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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 45 73
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,573 690 541
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.91% 5.05% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 5.47% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,029 460 354
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £779
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 12
10th Percentile £18.92 £24.62 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.21 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £36.48 £32.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +11.82% -34.09%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.50 £55.63
90th Percentile £92.13 £56.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £51.58 £30.81 £48.48
% change year-on-year +67.42% -36.45% -15.70%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 0 162 £544 +8.80% 130
South London +21 60 £503 -13.51% 19
West London +3 51 £520 +2.77% 63
East London +13 11 £675 +15.38% 28
North London -2 3 £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 76 (4.83%) Confluence
2 65 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.95%) CMS
5 14 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.57%) Apache
8 7 (0.45%) IIS
9 4 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.064%) Mule
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.064%) InDesign
9 1 (0.064%) Mingle
9 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.34%) NetSuite
1 21 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.57%) Actimize
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.32%) Magento
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.32%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.25%) Endur
9 4 (0.25%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.25%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 363 (23.08%) Azure
2 292 (18.56%) AWS
3 142 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 108 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (6.10%) GitHub
6 94 (5.98%) GCP
7 87 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (4.58%) Entra ID
9 63 (4.01%) SaaS
10 54 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (3.37%) Serverless
12 52 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
13 42 (2.67%) Amazon S3
14 41 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (1.84%) Azure AKS
17 29 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (1.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.29%) Firewall
2 26 (1.65%) DNS
2 26 (1.65%) Network Security
3 17 (1.08%) WAN
4 11 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.64%) LAN
5 10 (0.64%) VoIP
6 8 (0.51%) DHCP
6 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.45%) VPN
8 6 (0.38%) MPLS
9 5 (0.32%) BGP
9 5 (0.32%) HTTP
9 5 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.32%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.32%) WebEx
9 5 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.25%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.25%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (7.25%) Power BI
2 48 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 37 (2.35%) Metadata
4 35 (2.23%) Tableau
5 32 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.27%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.02%) Delta Lake
11 12 (0.76%) Parquet
12 11 (0.70%) Big Data
12 11 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 11 (0.70%) Power Query
13 7 (0.45%) MySQL
13 7 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 164 (10.43%) JIRA
2 74 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 73 (4.64%) Git
4 41 (2.61%) GitLab
5 24 (1.53%) Selenium
6 18 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.64%) JMeter
9 9 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.51%) JUnit
10 8 (0.51%) Maven
10 8 (0.51%) Postman
10 8 (0.51%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.45%) Gradle
11 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.45%) XCTest
12 6 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 663 (42.15%) Social Skills
2 538 (34.20%) Finance
3 348 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (16.08%) Public Sector
5 158 (10.04%) Banking
6 60 (3.81%) Legal
6 60 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.43%) Law
9 48 (3.05%) Retail
10 44 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (2.54%) Local Government
13 37 (2.35%) Marketing
14 36 (2.29%) Front Office
15 29 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.84%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.72%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 213 (13.54%) Lead
2 160 (10.17%) Senior
3 152 (9.66%) Analyst
4 142 (9.03%) Developer
5 99 (6.29%) Architect
6 64 (4.07%) Project Manager
7 59 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
8 53 (3.37%) Consultant
9 51 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 45 (2.86%) Business Analyst
11 43 (2.73%) Scrum Master
12 42 (2.67%) Software Engineer
13 40 (2.54%) Data Engineer
14 35 (2.23%) Product Owner
15 34 (2.16%) Lead Architect
15 34 (2.16%) Senior Manager
16 31 (1.97%) Functional Architect
16 31 (1.97%) Java Developer
17 29 (1.84%) Cloud Engineer
18 28 (1.78%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (4.70%) REST
2 64 (4.07%) RESTful
3 46 (2.92%) React
4 43 (2.73%) Spring
5 42 (2.67%) .NET
6 38 (2.42%) Spring Boot
7 36 (2.29%) HTML
8 35 (2.23%) Kafka
9 33 (2.10%) AngularJS
10 32 (2.03%) CSS
11 22 (1.40%) Middleware
11 22 (1.40%) Node.js
12 21 (1.34%) Django
12 21 (1.34%) SOAP
13 20 (1.27%) Web Services
14 19 (1.21%) JSON
15 17 (1.08%) Playwright
16 15 (0.95%) Next.js
16 15 (0.95%) XML
17 14 (0.89%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 189 (12.02%) Product Ownership
2 107 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 102 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 42 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.65%) CMDB
10 26 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.14%) NHS
14 17 (1.08%) FMCG
14 17 (1.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.85%) Windows
2 63 (4.01%) Linux
3 24 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.83%) Unix
6 13 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.32%) Android
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.064%) HPUX
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.064%) Solaris
10 1 (0.064%) SUSE
10 1 (0.064%) VMS
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (39.10%) Agile
2 448 (28.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 385 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
4 326 (20.72%) DevOps
5 316 (20.09%) CI/CD
6 305 (19.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 288 (18.31%) Decision-Making
8 248 (15.77%) AI
9 193 (12.27%) Roadmaps
10 191 (12.14%) Analytics
11 172 (10.93%) Change Management
12 170 (10.81%) Scrum
13 158 (10.04%) Migration
14 139 (8.84%) Test Automation
15 137 (8.71%) Software Engineering
16 134 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
17 129 (8.20%) Risk Management
18 127 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 127 (8.07%) Mentoring
18 127 (8.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 247 (15.70%) Python
2 227 (14.43%) SQL
3 125 (7.95%) Java
4 81 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 69 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 59 (3.75%) C#
7 45 (2.86%) Bash
8 42 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.95%) Bicep
11 15 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.83%) Groovy
13 12 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.64%) Go
14 10 (0.64%) Perl
15 9 (0.57%) C++
15 9 (0.57%) Ruby
15 9 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 329 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 282 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 139 (8.84%) Degree
4 47 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.80%) PMP
6 43 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.54%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.10%) CISSP
9 32 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.21%) CISM
13 18 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.70%) CCNP
16 10 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.64%) ACCA
16 10 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.64%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.77%) QA
2 112 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 70 (4.45%) PMO
4 46 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.86%) GDPR
6 39 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 38 (2.42%) NIST
8 37 (2.35%) SLA
9 22 (1.40%) GRC
10 14 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.70%) NCSC
13 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.57%) IFRS
15 6 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.38%) WCAG
16 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.32%) GAAP
16 5 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 87 (5.53%) Docker
2 69 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.57%) IAG
4 9 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.13%) Squid
6 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 2 (0.13%) zsh
7 1 (0.064%) Ceph
7 1 (0.064%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.064%) UAG
7 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 122 (7.76%) Terraform
3 42 (2.67%) Ansible
4 40 (2.54%) Grafana
5 39 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.38%) Kibana
10 5 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.32%) SCCM
11 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.25%) Puppet
11 4 (0.25%) QRadar
12 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) Argo
13 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 265 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.74%) ServiceNow
3 96 (6.10%) Oracle
4 69 (4.39%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.81%) SAP
6 56 (3.56%) Google
7 34 (2.16%) Databricks
8 24 (1.53%) Cisco
9 21 (1.34%) VMware
10 18 (1.14%) Splunk
11 16 (1.02%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.02%) IBM
12 13 (0.83%) Zscaler
13 12 (0.76%) Apple
13 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.70%) Okta
15 10 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.64%) Foundry
16 9 (0.57%) Murex
16 9 (0.57%) Workday