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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 40 62
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,727 751 612
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.50% 5.56% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 6.01% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 498 370
10th Percentile £350 £325 £361
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £18.12 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £27.51
Median hourly rate £30.30 £36.48 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -10.20% -17.93%
75th Percentile £54.75 £55.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.86 £48.48
% change year-on-year +25.65% -42.54% -22.44%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -1 185 £550 +10.00% 223
West London +6 57 £520 +2.77% 88
South London +22 49 £525 -9.64% 31
East London +4 13 £750 +294.74% 42
North London 0 5 £488 -11.36% 2
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 81 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.40%) Confluence
3 30 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.04%) CMS
6 12 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.35%) IIS
8 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.23%) WordPress
9 3 (0.17%) Appian
9 3 (0.17%) Camunda
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 82 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Magento
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Actimize
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 400 (23.16%) Azure
2 324 (18.76%) AWS
3 165 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 114 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (6.20%) GitHub
7 99 (5.73%) GCP
8 82 (4.75%) Entra ID
9 67 (3.88%) Serverless
10 63 (3.65%) SaaS
11 57 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (3.01%) Amazon S3
13 52 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
17 30 (1.74%) PowerApps
18 28 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (1.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.14%) Network Security
2 34 (1.97%) Firewall
3 33 (1.91%) DNS
4 21 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.10%) WAN
6 15 (0.87%) DHCP
6 15 (0.87%) VPN
7 12 (0.69%) LAN
8 9 (0.52%) VoIP
9 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.29%) HTTP
11 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.29%) WebEx
11 5 (0.29%) Wireless
12 4 (0.23%) BGP
12 4 (0.23%) DKIM
12 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.35%) Power BI
2 55 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 46 (2.66%) Metadata
4 43 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.56%) Tableau
9 26 (1.51%) Delta Lake
10 25 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.93%) Power Query
13 15 (0.87%) Parquet
14 13 (0.75%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.58%) Big Data
16 9 (0.52%) MongoDB
16 9 (0.52%) MySQL
17 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 154 (8.92%) JIRA
2 107 (6.20%) Git
3 89 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.72%) GitLab
5 35 (2.03%) Selenium
6 17 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.75%) JUnit
7 13 (0.75%) Postman
8 12 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.52%) Maven
9 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.41%) Gradle
10 7 (0.41%) Mockito
10 7 (0.41%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.35%) JMeter
11 6 (0.35%) XCTest
11 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
General
1 774 (44.82%) Social Skills
2 566 (32.77%) Finance
3 398 (23.05%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (16.91%) Public Sector
5 205 (11.87%) Banking
6 70 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (3.36%) Legal
9 55 (3.18%) Law
10 52 (3.01%) Retail
11 49 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.84%) Front Office
12 48 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (2.32%) Local Government
14 37 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 36 (2.08%) Marketing
16 27 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.51%) Telecoms
18 23 (1.33%) Military
18 23 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 237 (13.72%) Lead
2 199 (11.52%) Senior
3 178 (10.31%) Analyst
4 170 (9.84%) Developer
5 110 (6.37%) Architect
6 66 (3.82%) Project Manager
7 65 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (3.24%) Consultant
9 54 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
10 53 (3.07%) Data Engineer
11 52 (3.01%) Business Analyst
12 44 (2.55%) Scrum Master
12 44 (2.55%) Software Engineer
13 39 (2.26%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.08%) Product Owner
15 34 (1.97%) Lead Architect
15 34 (1.97%) Product Manager
16 33 (1.91%) Support Engineer
17 30 (1.74%) Java Developer
18 29 (1.68%) Functional Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (7.93%) Terraform
2 95 (5.50%) REST
3 81 (4.69%) RESTful
4 55 (3.18%) React
5 54 (3.13%) .NET
5 54 (3.13%) Spring
6 53 (3.07%) Kafka
7 51 (2.95%) Spring Boot
8 42 (2.43%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.43%) HTML
9 38 (2.20%) Web Services
10 37 (2.14%) CSS
11 31 (1.80%) Django
12 27 (1.56%) PySpark
12 27 (1.56%) SOAP
13 23 (1.33%) JSON
13 23 (1.33%) Node.js
13 23 (1.33%) XML
14 22 (1.27%) Playwright
15 21 (1.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 209 (12.10%) Product Ownership
2 131 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 119 (6.89%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 46 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 40 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 31 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 29 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.51%) CMDB
14 25 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (1.39%) Data Centre
16 23 (1.33%) NHS
17 20 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (1.10%) Operational Technology
19 18 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.43%) Windows
2 87 (5.04%) Linux
3 33 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.51%) Unix
5 22 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.93%) Android
8 15 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Solaris
12 1 (0.058%) SUSE
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (39.49%) Agile
2 550 (31.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 452 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 359 (20.79%) CI/CD
5 358 (20.73%) DevOps
6 354 (20.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 315 (18.24%) Decision-Making
8 285 (16.50%) AI
9 234 (13.55%) Roadmaps
10 207 (11.99%) Analytics
11 196 (11.35%) Scrum
12 183 (10.60%) Change Management
13 177 (10.25%) Migration
14 162 (9.38%) Test Automation
15 158 (9.15%) Software Engineering
16 157 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 147 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
18 146 (8.45%) Mentoring
18 146 (8.45%) Risk Management
19 145 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 296 (17.14%) Python
2 266 (15.40%) SQL
3 140 (8.11%) Java
4 93 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.17%) C#
7 59 (3.42%) Bash
8 55 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.87%) Bicep
12 15 (0.87%) Go
12 15 (0.87%) Groovy
12 15 (0.87%) Perl
13 14 (0.81%) Korn
14 12 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.69%) R
15 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 387 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 331 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 152 (8.80%) Degree
4 53 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.95%) DV Cleared
5 51 (2.95%) PMP
6 44 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 35 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.97%) CISSP
9 20 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.10%) CISM
11 16 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (9.03%) QA
2 142 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 81 (4.69%) PMO
4 45 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.43%) NIST
6 41 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.37%) SLA
7 39 (2.26%) GDPR
8 31 (1.80%) GRC
9 17 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.98%) NCSC
10 12 (0.69%) COBIT
10 12 (0.69%) WCAG
11 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.41%) ISO 22301
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 111 (6.43%) Docker
2 85 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.52%) IAG
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.058%) Ceph
8 1 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.058%) UAG
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.95%) Ansible
3 49 (2.84%) Grafana
3 49 (2.84%) Prometheus
4 39 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.58%) Kibana
6 10 (0.58%) SCCM
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.23%) Control-M
8 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.23%) Puppet
8 4 (0.23%) QRadar
9 3 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.17%) Nagios
9 3 (0.17%) WSUS
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) Packer
10 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 332 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.72%) Oracle
3 109 (6.31%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.76%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.71%) SAP
6 57 (3.30%) Google
7 43 (2.49%) Splunk
8 40 (2.32%) Databricks
9 26 (1.51%) IBM
10 24 (1.39%) Cisco
10 24 (1.39%) VMware
11 19 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.98%) Zscaler
13 14 (0.81%) Apple
13 14 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.75%) Adobe
15 10 (0.58%) Ariba
15 10 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.58%) UiPath
15 10 (0.58%) Workday