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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 42 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,702 740 584
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.42% 5.50% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.45% 5.94% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 495 357
10th Percentile £350 £318 £358
25th Percentile £438 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £775 £775
England median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.94 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.12 £27.51
Median hourly rate £31.95 £35.24 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% -13.26% -29.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.38 £56.88
90th Percentile £72.75 £61.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £28.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.81% -43.00% -20.00%

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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
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 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 172 £550 +10.00% 169
West London +5 58 £520 +1.56% 131
South London +17 49 £525 -9.17% 38
East London +5 13 £750 +294.74% 38
North London +1 4 £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 79 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.35%) Confluence
3 29 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.00%) CMS
6 16 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.59%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.059%) MTS
12 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 81 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.059%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Actimize
6 6 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.29%) Magento
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.24%) Endur
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.24%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 403 (23.68%) Azure
2 322 (18.92%) AWS
3 167 (9.81%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 105 (6.17%) GitHub
7 101 (5.93%) GCP
8 83 (4.88%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.70%) Serverless
10 61 (3.58%) SaaS
11 55 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
13 48 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (2.70%) Amazon S3
15 34 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
17 31 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.76%) PowerApps
19 28 (1.65%) Power Automate
20 27 (1.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.29%) Firewall
2 38 (2.23%) Network Security
3 34 (2.00%) DNS
4 22 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.23%) WAN
6 15 (0.88%) DHCP
6 15 (0.88%) VPN
7 12 (0.71%) LAN
8 10 (0.59%) VoIP
9 9 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) BGP
11 6 (0.35%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.29%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) WebEx
12 5 (0.29%) Wireless
13 4 (0.24%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.58%) Power BI
2 50 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 49 (2.88%) Metadata
4 41 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (1.70%) Tableau
8 26 (1.53%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.41%) Delta Lake
10 16 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 15 (0.88%) Power Query
12 14 (0.82%) Parquet
13 12 (0.71%) Big Data
14 9 (0.53%) MySQL
14 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 155 (9.11%) JIRA
2 101 (5.93%) Git
3 82 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.70%) GitLab
5 33 (1.94%) Selenium
6 16 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.71%) Postman
8 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.59%) JUnit
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.47%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.41%) Gradle
12 7 (0.41%) Maven
12 7 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.35%) JMeter
13 6 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.35%) XCTest
13 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
General
1 765 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 551 (32.37%) Finance
3 388 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (16.69%) Public Sector
5 196 (11.52%) Banking
6 71 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.53%) Legal
9 56 (3.29%) Law
10 51 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.94%) Retail
12 48 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 47 (2.76%) Front Office
14 41 (2.41%) Local Government
15 37 (2.17%) Investment Banking
16 36 (2.12%) Marketing
17 31 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 28 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.29%) Military
19 22 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 236 (13.87%) Lead
2 188 (11.05%) Senior
3 178 (10.46%) Analyst
4 162 (9.52%) Developer
5 114 (6.70%) Architect
6 64 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 62 (3.64%) Project Manager
8 58 (3.41%) Consultant
9 54 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.06%) Business Analyst
11 49 (2.88%) Data Engineer
12 43 (2.53%) Software Engineer
13 41 (2.41%) Scrum Master
14 37 (2.17%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.12%) Lead Architect
16 35 (2.06%) Product Owner
17 33 (1.94%) Cloud Engineer
18 32 (1.88%) Product Manager
19 31 (1.82%) Functional Architect
19 31 (1.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (7.93%) Terraform
2 94 (5.52%) REST
3 79 (4.64%) RESTful
4 55 (3.23%) React
5 50 (2.94%) Kafka
5 50 (2.94%) Spring
6 48 (2.82%) .NET
7 45 (2.64%) Spring Boot
8 42 (2.47%) HTML
9 41 (2.41%) AngularJS
10 37 (2.17%) CSS
11 34 (2.00%) Web Services
12 31 (1.82%) Django
13 24 (1.41%) SOAP
14 23 (1.35%) Node.js
14 23 (1.35%) PySpark
15 22 (1.29%) JSON
15 22 (1.29%) Middleware
15 22 (1.29%) XML
16 21 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 202 (11.87%) Product Ownership
2 131 (7.70%) Onboarding
3 116 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 37 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (2.06%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 28 (1.65%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.53%) CMDB
15 25 (1.47%) Data Centre
15 25 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (1.41%) NHS
17 20 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (1.12%) Operational Technology
19 18 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.52%) Windows
2 86 (5.05%) Linux
3 31 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.47%) Unix
5 22 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.88%) Android
9 14 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
13 1 (0.059%) HPUX
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) SUSE
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (39.37%) Agile
2 532 (31.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 441 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
4 356 (20.92%) DevOps
5 352 (20.68%) CI/CD
6 346 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 312 (18.33%) Decision-Making
8 285 (16.75%) AI
9 227 (13.34%) Roadmaps
10 209 (12.28%) Analytics
11 184 (10.81%) Change Management
12 182 (10.69%) Scrum
13 176 (10.34%) Migration
14 160 (9.40%) Test Automation
15 155 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 153 (8.99%) Software Engineering
17 149 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
18 146 (8.58%) Mentoring
19 142 (8.34%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (8.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 291 (17.10%) Python
2 256 (15.04%) SQL
3 137 (8.05%) Java
4 90 (5.29%) PowerShell
5 89 (5.23%) JavaScript
6 66 (3.88%) C#
7 59 (3.47%) Bash
8 49 (2.88%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.00%) Bicep
11 17 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.94%) Go
13 15 (0.88%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Perl
14 12 (0.71%) Korn
14 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.71%) R
15 11 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 373 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 317 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.11%) Degree
4 55 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 46 (2.70%) PMP
7 40 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.06%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.76%) CISSP
11 18 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.88%) CISM
13 15 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.59%) CCNP
15 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (8.93%) QA
2 139 (8.17%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.70%) PMO
4 46 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.53%) SLA
6 42 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.47%) NIST
7 40 (2.35%) GDPR
8 28 (1.65%) GRC
9 17 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.00%) NCSC
10 12 (0.71%) COBIT
10 12 (0.71%) WCAG
11 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 106 (6.23%) Docker
2 86 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.23%) 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%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.059%) UAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 138 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.88%) Ansible
3 48 (2.82%) Grafana
4 47 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.59%) Kibana
7 10 (0.59%) SCCM
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) QRadar
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.18%) Nagios
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Argo
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 329 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.76%) ServiceNow
3 104 (6.11%) Oracle
4 67 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.76%) SAP
6 60 (3.53%) Google
7 38 (2.23%) Splunk
8 37 (2.17%) Databricks
9 27 (1.59%) Cisco
10 24 (1.41%) VMware
11 22 (1.29%) IBM
12 19 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.88%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
15 13 (0.76%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.71%) Adobe
17 9 (0.53%) Ariba
17 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (0.53%) Murex