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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 61
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,711 769 617
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.48% 5.73% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 6.18% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 507 366
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £27.51
Median hourly rate £29.15 £34.00 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -16.31% -17.93%
75th Percentile £52.88 £47.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £62.85 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.94 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +34.95% -47.05% -26.36%

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +2 189 £550 +8.66% 384
West London +4 57 £520 +4.00% 129
South London +22 49 £525 -9.76% 58
East London +4 13 £750 +294.74% 43
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 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 85 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.44%) Confluence
3 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.05%) CMS
7 13 (0.76%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Magento
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 387 (22.62%) Azure
2 322 (18.82%) AWS
3 158 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 119 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (6.43%) GitHub
6 109 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (5.49%) GCP
8 82 (4.79%) Entra ID
9 69 (4.03%) Serverless
10 61 (3.57%) SaaS
11 60 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (3.27%) Amazon S3
13 54 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
15 40 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
17 31 (1.81%) PowerApps
18 30 (1.75%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.99%) Firewall
2 33 (1.93%) DNS
3 32 (1.87%) Network Security
4 22 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.05%) WAN
6 17 (0.99%) VPN
7 15 (0.88%) DHCP
8 11 (0.64%) LAN
9 9 (0.53%) VoIP
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) WebEx
13 4 (0.23%) BGP
13 4 (0.23%) DKIM
13 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.23%) SAN
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (6.84%) Power BI
2 56 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 47 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.57%) Metadata
5 38 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 31 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.52%) Tableau
9 25 (1.46%) Delta Lake
9 25 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.94%) Power Query
12 15 (0.88%) Parquet
13 12 (0.70%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.58%) Big Data
15 9 (0.53%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.53%) MySQL
16 7 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 154 (9.00%) JIRA
2 108 (6.31%) Git
3 90 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.86%) GitLab
5 33 (1.93%) Selenium
6 16 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.76%) JUnit
8 12 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.70%) Postman
9 10 (0.58%) Maven
9 10 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.41%) Gradle
11 7 (0.41%) Mockito
12 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.35%) XCTest
12 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 772 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 544 (31.79%) Finance
3 398 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (16.83%) Public Sector
5 199 (11.63%) Banking
6 72 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 69 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.33%) Legal
9 51 (2.98%) Front Office
9 51 (2.98%) Retail
10 49 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 45 (2.63%) Law
13 38 (2.22%) Local Government
14 36 (2.10%) Marketing
15 35 (2.05%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.52%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (1.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 226 (13.21%) Lead
2 200 (11.69%) Senior
3 174 (10.17%) Analyst
4 172 (10.05%) Developer
5 94 (5.49%) Architect
6 68 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 64 (3.74%) Project Manager
8 55 (3.21%) Consultant
8 55 (3.21%) Data Engineer
9 52 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.98%) Business Analyst
11 47 (2.75%) Software Engineer
12 42 (2.45%) Scrum Master
13 38 (2.22%) Product Manager
13 38 (2.22%) Senior Manager
14 35 (2.05%) Product Owner
15 31 (1.81%) Support Engineer
16 30 (1.75%) Java Developer
16 30 (1.75%) Security Engineer
17 28 (1.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (8.18%) Terraform
2 97 (5.67%) REST
3 81 (4.73%) RESTful
4 56 (3.27%) .NET
5 54 (3.16%) Kafka
6 53 (3.10%) React
6 53 (3.10%) Spring
7 50 (2.92%) Spring Boot
8 42 (2.45%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.45%) HTML
9 41 (2.40%) Web Services
10 37 (2.16%) CSS
11 31 (1.81%) Django
12 30 (1.75%) SOAP
13 29 (1.69%) PySpark
14 24 (1.40%) Node.js
15 23 (1.34%) JSON
15 23 (1.34%) Middleware
15 23 (1.34%) XML
16 21 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 217 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 132 (7.71%) Onboarding
3 117 (6.84%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 45 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 38 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (2.10%) AI Agents
11 31 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.69%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.52%) CMDB
15 24 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (1.40%) NHS
16 21 (1.23%) Data Centre
17 20 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
18 18 (1.05%) Operational Technology
18 18 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.60%) Windows
2 89 (5.20%) Linux
3 32 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.52%) Unix
5 22 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.94%) Android
8 15 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Solaris
12 1 (0.058%) SUSE
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (39.57%) Agile
2 553 (32.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 445 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
4 363 (21.22%) CI/CD
5 357 (20.86%) DevOps
6 349 (20.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 310 (18.12%) Decision-Making
8 292 (17.07%) AI
9 246 (14.38%) Roadmaps
10 211 (12.33%) Analytics
11 198 (11.57%) Scrum
12 179 (10.46%) Change Management
13 163 (9.53%) Migration
14 162 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 161 (9.41%) Software Engineering
16 159 (9.29%) Test Automation
17 148 (8.65%) Risk Management
18 147 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
19 144 (8.42%) Mentoring
20 140 (8.18%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 302 (17.65%) Python
2 269 (15.72%) SQL
3 144 (8.42%) Java
4 94 (5.49%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.20%) PowerShell
6 75 (4.38%) C#
7 61 (3.57%) Bash
8 56 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.94%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Go
13 15 (0.88%) Perl
14 14 (0.82%) Korn
15 13 (0.76%) Bicep
16 12 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.70%) R
17 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 389 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 333 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.71%) Degree
4 55 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.04%) PMP
7 45 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 33 (1.93%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.75%) CISSP
11 21 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.94%) CISM
12 16 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (9.18%) QA
2 144 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 78 (4.56%) PMO
4 46 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.57%) Accessibility
6 42 (2.45%) NIST
7 41 (2.40%) SLA
8 36 (2.10%) GDPR
9 31 (1.81%) GRC
10 19 (1.11%) NCSC
11 17 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.70%) COBIT
12 12 (0.70%) WCAG
13 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.29%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 113 (6.60%) Docker
2 83 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.53%) IAG
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.058%) Ceph
8 1 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.058%) UAG
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 142 (8.30%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.16%) Ansible
3 50 (2.92%) Grafana
3 50 (2.92%) Prometheus
4 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.64%) Kibana
6 11 (0.64%) SCCM
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.23%) Control-M
8 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.23%) Puppet
8 4 (0.23%) QRadar
9 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.18%) Nagios
9 3 (0.18%) WSUS
10 2 (0.12%) Argo
10 2 (0.12%) Packer
10 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 326 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.55%) Oracle
3 111 (6.49%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 58 (3.39%) SAP
6 55 (3.21%) Google
7 44 (2.57%) Splunk
8 39 (2.28%) Databricks
9 26 (1.52%) IBM
10 24 (1.40%) Cisco
11 23 (1.34%) VMware
12 20 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.94%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
14 14 (0.82%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.76%) Adobe
15 13 (0.76%) UiPath
16 10 (0.58%) Workday
17 9 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.53%) Okta