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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 53 73
Rank change year-on-year +27 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,310 545 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.16% 4.51% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 4.89% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 361 390
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £695 £700
90th Percentile £731 £850 £838
England median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.71% -3.11% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 14
10th Percentile - £24.52 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.50 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.48 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +21.60% -50.00%
75th Percentile £75.94 £47.50 £44.75
90th Percentile £94.75 £56.75 £79.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £47.79 £36.50
% change year-on-year +15.09% +30.93% -28.78%

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 16,181 11,140 15,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.43% 92.20% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,808 7,503 11,081
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 182 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £30.90 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +10.68% -29.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £63.23 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +4 145 £535 +7.44% 157
South London +12 45 £500 -14.24% 8
West London -10 38 £500 +1.32% 27
East London +8 15 £600 +2.56% 23
North London - 1 £500 - 4
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 67 (5.11%) Confluence
2 55 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.69%) CMS
7 7 (0.53%) Apache
8 5 (0.38%) Camunda
8 5 (0.38%) IIS
9 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) Appian
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.076%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.076%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.076%) govService
11 1 (0.076%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.076%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.23%) Notion
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.076%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.076%) Mingle
10 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.61%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.53%) Actimize
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.23%) Magento
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.15%) Endur
10 2 (0.15%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.15%) Global One
10 2 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
10 2 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 294 (22.44%) Azure
2 231 (17.63%) AWS
3 139 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 93 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (6.79%) GitHub
6 70 (5.34%) GCP
7 58 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (4.20%) SaaS
9 52 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
10 48 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.44%) Serverless
12 42 (3.21%) Entra ID
13 39 (2.98%) Amazon S3
14 38 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.68%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.68%) PowerApps
18 22 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.60%) Firewall
2 28 (2.14%) Network Security
3 18 (1.37%) DNS
4 15 (1.15%) WAN
5 10 (0.76%) LAN
6 9 (0.69%) DHCP
6 9 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.61%) VoIP
8 7 (0.53%) BGP
8 7 (0.53%) OSPF
8 7 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.46%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.46%) VPN
10 5 (0.38%) Modbus
10 5 (0.38%) RS-232
10 5 (0.38%) RS-485
11 4 (0.31%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.31%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.31%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.31%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.55%) Power BI
2 42 (3.21%) Tableau
3 38 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.44%) Metadata
5 31 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.07%) Power Query
10 12 (0.92%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.69%) Big Data
11 9 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.69%) Parquet
12 8 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.46%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 162 (12.37%) JIRA
2 54 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.82%) Git
4 36 (2.75%) GitLab
5 17 (1.30%) Selenium
6 15 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.69%) JMeter
10 8 (0.61%) JUnit
11 7 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.46%) Vite
13 5 (0.38%) Postman
13 5 (0.38%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.31%) Gatling
14 4 (0.31%) TestRail
14 4 (0.31%) tSQLt
14 4 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 504 (38.47%) Social Skills
2 465 (35.50%) Finance
3 257 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 109 (8.32%) Banking
6 45 (3.44%) Retail
7 44 (3.36%) Legal
8 43 (3.28%) Law
9 40 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.60%) Marketing
11 33 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.98%) Local Government
15 22 (1.68%) Front Office
15 22 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 14 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 182 (13.89%) Lead
2 142 (10.84%) Analyst
3 121 (9.24%) Senior
4 103 (7.86%) Developer
5 85 (6.49%) Architect
6 51 (3.89%) Business Analyst
6 51 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
7 50 (3.82%) Project Manager
8 45 (3.44%) Consultant
9 44 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 42 (3.21%) Data Engineer
11 36 (2.75%) Scrum Master
11 36 (2.75%) Senior Manager
12 32 (2.44%) Lead Architect
13 31 (2.37%) Functional Architect
14 29 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
15 26 (1.98%) Security Engineer
15 26 (1.98%) Technical Manager
16 25 (1.91%) Cloud Engineer
17 22 (1.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.51%) React
2 43 (3.28%) REST
3 41 (3.13%) RESTful
4 34 (2.60%) HTML
5 33 (2.52%) .NET
6 32 (2.44%) CSS
7 31 (2.37%) Spring
8 26 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 24 (1.83%) AngularJS
10 21 (1.60%) Kafka
11 19 (1.45%) Node.js
12 16 (1.22%) Middleware
12 16 (1.22%) Next.js
13 14 (1.07%) PySpark
14 13 (0.99%) OAuth
14 13 (0.99%) Web Services
15 12 (0.92%) Playwright
16 10 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (0.76%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.23%) Product Ownership
2 87 (6.64%) Cloud Native
3 64 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 35 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 35 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 33 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 22 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.68%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.07%) CMDB
13 14 (1.07%) Derivative
13 14 (1.07%) FMCG
14 12 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.58%) Windows
2 42 (3.21%) Linux
3 13 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.69%) Unix
6 9 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.38%) Android
7 5 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.38%) VMS
8 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.076%) AIX
10 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (38.32%) Agile
2 303 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 280 (21.37%) DevOps
4 273 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
5 265 (20.23%) CI/CD
6 232 (17.71%) Decision-Making
7 220 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 194 (14.81%) AI
9 173 (13.21%) Analytics
10 155 (11.83%) Roadmaps
11 150 (11.45%) Migration
12 137 (10.46%) Change Management
13 132 (10.08%) Scrum
14 130 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
15 117 (8.93%) Test Automation
16 116 (8.85%) Risk Management
17 113 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 113 (8.63%) Project Management
18 106 (8.09%) Mentoring
18 106 (8.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 198 (15.11%) Python
2 197 (15.04%) SQL
3 85 (6.49%) Java
4 59 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 39 (2.98%) C#
7 37 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.76%) Bash
9 21 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.76%) Bicep
13 8 (0.61%) C++
13 8 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.61%) R
14 7 (0.53%) Perl
14 7 (0.53%) Ruby
14 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 250 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 209 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.54%) Degree
4 36 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.44%) CISSP
6 31 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.83%) PMP
9 23 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.60%) CISM
11 16 (1.22%) ACCA
12 15 (1.15%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.92%) CCNP
14 11 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.00%) QA
2 88 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.58%) PMO
4 50 (3.82%) GDPR
5 49 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (3.51%) NIST
7 32 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 29 (2.21%) SLA
9 21 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (1.30%) GRC
11 16 (1.22%) PCI DSS
12 15 (1.15%) IFRS
13 11 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.69%) NCSC
15 8 (0.61%) WCAG
16 6 (0.46%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.38%) GAAP
17 5 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.38%) ISO 22301
18 4 (0.31%) GMP
System Software
1 71 (5.42%) Docker
2 38 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.23%) IAG
7 2 (0.15%) Squid
8 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.076%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.076%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.076%) vSphere
8 1 (0.076%) zsh
Systems Management
1 115 (8.78%) Terraform
2 101 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.82%) Ansible
4 23 (1.76%) Grafana
5 22 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.53%) SCCM
7 7 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.31%) Puppet
10 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.23%) Kibana
10 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.23%) WSUS
11 2 (0.15%) Control-M
11 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 1 (0.076%) Nagios
Vendors
1 219 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.10%) ServiceNow
3 77 (5.88%) Oracle
4 68 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 46 (3.51%) Google
6 44 (3.36%) SAP
7 30 (2.29%) Databricks
8 16 (1.22%) Cisco
9 15 (1.15%) VMware
10 11 (0.84%) Okta
11 10 (0.76%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.69%) Foundry
12 9 (0.69%) Splunk
13 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.61%) Remedy
13 8 (0.61%) Zscaler
14 7 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 7 (0.53%) Workday