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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 53 60
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 999 550 656
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.74% 3.97% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 4.39% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 301 439
10th Percentile £325 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £638 £723 £713
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 8 11
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.77 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -17.46% -51.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.33 £72.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +17.65% -29.17%

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 13,482 12,521 16,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.48% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,929 7,934 11,797
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 208 155 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.90 £24.88 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £79.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +12 132 £525 -2.78% 113
East London +4 18 £190 -65.69% 21
West London -17 14 £488 +2.63% 20
South London -11 6 £563 -3.43% 10
North London +5 2 £550 - 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 66 (6.61%) Confluence
2 39 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.40%) 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 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 74 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.40%) Notion
7 4 (0.40%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Sketch
10 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.80%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.50%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.20%) Endur
9 2 (0.20%) iTrent
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.20%) Summit
9 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 190 (19.02%) Azure
2 142 (14.21%) AWS
3 87 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (8.41%) Power Platform
5 67 (6.71%) GitHub
6 42 (4.20%) GCP
7 40 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (3.90%) SaaS
9 37 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.20%) Serverless
11 26 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.00%) Entra ID
13 20 (2.00%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (1.70%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.50%) Google Workspace
16 14 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.30%) Firewall
2 18 (1.80%) DNS
3 17 (1.70%) Network Security
4 14 (1.40%) DHCP
5 13 (1.30%) 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 67 (6.71%) Power BI
2 22 (2.20%) Tableau
3 21 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 18 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.20%) Metadata
8 11 (1.10%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.00%) MySQL
10 9 (0.90%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.80%) Redis
12 7 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.50%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.50%) Power Query
15 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 133 (13.31%) JIRA
2 45 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.10%) GitLab
4 28 (2.80%) Git
5 16 (1.60%) Selenium
6 12 (1.20%) 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
1 461 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 305 (30.53%) Finance
3 207 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.81%) Banking
6 43 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 42 (4.20%) Legal
8 38 (3.80%) Marketing
9 32 (3.20%) Retail
10 31 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.90%) Front Office
15 16 (1.60%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.50%) Publishing
17 13 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 156 (15.62%) Analyst
2 136 (13.61%) Lead
3 99 (9.91%) Senior
4 80 (8.01%) Developer
5 61 (6.11%) Business Analyst
6 48 (4.80%) Architect
7 45 (4.50%) Consultant
8 43 (4.30%) Project Manager
9 25 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
9 25 (2.50%) Senior Manager
10 24 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (2.30%) Data Engineer
11 23 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
12 21 (2.10%) Security Engineer
13 17 (1.70%) Designer
13 17 (1.70%) Product Owner
14 16 (1.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (1.60%) Product Manager
15 15 (1.50%) QA Engineer
15 15 (1.50%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.90%) REST
2 28 (2.80%) .NET
3 26 (2.60%) Node.js
4 25 (2.50%) React
4 25 (2.50%) RESTful
5 22 (2.20%) CSS
6 21 (2.10%) HTML
7 18 (1.80%) Spring
8 16 (1.60%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.50%) XML
10 13 (1.30%) SOAP
10 13 (1.30%) Web Services
11 11 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.10%) OAuth
12 10 (1.00%) ARM Templates
12 10 (1.00%) JSON
12 10 (1.00%) Kafka
12 10 (1.00%) PySpark
13 8 (0.80%) Middleware
13 8 (0.80%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.11%) Product Ownership
2 57 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 55 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.40%) PMI
11 13 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (4.90%) Windows
2 47 (4.70%) Linux
3 14 (1.40%) Mac OS
4 12 (1.20%) Unix
5 9 (0.90%) Android
5 9 (0.90%) VMS
5 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (38.34%) Agile
2 262 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
3 237 (23.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 212 (21.22%) DevOps
5 187 (18.72%) CI/CD
6 174 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 130 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 128 (12.81%) Decision-Making
9 124 (12.41%) Analytics
10 102 (10.21%) AI
11 94 (9.41%) Project Delivery
12 90 (9.01%) Project Management
13 89 (8.91%) Scrum
14 84 (8.41%) Migration
14 84 (8.41%) Test Automation
15 82 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
16 80 (8.01%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (7.81%) Mentoring
17 78 (7.81%) Risk Management
18 72 (7.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 143 (14.31%) SQL
2 136 (13.61%) Python
3 66 (6.61%) Java
4 47 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 44 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.20%) Bash
6 32 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 24 (2.40%) C#
8 17 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (1.40%) 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 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 123 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.41%) Degree
4 30 (3.00%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.90%) PMP
7 18 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.60%) ACCA
9 12 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.90%) CIMA
12 9 (0.90%) CISSP
12 9 (0.90%) IIBA
13 8 (0.80%) CBAP
13 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.80%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.11%) QA
2 54 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.50%) GDPR
4 44 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 39 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.70%) PMO
7 26 (2.60%) NIST
8 21 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (2.10%) SLA
9 19 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (1.70%) GRC
11 10 (1.00%) COBIT
11 10 (1.00%) NCSC
12 8 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.80%) WCAG
13 7 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.70%) IFRS
13 7 (0.70%) ITGC
14 6 (0.60%) GMP
14 6 (0.60%) SOX 404
System Software
1 70 (7.01%) Docker
2 24 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.70%) 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 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (7.41%) Terraform
2 72 (7.21%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.60%) Ansible
4 18 (1.80%) SCCM
5 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.50%) Grafana
7 13 (1.30%) 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%) Packer
13 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 165 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.71%) SAP
2 57 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 51 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 41 (4.10%) Oracle
5 40 (4.00%) Google
6 16 (1.60%) Databricks
7 15 (1.50%) Splunk
8 12 (1.20%) Adobe
8 12 (1.20%) VMware
9 9 (0.90%) Workday
10 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.80%) Remedy
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%) BMC
13 5 (0.50%) Cisco
13 5 (0.50%) Guidewire