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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,712 772 622
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.48% 5.73% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.53% 6.19% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 512 372
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £439 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.62%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £677
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £27.51
Median hourly rate £29.15 £34.00 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -16.31% -17.93%
75th Percentile £52.88 £47.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £62.85 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £25.08 £41.25
% change year-on-year +31.61% -39.21% -36.54%

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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +1 190 £550 +7.87% 361
West London +4 57 £520 +4.00% 121
South London +22 48 £525 -9.76% 47
East London +3 13 £750 +294.74% 49
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 3
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 84 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.44%) Confluence
3 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.05%) CMS
7 12 (0.70%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.05%) 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 18 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Magento
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Endur
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 387 (22.61%) Azure
2 320 (18.69%) AWS
3 154 (9.00%) Power Platform
4 117 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (6.37%) GitHub
6 108 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (5.61%) GCP
8 84 (4.91%) Entra ID
9 69 (4.03%) Serverless
10 61 (3.56%) SaaS
11 59 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (3.21%) Amazon S3
13 53 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
15 40 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
16 39 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (1.81%) Snowflake
18 30 (1.75%) Azure AKS
18 30 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.04%) Firewall
2 34 (1.99%) DNS
3 33 (1.93%) Network Security
4 23 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.05%) WAN
6 17 (0.99%) VPN
7 15 (0.88%) DHCP
8 11 (0.64%) LAN
9 9 (0.53%) VoIP
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) WebEx
13 4 (0.23%) BGP
13 4 (0.23%) DKIM
13 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.23%) SAN
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.66%) Power BI
2 55 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.57%) Metadata
5 38 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.46%) Tableau
9 24 (1.40%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.93%) Power Query
12 15 (0.88%) Parquet
13 12 (0.70%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.58%) Big Data
15 9 (0.53%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.53%) MySQL
16 7 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 152 (8.88%) JIRA
2 107 (6.25%) Git
3 90 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.92%) GitLab
5 34 (1.99%) Selenium
6 16 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.76%) JUnit
8 12 (0.70%) Postman
9 10 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.53%) Maven
11 7 (0.41%) Gradle
11 7 (0.41%) Mockito
12 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.35%) XCTest
12 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 772 (45.09%) Social Skills
2 540 (31.54%) Finance
3 401 (23.42%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (17.06%) Public Sector
5 202 (11.80%) Banking
6 74 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 69 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 55 (3.21%) Legal
9 51 (2.98%) Front Office
9 51 (2.98%) Retail
10 49 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (2.51%) Law
13 37 (2.16%) Local Government
14 35 (2.04%) Investment Banking
14 35 (2.04%) Marketing
15 26 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.52%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 228 (13.32%) Lead
2 197 (11.51%) Senior
3 173 (10.11%) Analyst
4 171 (9.99%) Developer
5 90 (5.26%) Architect
6 66 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 64 (3.74%) Project Manager
8 54 (3.15%) Consultant
8 54 (3.15%) Data Engineer
9 53 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.98%) Business Analyst
11 47 (2.75%) Software Engineer
12 40 (2.34%) Scrum Master
13 39 (2.28%) Product Manager
14 38 (2.22%) Senior Manager
15 35 (2.04%) Product Owner
16 32 (1.87%) Support Engineer
17 30 (1.75%) Java Developer
18 29 (1.69%) Security Engineer
19 28 (1.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (8.24%) Terraform
2 98 (5.72%) REST
3 79 (4.61%) RESTful
4 55 (3.21%) .NET
4 55 (3.21%) Kafka
5 53 (3.10%) React
6 52 (3.04%) Spring
7 49 (2.86%) Spring Boot
8 42 (2.45%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.45%) Web Services
9 41 (2.39%) HTML
10 36 (2.10%) CSS
11 31 (1.81%) Django
11 31 (1.81%) SOAP
12 28 (1.64%) PySpark
13 25 (1.46%) Node.js
14 23 (1.34%) JSON
14 23 (1.34%) XML
15 22 (1.29%) Middleware
16 21 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 216 (12.62%) Product Ownership
2 135 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 121 (7.07%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 39 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 32 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 28 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.40%) CMDB
11 24 (1.40%) NHS
12 21 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 21 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (1.11%) Low-Code
15 18 (1.05%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.72%) Windows
2 91 (5.32%) Linux
3 32 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.58%) Unix
5 22 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.99%) Android
8 15 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
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
1 674 (39.37%) Agile
2 563 (32.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 365 (21.32%) CI/CD
5 354 (20.68%) DevOps
6 347 (20.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 313 (18.28%) Decision-Making
8 296 (17.29%) AI
9 246 (14.37%) Roadmaps
10 214 (12.50%) Analytics
11 194 (11.33%) Scrum
12 180 (10.51%) Change Management
13 164 (9.58%) Software Engineering
14 163 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 163 (9.52%) Migration
15 162 (9.46%) Test Automation
16 151 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
17 149 (8.70%) Risk Management
18 145 (8.47%) Mentoring
19 143 (8.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 301 (17.58%) Python
2 269 (15.71%) SQL
3 143 (8.35%) Java
4 94 (5.49%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.20%) PowerShell
6 74 (4.32%) C#
7 60 (3.50%) Bash
8 57 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.93%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Perl
14 14 (0.82%) Go
14 14 (0.82%) Korn
15 13 (0.76%) Bicep
16 12 (0.70%) R
17 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 393 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 337 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.70%) Degree
4 55 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 53 (3.10%) PMP
6 45 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 36 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 34 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.87%) CISSP
10 25 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.05%) CISM
12 16 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (9.05%) QA
2 147 (8.59%) Data Quality
3 77 (4.50%) PMO
4 48 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.39%) SLA
7 40 (2.34%) NIST
8 34 (1.99%) GDPR
9 31 (1.81%) GRC
10 19 (1.11%) NCSC
11 17 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.70%) COBIT
12 12 (0.70%) WCAG
13 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 115 (6.72%) Docker
2 83 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.53%) 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 (0.058%) Ceph
9 1 (0.058%) RACF
9 1 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.058%) UAG
9 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 144 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.21%) Ansible
3 51 (2.98%) Grafana
4 50 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.70%) Kibana
7 12 (0.70%) SCCM
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.23%) QRadar
10 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.18%) Nagios
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Argo
11 2 (0.12%) Packer
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 324 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.54%) Oracle
3 111 (6.48%) ServiceNow
4 63 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 57 (3.33%) SAP
6 55 (3.21%) Google
7 45 (2.63%) Splunk
8 39 (2.28%) Databricks
9 29 (1.69%) IBM
10 24 (1.40%) Cisco
11 22 (1.29%) VMware
12 19 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.93%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
14 14 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.82%) UiPath
15 13 (0.76%) Adobe
16 11 (0.64%) Workday
17 10 (0.58%) Okta
17 10 (0.58%) Planview