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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 63
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,688 732 584
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.38% 5.48% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.41% 5.92% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 488 359
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £756 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.94 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.12 £27.51
Median hourly rate £31.95 £35.24 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% -13.26% -29.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.38 £56.88
90th Percentile £72.75 £61.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £36.66 £28.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.51% -42.50% -20.00%

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 17,945 12,360 14,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.46% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,728 8,229 9,956
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 £688
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 290 253 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.60 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -2 171 £550 +9.73% 256
West London +3 58 £520 +1.56% 135
South London +20 48 £525 -9.17% 43
East London +5 13 £750 +294.74% 35
North London +1 4 £450 -18.18% 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 79 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.32%) Confluence
3 29 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.01%) CMS
6 16 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.59%) Apache
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.059%) MTS
12 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 81 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.059%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.36%) Actimize
6 6 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) Magento
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.24%) Endur
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.24%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 400 (23.70%) Azure
2 320 (18.96%) AWS
3 163 (9.66%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
6 104 (6.16%) GitHub
7 101 (5.98%) GCP
8 82 (4.86%) Entra ID
9 62 (3.67%) Serverless
10 60 (3.55%) SaaS
11 54 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
11 54 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (2.67%) Amazon S3
14 33 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
16 30 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (1.72%) PowerApps
18 28 (1.66%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.31%) Firewall
2 38 (2.25%) Network Security
3 34 (2.01%) DNS
4 22 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.24%) WAN
6 15 (0.89%) DHCP
6 15 (0.89%) VPN
7 12 (0.71%) LAN
8 10 (0.59%) VoIP
9 9 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.36%) BGP
11 6 (0.36%) HTTP
12 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.30%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.30%) WebEx
12 5 (0.30%) Wireless
13 4 (0.24%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.46%) Power BI
2 49 (2.90%) Metadata
2 49 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (1.72%) Tableau
7 26 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.42%) Delta Lake
9 16 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.89%) Power Query
11 14 (0.83%) Parquet
12 12 (0.71%) Big Data
13 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.47%) MySQL
15 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (9.06%) JIRA
2 101 (5.98%) Git
3 81 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.73%) GitLab
5 33 (1.95%) Selenium
6 16 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.71%) Postman
8 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.59%) JUnit
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.47%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.41%) Gradle
12 7 (0.41%) Maven
12 7 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.36%) JMeter
13 6 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.36%) XCTest
13 6 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 759 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 545 (32.29%) Finance
3 383 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (16.82%) Public Sector
5 192 (11.37%) Banking
6 70 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.55%) Legal
9 56 (3.32%) Law
10 51 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.96%) Retail
12 47 (2.78%) Front Office
12 47 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (2.43%) Local Government
14 37 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 36 (2.13%) Marketing
16 31 (1.84%) Telecoms
17 28 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 233 (13.80%) Lead
2 187 (11.08%) Senior
3 176 (10.43%) Analyst
4 162 (9.60%) Developer
5 112 (6.64%) Architect
6 64 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 61 (3.61%) Project Manager
8 58 (3.44%) Consultant
9 53 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.08%) Business Analyst
11 48 (2.84%) Data Engineer
12 43 (2.55%) Software Engineer
13 40 (2.37%) Scrum Master
14 37 (2.19%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.13%) Lead Architect
16 35 (2.07%) Product Owner
17 33 (1.95%) Cloud Engineer
18 32 (1.90%) Product Manager
19 31 (1.84%) Functional Architect
19 31 (1.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.00%) Terraform
2 94 (5.57%) REST
3 78 (4.62%) RESTful
4 55 (3.26%) React
5 50 (2.96%) Kafka
6 49 (2.90%) Spring
7 48 (2.84%) .NET
8 44 (2.61%) Spring Boot
9 42 (2.49%) HTML
10 41 (2.43%) AngularJS
11 37 (2.19%) CSS
12 34 (2.01%) Web Services
13 31 (1.84%) Django
14 24 (1.42%) SOAP
15 23 (1.36%) Node.js
15 23 (1.36%) PySpark
16 22 (1.30%) JSON
16 22 (1.30%) Middleware
16 22 (1.30%) XML
17 21 (1.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 199 (11.79%) Product Ownership
2 130 (7.70%) Onboarding
3 115 (6.81%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 36 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (2.01%) AI Agents
11 28 (1.66%) Security Posture
12 27 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.54%) CMDB
13 26 (1.54%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.48%) Data Centre
14 25 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (1.42%) NHS
16 20 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (1.13%) Operational Technology
18 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.52%) Windows
2 86 (5.09%) Linux
3 30 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.48%) Unix
5 22 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.89%) Android
9 14 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
13 1 (0.059%) HPUX
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) SUSE
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (39.28%) Agile
2 526 (31.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 434 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 354 (20.97%) DevOps
5 350 (20.73%) CI/CD
6 344 (20.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 310 (18.36%) Decision-Making
8 280 (16.59%) AI
9 224 (13.27%) Roadmaps
10 207 (12.26%) Analytics
11 181 (10.72%) Change Management
12 180 (10.66%) Scrum
13 175 (10.37%) Migration
14 159 (9.42%) Test Automation
15 153 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 152 (9.00%) Software Engineering
17 146 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
18 145 (8.59%) Mentoring
19 140 (8.29%) Technical Leadership
20 139 (8.23%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 290 (17.18%) Python
2 254 (15.05%) SQL
3 136 (8.06%) Java
4 89 (5.27%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 66 (3.91%) C#
7 59 (3.50%) Bash
8 49 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (1.01%) Bicep
10 17 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.95%) Go
12 15 (0.89%) Groovy
12 15 (0.89%) Perl
13 12 (0.71%) Korn
13 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.71%) R
14 11 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 369 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 313 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.12%) Degree
4 54 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 44 (2.61%) PMP
7 38 (2.25%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 34 (2.01%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.78%) CISSP
11 18 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.89%) CISM
14 14 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.59%) CCNP
16 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (8.95%) QA
2 136 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.74%) PMO
4 46 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.55%) SLA
6 42 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.49%) NIST
7 40 (2.37%) GDPR
8 28 (1.66%) GRC
9 17 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.01%) NCSC
10 12 (0.71%) COBIT
10 12 (0.71%) WCAG
11 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.36%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 105 (6.22%) Docker
2 86 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.53%) IAG
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.059%) UAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 138 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.90%) Ansible
3 48 (2.84%) Grafana
4 47 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.59%) Kibana
7 10 (0.59%) SCCM
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) QRadar
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
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%) Istio
Vendors
1 322 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.64%) ServiceNow
3 103 (6.10%) Oracle
4 66 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.79%) SAP
6 60 (3.55%) Google
7 37 (2.19%) Databricks
7 37 (2.19%) Splunk
8 27 (1.60%) Cisco
9 24 (1.42%) VMware
10 22 (1.30%) IBM
11 19 (1.13%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.89%) Zscaler
13 14 (0.83%) Apple
14 13 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.71%) Adobe
16 9 (0.53%) Ariba
16 9 (0.53%) Foundry
16 9 (0.53%) Murex