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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 48 69
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,529 668 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.70% 4.94% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 5.36% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 443 370
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £789
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 16
10th Percentile £25.25 £27.29 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.20 £31.05 £24.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +29.97% -47.83%
75th Percentile £66.25 £49.38 £50.31
90th Percentile £93.25 £57.63 £66.88
England median hourly rate £55.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +71.88% -8.57% -32.27%

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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -3 161 £525 +5.00% 174
South London +20 52 £500 -14.00% 21
West London -3 46 £520 +2.77% 40
East London +12 13 £675 +15.38% 34
North London -2 2 £450 -18.18% 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 72 (4.71%) Confluence
2 60 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.65%) CMS
7 7 (0.46%) Apache
8 6 (0.39%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.065%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.065%) Mule
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
9 1 (0.065%) Mingle
9 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.31%) NetSuite
1 20 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.59%) Actimize
3 9 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.33%) Magento
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.33%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.26%) Endur
8 4 (0.26%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.20%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 343 (22.43%) Azure
2 294 (19.23%) AWS
3 143 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 108 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (6.15%) GitHub
6 84 (5.49%) GCP
7 75 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (4.05%) SaaS
9 61 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 56 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (3.66%) Serverless
11 52 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (3.07%) Amazon S3
13 45 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 27 (1.77%) Azure AKS
19 25 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.09%) Firewall
2 27 (1.77%) Network Security
3 20 (1.31%) DNS
4 15 (0.98%) WAN
5 11 (0.72%) VoIP
6 9 (0.59%) LAN
7 8 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.39%) DHCP
8 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.33%) BGP
9 5 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.33%) MPLS
9 5 (0.33%) NGFW
9 5 (0.33%) OSPF
9 5 (0.33%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.33%) VPN
9 5 (0.33%) WebEx
10 4 (0.26%) DKIM
10 4 (0.26%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.26%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.59%) Power BI
2 41 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 37 (2.42%) Tableau
4 36 (2.35%) Metadata
5 34 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.98%) Delta Lake
11 12 (0.78%) Power Query
12 11 (0.72%) Parquet
13 10 (0.65%) Big Data
14 9 (0.59%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (0.46%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
17 6 (0.39%) RDBMS
18 5 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 163 (10.66%) JIRA
2 70 (4.58%) Git
2 70 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.94%) GitLab
4 24 (1.57%) Selenium
5 17 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.59%) JMeter
8 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.52%) JUnit
8 8 (0.52%) Postman
8 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 8 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.39%) Maven
9 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.39%) Vite
9 6 (0.39%) XCTest
10 5 (0.33%) Gradle
10 5 (0.33%) Mocha
General
1 626 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 528 (34.53%) Finance
3 330 (21.58%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (14.32%) Public Sector
5 149 (9.74%) Banking
6 59 (3.86%) Legal
7 57 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
7 57 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.40%) Law
9 47 (3.07%) Retail
10 40 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
11 38 (2.49%) Local Government
12 37 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (2.29%) Marketing
13 35 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (2.22%) Front Office
15 29 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.77%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 212 (13.87%) Lead
2 153 (10.01%) Senior
3 150 (9.81%) Analyst
4 137 (8.96%) Developer
5 94 (6.15%) Architect
6 66 (4.32%) Project Manager
7 55 (3.60%) Consultant
7 55 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (3.01%) Data Engineer
10 43 (2.81%) Business Analyst
11 40 (2.62%) Scrum Master
12 38 (2.49%) Software Engineer
13 37 (2.42%) Senior Manager
14 34 (2.22%) Lead Architect
15 31 (2.03%) Functional Architect
16 30 (1.96%) Azure Engineer
17 29 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
17 29 (1.90%) Product Owner
18 28 (1.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.12%) REST
2 57 (3.73%) RESTful
3 50 (3.27%) React
4 38 (2.49%) Spring
5 36 (2.35%) .NET
6 34 (2.22%) HTML
6 34 (2.22%) Kafka
6 34 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 31 (2.03%) CSS
8 29 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 26 (1.70%) Node.js
10 20 (1.31%) Django
10 20 (1.31%) Middleware
11 19 (1.24%) Web Services
12 16 (1.05%) JSON
12 16 (1.05%) Playwright
13 15 (0.98%) Next.js
13 15 (0.98%) SOAP
14 14 (0.92%) OAuth
14 14 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 102 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 85 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.01%) Virtual Team
5 42 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 27 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.50%) CMDB
14 22 (1.44%) AI Agents
15 18 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 17 (1.11%) Derivative
17 16 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
18 14 (0.92%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.49%) Windows
2 59 (3.86%) Linux
3 19 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.72%) Unix
8 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.26%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.065%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.065%) HPUX
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.065%) Solaris
12 1 (0.065%) SUSE
12 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (38.00%) Agile
2 410 (26.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 367 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 324 (21.19%) DevOps
5 313 (20.47%) CI/CD
6 285 (18.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 280 (18.31%) Decision-Making
8 233 (15.24%) AI
9 185 (12.10%) Analytics
10 183 (11.97%) Roadmaps
11 162 (10.60%) Scrum
12 160 (10.46%) Change Management
13 154 (10.07%) Migration
14 141 (9.22%) Test Automation
15 137 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
16 131 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 131 (8.57%) Risk Management
17 127 (8.31%) Mentoring
18 125 (8.18%) Software Engineering
18 125 (8.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 243 (15.89%) Python
2 228 (14.91%) SQL
3 118 (7.72%) Java
4 77 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 66 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 51 (3.34%) C#
7 46 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.62%) Bash
9 25 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.72%) Bicep
13 11 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.65%) Go
15 9 (0.59%) C++
15 9 (0.59%) Groovy
15 9 (0.59%) Perl
15 9 (0.59%) Ruby
15 9 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 313 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 267 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 139 (9.09%) Degree
4 50 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.35%) PMP
7 35 (2.29%) CISSP
7 35 (2.29%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.50%) CISM
11 20 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.85%) ACCA
14 12 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.72%) CCNP
16 10 (0.65%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.52%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.70%) QA
2 108 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 70 (4.58%) PMO
4 49 (3.20%) GDPR
5 46 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.62%) NIST
7 39 (2.55%) Accessibility
8 33 (2.16%) SLA
9 24 (1.57%) GRC
10 15 (0.98%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.78%) IFRS
13 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.52%) NCSC
15 6 (0.39%) GAAP
15 6 (0.39%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.33%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 86 (5.62%) Docker
2 58 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.39%) IAG
4 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.065%) Ceph
8 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.065%) Firmware
8 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.065%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.065%) UAG
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.065%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.065%) zsh
Systems Management
1 127 (8.31%) Terraform
2 122 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.81%) Ansible
4 36 (2.35%) Grafana
4 36 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.33%) Kibana
8 5 (0.33%) SCCM
9 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) Puppet
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 248 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 94 (6.15%) Oracle
4 70 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 56 (3.66%) SAP
6 46 (3.01%) Google
7 31 (2.03%) Databricks
8 18 (1.18%) Cisco
9 16 (1.05%) Splunk
10 15 (0.98%) VMware
11 13 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.78%) Apple
12 12 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.72%) Okta
14 10 (0.65%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.65%) Foundry
14 10 (0.65%) Murex
15 9 (0.59%) IBM
16 8 (0.52%) Workday
17 7 (0.46%) Zscaler