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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 50 73
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,440 610 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.51% 4.79% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 5.18% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 411 374
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £695 £682
90th Percentile £738 £850 £788
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 14
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.20 £28.03 £19.42
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +29.97% -47.83%
75th Percentile £66.25 £49.38 £44.75
90th Percentile £93.25 £57.63 £70.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £31.40 £36.50
% change year-on-year +75.15% -13.97% -13.41%

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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +1 155 £525 +2.94% 90
South London +20 47 £500 -14.00% 14
West London -5 42 £510 +0.79% 30
East London +12 14 £638 +8.97% 28
North London +1 2 £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 74 (5.14%) Confluence
2 57 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.63%) CMS
7 8 (0.56%) Apache
8 6 (0.42%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Appian
10 2 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.069%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.069%) govService
11 1 (0.069%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.069%) InDesign
9 1 (0.069%) Mingle
9 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.56%) Actimize
5 8 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) Magento
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.28%) Endur
9 4 (0.28%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.21%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 320 (22.22%) Azure
2 273 (18.96%) AWS
3 136 (9.44%) Power Platform
4 102 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (6.53%) GitHub
6 80 (5.56%) GCP
7 67 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (4.31%) SaaS
9 56 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (3.75%) Entra ID
11 52 (3.61%) Serverless
12 51 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 26 (1.81%) Azure AKS
20 24 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.36%) Firewall
2 31 (2.15%) Network Security
3 18 (1.25%) DNS
4 16 (1.11%) WAN
5 11 (0.76%) VoIP
6 10 (0.69%) LAN
7 9 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.42%) BGP
8 6 (0.42%) DHCP
8 6 (0.42%) OSPF
8 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.42%) VPN
9 5 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.35%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.35%) MPLS
9 5 (0.35%) NGFW
9 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.35%) WebEx
10 4 (0.28%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.28%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.85%) Power BI
2 38 (2.64%) Tableau
3 37 (2.57%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.29%) Metadata
5 30 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.90%) Delta Lake
10 13 (0.90%) Power Query
11 11 (0.76%) Big Data
12 9 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.63%) Parquet
13 8 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 168 (11.67%) JIRA
2 64 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.03%) Git
4 44 (3.06%) GitLab
5 21 (1.46%) Selenium
6 15 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.63%) JUnit
9 8 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.56%) JMeter
9 8 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.49%) Postman
11 6 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.42%) Vite
11 6 (0.42%) XCTest
12 5 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.35%) TestRail
12 5 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 584 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 502 (34.86%) Finance
3 302 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (14.03%) Public Sector
5 131 (9.10%) Banking
6 57 (3.96%) Legal
7 53 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (3.40%) Law
10 46 (3.19%) Retail
11 37 (2.57%) Marketing
12 35 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (2.43%) Local Government
13 34 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (2.01%) Front Office
15 27 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.60%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 198 (13.75%) Lead
2 145 (10.07%) Analyst
2 145 (10.07%) Senior
3 122 (8.47%) Developer
4 92 (6.39%) Architect
5 62 (4.31%) Project Manager
6 53 (3.68%) Consultant
7 52 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (3.19%) Business Analyst
10 43 (2.99%) Data Engineer
11 39 (2.71%) Scrum Master
12 36 (2.50%) Senior Manager
13 33 (2.29%) Lead Architect
13 33 (2.29%) Software Engineer
14 31 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
14 31 (2.15%) Functional Architect
15 28 (1.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 27 (1.88%) Product Owner
17 26 (1.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.89%) REST
2 50 (3.47%) React
3 48 (3.33%) RESTful
4 36 (2.50%) Spring
5 33 (2.29%) HTML
6 32 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 31 (2.15%) Kafka
8 30 (2.08%) .NET
8 30 (2.08%) CSS
9 27 (1.88%) AngularJS
10 20 (1.39%) Node.js
11 18 (1.25%) Middleware
12 17 (1.18%) Web Services
13 15 (1.04%) Django
13 15 (1.04%) Next.js
14 14 (0.97%) JSON
14 14 (0.97%) OAuth
14 14 (0.97%) PySpark
15 13 (0.90%) SOAP
16 12 (0.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 156 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 98 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 42 (2.92%) Virtual Team
5 41 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (1.88%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.46%) AI Agents
14 20 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.32%) CMDB
16 17 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (1.11%) Derivative
18 15 (1.04%) FMCG
19 12 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
19 12 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.14%) Windows
2 49 (3.40%) Linux
3 16 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.69%) Unix
6 10 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.28%) Android
7 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.14%) AIX
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.069%) HPUX
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.069%) Solaris
10 1 (0.069%) SUSE
10 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (37.43%) Agile
2 366 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 336 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 311 (21.60%) DevOps
5 291 (20.21%) CI/CD
6 259 (17.99%) Decision-Making
7 258 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 214 (14.86%) AI
9 171 (11.88%) Analytics
10 169 (11.74%) Roadmaps
11 154 (10.69%) Scrum
12 152 (10.56%) Change Management
13 151 (10.49%) Migration
14 131 (9.10%) Test Automation
15 130 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
16 128 (8.89%) Risk Management
17 125 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (8.06%) Mentoring
19 114 (7.92%) Software Engineering
20 112 (7.78%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 227 (15.76%) Python
2 210 (14.58%) SQL
3 107 (7.43%) Java
4 70 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 58 (4.03%) PowerShell
6 45 (3.13%) C#
7 42 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.43%) Bash
9 23 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.46%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.76%) Bicep
12 11 (0.76%) Go
12 11 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.63%) C++
13 9 (0.63%) R
13 9 (0.63%) Swift
14 8 (0.56%) Perl
14 8 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 296 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 252 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 134 (9.31%) Degree
4 45 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.36%) CISSP
6 34 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.29%) PMP
8 29 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.53%) CISM
11 20 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.97%) ACCA
14 12 (0.83%) CCNP
14 12 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.54%) QA
2 97 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.58%) PMO
4 50 (3.47%) GDPR
5 46 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.92%) NIST
7 36 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 31 (2.15%) SLA
9 23 (1.60%) GRC
10 16 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.97%) IFRS
13 11 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.56%) NCSC
15 6 (0.42%) GAAP
15 6 (0.42%) GxP
15 6 (0.42%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.35%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (5.69%) Docker
2 49 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.28%) IAG
5 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.21%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) Squid
8 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.069%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.069%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.069%) vSphere
8 1 (0.069%) zsh
Systems Management
1 126 (8.75%) Terraform
2 118 (8.19%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.99%) Ansible
4 33 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 32 (2.22%) Grafana
6 23 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.35%) Kibana
9 5 (0.35%) SCCM
10 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) Puppet
11 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.21%) QRadar
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.14%) Nessus
12 2 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 233 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.74%) ServiceNow
3 87 (6.04%) Oracle
4 74 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 50 (3.47%) SAP
6 47 (3.26%) Google
7 31 (2.15%) Databricks
8 18 (1.25%) Cisco
9 13 (0.90%) Splunk
9 13 (0.90%) VMware
10 12 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 11 (0.76%) Okta
11 11 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.69%) Apple
12 10 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 10 (0.69%) Murex
13 9 (0.63%) Foundry
14 8 (0.56%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.49%) Workday