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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 43 65
Rank change year-on-year +16 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,640 723 560
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.15% 5.33% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 5.77% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 486 351
10th Percentile £350 £339 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £686
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £22.58 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £28.34
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.24 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% +4.41% -41.30%
75th Percentile £62.25 £46.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £54.25 £76.25
England median hourly rate £46.50 £28.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +61.74% -45.24% -14.29%

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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 0 168 £544 +8.80% 189
West London +5 53 £520 +1.56% 81
South London +22 51 £500 -13.49% 28
East London +3 11 £675 +255.26% 31
North London -2 3 £450 -18.18% 7
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 73 (4.45%) Confluence
1 73 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.98%) CMS
5 14 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.55%) Apache
7 7 (0.43%) IIS
8 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.061%) MTS
12 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 76 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.061%) InDesign
9 1 (0.061%) Mingle
9 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Actimize
7 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) Magento
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.24%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.24%) Endur
9 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) Shopify
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 388 (23.66%) Azure
2 302 (18.41%) AWS
3 155 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 111 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 103 (6.28%) GitHub
6 102 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
7 99 (6.04%) GCP
8 83 (5.06%) Entra ID
9 62 (3.78%) SaaS
10 55 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (3.35%) Serverless
11 43 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 33 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (2.01%) Azure AKS
14 29 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
15 28 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 27 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.44%) Firewall
2 31 (1.89%) DNS
3 29 (1.77%) Network Security
4 21 (1.28%) WAN
5 15 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.79%) DHCP
6 13 (0.79%) VPN
7 12 (0.73%) LAN
8 10 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.61%) VoIP
9 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.37%) BGP
10 6 (0.37%) MPLS
11 5 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.30%) HTTP
11 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.30%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.30%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.32%) Power BI
2 46 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 42 (2.56%) Metadata
4 38 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 30 (1.83%) Tableau
6 28 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.10%) Delta Lake
10 14 (0.85%) Power Query
11 13 (0.79%) Parquet
12 12 (0.73%) Big Data
13 10 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.49%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.43%) MySQL
16 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.37%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 159 (9.70%) JIRA
2 86 (5.24%) Git
3 79 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.62%) GitLab
5 26 (1.59%) Selenium
6 18 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.73%) JUnit
9 9 (0.55%) Postman
9 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.49%) Maven
10 8 (0.49%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.43%) Gradle
11 7 (0.43%) JMeter
11 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.30%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 715 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 539 (32.87%) Finance
3 366 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (16.89%) Public Sector
5 177 (10.79%) Banking
6 65 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (3.84%) Legal
9 54 (3.29%) Law
10 52 (3.17%) Retail
11 48 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 43 (2.62%) Local Government
14 39 (2.38%) Front Office
15 37 (2.26%) Marketing
16 34 (2.07%) Investment Banking
17 29 (1.77%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
20 19 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 223 (13.60%) Lead
2 177 (10.79%) Senior
3 156 (9.51%) Analyst
3 156 (9.51%) Developer
4 107 (6.52%) Architect
5 63 (3.84%) Project Manager
6 57 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (3.41%) Consultant
7 56 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
8 50 (3.05%) Business Analyst
9 45 (2.74%) Data Engineer
10 41 (2.50%) Software Engineer
11 40 (2.44%) Scrum Master
11 40 (2.44%) Senior Manager
12 34 (2.07%) Java Developer
12 34 (2.07%) Lead Architect
12 34 (2.07%) Product Owner
13 33 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 32 (1.95%) Product Manager
15 31 (1.89%) Functional Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.00%) REST
2 72 (4.39%) RESTful
3 49 (2.99%) Spring
4 48 (2.93%) React
5 45 (2.74%) .NET
6 44 (2.68%) Kafka
7 43 (2.62%) Spring Boot
8 41 (2.50%) HTML
9 40 (2.44%) AngularJS
10 35 (2.13%) CSS
11 31 (1.89%) Web Services
12 24 (1.46%) Django
12 24 (1.46%) Node.js
13 22 (1.34%) Middleware
14 21 (1.28%) JSON
14 21 (1.28%) SOAP
15 20 (1.22%) Playwright
16 19 (1.16%) XML
17 15 (0.91%) Next.js
17 15 (0.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 194 (11.83%) Product Ownership
2 119 (7.26%) Onboarding
3 114 (6.95%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.62%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.62%) Virtual Team
6 42 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.59%) CMDB
11 26 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.52%) Data Centre
13 22 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.22%) NHS
16 19 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (1.10%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.40%) Windows
2 75 (4.57%) Linux
3 27 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.16%) Unix
5 18 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.67%) Android
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.061%) HPUX
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
12 1 (0.061%) SUSE
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (39.51%) Agile
2 480 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 414 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
4 349 (21.28%) DevOps
5 339 (20.67%) CI/CD
6 333 (20.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 295 (17.99%) Decision-Making
8 267 (16.28%) AI
9 216 (13.17%) Roadmaps
10 190 (11.59%) Analytics
11 176 (10.73%) Change Management
12 168 (10.24%) Scrum
13 164 (10.00%) Migration
14 157 (9.57%) Test Automation
15 148 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 147 (8.96%) Software Engineering
17 142 (8.66%) Mentoring
18 138 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
19 131 (7.99%) Translating Business Requirements
19 131 (7.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 270 (16.46%) Python
2 241 (14.70%) SQL
3 139 (8.48%) Java
4 84 (5.12%) JavaScript
5 82 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 62 (3.78%) C#
7 49 (2.99%) Bash
8 45 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.10%) Bicep
10 18 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.85%) Groovy
13 13 (0.79%) Go
14 12 (0.73%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.73%) Perl
15 10 (0.61%) VBA
16 9 (0.55%) C++
16 9 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 352 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 301 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.90%) Degree
4 51 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.74%) PMP
7 41 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.95%) CISSP
10 31 (1.89%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.10%) CISM
13 17 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.67%) CCNP
16 10 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
17 9 (0.55%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (8.72%) QA
2 121 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.57%) PMO
4 45 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.50%) GDPR
7 40 (2.44%) NIST
7 40 (2.44%) SLA
8 22 (1.34%) GRC
9 17 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.91%) NCSC
11 10 (0.61%) COBIT
11 10 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.55%) WCAG
13 7 (0.43%) IFRS
14 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.24%) GAAP
System Software
1 93 (5.67%) Docker
2 79 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.55%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.061%) Ceph
9 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.061%) UAG
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 135 (8.23%) Terraform
3 46 (2.80%) Ansible
4 43 (2.62%) Grafana
4 43 (2.62%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.49%) SCCM
8 7 (0.43%) Kibana
9 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.24%) Puppet
10 4 (0.24%) QRadar
11 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.18%) WSUS
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 297 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.65%) ServiceNow
3 97 (5.91%) Oracle
4 66 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 63 (3.84%) SAP
6 62 (3.78%) Google
7 35 (2.13%) Databricks
8 27 (1.65%) Cisco
9 23 (1.40%) Splunk
10 21 (1.28%) IBM
11 20 (1.22%) VMware
12 18 (1.10%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.85%) Apple
13 14 (0.85%) Okta
14 13 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.79%) Zscaler
15 11 (0.67%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.61%) ForgeRock
16 10 (0.61%) Foundry
17 9 (0.55%) Workday