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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 44 71
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,597 693 540
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.98% 5.10% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 5.53% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 463 352
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £432 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £629 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
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 £50.00 £30.81 £47.50
% change year-on-year +62.31% -35.15% -17.39%

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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +1 166 £550 +8.92% 131
South London +18 61 £505 -13.08% 19
West London +3 52 £520 +2.77% 66
East London +12 11 £675 +15.38% 32
North London -1 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 77 (4.82%) Confluence
2 68 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.94%) CMS
5 14 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.56%) Apache
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.25%) WordPress
9 3 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Appian
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
10 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 71 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.063%) InDesign
9 1 (0.063%) Mingle
9 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.31%) NetSuite
1 21 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.50%) Actimize
3 8 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.31%) Magento
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.25%) Endur
7 4 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.25%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 369 (23.11%) Azure
2 295 (18.47%) AWS
3 145 (9.08%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (6.01%) GitHub
6 93 (5.82%) GCP
7 92 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (4.70%) Entra ID
9 64 (4.01%) SaaS
10 54 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (3.38%) Serverless
11 52 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
12 43 (2.69%) Amazon S3
13 42 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (1.82%) Azure AKS
16 29 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.38%) Firewall
2 29 (1.82%) DNS
3 28 (1.75%) Network Security
4 18 (1.13%) WAN
5 13 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.69%) DHCP
6 11 (0.69%) LAN
7 10 (0.63%) VoIP
8 8 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.50%) VPN
9 6 (0.38%) MPLS
9 6 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.31%) BGP
10 5 (0.31%) HTTP
10 5 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.31%) WebEx
11 4 (0.25%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.25%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.33%) Power BI
2 48 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 39 (2.44%) Metadata
4 35 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (2.13%) Tableau
6 31 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.06%) Delta Lake
10 13 (0.81%) Parquet
11 12 (0.75%) Power Query
12 11 (0.69%) Big Data
12 11 (0.69%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.44%) MySQL
13 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 164 (10.27%) JIRA
2 75 (4.70%) Git
2 75 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.69%) GitLab
4 24 (1.50%) Selenium
5 19 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 14 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.63%) JMeter
8 9 (0.56%) JUnit
8 9 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 8 (0.50%) Maven
9 8 (0.50%) Postman
9 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.44%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.44%) Gradle
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.44%) XCTest
11 6 (0.38%) Gatling
General
1 678 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 545 (34.13%) Finance
3 357 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (16.16%) Public Sector
5 165 (10.33%) Banking
6 62 (3.88%) Legal
7 60 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.38%) Law
10 51 (3.19%) Retail
11 46 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (2.44%) Local Government
14 37 (2.32%) Front Office
14 37 (2.32%) Marketing
15 31 (1.94%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 29 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 213 (13.34%) Lead
2 168 (10.52%) Senior
3 160 (10.02%) Analyst
4 147 (9.20%) Developer
5 99 (6.20%) Architect
6 64 (4.01%) Project Manager
7 59 (3.69%) Delivery Manager
8 53 (3.32%) Consultant
9 51 (3.19%) Business Analyst
9 51 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (2.69%) Scrum Master
11 42 (2.63%) Data Engineer
11 42 (2.63%) Software Engineer
12 35 (2.19%) Product Owner
13 34 (2.13%) Lead Architect
13 34 (2.13%) Senior Manager
14 32 (2.00%) Java Developer
15 31 (1.94%) Functional Architect
16 29 (1.82%) Azure Engineer
16 29 (1.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.76%) REST
2 65 (4.07%) RESTful
3 47 (2.94%) React
4 44 (2.76%) .NET
5 43 (2.69%) Spring
6 38 (2.38%) Spring Boot
7 37 (2.32%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.32%) HTML
7 37 (2.32%) Kafka
8 33 (2.07%) CSS
9 23 (1.44%) Node.js
10 21 (1.31%) Middleware
10 21 (1.31%) SOAP
11 20 (1.25%) Django
12 19 (1.19%) JSON
12 19 (1.19%) Web Services
13 17 (1.06%) Playwright
14 15 (0.94%) XML
15 14 (0.88%) Next.js
15 14 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 191 (11.96%) Product Ownership
2 110 (6.89%) Onboarding
3 106 (6.64%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.76%) Virtual Team
5 42 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.63%) CMDB
10 26 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.57%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.13%) NHS
14 17 (1.06%) FMCG
14 17 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.89%) Windows
2 64 (4.01%) Linux
3 26 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.81%) Unix
7 11 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.44%) Android
9 5 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.063%) HPUX
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.063%) Solaris
11 1 (0.063%) SUSE
11 1 (0.063%) VMS
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (39.26%) Agile
2 457 (28.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 391 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
4 330 (20.66%) DevOps
5 324 (20.29%) CI/CD
6 309 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 290 (18.16%) Decision-Making
8 250 (15.65%) AI
9 196 (12.27%) Roadmaps
10 190 (11.90%) Analytics
11 174 (10.90%) Change Management
12 170 (10.64%) Scrum
13 157 (9.83%) Migration
14 143 (8.95%) Test Automation
15 141 (8.83%) Software Engineering
16 134 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
17 132 (8.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 131 (8.20%) Mentoring
19 129 (8.08%) Risk Management
19 129 (8.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 250 (15.65%) Python
2 233 (14.59%) SQL
3 130 (8.14%) Java
4 82 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 72 (4.51%) PowerShell
6 60 (3.76%) C#
7 46 (2.88%) Bash
8 41 (2.57%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.94%) Bicep
13 14 (0.88%) Groovy
14 13 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.75%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.75%) Go
16 11 (0.69%) Perl
17 9 (0.56%) C++
17 9 (0.56%) Ruby
17 9 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 335 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 286 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 144 (9.02%) Degree
4 49 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.76%) PMP
6 40 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.07%) CISSP
8 32 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.69%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.19%) CISM
12 16 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.69%) CCNP
15 10 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.63%) ACCA
15 10 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (9.08%) QA
2 116 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 71 (4.45%) PMO
4 46 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.69%) GDPR
6 41 (2.57%) Accessibility
6 41 (2.57%) NIST
7 37 (2.32%) SLA
8 23 (1.44%) GRC
9 15 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.75%) NCSC
12 10 (0.63%) IFRS
12 10 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.50%) COBIT
14 6 (0.38%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.38%) WCAG
15 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 86 (5.39%) Docker
2 73 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.56%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) zsh
8 1 (0.063%) Ceph
8 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.063%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.063%) UAG
8 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 123 (7.70%) Terraform
3 43 (2.69%) Ansible
4 41 (2.57%) Grafana
4 41 (2.57%) Prometheus
5 35 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.44%) SCCM
8 6 (0.38%) Kibana
8 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.25%) Puppet
10 4 (0.25%) QRadar
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 272 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.64%) ServiceNow
3 96 (6.01%) Oracle
4 70 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.76%) SAP
6 57 (3.57%) Google
7 36 (2.25%) Databricks
8 25 (1.57%) Cisco
9 21 (1.31%) VMware
10 19 (1.19%) Splunk
11 18 (1.13%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.00%) IBM
13 14 (0.88%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.75%) Apple
14 12 (0.75%) Okta
15 11 (0.69%) Foundry
15 11 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.63%) ForgeRock
17 9 (0.56%) Murex
17 9 (0.56%) Workday