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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 35 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,790 797 603
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.79% 6.00% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.87% 6.48% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 533 344
10th Percentile £341 £334 £364
25th Percentile £435 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £685
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £522 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 19 11
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.25 £28.34
Median hourly rate £27.75 £23.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -53.34% +23.58%
75th Percentile £49.50 £44.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £57.63 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £20.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.46% -41.43% -46.15%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £663 £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 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +2 199 £550 +4.76% 280
West London +3 51 £520 +4.00% 61
South London +14 45 £525 -9.76% 27
East London +1 9 £600 +215.79% 24
North London 0 5 £488 -11.36% 2
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 85 (4.75%) Confluence
2 79 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.06%) CMS
7 16 (0.89%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.34%) IIS
9 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.22%) SAS
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Productboard
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.056%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.39%) Magento
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.28%) Actimize
6 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.22%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.22%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) Maximo
8 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 421 (23.52%) Azure
2 348 (19.44%) AWS
3 137 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 130 (7.26%) GitHub
5 118 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 118 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (5.59%) GCP
7 87 (4.86%) Entra ID
8 82 (4.58%) Serverless
9 68 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.80%) SaaS
10 65 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
13 42 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (2.35%) Snowflake
14 41 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.12%) Network Security
2 36 (2.01%) Firewall
3 34 (1.90%) DNS
4 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.01%) VPN
5 18 (1.01%) WAN
6 14 (0.78%) DHCP
7 12 (0.67%) LAN
8 10 (0.56%) VoIP
9 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.34%) WebEx
11 5 (0.28%) BGP
11 5 (0.28%) HTTP
12 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.22%) SAN
12 4 (0.22%) SSL
12 4 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.42%) Power BI
2 75 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 54 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (2.85%) Metadata
6 37 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 35 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.51%) Delta Lake
10 22 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.17%) Tableau
12 20 (1.12%) MongoDB
13 18 (1.01%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.89%) MySQL
15 14 (0.78%) Power Query
16 11 (0.61%) Big Data
17 10 (0.56%) Parquet
18 9 (0.50%) Redis
18 9 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 8 (0.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 161 (8.99%) JIRA
2 128 (7.15%) Git
3 96 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.35%) GitLab
5 41 (2.29%) Selenium
6 22 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.23%) Postman
7 15 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.78%) JUnit
9 12 (0.67%) Gradle
9 12 (0.67%) Maven
10 9 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.39%) Mockito
11 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.34%) JMeter
12 6 (0.34%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.34%) Snyk
12 6 (0.34%) XCUITest
General
1 800 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 530 (29.61%) Finance
3 422 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (17.21%) Public Sector
5 220 (12.29%) Banking
6 72 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
7 69 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.41%) Legal
9 55 (3.07%) Front Office
10 50 (2.79%) Retail
11 47 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 46 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 44 (2.46%) Investment Banking
14 39 (2.18%) Local Government
15 33 (1.84%) Marketing
16 32 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (1.62%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.51%) Financial Institution
19 25 (1.40%) Manufacturing
20 23 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (12.07%) Senior
2 210 (11.73%) Lead
3 192 (10.73%) Developer
4 180 (10.06%) Analyst
5 79 (4.41%) Architect
6 75 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 71 (3.97%) Project Manager
8 59 (3.30%) Data Engineer
9 58 (3.24%) Business Analyst
10 53 (2.96%) Consultant
11 51 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.63%) Software Engineer
13 45 (2.51%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.23%) Product Owner
15 38 (2.12%) Scrum Master
16 37 (2.07%) Applications Support
17 36 (2.01%) Senior Manager
18 34 (1.90%) Security Engineer
18 34 (1.90%) Senior Developer
19 33 (1.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (9.11%) Terraform
2 123 (6.87%) REST
3 82 (4.58%) RESTful
4 73 (4.08%) .NET
5 67 (3.74%) Kafka
6 55 (3.07%) Spring
7 54 (3.02%) React
7 54 (3.02%) Spring Boot
8 46 (2.57%) AngularJS
8 46 (2.57%) Web Services
9 43 (2.40%) HTML
10 36 (2.01%) CSS
11 34 (1.90%) SOAP
12 33 (1.84%) Django
13 31 (1.73%) PySpark
14 30 (1.68%) JSON
15 26 (1.45%) Node.js
16 25 (1.40%) Middleware
16 25 (1.40%) Playwright
17 24 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (12.29%) Product Ownership
2 142 (7.93%) Cloud Native
3 135 (7.54%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 43 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 41 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (2.12%) AI Agents
11 37 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.01%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.62%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.62%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.28%) NHS
16 22 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.23%) CMDB
16 22 (1.23%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 129 (7.21%) Windows
2 103 (5.75%) Linux
3 41 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.51%) Unix
5 23 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.23%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.01%) Android
8 17 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.84%) macOS
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.056%) HPUX
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.056%) Solaris
13 1 (0.056%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (39.22%) Agile
2 613 (34.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 475 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
4 419 (23.41%) CI/CD
5 385 (21.51%) DevOps
6 329 (18.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 323 (18.04%) AI
8 310 (17.32%) Decision-Making
9 259 (14.47%) Roadmaps
10 226 (12.63%) Analytics
11 210 (11.73%) Scrum
12 197 (11.01%) Test Automation
13 189 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 175 (9.78%) Software Engineering
15 172 (9.61%) Change Management
16 167 (9.33%) Risk Management
17 161 (8.99%) Validation
18 157 (8.77%) Migration
19 154 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
20 147 (8.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 331 (18.49%) Python
2 301 (16.82%) SQL
3 149 (8.32%) Java
4 107 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 98 (5.47%) C#
6 96 (5.36%) PowerShell
7 69 (3.85%) Bash
8 67 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.06%) Bicep
12 17 (0.95%) Groovy
13 16 (0.89%) Go
14 14 (0.78%) Korn
14 14 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.73%) Perl
16 12 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.56%) R
18 9 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 425 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 367 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 156 (8.72%) Degree
4 60 (3.35%) PMP
5 57 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 51 (2.85%) PMI Certification
8 41 (2.29%) AWS Certification
9 37 (2.07%) CISSP
10 32 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.23%) CISM
13 20 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.78%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.56%) GIAC
18 10 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (9.44%) QA
2 155 (8.66%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.63%) PMO
4 53 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.40%) NIST
7 38 (2.12%) SLA
8 34 (1.90%) GDPR
8 34 (1.90%) GRC
9 20 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (1.12%) NCSC
10 13 (0.73%) COBIT
10 13 (0.73%) WCAG
11 12 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 141 (7.88%) Docker
2 84 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.34%) IAG
7 4 (0.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) RACF
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) zsh
10 1 (0.056%) Ceph
10 1 (0.056%) UAG
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 162 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.46%) Ansible
3 58 (3.24%) Grafana
4 52 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.73%) SCCM
8 12 (0.67%) Kibana
9 9 (0.50%) Puppet
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.22%) QRadar
12 3 (0.17%) Argo
12 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 344 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.65%) Oracle
3 104 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 58 (3.24%) Databricks
5 57 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 57 (3.18%) SAP
6 53 (2.96%) Google
7 49 (2.74%) Splunk
8 38 (2.12%) IBM
9 27 (1.51%) Cisco
10 24 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.28%) VMware
12 19 (1.06%) UiPath
13 16 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.84%) Adobe
14 15 (0.84%) Apple
15 13 (0.73%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.56%) Ariba
16 10 (0.56%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.56%) Qualys