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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 60 68
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 772 622 747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.74% 3.82% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 4.28% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 370 508
10th Percentile £325 £350 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.50% +2.30%
75th Percentile £673 £680 £696
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 8
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.08 £19.55
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.51 £34.57
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.63 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.31% -17.93% -9.47%
75th Percentile £47.50 £56.88 £69.64
90th Percentile £69.75 £77.50 £87.59
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -26.92% +1.48%

All Process and 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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement 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 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +13 133 £506 -15.64% 199
West London +2 23 £500 +11.11% 40
East London +6 12 £190 -63.98% 17
South London 0 10 £582 +20.88% 20
North London -3 3 £550 -2.22% 5
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (5.44%) Confluence
2 23 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.17%) Apache
5 9 (1.17%) CMS
6 5 (0.65%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.39%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.39%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.26%) Appian
8 2 (0.26%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.26%) JBoss
8 2 (0.26%) Luigi
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.78%) Trello
5 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.39%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.26%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.26%) Sketch
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.13%) Revit
8 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (5.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.46%) Endur
3 4 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
3 4 (0.52%) SAP PS
3 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.52%) Workfront
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.39%) iTrent
4 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 128 (16.58%) Azure
2 100 (12.95%) AWS
3 59 (7.64%) Power Platform
4 37 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (4.02%) SaaS
6 30 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (3.76%) GCP
8 23 (2.98%) GitHub
9 20 (2.59%) dbt
9 20 (2.59%) Serverless
10 15 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 15 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 14 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 14 (1.81%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.46%) Firewall
2 10 (1.30%) DNS
2 10 (1.30%) Network Security
3 8 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.78%) LAN
4 6 (0.78%) VPN
4 6 (0.78%) WAN
5 5 (0.65%) DHCP
6 3 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.26%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.26%) Modbus
7 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.26%) Wireless
8 1 (0.13%) DKIM
8 1 (0.13%) DMARC
8 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.35%) Power BI
2 27 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.98%) SAP HANA
5 22 (2.85%) Tableau
6 16 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
8 13 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.42%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.30%) GIS
11 10 (1.30%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.30%) SQL Server
12 9 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.17%) Metadata
13 8 (1.04%) Big Data
13 8 (1.04%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.04%) Redis
14 7 (0.91%) MySQL
15 6 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 93 (12.05%) JIRA
2 53 (6.87%) Git
3 30 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.55%) Postman
5 11 (1.42%) JUnit
6 9 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.04%) Maven
7 8 (1.04%) REST Assured
7 8 (1.04%) Selenium
8 7 (0.91%) Mockito
8 7 (0.91%) Xcode
9 6 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.78%) GitLab
9 6 (0.78%) SoapUI
9 6 (0.78%) Subversion
9 6 (0.78%) XCTest
10 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.39%) Ant
12 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 386 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 211 (27.33%) Finance
3 163 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (11.79%) Banking
5 83 (10.75%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 29 (3.76%) Marketing
8 28 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 27 (3.50%) Retail
10 26 (3.37%) Legal
11 21 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.20%) Front Office
12 17 (2.20%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.55%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.55%) Law
15 12 (1.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 111 (14.38%) Analyst
2 83 (10.75%) Developer
2 83 (10.75%) Lead
3 74 (9.59%) Senior
4 53 (6.87%) Architect
5 49 (6.35%) Consultant
6 43 (5.57%) Project Manager
7 42 (5.44%) Business Analyst
8 25 (3.24%) Data Engineer
9 21 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
10 20 (2.59%) SAP Architect
11 19 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
12 18 (2.33%) Java Developer
13 15 (1.94%) IT Analyst
13 15 (1.94%) Product Manager
13 15 (1.94%) Senior Manager
14 13 (1.68%) Designer
14 13 (1.68%) Scrum Master
14 13 (1.68%) Security Engineer
14 13 (1.68%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.92%) Web Services
2 35 (4.53%) Spring
3 29 (3.76%) REST
3 29 (3.76%) RESTful
4 25 (3.24%) .NET
4 25 (3.24%) AngularJS
4 25 (3.24%) Kafka
4 25 (3.24%) Spring Boot
5 20 (2.59%) React
6 14 (1.81%) CSS
7 13 (1.68%) HTML
8 12 (1.55%) Node.js
8 12 (1.55%) SOAP
9 11 (1.42%) GraphQL
10 10 (1.30%) JPA
11 9 (1.17%) Hibernate
11 9 (1.17%) HTML5
11 9 (1.17%) OAuth
11 9 (1.17%) Reactive Extensions
12 8 (1.04%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 36 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.42%) PMI
11 10 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.04%) Market Risk
14 7 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.98%) Windows
2 17 (2.20%) Linux
3 15 (1.94%) Unix
4 7 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.52%) Android
7 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) tvOS
9 1 (0.13%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (38.99%) Agile
2 247 (31.99%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 130 (16.84%) DevOps
5 120 (15.54%) CI/CD
6 100 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 98 (12.69%) Project Management
8 92 (11.92%) Scrum
9 91 (11.79%) Decision-Making
10 88 (11.40%) Roadmaps
11 87 (11.27%) Analytics
12 77 (9.97%) Project Delivery
13 70 (9.07%) Change Management
14 69 (8.94%) Mentoring
15 66 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
16 64 (8.29%) Risk Management
17 56 (7.25%) ITIL
18 55 (7.12%) Microservices
19 54 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
19 54 (6.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 118 (15.28%) SQL
2 94 (12.18%) Python
3 72 (9.33%) Java
4 41 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 30 (3.89%) C#
6 29 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.46%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.20%) Bash
9 8 (1.04%) Groovy
9 8 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.04%) VBA
10 5 (0.65%) Go
10 5 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.65%) Scala
11 4 (0.52%) C++
11 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.52%) Korn
11 4 (0.52%) R
12 3 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 77 (9.97%) Degree
4 40 (5.18%) PMI Certification
5 33 (4.27%) PMP
6 21 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.17%) CISSP
10 8 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.78%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.52%) CCNA
14 4 (0.52%) CCNP
14 4 (0.52%) CISM
14 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.74%) QA
2 28 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.11%) GDPR
4 24 (3.11%) PMO
5 20 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.94%) NIST
7 11 (1.42%) GRC
7 11 (1.42%) SLA
8 7 (0.91%) Basel II
9 6 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.52%) EMIR
11 4 (0.52%) MiFID
11 4 (0.52%) NCSC
12 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 56 (7.25%) Docker
2 13 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 58 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.79%) Terraform
3 14 (1.81%) Grafana
3 14 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
4 12 (1.55%) Ansible
5 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.17%) SCCM
7 3 (0.39%) BladeLogic
7 3 (0.39%) Control-M
7 3 (0.39%) Kibana
7 3 (0.39%) QRadar
7 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.39%) WSUS
8 2 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Consul
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.48%) SAP
3 45 (5.83%) Oracle
4 22 (2.85%) Google
5 20 (2.59%) Splunk
6 19 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.07%) Databricks
8 15 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.17%) Adobe
10 9 (1.17%) Workday
11 8 (1.04%) UiPath
12 7 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (0.91%) Cisco
12 7 (0.91%) IBM
12 7 (0.91%) OpenLink
13 5 (0.65%) Informatica
13 5 (0.65%) NEC
13 5 (0.65%) TIBCO
14 4 (0.52%) Apple