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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 55 65
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,269 534 595
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.13% 4.25% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.06% 4.61% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 336 405
10th Percentile £350 £363 £371
25th Percentile £425 £437 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £613 £728 £700
90th Percentile £738 £850 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.95% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 14
10th Percentile £17.84 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £26.13 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £33.64 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% +9.41% -50.80%
75th Percentile £75.21 £49.38 £62.19
90th Percentile £94.50 £57.63 £81.63
England median hourly rate £56.50 £52.63 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.36% +40.33% -34.78%

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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +4 141 £538 +3.86% 153
South London +12 41 £500 -14.24% 9
West London -8 34 £510 -0.39% 27
East London +7 13 £520 - 26
North London - 2 £550 - 3
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 (5.99%) Confluence
2 50 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.55%) Apache
5 7 (0.55%) CMS
6 5 (0.39%) Camunda
7 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.32%) IIS
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.079%) govService
10 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.079%) Mingle
10 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.18%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.87%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.47%) Actimize
5 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.16%) Global One
9 2 (0.16%) iTrent
9 2 (0.16%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 278 (21.91%) Azure
2 213 (16.78%) AWS
3 133 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (6.78%) GitHub
6 67 (5.28%) GCP
7 52 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (4.10%) SaaS
8 49 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.62%) Serverless
11 40 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 38 (2.99%) Entra ID
13 37 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (1.81%) Power Automate
17 23 (1.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.84%) Firewall
2 28 (2.21%) Network Security
3 20 (1.58%) DNS
4 13 (1.02%) WAN
5 11 (0.87%) DHCP
6 9 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.63%) LAN
8 7 (0.55%) BGP
8 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.55%) OSPF
8 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.55%) VPN
9 6 (0.47%) Modbus
9 6 (0.47%) RS-232
9 6 (0.47%) RS-485
10 5 (0.39%) MPLS
11 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.32%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.32%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (8.35%) Power BI
2 40 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 39 (3.07%) Tableau
4 32 (2.52%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.36%) Metadata
6 22 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.87%) Power Query
11 10 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.79%) Delta Lake
12 9 (0.71%) Parquet
13 8 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.47%) Big Data
15 6 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.39%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 167 (13.16%) JIRA
2 54 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.62%) Git
4 36 (2.84%) GitLab
5 15 (1.18%) Selenium
6 14 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.71%) JMeter
8 9 (0.71%) JUnit
8 9 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.47%) Postman
9 6 (0.47%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.39%) TestRail
10 5 (0.39%) Vite
10 5 (0.39%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.32%) Mocha
11 4 (0.32%) Mockito
11 4 (0.32%) tSQLt
General
1 506 (39.87%) Social Skills
2 454 (35.78%) Finance
3 255 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.35%) Banking
6 46 (3.62%) Legal
7 43 (3.39%) Law
8 41 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (3.15%) Marketing
9 40 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (2.99%) Retail
11 33 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.97%) Local Government
15 24 (1.89%) Front Office
16 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.18%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
19 13 (1.02%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 175 (13.79%) Lead
2 139 (10.95%) Analyst
3 113 (8.90%) Senior
4 98 (7.72%) Developer
5 88 (6.93%) Architect
6 54 (4.26%) Business Analyst
7 50 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
8 49 (3.86%) Project Manager
9 41 (3.23%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.07%) Consultant
11 35 (2.76%) Lead Architect
12 34 (2.68%) Senior Manager
13 33 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.52%) Scrum Master
15 31 (2.44%) Functional Architect
16 27 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (2.13%) Technical Manager
17 25 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
18 24 (1.89%) Security Engineer
18 24 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.39%) React
2 41 (3.23%) RESTful
3 38 (2.99%) HTML
4 36 (2.84%) REST
5 35 (2.76%) CSS
6 34 (2.68%) .NET
7 27 (2.13%) Spring
8 24 (1.89%) Node.js
9 22 (1.73%) AngularJS
9 22 (1.73%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.42%) Kafka
11 15 (1.18%) Web Services
12 14 (1.10%) Next.js
13 13 (1.02%) Middleware
13 13 (1.02%) Playwright
14 12 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (0.95%) PySpark
15 11 (0.87%) OAuth
15 11 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
16 8 (0.63%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.85%) Product Ownership
2 78 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 29 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.10%) CMDB
13 14 (1.10%) Derivative
13 14 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.41%) Windows
2 44 (3.47%) Linux
3 14 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.55%) Android
6 7 (0.55%) Unix
6 7 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.39%) VMS
9 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (38.93%) Agile
2 301 (23.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 273 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
4 272 (21.43%) DevOps
5 258 (20.33%) CI/CD
6 215 (16.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 214 (16.86%) Decision-Making
8 177 (13.95%) AI
9 159 (12.53%) Analytics
10 153 (12.06%) Roadmaps
11 150 (11.82%) Migration
12 125 (9.85%) Change Management
13 122 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
14 119 (9.38%) Scrum
15 115 (9.06%) Project Management
16 114 (8.98%) Risk Management
16 114 (8.98%) Test Automation
17 113 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 101 (7.96%) Mentoring
18 101 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 188 (14.81%) SQL
2 187 (14.74%) Python
3 83 (6.54%) Java
4 64 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.07%) C#
7 38 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.05%) Bash
9 20 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.79%) C++
13 9 (0.71%) Bicep
13 9 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.63%) Swift
15 7 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.55%) Go
15 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.47%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 237 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 200 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.54%) Degree
4 36 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.21%) CISSP
7 26 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.65%) CISM
9 20 (1.58%) ACCA
9 20 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.58%) PMP
10 18 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.79%) CCNP
14 9 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.63%) GIAC
15 8 (0.63%) IIBA
15 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (10.56%) QA
2 84 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.73%) PMO
4 52 (4.10%) GDPR
5 48 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (3.47%) NIST
7 33 (2.60%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.97%) SLA
9 21 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.18%) GRC
10 15 (1.18%) IFRS
11 14 (1.10%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.71%) NCSC
13 9 (0.71%) WCAG
14 5 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.39%) COBIT
14 5 (0.39%) GAAP
14 5 (0.39%) MiFID
14 5 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 69 (5.44%) Docker
2 28 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.47%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
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
1 113 (8.90%) Terraform
2 93 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.99%) Ansible
4 23 (1.81%) Grafana
5 20 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.63%) SCCM
7 8 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.39%) WSUS
9 4 (0.32%) Puppet
9 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.24%) Kibana
10 3 (0.24%) Packer
10 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.16%) Control-M
11 2 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 224 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.09%) ServiceNow
3 72 (5.67%) Oracle
4 59 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 57 (4.49%) SAP
6 45 (3.55%) Google
7 28 (2.21%) Databricks
8 14 (1.10%) VMware
9 12 (0.95%) Cisco
10 11 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.79%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.79%) Foundry
11 10 (0.79%) Okta
12 9 (0.71%) Adobe
13 8 (0.63%) Murex
13 8 (0.63%) Splunk
13 8 (0.63%) Workday
14 7 (0.55%) Ariba
14 7 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.55%) Zscaler