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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,004 534 650
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.75% 3.92% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 4.33% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 297 437
10th Percentile £331 £356 £398
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £723 £711
90th Percentile £750 £850 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 12
10th Percentile £17.40 £20.03 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -2.44% -52.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.33 £72.75 £87.50
England median hourly rate £30.70 £52.00 £39.82
% change year-on-year -40.96% +30.59% -33.63%

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 13,517 12,331 16,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.89% 90.53% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,968 7,825 11,739
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +18.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £55.50 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +14 134 £525 -0.94% 193
West London -15 15 £488 +11.43% 28
East London +1 12 £450 -18.74% 25
South London -16 7 £601 +3.09% 13
North London +5 2 £550 - 5
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 65 (6.47%) Confluence
2 39 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.50%) Apache
5 5 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.40%) Appian
6 4 (0.40%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.40%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.30%) Camunda
7 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Luigi
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.100%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.100%) nginx
9 1 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 73 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.40%) Notion
7 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.40%) Trello
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.100%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.100%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.100%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.100%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.100%) Sketch
9 1 (0.100%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.80%) Loan IQ
3 8 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.20%) Endur
7 2 (0.20%) iTrent
7 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.20%) Summit
7 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 191 (19.02%) Azure
2 141 (14.04%) AWS
3 89 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
4 85 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 67 (6.67%) GitHub
6 42 (4.18%) GCP
7 40 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (3.98%) SaaS
8 37 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (3.19%) Serverless
10 27 (2.69%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.99%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.79%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.49%) Google Workspace
18 14 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.29%) Firewall
2 18 (1.79%) DNS
3 17 (1.69%) Network Security
4 14 (1.39%) DHCP
5 13 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.10%) VPN
7 8 (0.80%) LAN
7 8 (0.80%) Modbus
7 8 (0.80%) WAN
8 6 (0.60%) Broadband
8 6 (0.60%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.60%) RS-232
8 6 (0.60%) RS-485
9 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.40%) 5G
11 3 (0.30%) BGP
11 3 (0.30%) DKIM
11 3 (0.30%) DMARC
11 3 (0.30%) Internet
11 3 (0.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (6.77%) Power BI
2 22 (2.19%) Tableau
3 20 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.10%) Metadata
7 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.90%) MySQL
9 8 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.80%) Redis
10 7 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.50%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.50%) Power Query
13 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 133 (13.25%) JIRA
2 45 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.99%) GitLab
4 28 (2.79%) Git
5 15 (1.49%) Selenium
6 11 (1.10%) JUnit
7 9 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.80%) Postman
9 7 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.60%) JMeter
10 6 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.40%) Maven
11 4 (0.40%) MLflow
12 3 (0.30%) Gradle
12 3 (0.30%) Mockito
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 465 (46.31%) Social Skills
2 310 (30.88%) Finance
3 207 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 79 (7.87%) Banking
6 42 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
6 42 (4.18%) Legal
7 39 (3.88%) Marketing
8 33 (3.29%) Retail
9 26 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.89%) Front Office
14 16 (1.59%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.49%) Publishing
16 14 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 152 (15.14%) Analyst
2 140 (13.94%) Lead
3 99 (9.86%) Senior
4 82 (8.17%) Developer
5 62 (6.18%) Business Analyst
6 48 (4.78%) Architect
7 45 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 43 (4.28%) Consultant
9 26 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
9 26 (2.59%) Senior Manager
10 24 (2.39%) Data Engineer
10 24 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
12 21 (2.09%) Security Engineer
13 18 (1.79%) Product Owner
14 17 (1.69%) Designer
14 17 (1.69%) Product Manager
15 15 (1.49%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (1.49%) QA Engineer
16 14 (1.39%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.89%) REST
2 28 (2.79%) .NET
3 26 (2.59%) Node.js
4 25 (2.49%) React
4 25 (2.49%) RESTful
5 22 (2.19%) CSS
6 21 (2.09%) HTML
7 18 (1.79%) Spring
8 15 (1.49%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.49%) XML
9 13 (1.29%) SOAP
9 13 (1.29%) Web Services
10 11 (1.10%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.10%) OAuth
10 11 (1.10%) PySpark
11 10 (1.00%) ARM Templates
11 10 (1.00%) JSON
11 10 (1.00%) Kafka
12 8 (0.80%) Middleware
12 8 (0.80%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.78%) Cloud Native
3 55 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.09%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.29%) PMI
10 13 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.00%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.78%) Linux
1 48 (4.78%) Windows
2 14 (1.39%) Mac OS
3 11 (1.10%) Unix
4 9 (0.90%) Android
4 9 (0.90%) VMS
4 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) AIX
9 1 (0.100%) Solaris
9 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (38.55%) Agile
2 259 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
3 244 (24.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 216 (21.51%) DevOps
5 187 (18.63%) CI/CD
6 175 (17.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 134 (13.35%) Roadmaps
8 128 (12.75%) Decision-Making
9 125 (12.45%) Analytics
10 106 (10.56%) AI
11 94 (9.36%) Project Delivery
12 91 (9.06%) Project Management
13 90 (8.96%) Scrum
14 87 (8.67%) Migration
15 83 (8.27%) Risk Management
15 83 (8.27%) Test Automation
16 82 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
17 80 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
18 76 (7.57%) Mentoring
19 74 (7.37%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 142 (14.14%) SQL
2 135 (13.45%) Python
3 64 (6.37%) Java
4 47 (4.68%) JavaScript
5 44 (4.38%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.19%) Bash
6 32 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 24 (2.39%) C#
8 17 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (1.39%) C++
10 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.60%) Bicep
12 6 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.60%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.50%) Korn
13 5 (0.50%) R
14 4 (0.40%) ABAP
14 4 (0.40%) Go
14 4 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 149 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 125 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.36%) Degree
4 30 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.99%) PMP
8 18 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.69%) ACCA
10 12 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.00%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.90%) CIMA
13 9 (0.90%) CISSP
13 9 (0.90%) IIBA
14 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.80%) CISM
14 8 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.06%) QA
2 55 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.78%) GDPR
4 45 (4.48%) Accessibility
5 39 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.69%) PMO
7 26 (2.59%) NIST
8 21 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (2.09%) SLA
9 19 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (1.59%) GRC
11 10 (1.00%) COBIT
11 10 (1.00%) NCSC
12 8 (0.80%) IFRS
12 8 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.80%) WCAG
13 7 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.70%) ITGC
14 6 (0.60%) GMP
14 6 (0.60%) SOX 404
System Software
1 71 (7.07%) Docker
2 24 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.60%) Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.100%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.100%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (7.37%) Terraform
2 72 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.59%) Ansible
4 18 (1.79%) SCCM
5 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (1.59%) Grafana
7 14 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.70%) WSUS
10 5 (0.50%) Kibana
11 4 (0.40%) Control-M
11 4 (0.40%) logstash
11 4 (0.40%) Puppet
11 4 (0.40%) SCOM
12 3 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.30%) vRealize
13 2 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 164 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.78%) ServiceNow
3 56 (5.58%) SAP
4 53 (5.28%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.08%) Oracle
6 40 (3.98%) Google
7 16 (1.59%) Databricks
8 15 (1.49%) Splunk
9 12 (1.20%) Adobe
9 12 (1.20%) VMware
10 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.80%) Remedy
10 8 (0.80%) Workday
11 7 (0.70%) IBM
11 7 (0.70%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.60%) Murex
12 6 (0.60%) New Relic
13 5 (0.50%) Cisco
13 5 (0.50%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud