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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 51 75
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,418 582 537
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.43% 4.64% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.36% 5.02% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 394 372
10th Percentile £350 £356 £351
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £609 £695 £677
90th Percentile £737 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.20 £28.03 £21.84
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +29.97% -47.83%
75th Percentile £66.25 £49.38 £53.13
90th Percentile £93.25 £57.63 £83.75
England median hourly rate £54.50 £41.05 £35.75
% change year-on-year +32.78% +14.81% -14.53%

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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +5 156 £525 +2.97% 106
South London +23 46 £498 -14.22% 12
West London -9 42 £500 -1.19% 31
East London +13 16 £600 +2.56% 26
North London +1 2 £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 76 (5.36%) Confluence
2 56 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.63%) CMS
6 7 (0.49%) Apache
7 6 (0.42%) IIS
8 5 (0.35%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Appian
10 2 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.071%) govService
11 1 (0.071%) Mule
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 70 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.071%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 22 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.56%) Actimize
5 8 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) Magento
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) Endur
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.21%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.21%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 319 (22.50%) Azure
2 264 (18.62%) AWS
3 136 (9.59%) Power Platform
4 101 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (6.77%) GitHub
6 82 (5.78%) GCP
7 66 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (4.37%) SaaS
9 56 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 51 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (3.60%) Serverless
12 43 (3.03%) Amazon S3
12 43 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 25 (1.76%) Azure AKS
18 24 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.54%) Firewall
2 33 (2.33%) Network Security
3 16 (1.13%) DNS
3 16 (1.13%) WAN
4 10 (0.71%) LAN
4 10 (0.71%) VoIP
5 9 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.49%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.42%) BGP
7 6 (0.42%) DHCP
7 6 (0.42%) OSPF
7 6 (0.42%) VPN
8 5 (0.35%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.35%) Modbus
8 5 (0.35%) MPLS
8 5 (0.35%) NGFW
8 5 (0.35%) RS-232
8 5 (0.35%) RS-485
8 5 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.97%) Power BI
2 39 (2.75%) Tableau
3 36 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.33%) Metadata
5 30 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 28 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.34%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.99%) Power Query
11 13 (0.92%) Delta Lake
12 11 (0.78%) Big Data
13 9 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.63%) Parquet
14 8 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 173 (12.20%) JIRA
2 62 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 57 (4.02%) Git
4 42 (2.96%) GitLab
5 21 (1.48%) Selenium
6 16 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.71%) JMeter
8 10 (0.71%) JUnit
9 8 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.49%) Postman
11 6 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.42%) Maven
11 6 (0.42%) Mockito
11 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.42%) Vite
11 6 (0.42%) XCTest
12 5 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 569 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 490 (34.56%) Finance
3 292 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 125 (8.82%) Banking
6 56 (3.95%) Legal
7 53 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.46%) Law
9 48 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (3.10%) Retail
11 35 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (2.40%) Local Government
12 34 (2.40%) Marketing
12 34 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.90%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.83%) Front Office
16 21 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 198 (13.96%) Lead
2 143 (10.08%) Analyst
3 137 (9.66%) Senior
4 118 (8.32%) Developer
5 90 (6.35%) Architect
6 59 (4.16%) Project Manager
7 53 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (3.53%) Consultant
9 48 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
10 46 (3.24%) Business Analyst
11 44 (3.10%) Data Engineer
12 38 (2.68%) Scrum Master
13 33 (2.33%) Lead Architect
13 33 (2.33%) Senior Manager
14 32 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (2.19%) Functional Architect
15 31 (2.19%) Software Engineer
16 30 (2.12%) Cloud Engineer
17 26 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (1.83%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.74%) REST
2 48 (3.39%) React
3 47 (3.31%) RESTful
4 37 (2.61%) Spring
5 35 (2.47%) HTML
6 33 (2.33%) Spring Boot
7 32 (2.26%) CSS
8 29 (2.05%) .NET
8 29 (2.05%) Kafka
9 27 (1.90%) AngularJS
10 17 (1.20%) Middleware
10 17 (1.20%) Node.js
11 16 (1.13%) Web Services
12 14 (0.99%) Django
12 14 (0.99%) JSON
12 14 (0.99%) Next.js
12 14 (0.99%) PySpark
13 13 (0.92%) OAuth
14 11 (0.78%) Playwright
14 11 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 150 (10.58%) Product Ownership
2 98 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 41 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
4 41 (2.89%) Virtual Team
5 36 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 25 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.20%) CMDB
15 16 (1.13%) FMCG
15 16 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.06%) Derivative
17 12 (0.85%) NHS
17 12 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.94%) Windows
2 47 (3.31%) Linux
3 15 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.63%) Unix
8 5 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.28%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.071%) HPUX
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
11 1 (0.071%) SUSE
11 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (37.45%) Agile
2 349 (24.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 325 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 310 (21.86%) DevOps
5 288 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 254 (17.91%) Decision-Making
7 250 (17.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 208 (14.67%) AI
9 172 (12.13%) Analytics
10 163 (11.50%) Roadmaps
11 153 (10.79%) Migration
12 151 (10.65%) Change Management
12 151 (10.65%) Scrum
13 129 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
14 127 (8.96%) Test Automation
15 125 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
16 123 (8.67%) Risk Management
17 115 (8.11%) Mentoring
18 113 (7.97%) Project Management
19 111 (7.83%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 224 (15.80%) Python
2 209 (14.74%) SQL
3 106 (7.48%) Java
4 67 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 43 (3.03%) C#
7 38 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 32 (2.26%) Bash
9 23 (1.62%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.78%) Bicep
12 11 (0.78%) C++
12 11 (0.78%) Go
13 10 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.63%) R
14 9 (0.63%) Swift
15 8 (0.56%) Perl
15 8 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 292 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 248 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.17%) Degree
4 43 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.40%) CISSP
7 31 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 31 (2.19%) PMP
8 30 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.55%) CISM
11 19 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.06%) ACCA
13 13 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.78%) CCNP
16 10 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.60%) QA
2 93 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.44%) PMO
4 49 (3.46%) GDPR
5 47 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (3.17%) NIST
7 35 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 31 (2.19%) SLA
9 22 (1.55%) GRC
10 16 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.06%) IFRS
12 11 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.63%) NCSC
14 6 (0.42%) GAAP
14 6 (0.42%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.35%) GMP
15 5 (0.35%) GxP
15 5 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (5.71%) Docker
2 49 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.35%) Firmware
6 4 (0.28%) IAG
6 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.14%) Squid
8 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.071%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.071%) vSphere
8 1 (0.071%) zsh
Systems Management
1 127 (8.96%) Terraform
2 118 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.17%) Ansible
4 31 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 29 (2.05%) Grafana
6 23 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.35%) Kibana
8 5 (0.35%) SCCM
9 4 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.28%) Puppet
10 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.14%) Control-M
11 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 234 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.63%) ServiceNow
3 85 (5.99%) Oracle
4 75 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.46%) Google
5 49 (3.46%) SAP
6 31 (2.19%) Databricks
7 17 (1.20%) Cisco
8 13 (0.92%) VMware
9 11 (0.78%) Dynatrace
9 11 (0.78%) Okta
9 11 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 11 (0.78%) Splunk
10 10 (0.71%) Apple
10 10 (0.71%) ForgeRock
11 9 (0.63%) Foundry
11 9 (0.63%) Murex
12 8 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (0.56%) Zscaler
13 7 (0.49%) Workday