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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,252 515 599
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.20% 4.05% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 4.41% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 318 415
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £621 £752 £700
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.58% -1.22% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 14
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.95 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.03 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £93.25 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £54.50 £56.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +50.33% -37.50%

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 15,467 11,685 15,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 91.96% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 7,937 11,324
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £758 £803 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.98 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £63.50 £66.70
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +7 142 £525 +3.97% 214
South London +11 38 £500 -14.24% 10
West London -10 31 £500 +5.26% 27
East London +10 14 £598 - 22
North London - 2 £550 -
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 74 (5.91%) Confluence
2 53 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
6 6 (0.48%) CMS
7 5 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.080%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.080%) govService
11 1 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.080%) SAS
Applications
1 72 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.88%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.080%) Mingle
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.12%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.80%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.32%) Actimize
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.16%) iTrent
8 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 278 (22.20%) Azure
2 202 (16.13%) AWS
3 128 (10.22%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (6.79%) GitHub
6 66 (5.27%) GCP
7 53 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (4.23%) SaaS
8 48 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (3.75%) Serverless
10 45 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.12%) Entra ID
12 37 (2.96%) Amazon S3
13 36 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (1.84%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.84%) PowerApps
16 22 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.56%) Firewall
2 26 (2.08%) Network Security
3 21 (1.68%) DNS
4 14 (1.12%) WAN
5 12 (0.96%) DHCP
6 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.64%) LAN
7 8 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.56%) BGP
8 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.56%) OSPF
8 7 (0.56%) VPN
9 6 (0.48%) Broadband
9 6 (0.48%) Modbus
9 6 (0.48%) RS-232
9 6 (0.48%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) 5G
10 5 (0.40%) DKIM
10 5 (0.40%) DMARC
10 5 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.23%) Power BI
2 36 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.56%) Tableau
4 29 (2.32%) Metadata
5 26 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.72%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.56%) Delta Lake
13 7 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.48%) Big Data
14 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.40%) Parquet
15 5 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 165 (13.18%) JIRA
2 49 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.51%) Git
4 36 (2.88%) GitLab
5 18 (1.44%) Selenium
6 13 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.88%) JMeter
8 9 (0.72%) JUnit
8 9 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (0.64%) Postman
10 7 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.40%) TestRail
11 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.32%) Gatling
12 4 (0.32%) Maven
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) MSTest
12 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 503 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 446 (35.62%) Finance
3 248 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.99%) Banking
6 52 (4.15%) Legal
7 45 (3.59%) Marketing
8 44 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (3.04%) Law
10 37 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.96%) Retail
11 36 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.56%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.84%) Local Government
15 21 (1.68%) Front Office
16 19 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (14.30%) Lead
2 139 (11.10%) Analyst
3 107 (8.55%) Senior
4 98 (7.83%) Developer
5 89 (7.11%) Architect
6 57 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 50 (3.99%) Consultant
7 50 (3.99%) Delivery Manager
8 46 (3.67%) Project Manager
9 40 (3.19%) Data Engineer
10 37 (2.96%) Lead Architect
11 32 (2.56%) Senior Manager
12 31 (2.48%) Functional Architect
13 30 (2.40%) Scrum Master
14 29 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.16%) Technical Manager
16 26 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
17 25 (2.00%) Security Engineer
17 25 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.19%) React
2 38 (3.04%) RESTful
3 36 (2.88%) .NET
4 34 (2.72%) HTML
5 33 (2.64%) REST
6 32 (2.56%) CSS
7 29 (2.32%) Node.js
8 26 (2.08%) Spring
9 18 (1.44%) AngularJS
9 18 (1.44%) Spring Boot
10 16 (1.28%) Kafka
10 16 (1.28%) Web Services
11 14 (1.12%) Playwright
12 13 (1.04%) Middleware
12 13 (1.04%) Next.js
12 13 (1.04%) PySpark
13 12 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (0.96%) OAuth
13 12 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.66%) Product Ownership
2 71 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 31 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 24 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.76%) AI Agents
7 22 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 21 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.20%) PMI
14 14 (1.12%) CMDB
15 13 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.31%) Windows
2 41 (3.27%) Linux
3 13 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.48%) Android
6 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.40%) Unix
7 5 (0.40%) VMS
8 2 (0.16%) AIX
8 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (38.66%) Agile
2 303 (24.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 270 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
4 266 (21.25%) DevOps
5 254 (20.29%) CI/CD
6 222 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 201 (16.05%) Decision-Making
8 164 (13.10%) AI
9 153 (12.22%) Analytics
10 150 (11.98%) Migration
11 148 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 124 (9.90%) Change Management
13 121 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
14 114 (9.11%) Scrum
15 113 (9.03%) Test Automation
16 109 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
17 107 (8.55%) Risk Management
18 105 (8.39%) Project Management
19 101 (8.07%) Mentoring
20 100 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 186 (14.86%) Python
2 180 (14.38%) SQL
3 76 (6.07%) Java
4 63 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.15%) PowerShell
6 40 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 36 (2.88%) C#
8 24 (1.92%) Bash
9 19 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.88%) Bicep
13 10 (0.80%) C++
14 9 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.64%) Swift
16 7 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.56%) Go
17 6 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.48%) Embedded C++
17 6 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 222 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 189 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.58%) Degree
4 35 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.92%) CISSP
8 22 (1.76%) ACCA
9 21 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.60%) CISM
11 17 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.20%) PMP
13 14 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.96%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.72%) CIMA
16 9 (0.72%) IIBA
17 7 (0.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (10.30%) QA
2 79 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 54 (4.31%) GDPR
3 54 (4.31%) PMO
4 45 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (3.27%) NIST
6 33 (2.64%) Accessibility
7 27 (2.16%) SLA
8 21 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (1.28%) GRC
10 15 (1.20%) IFRS
11 12 (0.96%) NCSC
12 11 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.64%) WCAG
14 6 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.48%) COBIT
14 6 (0.48%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.48%) PERC
15 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 65 (5.19%) Docker
2 31 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.080%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.080%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.080%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (8.39%) Terraform
2 89 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.27%) Ansible
4 18 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.36%) Grafana
6 15 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.12%) SCCM
8 8 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.48%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.40%) WSUS
11 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 4 (0.32%) SCOM
11 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.24%) Kibana
12 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) vRealize
13 2 (0.16%) Control-M
13 2 (0.16%) logstash
13 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 222 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.11%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.43%) Oracle
4 60 (4.79%) SAP
5 58 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.59%) Google
7 27 (2.16%) Databricks
8 16 (1.28%) VMware
9 13 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.80%) Adobe
10 10 (0.80%) Foundry
11 9 (0.72%) Cisco
11 9 (0.72%) ForgeRock
11 9 (0.72%) Okta
11 9 (0.72%) Splunk
12 8 (0.64%) Planview
12 8 (0.64%) Remedy
12 8 (0.64%) Workday
13 7 (0.56%) Murex
14 6 (0.48%) Red Hat