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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,717 752 613
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.48% 5.68% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 6.13% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 500 366
10th Percentile £350 £325 £356
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.70%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £763 £751 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £27.51
Median hourly rate £29.15 £34.00 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -16.31% -17.93%
75th Percentile £52.88 £47.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £62.85 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year +28.51% -47.21% -26.92%

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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 6 months to 15 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 15 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 15 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 +1 190 £550 +8.66% 378
West London +7 57 £520 +4.00% 130
South London +23 49 £525 -9.64% 56
East London +4 13 £750 +294.74% 45
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 86 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.31%) Confluence
3 31 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.05%) CMS
6 17 (0.99%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.64%) 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%) Appian
10 3 (0.17%) Camunda
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Magento
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Actimize
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 389 (22.66%) Azure
2 318 (18.52%) AWS
3 159 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 119 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 110 (6.41%) GitHub
6 95 (5.53%) GCP
7 82 (4.78%) Entra ID
8 68 (3.96%) Serverless
9 62 (3.61%) SaaS
10 60 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (3.09%) Amazon S3
11 53 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
13 39 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.81%) PowerApps
17 30 (1.75%) Snowflake
18 29 (1.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.98%) Firewall
2 33 (1.92%) DNS
3 32 (1.86%) Network Security
4 22 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.05%) WAN
6 16 (0.93%) VPN
7 15 (0.87%) DHCP
8 11 (0.64%) LAN
9 9 (0.52%) VoIP
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) WebEx
13 4 (0.23%) BGP
13 4 (0.23%) DKIM
13 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.23%) SAN
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (6.87%) Power BI
2 55 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 44 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (2.50%) Metadata
5 37 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.51%) Tableau
9 25 (1.46%) Delta Lake
9 25 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 16 (0.93%) Power Query
11 15 (0.87%) Parquet
12 11 (0.64%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.58%) Big Data
14 9 (0.52%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.52%) MySQL
15 7 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 152 (8.85%) JIRA
2 108 (6.29%) Git
3 90 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.68%) GitLab
5 33 (1.92%) Selenium
6 16 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.76%) JUnit
8 12 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.70%) Postman
9 10 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.52%) Maven
11 7 (0.41%) Gradle
11 7 (0.41%) Mockito
12 6 (0.35%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.35%) XCTest
12 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 774 (45.08%) Social Skills
2 548 (31.92%) Finance
3 396 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (16.89%) Public Sector
5 200 (11.65%) Banking
6 71 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.32%) Legal
9 52 (3.03%) Retail
10 51 (2.97%) Front Office
11 49 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
12 48 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 48 (2.80%) Law
13 38 (2.21%) Local Government
14 36 (2.10%) Marketing
15 35 (2.04%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.57%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.40%) Military
18 24 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 229 (13.34%) Lead
2 203 (11.82%) Senior
3 177 (10.31%) Analyst
4 170 (9.90%) Developer
5 97 (5.65%) Architect
6 66 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 66 (3.84%) Project Manager
7 55 (3.20%) Data Engineer
8 54 (3.15%) Consultant
9 53 (3.09%) Business Analyst
10 52 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
11 47 (2.74%) Software Engineer
12 43 (2.50%) Scrum Master
13 39 (2.27%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.10%) Product Manager
15 35 (2.04%) Product Owner
16 31 (1.81%) Support Engineer
17 30 (1.75%) Java Developer
17 30 (1.75%) Security Engineer
18 29 (1.69%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (8.10%) Terraform
2 95 (5.53%) REST
3 81 (4.72%) RESTful
4 55 (3.20%) Kafka
5 54 (3.15%) .NET
5 54 (3.15%) React
6 53 (3.09%) Spring
7 50 (2.91%) Spring Boot
8 43 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 42 (2.45%) HTML
10 38 (2.21%) Web Services
11 37 (2.15%) CSS
12 31 (1.81%) Django
13 27 (1.57%) PySpark
13 27 (1.57%) SOAP
14 23 (1.34%) JSON
14 23 (1.34%) Node.js
14 23 (1.34%) XML
15 22 (1.28%) Middleware
16 21 (1.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 214 (12.46%) Product Ownership
2 133 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 116 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 46 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 36 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 29 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.51%) CMDB
13 24 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.40%) NHS
14 21 (1.22%) Data Centre
15 20 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.05%) Operational Technology
16 18 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 112 (6.52%) Windows
2 88 (5.13%) Linux
3 32 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.46%) Unix
5 22 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.93%) Android
8 15 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Solaris
12 1 (0.058%) SUSE
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (39.37%) Agile
2 549 (31.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 360 (20.97%) CI/CD
5 354 (20.62%) DevOps
6 352 (20.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 313 (18.23%) Decision-Making
8 294 (17.12%) AI
9 243 (14.15%) Roadmaps
10 204 (11.88%) Analytics
11 195 (11.36%) Scrum
12 181 (10.54%) Change Management
13 166 (9.67%) Migration
14 161 (9.38%) Software Engineering
15 160 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
16 159 (9.26%) Test Automation
17 149 (8.68%) Risk Management
18 144 (8.39%) Mentoring
18 144 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
19 140 (8.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 297 (17.30%) Python
2 266 (15.49%) SQL
3 144 (8.39%) Java
4 93 (5.42%) JavaScript
5 90 (5.24%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.25%) C#
7 60 (3.49%) Bash
8 55 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.87%) Go
12 15 (0.87%) Groovy
12 15 (0.87%) Perl
13 14 (0.82%) Korn
14 13 (0.76%) Bicep
15 12 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.70%) R
16 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 388 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 332 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.68%) Degree
4 56 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.91%) PMP
7 43 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.98%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.75%) CISSP
11 21 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.93%) CISM
12 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (9.20%) QA
2 142 (8.27%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.66%) PMO
4 45 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 42 (2.45%) NIST
7 40 (2.33%) SLA
8 36 (2.10%) GDPR
9 31 (1.81%) GRC
10 18 (1.05%) NCSC
11 17 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.70%) COBIT
12 12 (0.70%) WCAG
13 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 111 (6.46%) Docker
2 83 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.52%) IAG
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.058%) Ceph
8 1 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.058%) UAG
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.15%) Ansible
3 50 (2.91%) Grafana
3 50 (2.91%) Prometheus
4 40 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.64%) SCCM
7 10 (0.58%) Kibana
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.23%) QRadar
10 3 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.17%) Nagios
10 3 (0.17%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Argo
11 2 (0.12%) Packer
11 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 332 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.52%) Oracle
2 112 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 65 (3.79%) Salesforce
4 60 (3.49%) SAP
5 56 (3.26%) Google
6 44 (2.56%) Splunk
7 39 (2.27%) Databricks
8 26 (1.51%) IBM
9 24 (1.40%) Cisco
10 23 (1.34%) VMware
11 19 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.99%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.87%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
15 13 (0.76%) Adobe
16 10 (0.58%) UiPath
16 10 (0.58%) Workday
17 9 (0.52%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.52%) Okta