 21 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.98%) Android
7 15 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) zOS
11 1 (0.058%) HPUX
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.058%) Solaris
11 1 (0.058%) SUSE
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (39.31%) Agile
2 580 (33.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 454 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 377 (21.73%) CI/CD
5 359 (20.69%) DevOps
6 342 (19.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 312 (17.98%) Decision-Making
8 308 (17.75%) AI
9 247 (14.24%) Roadmaps
10 211 (12.16%) Analytics
11 197 (11.35%) Scrum
12 177 (10.20%) Change Management
13 168 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 168 (9.68%) Test Automation
14 167 (9.63%) Software Engineering
15 154 (8.88%) Migration
15 154 (8.88%) Risk Management
16 153 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (8.53%) ITIL
18 145 (8.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 311 (17.93%) Python
2 278 (16.02%) SQL
3 144 (8.30%) Java
4 97 (5.59%) JavaScript
5 87 (5.01%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.55%) C#
7 62 (3.57%) Bash
8 57 (3.29%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.92%) Go
11 16 (0.92%) Groovy
11 16 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.81%) Korn
12 14 (0.81%) Perl
13 13 (0.75%) Bicep
14 12 (0.69%) R
14 12 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 406 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 347 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 154 (8.88%) Degree
4 57 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (3.29%) PMP
5 54 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 48 (2.77%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.07%) CISSP
9 33 (1.90%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.15%) CISM
12 19 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.58%) GIAC
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (8.70%) QA
2 150 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 73 (4.21%) PMO
4 50 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.42%) NIST
7 41 (2.36%) SLA
8 34 (1.96%) GDPR
9 32 (1.84%) GRC
10 20 (1.15%) NCSC
11 18 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.75%) COBIT
12 13 (0.75%) WCAG
13 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.40%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 121 (6.97%) Docker
2 82 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.52%) IAG
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) RACF
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.058%) Ceph
9 1 (0.058%) UAG
9 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 151 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.34%) Ansible
3 51 (2.94%) Grafana
4 50 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 38 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.69%) Kibana
7 12 (0.69%) SCCM
8 6 (0.35%) Puppet
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.23%) QRadar
11 3 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) Control-M
11 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.17%) Nagios
11 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 319 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.46%) ServiceNow
3 111 (6.40%) Oracle
4 59 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 56 (3.23%) Google
6 55 (3.17%) SAP
7 45 (2.59%) Databricks
7 45 (2.59%) Splunk
8 35 (2.02%) IBM
9 25 (1.44%) Cisco
10 22 (1.27%) VMware
11 19 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.92%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.86%) UiPath
14 14 (0.81%) Adobe
14 14 (0.81%) Apple
15 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.58%) Okta
16 10 (0.58%) Qualys
16 10 (0.58%) Workday