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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 52 58
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 949 572 660
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.62% 4.08% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 4.52% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 315 438
10th Percentile £325 £366 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £714
90th Percentile £756 £838 £850
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 7
10th Percentile - £17.08 £17.90
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.77 £36.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -56.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.81 £77.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £72.38 £91.50
England median hourly rate £26.11 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -49.05% -21.15% +8.33%

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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +11 125 £525 -4.55% 104
East London +4 18 £190 -65.69% 14
West London -11 15 £488 +2.63% 19
South London -8 6 £563 +6.43% 20
North London +7 3 £600 - 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 61 (6.43%) Confluence
2 39 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.53%) Apache
5 5 (0.53%) CMS
6 4 (0.42%) Appian
6 4 (0.42%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.42%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.32%) Camunda
7 3 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 71 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.53%) Trello
8 4 (0.42%) Notion
9 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Sketch
11 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.42%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.21%) Endur
7 2 (0.21%) iTrent
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 175 (18.44%) Azure
2 129 (13.59%) AWS
3 86 (9.06%) Power Platform
4 77 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (6.43%) GitHub
6 41 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (4.11%) GCP
7 39 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
8 35 (3.69%) SaaS
9 29 (3.06%) Serverless
10 22 (2.32%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 22 (2.32%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.00%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.48%) Google Workspace
15 13 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.53%) Firewall
2 19 (2.00%) DNS
3 14 (1.48%) DHCP
3 14 (1.48%) Network Security
4 13 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.26%) VPN
6 7 (0.74%) Modbus
7 6 (0.63%) LAN
7 6 (0.63%) WAN
8 5 (0.53%) Broadband
8 5 (0.53%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.53%) RS-232
8 5 (0.53%) RS-485
9 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.32%) 5G
10 3 (0.32%) DKIM
10 3 (0.32%) DMARC
10 3 (0.32%) Multicast
10 3 (0.32%) tcpdump
10 3 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.17%) Power BI
2 20 (2.11%) Relational Database
2 20 (2.11%) Tableau
3 17 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (1.16%) Metadata
8 10 (1.05%) MySQL
9 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.53%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.53%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.53%) Power Query
12 5 (0.53%) Redis
13 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 125 (13.17%) JIRA
2 45 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.06%) GitLab
4 22 (2.32%) Git
5 16 (1.69%) Selenium
6 13 (1.37%) JUnit
7 10 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.74%) Postman
10 6 (0.63%) JMeter
10 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.42%) Maven
12 4 (0.42%) MLflow
12 4 (0.42%) Mockito
12 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.32%) Gradle
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.32%) SoapUI
13 3 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 444 (46.79%) Social Skills
2 274 (28.87%) Finance
3 198 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (12.01%) Public Sector
5 76 (8.01%) Banking
6 44 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
7 39 (4.11%) Legal
7 39 (4.11%) Marketing
8 31 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 27 (2.85%) Retail
10 22 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.90%) Front Office
14 16 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.58%) Publishing
16 14 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 147 (15.49%) Analyst
2 129 (13.59%) Lead
3 92 (9.69%) Senior
4 74 (7.80%) Developer
5 60 (6.32%) Business Analyst
6 49 (5.16%) Consultant
7 47 (4.95%) Architect
8 36 (3.79%) Project Manager
9 25 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (2.32%) Security Engineer
11 22 (2.32%) Senior Manager
12 20 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (1.90%) Data Engineer
14 17 (1.79%) Product Manager
15 15 (1.58%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (1.58%) Product Owner
16 14 (1.48%) Designer
16 14 (1.48%) QA Engineer
16 14 (1.48%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.95%) REST
2 27 (2.85%) .NET
3 24 (2.53%) React
4 23 (2.42%) Node.js
5 22 (2.32%) CSS
5 22 (2.32%) RESTful
6 21 (2.21%) HTML
7 20 (2.11%) Spring
8 17 (1.79%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.58%) XML
10 13 (1.37%) SOAP
11 11 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.16%) Web Services
12 9 (0.95%) ARM Templates
12 9 (0.95%) JSON
12 9 (0.95%) Kafka
12 9 (0.95%) OAuth
12 9 (0.95%) Playwright
12 9 (0.95%) PySpark
13 7 (0.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 53 (5.58%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 16 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.69%) PMI
8 15 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.16%) Windows
2 43 (4.53%) Linux
3 14 (1.48%) Unix
4 13 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.05%) Android
6 9 (0.95%) VMS
6 9 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.21%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (38.04%) Agile
2 260 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
3 219 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 197 (20.76%) DevOps
5 175 (18.44%) CI/CD
6 171 (18.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 123 (12.96%) Decision-Making
8 119 (12.54%) Roadmaps
9 117 (12.33%) Analytics
10 94 (9.91%) AI
11 90 (9.48%) Project Delivery
12 85 (8.96%) Project Management
12 85 (8.96%) Scrum
13 80 (8.43%) Test Automation
14 78 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
14 78 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 76 (8.01%) Mentoring
16 72 (7.59%) ITIL
17 71 (7.48%) Migration
18 70 (7.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (13.80%) SQL
2 130 (13.70%) Python
3 70 (7.38%) Java
4 46 (4.85%) PowerShell
5 45 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 32 (3.37%) Bash
6 32 (3.37%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.32%) C#
8 16 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 13 (1.37%) C++
10 7 (0.74%) Bicep
10 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.63%) Korn
11 6 (0.63%) R
12 5 (0.53%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.42%) ABAP
13 4 (0.42%) RPG
13 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 140 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.91%) Degree
4 32 (3.37%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.21%) PMP
8 16 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.48%) ACCA
10 12 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.26%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.95%) CIMA
13 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.84%) CISSP
14 8 (0.84%) IIBA
15 7 (0.74%) CBAP
15 7 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (9.80%) QA
2 49 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 41 (4.32%) GDPR
4 39 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.95%) PMO
6 24 (2.53%) NIST
7 20 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.90%) SLA
10 17 (1.79%) GRC
11 10 (1.05%) COBIT
11 10 (1.05%) NCSC
12 8 (0.84%) ITGC
13 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.63%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.63%) WCAG
15 5 (0.53%) ECSS
15 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 67 (7.06%) Docker
2 25 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.53%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 70 (7.38%) Terraform
3 38 (4.00%) Ansible
4 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.90%) SCCM
6 16 (1.69%) Grafana
7 14 (1.48%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.84%) WSUS
10 6 (0.63%) Kibana
11 5 (0.53%) Puppet
12 4 (0.42%) Control-M
12 4 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.42%) SCOM
13 3 (0.32%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.32%) logstash
13 3 (0.32%) vRealize
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.21%) Packer
14 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.32%) SAP
3 51 (5.37%) ServiceNow
4 46 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.32%) Oracle
6 39 (4.11%) Google
7 16 (1.69%) Databricks
8 14 (1.48%) Splunk
9 12 (1.26%) Adobe
10 9 (0.95%) VMware
10 9 (0.95%) Workday
11 8 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.84%) Remedy
12 7 (0.74%) IBM
13 6 (0.63%) BMC
13 6 (0.63%) Murex
13 6 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.63%) Sophos
13 6 (0.63%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.53%) Solace