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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 61 64
Rank change year-on-year +34 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,160 480 606
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.14% 3.72% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.96% 4.08% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 284 417
10th Percentile £350 £356 £387
25th Percentile £425 £437 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £746 £700
90th Percentile £750 £875 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 12
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.38 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +2.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.70 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.72% +47.33% -33.03%

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 14,581 11,761 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.81% 91.05% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,791 7,833 11,491
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% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 158 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.98% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £69.87 £77.77 £69.05
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +22 142 £538 +7.50% 189
South London +4 32 £513 -12.09% 23
West London -17 16 £475 - 28
East London +8 8 £450 - 24
North London +3 2 £550 - 8
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 81 (6.98%) Confluence
2 42 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) Camunda
7 4 (0.34%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.26%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.26%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.17%) Appian
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.086%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.086%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.086%) SAS
10 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 74 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.03%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.34%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.086%) Mingle
10 1 (0.086%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.12%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.86%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.26%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.17%) iTrent
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.17%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 257 (22.16%) Azure
2 185 (15.95%) AWS
3 105 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
4 99 (8.53%) Power Platform
5 87 (7.50%) GitHub
6 54 (4.66%) GCP
7 47 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (3.88%) SaaS
8 45 (3.88%) Serverless
9 43 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 34 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 27 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (1.64%) Google Workspace
17 18 (1.55%) Power Automate
17 18 (1.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.67%) Firewall
2 24 (2.07%) Network Security
3 18 (1.55%) DNS
4 13 (1.12%) DHCP
5 12 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.03%) WAN
6 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.78%) VPN
7 7 (0.60%) BGP
7 7 (0.60%) LAN
7 7 (0.60%) OSPF
8 6 (0.52%) Broadband
8 6 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.52%) Modbus
8 6 (0.52%) RS-232
8 6 (0.52%) RS-485
9 5 (0.43%) 5G
9 5 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.43%) MPLS
10 4 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.72%) Power BI
2 33 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.33%) Tableau
4 25 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.81%) Metadata
5 21 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.69%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.60%) MySQL
10 7 (0.60%) Redis
11 6 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.43%) Big Data
12 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 164 (14.14%) JIRA
2 50 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.62%) Git
4 40 (3.45%) GitLab
5 21 (1.81%) Selenium
6 18 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.03%) JUnit
8 11 (0.95%) JMeter
9 10 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.52%) Postman
10 6 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.43%) Gatling
11 5 (0.43%) MSTest
11 5 (0.43%) TestRail
12 4 (0.34%) Gradle
12 4 (0.34%) Maven
12 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 502 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 384 (33.10%) Finance
3 245 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 86 (7.41%) Banking
6 49 (4.22%) Legal
7 42 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.45%) Marketing
9 37 (3.19%) Retail
10 32 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.16%) Front Office
14 19 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.64%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.21%) Local Government
16 14 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (13.71%) Analyst
2 157 (13.53%) Lead
3 107 (9.22%) Senior
4 92 (7.93%) Developer
5 66 (5.69%) Business Analyst
6 64 (5.52%) Architect
7 47 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
8 46 (3.97%) Consultant
9 45 (3.88%) Project Manager
10 33 (2.84%) Data Engineer
11 29 (2.50%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (1.90%) Technical Manager
14 21 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (1.81%) Scrum Master
14 21 (1.81%) Security Engineer
14 21 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (1.64%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.45%) .NET
2 37 (3.19%) REST
3 32 (2.76%) React
4 28 (2.41%) Node.js
5 27 (2.33%) HTML
6 26 (2.24%) CSS
6 26 (2.24%) RESTful
7 17 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.47%) Spring
8 14 (1.21%) Web Services
9 13 (1.12%) Playwright
9 13 (1.12%) XML
10 12 (1.03%) PySpark
10 12 (1.03%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.95%) Kafka
11 11 (0.95%) Middleware
11 11 (0.95%) SOAP
12 10 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (0.86%) JSON
13 9 (0.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.14%) Product Ownership
2 71 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 51 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (1.21%) PMI
14 12 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.74%) Windows
2 47 (4.05%) Linux
3 12 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 12 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.95%) Unix
5 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.69%) Android
6 8 (0.69%) VMS
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
11 1 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (38.97%) Agile
2 280 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 269 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (21.98%) DevOps
5 245 (21.12%) CI/CD
6 194 (16.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 171 (14.74%) Decision-Making
8 152 (13.10%) Analytics
9 136 (11.72%) AI
10 132 (11.38%) Roadmaps
11 118 (10.17%) Migration
12 114 (9.83%) Test Automation
13 104 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 102 (8.79%) Risk Management
15 98 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
15 98 (8.45%) Project Delivery
15 98 (8.45%) Scrum
16 95 (8.19%) Project Management
17 93 (8.02%) Change Management
18 89 (7.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 183 (15.78%) SQL
2 182 (15.69%) Python
3 74 (6.38%) Java
4 57 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.36%) TypeScript
7 36 (3.10%) C#
8 30 (2.59%) Bash
9 15 (1.29%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.21%) C++
10 14 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (0.95%) Bicep
11 11 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.60%) Swift
13 6 (0.52%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.52%) Go
13 6 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 195 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 164 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 109 (9.40%) Degree
4 32 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.41%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.98%) ACCA
8 21 (1.81%) CISSP
9 19 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.55%) CISM
11 16 (1.38%) ISTQB
11 16 (1.38%) PMP
12 15 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.29%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.95%) IIBA
14 11 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.78%) CIMA
16 8 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (10.86%) QA
2 75 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.74%) GDPR
4 52 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (3.62%) Accessibility
6 39 (3.36%) NIST
7 32 (2.76%) PMO
8 27 (2.33%) SLA
9 22 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.64%) GRC
11 18 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (1.21%) IFRS
13 11 (0.95%) COBIT
13 11 (0.95%) NCSC
13 11 (0.95%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.69%) WCAG
15 7 (0.60%) ITGC
15 7 (0.60%) MiFID
16 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.52%) SOX 404
System Software
1 75 (6.47%) Docker
2 28 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.52%) Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.086%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (8.28%) Terraform
2 85 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.88%) Ansible
4 20 (1.72%) Grafana
5 19 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.38%) SCCM
8 8 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 7 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.52%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.52%) WSUS
11 4 (0.34%) Kibana
11 4 (0.34%) Puppet
11 4 (0.34%) SCOM
12 3 (0.26%) Control-M
12 3 (0.26%) logstash
12 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.26%) vRealize
13 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 190 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 79 (6.81%) ServiceNow
3 59 (5.09%) SAP
4 53 (4.57%) Salesforce
5 52 (4.48%) Oracle
6 45 (3.88%) Google
7 29 (2.50%) Databricks
8 16 (1.38%) VMware
9 13 (1.12%) Splunk
10 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.86%) Adobe
12 9 (0.78%) Cisco
13 8 (0.69%) Foundry
13 8 (0.69%) Murex
13 8 (0.69%) Remedy
14 7 (0.60%) IBM
15 6 (0.52%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.52%) HP
15 6 (0.52%) Okta
16 5 (0.43%) New Relic