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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 57 69
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,258 519 588
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.20% 4.08% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 4.44% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 321 404
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £745 £700
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 14
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.07 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.03 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £65.75 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £93.75 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year -2.44% +50.33% -37.50%

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 15,531 11,694 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 91.98% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,392 7,939 11,222
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £755 £806 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 167 333
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.39 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.55 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.95
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +9 144 £525 +2.94% 207
South London +11 40 £500 -14.24% 23
West London -13 30 £500 +5.26% 39
East London +11 14 £598 - 34
North London - 2 £550 -
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 76 (6.04%) Confluence
2 53 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.56%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Camunda
7 5 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.079%) govService
11 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.079%) Mingle
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.11%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.79%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.32%) Actimize
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.16%) iTrent
9 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 280 (22.26%) Azure
2 204 (16.22%) AWS
3 127 (10.10%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (6.92%) GitHub
6 66 (5.25%) GCP
7 54 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
8 51 (4.05%) SaaS
9 49 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.66%) Serverless
12 40 (3.18%) Entra ID
13 39 (3.10%) Amazon S3
14 36 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (1.83%) Power Automate
17 23 (1.83%) PowerApps
18 21 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.62%) Firewall
2 26 (2.07%) Network Security
3 22 (1.75%) DNS
4 14 (1.11%) WAN
5 12 (0.95%) DHCP
6 10 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.64%) LAN
7 8 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.56%) BGP
8 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.56%) OSPF
8 7 (0.56%) VPN
9 6 (0.48%) Broadband
9 6 (0.48%) Modbus
9 6 (0.48%) RS-232
9 6 (0.48%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) 5G
10 5 (0.40%) DKIM
10 5 (0.40%) DMARC
10 5 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.95%) Power BI
2 37 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 33 (2.62%) Tableau
4 29 (2.31%) Metadata
5 26 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 8 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.48%) Big Data
13 6 (0.48%) Power Query
13 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.40%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 168 (13.35%) JIRA
2 50 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.50%) Git
4 36 (2.86%) GitLab
5 18 (1.43%) Selenium
6 13 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.87%) JMeter
9 9 (0.72%) JUnit
9 9 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.56%) Postman
10 7 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.40%) TestRail
11 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.32%) Gatling
12 4 (0.32%) Maven
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) MSTest
12 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 508 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 450 (35.77%) Finance
3 246 (19.55%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (12.72%) Public Sector
5 104 (8.27%) Banking
6 52 (4.13%) Legal
7 46 (3.66%) Marketing
8 43 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (3.02%) Law
9 38 (3.02%) Retail
10 36 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (2.70%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (1.99%) Local Government
14 22 (1.75%) Front Office
15 19 (1.51%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (14.23%) Lead
2 138 (10.97%) Analyst
3 106 (8.43%) Senior
4 97 (7.71%) Developer
5 91 (7.23%) Architect
6 57 (4.53%) Business Analyst
7 49 (3.90%) Consultant
7 49 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
8 47 (3.74%) Project Manager
9 40 (3.18%) Data Engineer
10 37 (2.94%) Lead Architect
11 31 (2.46%) Functional Architect
11 31 (2.46%) Senior Manager
12 30 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.38%) Scrum Master
13 27 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (2.15%) Technical Manager
14 26 (2.07%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (1.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.18%) React
2 36 (2.86%) .NET
2 36 (2.86%) RESTful
3 35 (2.78%) HTML
4 33 (2.62%) CSS
4 33 (2.62%) REST
5 27 (2.15%) Node.js
6 24 (1.91%) Spring
7 19 (1.51%) AngularJS
8 18 (1.43%) Spring Boot
9 16 (1.27%) Kafka
9 16 (1.27%) Web Services
10 14 (1.11%) Playwright
10 14 (1.11%) PySpark
11 13 (1.03%) Middleware
11 13 (1.03%) Next.js
12 12 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (0.95%) OAuth
12 12 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 72 (5.72%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.62%) Virtual Team
5 32 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 22 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 21 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.11%) CMDB
14 13 (1.03%) Derivative
14 13 (1.03%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.37%) Windows
2 44 (3.50%) Linux
3 13 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.48%) Android
6 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (0.48%) Unix
7 5 (0.40%) VMS
8 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.16%) AIX
9 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (38.79%) Agile
2 307 (24.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (21.30%) DevOps
4 267 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (20.03%) CI/CD
6 223 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 202 (16.06%) Decision-Making
8 168 (13.35%) AI
9 157 (12.48%) Analytics
10 151 (12.00%) Migration
11 149 (11.84%) Roadmaps
12 122 (9.70%) Change Management
13 118 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
14 115 (9.14%) Test Automation
15 114 (9.06%) Scrum
16 111 (8.82%) Risk Management
17 109 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 107 (8.51%) Project Management
19 100 (7.95%) Mentoring
19 100 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 189 (15.02%) Python
2 179 (14.23%) SQL
3 78 (6.20%) Java
4 63 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 36 (2.86%) C#
8 24 (1.91%) Bash
9 19 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.87%) Bicep
13 10 (0.79%) C++
14 9 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.64%) Swift
16 7 (0.56%) Go
16 7 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.48%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 223 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 189 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.46%) Degree
4 36 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.99%) CISSP
6 25 (1.99%) PMI Certification
7 22 (1.75%) ACCA
8 20 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.59%) CISM
9 19 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.27%) PMP
11 15 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.72%) CIMA
14 9 (0.72%) IIBA
15 7 (0.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.41%) QA
2 80 (6.36%) Data Quality
3 56 (4.45%) GDPR
4 53 (4.21%) PMO
5 46 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (3.34%) NIST
7 28 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.07%) SLA
9 21 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.19%) GRC
10 15 (1.19%) IFRS
11 12 (0.95%) NCSC
12 11 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.64%) WCAG
14 6 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.48%) COBIT
14 6 (0.48%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.48%) PERC
15 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 65 (5.17%) Docker
2 31 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 107 (8.51%) Terraform
2 88 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.18%) Ansible
4 19 (1.51%) Grafana
5 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.11%) SCCM
8 8 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.48%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.40%) WSUS
11 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 4 (0.32%) SCOM
11 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) vRealize
13 2 (0.16%) Control-M
13 2 (0.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.16%) logstash
13 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 225 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 95 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 67 (5.33%) Oracle
4 63 (5.01%) SAP
5 58 (4.61%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.58%) Google
7 28 (2.23%) Databricks
8 17 (1.35%) VMware
9 13 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.79%) Adobe
10 10 (0.79%) Cisco
10 10 (0.79%) Foundry
11 9 (0.72%) ForgeRock
11 9 (0.72%) Okta
11 9 (0.72%) Splunk
11 9 (0.72%) Workday
12 8 (0.64%) Remedy
13 7 (0.56%) Murex
14 6 (0.48%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.48%) Red Hat