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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 51 56
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 946 593 684
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.58% 4.04% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 4.48% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 324 453
10th Percentile £325 £372 £391
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £713
90th Percentile £756 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 7
10th Percentile £17.45 £17.08 £19.40
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £18.50 £31.88 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.96% -46.88% -4.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £55.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £61.67 £71.63 £91.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% -23.08% +4.00%

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 13,132 13,242 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.11% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,491 11,705
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 162 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.73 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +8.46% -15.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +12 130 £525 -4.55% 262
East London +5 15 £190 -65.69% 31
West London -13 15 £475 +2.70% 22
South London -11 6 £563 +6.43% 61
North London +6 3 £600 - 6
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 62 (6.55%) Confluence
2 40 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.53%) CMS
5 5 (0.53%) HCL Notes
5 5 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.42%) Apache
6 4 (0.42%) Appian
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 66 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.74%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.53%) Trello
8 4 (0.42%) Notion
9 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Sketch
11 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.53%) Endur
3 5 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.42%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.32%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.21%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.21%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
6 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 175 (18.50%) Azure
2 123 (13.00%) AWS
3 81 (8.56%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (5.07%) GitHub
7 39 (4.12%) GCP
8 31 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (3.28%) SaaS
9 30 (3.17%) Serverless
10 24 (2.54%) Entra ID
11 22 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.22%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.01%) PowerApps
14 16 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.37%) PaaS
16 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.33%) Firewall
2 18 (1.90%) DNS
3 14 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.37%) DHCP
5 11 (1.16%) VPN
6 9 (0.95%) Network Security
7 6 (0.63%) LAN
7 6 (0.63%) WAN
8 5 (0.53%) Broadband
8 5 (0.53%) Modbus
9 4 (0.42%) Multicast
9 4 (0.42%) tcpdump
9 4 (0.42%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.32%) 5G
10 3 (0.32%) DKIM
10 3 (0.32%) DMARC
10 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.32%) RS-232
10 3 (0.32%) RS-485
10 3 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.77%) Power BI
2 25 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.11%) Tableau
4 19 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.48%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.16%) MySQL
10 10 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.06%) Metadata
11 8 (0.85%) Redis
12 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.42%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.42%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 125 (13.21%) JIRA
2 43 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.85%) Git
4 24 (2.54%) GitLab
5 15 (1.59%) JUnit
5 15 (1.59%) Selenium
6 11 (1.16%) Postman
7 10 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.63%) Maven
10 6 (0.63%) Mockito
10 6 (0.63%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.53%) JMeter
11 5 (0.53%) Xcode
12 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.42%) Subversion
12 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.42%) XCTest
General
1 445 (47.04%) Social Skills
2 275 (29.07%) Finance
3 187 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 77 (8.14%) Banking
6 46 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
7 39 (4.12%) Legal
7 39 (4.12%) Marketing
8 34 (3.59%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.07%) Retail
10 24 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.80%) Front Office
13 16 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.59%) Publishing
15 13 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.27%) Local Government
17 11 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (15.54%) Analyst
2 128 (13.53%) Lead
3 88 (9.30%) Senior
4 77 (8.14%) Developer
5 62 (6.55%) Business Analyst
6 53 (5.60%) Consultant
7 48 (5.07%) Architect
8 38 (4.02%) Project Manager
9 23 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (2.43%) Senior Manager
10 20 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
10 20 (2.11%) Security Engineer
11 19 (2.01%) Product Owner
12 17 (1.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.80%) Product Manager
13 16 (1.69%) Programme Manager
14 14 (1.48%) Change Manager
14 14 (1.48%) Designer
14 14 (1.48%) Scrum Master
14 14 (1.48%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.07%) REST
2 25 (2.64%) .NET
2 25 (2.64%) RESTful
3 24 (2.54%) Spring
4 23 (2.43%) Node.js
5 20 (2.11%) React
6 18 (1.90%) CSS
6 18 (1.90%) HTML
6 18 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 17 (1.80%) Kafka
8 15 (1.59%) SOAP
8 15 (1.59%) Web Services
9 14 (1.48%) XML
10 11 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.06%) OAuth
12 9 (0.95%) Hibernate
12 9 (0.95%) Middleware
13 8 (0.85%) JSON
13 8 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (0.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 57 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 45 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.59%) PMI
10 13 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.55%) Windows
2 40 (4.23%) Linux
3 17 (1.80%) Unix
4 14 (1.48%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.06%) Android
5 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.74%) VMS
7 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.21%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) tvOS
12 1 (0.11%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (39.01%) Agile
2 268 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
3 220 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 180 (19.03%) DevOps
5 173 (18.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 161 (17.02%) CI/CD
7 123 (13.00%) Roadmaps
8 119 (12.58%) Decision-Making
9 112 (11.84%) Analytics
10 93 (9.83%) Project Management
11 91 (9.62%) AI
11 91 (9.62%) Project Delivery
12 86 (9.09%) Scrum
13 80 (8.46%) Mentoring
14 75 (7.93%) Test Automation
15 74 (7.82%) Business Intelligence
16 72 (7.61%) Change Management
17 70 (7.40%) ITIL
18 68 (7.19%) Migration
19 67 (7.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 132 (13.95%) SQL
2 126 (13.32%) Python
3 73 (7.72%) Java
4 49 (5.18%) PowerShell
5 45 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.59%) Bash
7 28 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.43%) C#
9 15 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.16%) C++
11 7 (0.74%) Bicep
11 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.74%) R
12 6 (0.63%) Korn
13 5 (0.53%) Groovy
13 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.42%) RPG
14 4 (0.42%) Ruby
14 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 108 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.73%) Degree
4 37 (3.91%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.85%) PMP
6 26 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.27%) ACCA
10 11 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.06%) CIMA
11 10 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.85%) CISSP
14 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.74%) IIBA
14 7 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.62%) QA
2 44 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 42 (4.44%) GDPR
4 36 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (3.38%) PMO
6 22 (2.33%) NIST
7 20 (2.11%) SLA
8 17 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.27%) GRC
10 10 (1.06%) COBIT
10 10 (1.06%) ITGC
11 9 (0.95%) MiFID
11 9 (0.95%) NCSC
12 7 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.74%) EMIR
13 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (6.98%) Docker
2 25 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.11%) RACF
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.24%) Terraform
3 29 (3.07%) Ansible
4 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (2.11%) SCCM
5 17 (1.80%) Grafana
6 12 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (0.85%) WSUS
9 6 (0.63%) Kibana
10 5 (0.53%) Control-M
11 4 (0.42%) SCOM
12 3 (0.32%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.32%) logstash
12 3 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 176 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.45%) SAP
3 45 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 43 (4.55%) Oracle
5 39 (4.12%) Google
6 38 (4.02%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.90%) Splunk
8 17 (1.80%) Databricks
9 13 (1.37%) Adobe
10 12 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.06%) VMware
12 9 (0.95%) Workday
13 8 (0.85%) IBM
14 7 (0.74%) TIBCO
15 6 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
15 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.63%) Murex
15 6 (0.63%) Remedy
15 6 (0.63%) Solace
15 6 (0.63%) Sophos