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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 54 59
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,009 529 653
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.78% 3.88% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 4.28% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 295 444
10th Percentile £343 £356 £396
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +3.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £728 £704
90th Percentile £750 £858 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 11
10th Percentile £17.40 £20.03 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% - -53.85%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £64.38
90th Percentile £63.33 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.25 £54.00 £39.82
% change year-on-year -42.13% +35.61% -33.63%

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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
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% - -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 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +11 134 £525 -0.94% 168
West London -11 16 £475 +35.71% 30
East London +4 12 £450 -18.74% 27
South London -14 7 £601 +3.09% 17
North London +5 2 £550 - 5
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 67 (6.64%) Confluence
2 40 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.50%) CMS
7 4 (0.40%) Appian
7 4 (0.40%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.40%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.30%) Camunda
8 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
10 1 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.099%) Mule
10 1 (0.099%) nginx
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 73 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.89%) 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 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.099%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.099%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.099%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.099%) Sketch
10 1 (0.099%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.79%) Loan IQ
3 8 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.20%) Endur
7 2 (0.20%) iTrent
7 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.20%) Summit
7 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 197 (19.52%) Azure
2 144 (14.27%) AWS
3 90 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (8.52%) Power Platform
5 66 (6.54%) GitHub
6 42 (4.16%) GCP
7 39 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (3.87%) SaaS
8 37 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (3.17%) Serverless
10 26 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.08%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.98%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (1.59%) Google Workspace
17 15 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.38%) Firewall
2 18 (1.78%) DNS
2 18 (1.78%) Network Security
3 14 (1.39%) DHCP
4 13 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.09%) VPN
6 8 (0.79%) LAN
6 8 (0.79%) Modbus
6 8 (0.79%) WAN
7 6 (0.59%) Broadband
7 6 (0.59%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.59%) RS-232
7 6 (0.59%) RS-485
8 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.40%) 5G
10 3 (0.30%) BGP
10 3 (0.30%) DKIM
10 3 (0.30%) DMARC
10 3 (0.30%) Internet
10 3 (0.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.84%) Power BI
2 23 (2.28%) Tableau
3 21 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.29%) Metadata
7 12 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.89%) MySQL
10 8 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.79%) Redis
11 7 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.50%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.50%) Power Query
14 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 136 (13.48%) JIRA
2 46 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.97%) GitLab
4 28 (2.78%) Git
5 18 (1.78%) Selenium
6 11 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 11 (1.09%) JUnit
7 10 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.89%) Postman
9 7 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.59%) JMeter
10 6 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.40%) Maven
11 4 (0.40%) MLflow
11 4 (0.40%) TestRail
12 3 (0.30%) Mockito
12 3 (0.30%) MSTest
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
General
1 463 (45.89%) Social Skills
2 316 (31.32%) Finance
3 205 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 80 (7.93%) Banking
6 42 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.96%) Legal
7 40 (3.96%) Marketing
8 36 (3.57%) Retail
9 27 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.08%) Front Office
13 19 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.49%) Publishing
15 14 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.29%) Local Government
16 13 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 153 (15.16%) Analyst
2 142 (14.07%) Lead
3 102 (10.11%) Senior
4 83 (8.23%) Developer
5 61 (6.05%) Business Analyst
6 48 (4.76%) Architect
7 42 (4.16%) Consultant
7 42 (4.16%) Project Manager
8 29 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
9 27 (2.68%) Data Engineer
10 25 (2.48%) Senior Manager
11 24 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.08%) Security Engineer
14 18 (1.78%) Product Owner
15 17 (1.68%) Designer
15 17 (1.68%) Product Manager
16 15 (1.49%) QA Engineer
16 15 (1.49%) Scrum Master
16 15 (1.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.07%) REST
2 30 (2.97%) .NET
3 26 (2.58%) Node.js
3 26 (2.58%) RESTful
4 25 (2.48%) CSS
4 25 (2.48%) React
5 24 (2.38%) HTML
6 18 (1.78%) Spring
7 16 (1.59%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.49%) XML
9 14 (1.39%) SOAP
10 13 (1.29%) Web Services
11 12 (1.19%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.09%) Kafka
12 11 (1.09%) OAuth
12 11 (1.09%) PySpark
13 10 (0.99%) ARM Templates
13 10 (0.99%) JSON
14 9 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
15 8 (0.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 60 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.09%) PMI
14 9 (0.89%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.76%) Windows
2 47 (4.66%) Linux
3 14 (1.39%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.09%) Unix
5 10 (0.99%) Android
6 9 (0.89%) VMS
6 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.20%) AIX
11 1 (0.099%) Solaris
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (38.75%) Agile
2 255 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
3 242 (23.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (21.51%) DevOps
5 194 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 171 (16.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 134 (13.28%) Roadmaps
8 132 (13.08%) Decision-Making
9 128 (12.69%) Analytics
10 108 (10.70%) AI
11 92 (9.12%) Project Delivery
12 91 (9.02%) Scrum
13 89 (8.82%) Migration
13 89 (8.82%) Project Management
14 86 (8.52%) Test Automation
15 83 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
16 82 (8.13%) Risk Management
17 78 (7.73%) Mentoring
18 74 (7.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 149 (14.77%) SQL
2 137 (13.58%) Python
3 69 (6.84%) Java
4 52 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 31 (3.07%) Bash
6 31 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 26 (2.58%) C#
8 16 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (1.39%) C++
10 10 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.59%) Bicep
12 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.59%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.50%) Go
13 5 (0.50%) Korn
13 5 (0.50%) R
14 4 (0.40%) ABAP
14 4 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 150 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 126 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.12%) Degree
4 28 (2.78%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.78%) PMP
8 17 (1.68%) ACCA
9 12 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.89%) CIMA
12 9 (0.89%) CISSP
12 9 (0.89%) IIBA
13 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.79%) CISM
13 8 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (10.31%) QA
2 58 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.76%) GDPR
4 47 (4.66%) Accessibility
5 39 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.68%) NIST
7 24 (2.38%) PMO
8 22 (2.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (2.08%) SLA
10 19 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (1.49%) GRC
12 10 (0.99%) COBIT
12 10 (0.99%) NCSC
13 8 (0.79%) IFRS
13 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.79%) WCAG
14 7 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.69%) ITGC
15 6 (0.59%) GMP
15 6 (0.59%) SOX 404
System Software
1 71 (7.04%) Docker
2 24 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.59%) Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.099%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (7.33%) Kubernetes
1 74 (7.33%) Terraform
2 36 (3.57%) Ansible
3 18 (1.78%) SCCM
4 17 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.49%) Grafana
5 15 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (0.69%) WSUS
8 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 5 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.40%) Control-M
9 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.40%) logstash
9 4 (0.40%) Puppet
9 4 (0.40%) SCOM
10 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.30%) vRealize
11 2 (0.20%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 167 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.65%) SAP
2 57 (5.65%) ServiceNow
3 49 (4.86%) Salesforce
4 41 (4.06%) Oracle
5 40 (3.96%) Google
6 20 (1.98%) Databricks
7 15 (1.49%) Splunk
8 12 (1.19%) Adobe
8 12 (1.19%) VMware
9 8 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.79%) Remedy
10 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.69%) Workday
11 6 (0.59%) IBM
11 6 (0.59%) Informatica
11 6 (0.59%) Murex
12 5 (0.50%) BMC
12 5 (0.50%) Cisco
12 5 (0.50%) Red Hat