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 3 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 37 71
Rank change year-on-year +11 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 763 374 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.55% 5.60% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 6.06% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 257 184
10th Percentile £338 £354 £350
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £718
90th Percentile £750 £780 £779
England median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 5
10th Percentile £25.25 £28.55 £28.01
25th Percentile £26.63 £33.65 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -17.92% +14.46%
75th Percentile £56.88 £43.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.50 £46.08 £68.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £27.21 £56.25
% change year-on-year +30.58% -51.63% +73.08%

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 8,956 6,176 7,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 92.44% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,861 4,102 5,021
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £819
England median daily rate £525 £512 £530
% change year-on-year +2.54% -3.40% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 132 98
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.31 £23.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.70 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.40% -9.81% -23.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £57.13
90th Percentile £82.84 £63.75 £71.44
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -49.70% +38.81%

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 3 months to 26 June 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 3 months to 26 June 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 3 months to 26 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 85 £525 -0.28% 95
West London -1 31 £520 +1.56% 34
South London +11 15 £488 -25.00% 15
East London +5 6 £600 +2.56% 28
North London +1 2 £450 -18.18% 5
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 75 (5.20%) Confluence
2 56 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.62%) CMS
7 8 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.42%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Appian
10 2 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.069%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.069%) govService
11 1 (0.069%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.069%) InDesign
9 1 (0.069%) Mingle
9 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.55%) Actimize
5 8 (0.55%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) Magento
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.28%) Endur
9 4 (0.28%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.21%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 324 (22.47%) Azure
2 273 (18.93%) AWS
3 136 (9.43%) Power Platform
4 102 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
5 99 (6.87%) GitHub
6 83 (5.76%) GCP
7 67 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (4.23%) SaaS
9 59 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 52 (3.61%) Serverless
12 51 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (2.98%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 26 (1.80%) Azure AKS
20 24 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.57%) Firewall
2 34 (2.36%) Network Security
3 18 (1.25%) DNS
4 16 (1.11%) WAN
5 11 (0.76%) VoIP
6 10 (0.69%) LAN
7 9 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.42%) BGP
8 6 (0.42%) DHCP
8 6 (0.42%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.42%) OSPF
8 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.42%) VPN
9 5 (0.35%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.35%) MPLS
9 5 (0.35%) NGFW
9 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.35%) WebEx
10 4 (0.28%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.28%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.84%) Power BI
2 38 (2.64%) Tableau
3 37 (2.57%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.29%) Metadata
5 30 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 13 (0.90%) Delta Lake
11 13 (0.90%) Power Query
12 11 (0.76%) Big Data
13 9 (0.62%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.62%) Parquet
14 8 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 172 (11.93%) JIRA
2 66 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.02%) Git
4 44 (3.05%) GitLab
5 21 (1.46%) Selenium
6 15 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.69%) JMeter
9 9 (0.62%) JUnit
10 8 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.55%) REST Assured
10 8 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.49%) Postman
12 6 (0.42%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.42%) Vite
12 6 (0.42%) XCTest
13 5 (0.35%) Maven
13 5 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.35%) TestRail
General
1 585 (40.57%) Social Skills
2 498 (34.54%) Finance
3 303 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 130 (9.02%) Banking
6 57 (3.95%) Legal
7 53 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (3.40%) Law
10 46 (3.19%) Retail
11 37 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (2.50%) Marketing
13 35 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (2.43%) Local Government
13 35 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (2.01%) Front Office
15 27 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.60%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 199 (13.80%) Lead
2 145 (10.06%) Analyst
3 143 (9.92%) Senior
4 122 (8.46%) Developer
5 92 (6.38%) Architect
6 60 (4.16%) Project Manager
7 54 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (3.68%) Consultant
9 49 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
10 48 (3.33%) Business Analyst
11 43 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 39 (2.70%) Scrum Master
13 35 (2.43%) Senior Manager
14 33 (2.29%) Lead Architect
14 33 (2.29%) Software Engineer
15 32 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
16 31 (2.15%) Functional Architect
17 29 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
18 27 (1.87%) Product Owner
19 26 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.88%) REST
2 50 (3.47%) React
3 48 (3.33%) RESTful
4 36 (2.50%) Spring
5 33 (2.29%) HTML
6 32 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 31 (2.15%) Kafka
8 30 (2.08%) .NET
8 30 (2.08%) CSS
9 27 (1.87%) AngularJS
10 20 (1.39%) Node.js
11 17 (1.18%) Middleware
11 17 (1.18%) Web Services
12 15 (1.04%) Django
12 15 (1.04%) Next.js
13 14 (0.97%) JSON
13 14 (0.97%) OAuth
13 14 (0.97%) PySpark
14 13 (0.90%) SOAP
15 12 (0.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 155 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 101 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 73 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 42 (2.91%) Virtual Team
5 41 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.32%) CMDB
14 17 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (1.11%) Derivative
16 15 (1.04%) FMCG
17 12 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.13%) Windows
2 49 (3.40%) Linux
3 16 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.69%) Unix
6 10 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.28%) Android
7 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) AIX
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.069%) HPUX
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.069%) Solaris
9 1 (0.069%) SUSE
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (37.45%) Agile
2 361 (25.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 336 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
4 316 (21.91%) DevOps
5 294 (20.39%) CI/CD
6 260 (18.03%) Decision-Making
7 254 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 216 (14.98%) AI
9 173 (12.00%) Analytics
10 168 (11.65%) Roadmaps
11 155 (10.75%) Migration
12 154 (10.68%) Scrum
13 153 (10.61%) Change Management
14 132 (9.15%) Test Automation
15 130 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
16 129 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 125 (8.67%) Risk Management
18 117 (8.11%) Mentoring
19 114 (7.91%) Software Engineering
20 113 (7.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 228 (15.81%) Python
2 212 (14.70%) SQL
3 107 (7.42%) Java
4 70 (4.85%) JavaScript
5 58 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 45 (3.12%) C#
7 42 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.43%) Bash
9 23 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.46%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.76%) Bicep
12 11 (0.76%) Go
12 11 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.69%) C++
14 9 (0.62%) R
14 9 (0.62%) Swift
15 8 (0.55%) Perl
15 8 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 295 (20.46%) Security Cleared
2 251 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 135 (9.36%) Degree
4 45 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.36%) CISSP
6 34 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.29%) PMP
8 29 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.66%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.53%) CISM
11 20 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.04%) ACCA
13 13 (0.90%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.83%) CCNP
14 12 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.60%) QA
2 95 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.44%) PMO
4 50 (3.47%) GDPR
5 47 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (3.12%) NIST
7 36 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 31 (2.15%) SLA
9 23 (1.60%) GRC
10 16 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (1.04%) IFRS
12 11 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.55%) NCSC
14 6 (0.42%) GAAP
14 6 (0.42%) GxP
14 6 (0.42%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.35%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (5.69%) Docker
2 49 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 4 (0.28%) IAG
5 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Squid
7 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.069%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.069%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.069%) vSphere
7 1 (0.069%) zsh
Systems Management
1 129 (8.95%) Terraform
2 120 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 46 (3.19%) Ansible
4 33 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 32 (2.22%) Grafana
6 23 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.35%) Kibana
9 5 (0.35%) SCCM
10 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) Puppet
11 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.21%) QRadar
12 2 (0.14%) Control-M
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 238 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.73%) ServiceNow
3 87 (6.03%) Oracle
4 75 (5.20%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.40%) Google
5 49 (3.40%) SAP
6 31 (2.15%) Databricks
7 18 (1.25%) Cisco
8 13 (0.90%) Splunk
8 13 (0.90%) VMware
9 12 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 11 (0.76%) Okta
10 11 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.69%) Apple
11 10 (0.69%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.69%) Murex
12 9 (0.62%) Foundry
13 8 (0.55%) Zscaler
14 7 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.49%) Workday