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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 43 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,647 727 566
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.20% 5.36% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 5.80% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 487 353
10th Percentile £350 £328 £353
25th Percentile £438 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £22.67 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £28.34
Median hourly rate £41.00 £36.48 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +8.09% -41.30%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £79.15 £62.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.52% -42.50% -18.37%

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 17,904 12,525 14,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,336 10,048
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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 197
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +3 171 £550 +10.00% 185
West London +4 54 £520 +1.51% 72
South London +21 48 £505 -12.63% 21
East London +1 11 £675 +255.26% 31
North London -2 3 £450 -18.18% 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 76 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.25%) Confluence
3 27 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.97%) CMS
6 15 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.55%) Apache
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) SAS
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 77 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.061%) InDesign
8 1 (0.061%) Mingle
8 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Actimize
7 6 (0.36%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) Magento
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.24%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.24%) Endur
9 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) Shopify
10 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 392 (23.80%) Azure
2 302 (18.34%) AWS
3 156 (9.47%) Power Platform
4 113 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 105 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
6 102 (6.19%) GitHub
7 97 (5.89%) GCP
8 85 (5.16%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.83%) SaaS
10 55 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
11 53 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (3.22%) Serverless
12 41 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (2.37%) Amazon S3
14 33 (2.00%) Azure AKS
15 30 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (1.70%) PowerApps
17 27 (1.64%) Datadog
17 27 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.55%) Firewall
2 33 (2.00%) DNS
3 31 (1.88%) Network Security
4 21 (1.28%) WAN
5 18 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.85%) DHCP
6 14 (0.85%) VPN
7 12 (0.73%) LAN
8 10 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.61%) VoIP
9 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.43%) BGP
11 6 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.36%) MPLS
11 6 (0.36%) NX-OS
11 6 (0.36%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.30%) WebEx
12 5 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.29%) Power BI
2 48 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 44 (2.67%) Metadata
4 38 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.76%) Tableau
7 25 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.21%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.85%) Power Query
12 13 (0.79%) Parquet
13 12 (0.73%) Big Data
14 9 (0.55%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.49%) MySQL
15 8 (0.49%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.36%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 156 (9.47%) JIRA
2 90 (5.46%) Git
3 80 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.67%) GitLab
5 28 (1.70%) Selenium
6 17 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.73%) JUnit
9 9 (0.55%) Postman
9 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.49%) Maven
10 8 (0.49%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.43%) Gradle
11 7 (0.43%) JMeter
11 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.30%) Mockito
12 5 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 721 (43.78%) Social Skills
2 537 (32.60%) Finance
3 368 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (16.70%) Public Sector
5 178 (10.81%) Banking
6 68 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
8 62 (3.76%) Legal
9 54 (3.28%) Law
10 51 (3.10%) Retail
11 48 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (2.49%) Front Office
12 41 (2.49%) Local Government
13 38 (2.31%) Marketing
14 34 (2.06%) Investment Banking
15 30 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 227 (13.78%) Lead
2 179 (10.87%) Senior
3 161 (9.78%) Developer
4 159 (9.65%) Analyst
5 107 (6.50%) Architect
6 59 (3.58%) Project Manager
7 57 (3.46%) Consultant
7 57 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
9 50 (3.04%) Business Analyst
10 45 (2.73%) Data Engineer
11 42 (2.55%) Software Engineer
12 39 (2.37%) Scrum Master
13 38 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 34 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (2.06%) Java Developer
14 34 (2.06%) Lead Architect
14 34 (2.06%) Product Owner
15 33 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (2.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.28%) REST
2 73 (4.43%) RESTful
3 50 (3.04%) Spring
4 48 (2.91%) .NET
4 48 (2.91%) React
5 47 (2.85%) Kafka
6 44 (2.67%) Spring Boot
7 41 (2.49%) HTML
8 39 (2.37%) AngularJS
9 34 (2.06%) CSS
10 32 (1.94%) Web Services
11 26 (1.58%) Django
12 24 (1.46%) Node.js
13 23 (1.40%) SOAP
14 22 (1.34%) JSON
15 21 (1.28%) Middleware
16 20 (1.21%) Playwright
16 20 (1.21%) XML
17 17 (1.03%) PySpark
18 15 (0.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 192 (11.66%) Product Ownership
2 123 (7.47%) Onboarding
3 115 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
5 45 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 38 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.76%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.58%) CMDB
11 26 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (1.15%) NHS
16 18 (1.09%) Operational Technology
17 17 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 108 (6.56%) Windows
2 78 (4.74%) Linux
3 27 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.28%) Unix
5 20 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.85%) Android
9 12 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.061%) HPUX
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
12 1 (0.061%) SUSE
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (39.22%) Agile
2 486 (29.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 416 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
4 346 (21.01%) DevOps
5 337 (20.46%) CI/CD
5 337 (20.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 296 (17.97%) Decision-Making
7 267 (16.21%) AI
8 220 (13.36%) Roadmaps
9 191 (11.60%) Analytics
10 176 (10.69%) Change Management
11 167 (10.14%) Migration
12 165 (10.02%) Scrum
13 158 (9.59%) Test Automation
14 149 (9.05%) Software Engineering
15 148 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
16 144 (8.74%) Mentoring
17 139 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
18 135 (8.20%) Translating Business Requirements
19 132 (8.01%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 272 (16.51%) Python
2 247 (15.00%) SQL
3 140 (8.50%) Java
4 85 (5.16%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.04%) PowerShell
6 64 (3.89%) C#
7 50 (3.04%) Bash
8 45 (2.73%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.09%) Bicep
10 18 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.85%) Go
11 14 (0.85%) Groovy
12 13 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.73%) Perl
14 10 (0.61%) VBA
15 9 (0.55%) C++
15 9 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 354 (21.49%) Security Cleared
2 303 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.11%) Degree
4 52 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.73%) PMP
6 44 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 32 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.82%) CISSP
10 18 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.97%) CISM
12 12 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.67%) CCNP
14 10 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
16 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (8.68%) QA
2 123 (7.47%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.55%) PMO
4 44 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.49%) NIST
6 41 (2.49%) SLA
7 39 (2.37%) GDPR
8 22 (1.34%) GRC
9 17 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.97%) NCSC
11 11 (0.67%) COBIT
12 10 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.55%) WCAG
14 7 (0.43%) IFRS
15 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.24%) GAAP
System Software
1 93 (5.65%) Docker
2 82 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.55%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.061%) Ceph
9 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.061%) UAG
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 134 (8.14%) Terraform
3 49 (2.98%) Ansible
4 44 (2.67%) Grafana
4 44 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.55%) SCCM
8 7 (0.43%) Kibana
9 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.24%) Puppet
10 4 (0.24%) QRadar
11 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.18%) WSUS
12 2 (0.12%) Argo
12 2 (0.12%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 304 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.68%) ServiceNow
3 100 (6.07%) Oracle
4 65 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.89%) SAP
6 61 (3.70%) Google
7 36 (2.19%) Databricks
8 28 (1.70%) Cisco
9 24 (1.46%) Splunk
10 21 (1.28%) IBM
10 21 (1.28%) VMware
11 19 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.85%) Apple
12 14 (0.85%) Okta
13 13 (0.79%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.73%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.61%) ForgeRock
16 9 (0.55%) Foundry
16 9 (0.55%) Workday