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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 54 59
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,051 526 640
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.85% 3.87% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 4.27% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 297 437
10th Percentile £350 £359 £398
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +3.57% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £863 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 12
10th Percentile £17.45 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.94% +2.68% -53.85%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.88 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £52.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -36.54% +38.67% -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 13,905 12,332 16,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.68% 90.64% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,884 11,766
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 153 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +11 132 £540 +4.10% 90
South London -5 21 £525 -9.95% 15
West London -17 16 £475 +8.57% 25
East London +3 11 £450 -14.69% 25
North London +5 2 £550 - 10
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 73 (6.95%) Confluence
2 41 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.48%) CMS
6 4 (0.38%) Apache
6 4 (0.38%) Appian
6 4 (0.38%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.38%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.29%) Camunda
7 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.19%) Drupal
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.095%) Mule
9 1 (0.095%) nginx
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 74 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.05%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.38%) Notion
7 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.38%) Trello
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.19%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.095%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.095%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.095%) Sketch
9 1 (0.095%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.76%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.19%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 210 (19.98%) Azure
2 156 (14.84%) AWS
3 95 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (8.56%) Power Platform
5 73 (6.95%) GitHub
6 44 (4.19%) GCP
7 43 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.00%) SaaS
9 38 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.43%) Serverless
11 33 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 26 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (2.00%) Entra ID
14 21 (2.00%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.62%) Google Workspace
17 16 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.19%) Firewall
2 19 (1.81%) Network Security
3 18 (1.71%) DNS
4 14 (1.33%) DHCP
5 13 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.05%) VPN
7 8 (0.76%) LAN
7 8 (0.76%) WAN
8 6 (0.57%) Broadband
8 6 (0.57%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.57%) Modbus
8 6 (0.57%) RS-232
8 6 (0.57%) RS-485
9 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.38%) 5G
11 3 (0.29%) BGP
11 3 (0.29%) DKIM
11 3 (0.29%) DMARC
11 3 (0.29%) Internet
11 3 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.95%) Power BI
2 25 (2.38%) Tableau
3 23 (2.19%) Relational Database
4 22 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.24%) Metadata
8 11 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.76%) MySQL
10 8 (0.76%) Redis
11 7 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.48%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.48%) Power Query
14 4 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 146 (13.89%) JIRA
2 48 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 33 (3.14%) Git
3 33 (3.14%) GitLab
4 18 (1.71%) Selenium
5 12 (1.14%) JUnit
6 11 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.95%) JMeter
8 9 (0.86%) Postman
9 8 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.57%) TestRail
12 5 (0.48%) Gatling
13 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.38%) Maven
13 4 (0.38%) MLflow
13 4 (0.38%) XCTest
14 3 (0.29%) Gradle
General
1 475 (45.20%) Social Skills
2 336 (31.97%) Finance
3 214 (20.36%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 79 (7.52%) Banking
6 43 (4.09%) Legal
7 40 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.81%) Marketing
8 37 (3.52%) Retail
9 29 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.09%) Front Office
11 22 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.43%) Local Government
12 15 (1.43%) Publishing
13 14 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 159 (15.13%) Analyst
2 145 (13.80%) Lead
3 103 (9.80%) Senior
4 85 (8.09%) Developer
5 65 (6.18%) Business Analyst
6 46 (4.38%) Architect
7 45 (4.28%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.81%) Consultant
9 37 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
10 28 (2.66%) Data Engineer
11 27 (2.57%) Senior Manager
12 24 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.09%) Security Engineer
15 19 (1.81%) Scrum Master
16 17 (1.62%) Designer
16 17 (1.62%) Product Manager
16 17 (1.62%) Product Owner
17 16 (1.52%) Technical Manager
18 15 (1.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.95%) .NET
1 31 (2.95%) REST
2 26 (2.47%) RESTful
3 25 (2.38%) CSS
3 25 (2.38%) Node.js
3 25 (2.38%) React
4 24 (2.28%) HTML
5 18 (1.71%) Spring
6 16 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.43%) XML
8 14 (1.33%) SOAP
9 13 (1.24%) Web Services
10 12 (1.14%) AngularJS
10 12 (1.14%) PySpark
11 10 (0.95%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.95%) JSON
11 10 (0.95%) Kafka
11 10 (0.95%) OAuth
12 9 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (0.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 57 (5.42%) Cloud Native
3 50 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.24%) PMI
12 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (0.95%) Replication
15 9 (0.86%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.86%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.57%) Windows
2 47 (4.47%) Linux
3 13 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.05%) Unix
5 9 (0.86%) Android
5 9 (0.86%) VMS
5 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) AIX
9 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.095%) Solaris
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (39.49%) Agile
2 256 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
3 255 (24.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 225 (21.41%) DevOps
5 204 (19.41%) CI/CD
6 170 (16.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 146 (13.89%) Decision-Making
8 136 (12.94%) Analytics
9 130 (12.37%) Roadmaps
10 115 (10.94%) AI
11 97 (9.23%) Migration
11 97 (9.23%) Project Delivery
12 96 (9.13%) Scrum
13 90 (8.56%) Project Management
13 90 (8.56%) Test Automation
14 88 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
14 88 (8.37%) Risk Management
15 87 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 84 (7.99%) Change Management
17 78 (7.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 157 (14.94%) SQL
2 143 (13.61%) Python
3 67 (6.37%) Java
4 52 (4.95%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.09%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 30 (2.85%) Bash
8 27 (2.57%) C#
9 15 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (1.33%) C++
11 11 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.67%) Swift
14 6 (0.57%) Bicep
14 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.57%) Embedded C++
15 5 (0.48%) Go
15 5 (0.48%) Korn
15 5 (0.48%) R
16 4 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 166 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 141 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.56%) Degree
4 29 (2.76%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.57%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.81%) ACCA
8 17 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.62%) PMP
9 14 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 13 (1.24%) CISSP
11 12 (1.14%) CISM
12 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.95%) IIBA
13 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.86%) CIMA
14 9 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (10.56%) QA
2 59 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.66%) GDPR
4 48 (4.57%) Accessibility
5 44 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (2.85%) NIST
7 27 (2.57%) PMO
8 23 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (2.09%) SLA
10 19 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.71%) GRC
12 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.95%) COBIT
13 10 (0.95%) IFRS
13 10 (0.95%) NCSC
14 8 (0.76%) WCAG
15 7 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.67%) ITGC
16 6 (0.57%) MiFID
16 6 (0.57%) SOX 404
System Software
1 74 (7.04%) Docker
2 25 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.57%) Firmware
5 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.095%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.095%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (7.42%) Terraform
2 75 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.43%) Ansible
4 18 (1.71%) SCCM
5 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.43%) Grafana
6 15 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 7 (0.67%) WSUS
9 5 (0.48%) Kibana
10 4 (0.38%) Control-M
10 4 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.38%) logstash
10 4 (0.38%) Puppet
10 4 (0.38%) SCOM
11 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.29%) vRealize
12 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 166 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.18%) ServiceNow
3 57 (5.42%) SAP
4 51 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.09%) Oracle
6 42 (4.00%) Google
7 21 (2.00%) Databricks
8 14 (1.33%) Splunk
8 14 (1.33%) VMware
9 12 (1.14%) Adobe
10 9 (0.86%) Remedy
11 7 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.57%) IBM
12 6 (0.57%) Informatica
12 6 (0.57%) Murex
13 5 (0.48%) BMC
13 5 (0.48%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.48%) Cisco
13 5 (0.48%) Red Hat