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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 43 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,644 724 560
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.18% 5.35% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 5.79% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 485 349
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £436 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
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 29 13 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £22.67 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £28.34
Median hourly rate £41.00 £36.48 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +8.09% -41.30%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £79.15 £62.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -45.24% -16.00%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -1 170 £547 +9.40% 181
West London +6 53 £520 +1.51% 80
South London +21 49 £500 -13.49% 30
East London +3 11 £675 +255.26% 33
North London -2 3 £450 -18.18% 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 74 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.38%) Confluence
3 27 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.97%) CMS
6 14 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.55%) Apache
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.061%) MTS
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.061%) InDesign
8 1 (0.061%) Mingle
8 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.09%) 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 (0.36%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.36%) 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%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 389 (23.66%) Azure
2 305 (18.55%) AWS
3 156 (9.49%) Power Platform
4 112 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
5 103 (6.27%) GitHub
6 102 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
7 98 (5.96%) GCP
8 84 (5.11%) Entra ID
9 62 (3.77%) SaaS
10 56 (3.41%) Serverless
11 55 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (2.43%) Amazon S3
15 33 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (2.01%) Azure AKS
16 29 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (1.70%) PowerApps
18 27 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.55%) Firewall
2 31 (1.89%) DNS
3 30 (1.82%) Network Security
4 21 (1.28%) WAN
5 16 (0.97%) 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 (0.36%) BGP
10 6 (0.36%) 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
1 121 (7.36%) Power BI
2 48 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 44 (2.68%) Metadata
4 38 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 30 (1.82%) Tableau
6 29 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.16%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.85%) Power Query
12 13 (0.79%) Parquet
13 12 (0.73%) Big Data
14 10 (0.61%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.49%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.43%) MySQL
17 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
17 6 (0.36%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 158 (9.61%) JIRA
2 88 (5.35%) Git
3 80 (4.87%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.68%) GitLab
5 27 (1.64%) Selenium
6 18 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.67%) 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
1 717 (43.61%) Social Skills
2 539 (32.79%) Finance
3 368 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 177 (10.77%) Banking
6 67 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 65 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.77%) Legal
9 54 (3.28%) Law
10 51 (3.10%) Retail
11 48 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
12 47 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (2.49%) Local Government
14 39 (2.37%) Front Office
15 37 (2.25%) Marketing
16 34 (2.07%) Investment Banking
17 30 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
20 19 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (13.75%) Lead
2 178 (10.83%) Senior
3 158 (9.61%) Analyst
4 157 (9.55%) Developer
5 106 (6.45%) Architect
6 61 (3.71%) Project Manager
7 57 (3.47%) Consultant
7 57 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (3.04%) Business Analyst
9 46 (2.80%) Data Engineer
10 42 (2.55%) Software Engineer
11 39 (2.37%) Scrum Master
11 39 (2.37%) Senior Manager
12 35 (2.13%) Product Owner
13 34 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
13 34 (2.07%) Lead Architect
14 33 (2.01%) Java Developer
15 32 (1.95%) Product Manager
16 31 (1.89%) Functional Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.17%) REST
2 72 (4.38%) RESTful
3 49 (2.98%) React
3 49 (2.98%) Spring
4 47 (2.86%) .NET
5 45 (2.74%) Kafka
6 43 (2.62%) Spring Boot
7 41 (2.49%) HTML
8 40 (2.43%) AngularJS
9 35 (2.13%) CSS
10 31 (1.89%) Web Services
11 24 (1.46%) Django
11 24 (1.46%) Node.js
12 22 (1.34%) Middleware
13 21 (1.28%) JSON
13 21 (1.28%) Playwright
13 21 (1.28%) SOAP
14 19 (1.16%) XML
15 16 (0.97%) PySpark
16 15 (0.91%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 191 (11.62%) Product Ownership
2 123 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 115 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 44 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.76%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.64%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.58%) CMDB
12 26 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.52%) Data Centre
14 23 (1.40%) Security Posture
15 20 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.16%) NHS
17 18 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.45%) Windows
2 76 (4.62%) Linux
3 27 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.16%) Unix
4 19 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.79%) Android
8 12 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) VMS
11 1 (0.061%) HPUX
11 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.061%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) SUSE
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (39.54%) Agile
2 481 (29.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 413 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
4 348 (21.17%) DevOps
5 339 (20.62%) CI/CD
6 336 (20.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 296 (18.00%) Decision-Making
8 268 (16.30%) AI
9 220 (13.38%) Roadmaps
10 191 (11.62%) Analytics
11 175 (10.64%) Change Management
12 166 (10.10%) Scrum
13 163 (9.91%) Migration
14 156 (9.49%) Test Automation
15 150 (9.12%) Software Engineering
16 149 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
17 144 (8.76%) Mentoring
18 140 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
19 133 (8.09%) Translating Business Requirements
20 132 (8.03%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 272 (16.55%) Python
2 245 (14.90%) SQL
3 139 (8.45%) Java
4 86 (5.23%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.99%) PowerShell
6 64 (3.89%) C#
7 49 (2.98%) Bash
8 46 (2.80%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.09%) Bicep
10 18 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.85%) Groovy
12 13 (0.79%) Go
12 13 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.73%) Perl
14 10 (0.61%) VBA
15 9 (0.55%) C++
15 9 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 350 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 298 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.06%) Degree
4 52 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.74%) PMP
6 39 (2.37%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.89%) CISSP
9 18 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.03%) CISM
11 12 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.67%) CCNP
13 10 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.76%) QA
2 125 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 76 (4.62%) PMO
4 45 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.49%) NIST
6 41 (2.49%) SLA
7 40 (2.43%) GDPR
8 22 (1.34%) GRC
9 17 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.91%) NCSC
11 11 (0.67%) COBIT
12 10 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.55%) WCAG
14 7 (0.43%) IFRS
15 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 93 (5.66%) Docker
2 80 (4.87%) 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 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 137 (8.33%) Terraform
3 47 (2.86%) Ansible
4 43 (2.62%) Grafana
4 43 (2.62%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.37%) 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%) WSUS
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 300 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.57%) ServiceNow
3 97 (5.90%) Oracle
4 66 (4.01%) Salesforce
5 63 (3.83%) SAP
6 61 (3.71%) Google
7 36 (2.19%) Databricks
8 27 (1.64%) Cisco
9 23 (1.40%) Splunk
10 21 (1.28%) IBM
11 20 (1.22%) VMware
12 18 (1.09%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.85%) Apple
13 14 (0.85%) Okta
14 13 (0.79%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.67%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.61%) ForgeRock
18 9 (0.55%) Foundry
18 9 (0.55%) Workday