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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 63 64
Rank change year-on-year +36 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,178 479 596
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.17% 3.74% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.99% 4.10% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 287 410
10th Percentile £350 £359 £388
25th Percentile £425 £437 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £748 £713
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.55% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 12
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.69 £40.40 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% +34.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.81 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.69 £72.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.72% +47.33% -36.44%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +29 145 £540 +8.00% 179
South London +2 30 £505 -13.38% 27
West London -17 15 £475 - 38
East London +7 9 £450 - 28
North London - 2 £550 - 2
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 84 (7.13%) Confluence
2 44 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.42%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.25%) Appian
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.25%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.085%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.085%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.085%) SAS
10 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.02%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.34%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) Mingle
10 1 (0.085%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.85%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.34%) Actimize
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) iTrent
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.17%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.17%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 265 (22.50%) Azure
2 190 (16.13%) AWS
3 107 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
4 106 (9.00%) Power Platform
5 85 (7.22%) GitHub
6 55 (4.67%) GCP
7 46 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (3.82%) Serverless
9 44 (3.74%) SaaS
10 42 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (3.06%) Amazon S3
12 34 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (2.72%) Entra ID
14 29 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (1.61%) Google Workspace
18 18 (1.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.63%) Firewall
2 26 (2.21%) Network Security
3 17 (1.44%) DNS
4 12 (1.02%) DHCP
4 12 (1.02%) WAN
5 11 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.76%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.76%) VPN
7 7 (0.59%) BGP
7 7 (0.59%) LAN
7 7 (0.59%) OSPF
8 6 (0.51%) Broadband
8 6 (0.51%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.51%) Modbus
8 6 (0.51%) RS-232
8 6 (0.51%) RS-485
9 5 (0.42%) 5G
9 5 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.42%) MPLS
10 4 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (7.13%) Power BI
2 32 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.29%) Tableau
4 24 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.78%) Metadata
6 20 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.59%) MySQL
12 6 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.51%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.51%) Redis
12 6 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.42%) Big Data
13 5 (0.42%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 165 (14.01%) JIRA
2 52 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.40%) GitLab
4 39 (3.31%) Git
5 22 (1.87%) Selenium
6 18 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.02%) JMeter
7 12 (1.02%) JUnit
8 10 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.59%) Postman
11 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.42%) Gatling
11 5 (0.42%) MSTest
11 5 (0.42%) TestRail
12 4 (0.34%) Gradle
12 4 (0.34%) Maven
12 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 507 (43.04%) Social Skills
2 396 (33.62%) Finance
3 244 (20.71%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 85 (7.22%) Banking
6 49 (4.16%) Legal
7 43 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.40%) Marketing
9 37 (3.14%) Retail
10 34 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.38%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.21%) Front Office
15 20 (1.70%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.44%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.44%) Law
17 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.27%) Local Government
18 14 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 162 (13.75%) Lead
2 161 (13.67%) Analyst
3 111 (9.42%) Senior
4 89 (7.56%) Developer
5 69 (5.86%) Architect
6 67 (5.69%) Business Analyst
7 48 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
8 47 (3.99%) Consultant
8 47 (3.99%) Project Manager
9 34 (2.89%) Data Engineer
10 30 (2.55%) Senior Manager
11 29 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (2.04%) Technical Manager
13 23 (1.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (1.87%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (1.87%) Lead Architect
14 22 (1.87%) Scrum Master
15 20 (1.70%) Security Engineer
15 20 (1.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.40%) .NET
2 37 (3.14%) REST
3 32 (2.72%) React
4 28 (2.38%) Node.js
5 26 (2.21%) HTML
5 26 (2.21%) RESTful
6 25 (2.12%) CSS
7 18 (1.53%) Spring
8 17 (1.44%) AngularJS
9 14 (1.19%) Web Services
10 13 (1.10%) Playwright
10 13 (1.10%) PySpark
10 13 (1.10%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (1.02%) Kafka
11 12 (1.02%) Middleware
11 12 (1.02%) XML
12 11 (0.93%) SOAP
13 10 (0.85%) JSON
13 10 (0.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 72 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 48 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 28 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.27%) PMI
13 13 (1.10%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.93%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.67%) Windows
2 49 (4.16%) Linux
3 12 (1.02%) Mac OS
3 12 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.93%) Unix
5 7 (0.59%) Android
5 7 (0.59%) VMS
5 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.085%) Solaris
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (38.46%) Agile
2 285 (24.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (21.65%) DevOps
5 247 (20.97%) CI/CD
6 200 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 175 (14.86%) Decision-Making
8 149 (12.65%) Analytics
9 141 (11.97%) AI
10 132 (11.21%) Roadmaps
11 126 (10.70%) Migration
12 113 (9.59%) Test Automation
13 106 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 105 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
15 103 (8.74%) Risk Management
16 101 (8.57%) Project Delivery
17 100 (8.49%) Project Management
18 99 (8.40%) Scrum
19 98 (8.32%) Change Management
20 92 (7.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 183 (15.53%) SQL
2 182 (15.45%) Python
3 74 (6.28%) Java
4 55 (4.67%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.58%) PowerShell
6 37 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 36 (3.06%) C#
8 29 (2.46%) Bash
9 15 (1.27%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.19%) C++
10 14 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.02%) Bicep
12 11 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.68%) Swift
14 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.51%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.51%) Go
15 6 (0.51%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.42%) ABAP
16 5 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 199 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 168 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.51%) Degree
4 33 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 30 (2.55%) PMI Certification
6 23 (1.95%) ACCA
7 22 (1.87%) CISSP
8 19 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.61%) CISM
9 17 (1.44%) PMP
10 16 (1.36%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.27%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.93%) IIBA
13 11 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.76%) CIMA
15 8 (0.68%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (10.95%) QA
2 75 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.67%) GDPR
4 51 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (3.48%) NIST
6 40 (3.40%) Accessibility
7 35 (2.97%) PMO
8 28 (2.38%) SLA
9 22 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.61%) GRC
11 18 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (1.19%) IFRS
13 11 (0.93%) COBIT
13 11 (0.93%) NCSC
13 11 (0.93%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.59%) ITGC
14 7 (0.59%) MiFID
14 7 (0.59%) WCAG
15 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.51%) SOX 404
System Software
1 70 (5.94%) Docker
2 28 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.51%) Firmware
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.085%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.085%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.085%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (8.40%) Terraform
2 82 (6.96%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.74%) Ansible
4 21 (1.78%) Grafana
5 20 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.27%) SCCM
8 8 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 7 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.51%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.42%) WSUS
12 4 (0.34%) Kibana
12 4 (0.34%) Puppet
12 4 (0.34%) SCOM
13 3 (0.25%) logstash
13 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.25%) vRealize
14 2 (0.17%) Control-M
14 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 200 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 80 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 61 (5.18%) SAP
4 53 (4.50%) Oracle
4 53 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.74%) Google
6 29 (2.46%) Databricks
7 16 (1.36%) VMware
8 14 (1.19%) Splunk
9 11 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.85%) Adobe
11 9 (0.76%) Cisco
12 8 (0.68%) Foundry
12 8 (0.68%) Remedy
13 7 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.51%) HP
14 6 (0.51%) IBM
14 6 (0.51%) Murex
14 6 (0.51%) Okta
14 6 (0.51%) Red Hat