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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 57 68
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,255 506 583
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.26% 4.00% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 4.37% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 311 403
10th Percentile £354 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £688
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 14
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £41.75 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £93.00 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £51.21 £56.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.16% +50.33% -37.50%

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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +15 140 £525 +5.00% 175
South London +10 37 £500 -14.24% 10
West London -10 26 £500 +5.26% 27
East London +10 14 £598 - 21
North London - 2 £550 - 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 76 (6.06%) Confluence
2 51 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.56%) CMS
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.080%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.080%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.35%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.88%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Notion
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.080%) Mingle
10 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.04%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.80%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.32%) Actimize
7 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.16%) iTrent
9 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 277 (22.07%) Azure
2 204 (16.25%) AWS
3 128 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 103 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (6.93%) GitHub
6 62 (4.94%) GCP
7 50 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (3.90%) SaaS
8 49 (3.90%) Serverless
9 48 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
10 46 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.11%) Amazon S3
11 39 (3.11%) Entra ID
12 38 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (1.75%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.55%) Firewall
2 25 (1.99%) Network Security
3 18 (1.43%) DNS
4 13 (1.04%) DHCP
4 13 (1.04%) WAN
5 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.64%) VPN
7 7 (0.56%) BGP
7 7 (0.56%) LAN
7 7 (0.56%) OSPF
8 6 (0.48%) Broadband
8 6 (0.48%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.48%) Modbus
8 6 (0.48%) RS-232
8 6 (0.48%) RS-485
9 5 (0.40%) 5G
9 5 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.40%) MPLS
10 4 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.21%) Power BI
2 36 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 31 (2.47%) Tableau
4 29 (2.31%) Metadata
5 27 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 22 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.56%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.48%) Big Data
13 6 (0.48%) MySQL
13 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.40%) Parquet
14 5 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 161 (12.83%) JIRA
2 48 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.43%) Git
4 37 (2.95%) GitLab
5 19 (1.51%) Selenium
6 14 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.96%) JMeter
8 11 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.80%) JUnit
10 9 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.56%) Postman
13 5 (0.40%) MSTest
13 5 (0.40%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.32%) Gatling
14 4 (0.32%) Maven
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 509 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 449 (35.78%) Finance
3 253 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.97%) Banking
6 52 (4.14%) Legal
7 46 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (3.51%) Marketing
9 39 (3.11%) Law
10 37 (2.95%) Retail
11 36 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.31%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.83%) Front Office
16 20 (1.59%) Local Government
16 20 (1.59%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (1.27%) Financial Institution
19 15 (1.20%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (14.50%) Lead
2 146 (11.63%) Analyst
3 114 (9.08%) Senior
4 96 (7.65%) Developer
5 92 (7.33%) Architect
6 60 (4.78%) Business Analyst
7 54 (4.30%) Consultant
8 51 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
9 43 (3.43%) Project Manager
10 40 (3.19%) Data Engineer
11 39 (3.11%) Lead Architect
12 32 (2.55%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.47%) Functional Architect
14 29 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.15%) Scrum Master
15 27 (2.15%) Technical Manager
16 26 (2.07%) Azure Engineer
16 26 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
16 26 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (1.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.27%) React
2 39 (3.11%) .NET
3 38 (3.03%) REST
4 36 (2.87%) RESTful
5 35 (2.79%) HTML
6 33 (2.63%) CSS
7 29 (2.31%) Node.js
8 26 (2.07%) Spring
9 19 (1.51%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.43%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.35%) Web Services
12 16 (1.27%) Kafka
13 13 (1.04%) Middleware
13 13 (1.04%) Next.js
13 13 (1.04%) Playwright
14 12 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (0.96%) PySpark
15 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 72 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.63%) Virtual Team
5 29 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 21 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 21 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.20%) CMDB
12 15 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.22%) Windows
2 41 (3.27%) Linux
3 12 (0.96%) Mac OS
3 12 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.56%) Android
7 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.48%) Unix
7 6 (0.48%) VMS
8 2 (0.16%) AIX
8 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (38.96%) Agile
2 306 (24.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 275 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
4 268 (21.35%) DevOps
5 254 (20.24%) CI/CD
6 221 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 200 (15.94%) Decision-Making
8 164 (13.07%) AI
9 159 (12.67%) Analytics
10 149 (11.87%) Migration
11 146 (11.63%) Roadmaps
12 121 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
13 117 (9.32%) Change Management
14 113 (9.00%) Test Automation
15 109 (8.69%) Scrum
16 108 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
17 105 (8.37%) Risk Management
18 103 (8.21%) User Acceptance Testing
19 101 (8.05%) Mentoring
20 100 (7.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (14.82%) Python
2 184 (14.66%) SQL
3 77 (6.14%) Java
4 63 (5.02%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.14%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 38 (3.03%) C#
8 23 (1.83%) Bash
9 20 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.88%) Bicep
12 11 (0.88%) C++
13 8 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.64%) Swift
14 7 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.56%) Go
15 6 (0.48%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.48%) R
15 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 221 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 188 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 116 (9.24%) Degree
4 34 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.07%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.91%) ACCA
8 21 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.67%) CISSP
9 19 (1.51%) CISM
10 16 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 14 (1.12%) PMP
12 12 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.80%) CIMA
14 10 (0.80%) IIBA
15 7 (0.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.44%) QA
2 81 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.38%) GDPR
4 50 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (3.90%) PMO
6 43 (3.43%) NIST
7 37 (2.95%) Accessibility
8 28 (2.23%) SLA
9 21 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (1.27%) GRC
12 15 (1.20%) IFRS
13 12 (0.96%) NCSC
14 11 (0.88%) COBIT
15 10 (0.80%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.64%) WCAG
17 7 (0.56%) ITGC
18 6 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 6 (0.48%) PERC
18 6 (0.48%) SOX 404
System Software
1 66 (5.26%) Docker
2 30 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.080%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.080%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.080%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (8.29%) Terraform
2 85 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.11%) Ansible
4 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.35%) Grafana
6 15 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.20%) SCCM
7 8 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.48%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Kibana
10 4 (0.32%) Puppet
10 4 (0.32%) SCOM
11 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.24%) vRealize
12 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) logstash
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 225 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.17%) ServiceNow
3 72 (5.74%) Oracle
4 64 (5.10%) SAP
5 59 (4.70%) Salesforce
6 44 (3.51%) Google
7 27 (2.15%) Databricks
8 16 (1.27%) VMware
9 13 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.80%) Adobe
10 10 (0.80%) Foundry
11 9 (0.72%) Splunk
12 8 (0.64%) Cisco
12 8 (0.64%) Okta
12 8 (0.64%) Planview
12 8 (0.64%) Remedy
13 7 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.56%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.56%) Murex
13 7 (0.56%) Workday