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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 36 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,771 794 627
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.75% 5.93% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.84% 6.40% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 530 360
10th Percentile £339 £325 £361
25th Percentile £435 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 11
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.25 £28.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.02% -53.34% +23.58%
75th Percentile £50.00 £44.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £58.00 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £20.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.46% -41.43% -46.15%

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 17,999 12,398 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.52% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 8,176 9,391
10th Percentile £360 £331 £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 £664 £663 £675
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 337 243 184
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.03 £17.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.25 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.55 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +1 198 £550 +4.76% 383
West London +4 50 £520 +4.00% 98
South London +15 45 £525 -9.76% 50
East London +2 9 £600 +215.79% 33
North London 0 5 £488 -11.36% 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 81 (4.57%) Confluence
2 80 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.07%) CMS
7 16 (0.90%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.34%) IIS
9 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.23%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Productboard
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.056%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.40%) Magento
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.28%) Actimize
6 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) Maximo
8 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.11%) Changepoint
Cloud Services
1 416 (23.49%) Azure
2 342 (19.31%) AWS
3 138 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 127 (7.17%) GitHub
5 119 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (5.65%) GCP
8 87 (4.91%) Entra ID
9 76 (4.29%) Serverless
10 67 (3.78%) SaaS
11 65 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 63 (3.56%) Amazon S3
13 54 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
15 40 (2.26%) Snowflake
16 38 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 34 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
17 34 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (1.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.09%) Network Security
2 36 (2.03%) Firewall
3 34 (1.92%) DNS
4 22 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.02%) VPN
5 18 (1.02%) WAN
6 14 (0.79%) DHCP
7 12 (0.68%) LAN
8 10 (0.56%) VoIP
9 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.34%) WebEx
11 5 (0.28%) BGP
11 5 (0.28%) HTTP
12 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.23%) SAN
12 4 (0.23%) SSL
12 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.48%) Power BI
2 76 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 53 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (2.82%) Metadata
6 37 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.47%) Delta Lake
10 22 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.19%) Tableau
12 18 (1.02%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.96%) MongoDB
14 15 (0.85%) MySQL
15 14 (0.79%) Power Query
16 11 (0.62%) Big Data
17 10 (0.56%) Parquet
18 9 (0.51%) Redis
19 8 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 7 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 154 (8.70%) JIRA
2 127 (7.17%) Git
3 95 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 59 (3.33%) GitLab
5 40 (2.26%) Selenium
6 21 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.13%) Postman
8 15 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.79%) JUnit
10 12 (0.68%) Gradle
10 12 (0.68%) Maven
11 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.40%) Mockito
12 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.34%) JMeter
13 6 (0.34%) Snyk
13 6 (0.34%) XCTest
13 6 (0.34%) XCUITest
General
1 792 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 523 (29.53%) Finance
3 418 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (17.28%) Public Sector
5 218 (12.31%) Banking
6 72 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
7 69 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 62 (3.50%) Legal
9 54 (3.05%) Front Office
10 49 (2.77%) Retail
11 47 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
12 46 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 43 (2.43%) Investment Banking
14 38 (2.15%) Local Government
15 33 (1.86%) Marketing
16 32 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.47%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.47%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.36%) Law
18 24 (1.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 215 (12.14%) Senior
2 209 (11.80%) Lead
3 188 (10.62%) Developer
4 179 (10.11%) Analyst
5 79 (4.46%) Architect
6 75 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 69 (3.90%) Project Manager
8 59 (3.33%) Data Engineer
9 57 (3.22%) Business Analyst
10 54 (3.05%) Consultant
11 51 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.65%) Software Engineer
13 45 (2.54%) Product Manager
14 39 (2.20%) Product Owner
15 37 (2.09%) Applications Support
15 37 (2.09%) Scrum Master
16 36 (2.03%) Senior Manager
17 33 (1.86%) Senior Developer
17 33 (1.86%) Support Engineer
18 32 (1.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (9.03%) Terraform
2 119 (6.72%) REST
3 81 (4.57%) RESTful
4 72 (4.07%) .NET
5 65 (3.67%) Kafka
6 54 (3.05%) Spring
7 53 (2.99%) React
7 53 (2.99%) Spring Boot
8 46 (2.60%) AngularJS
8 46 (2.60%) Web Services
9 44 (2.48%) HTML
10 37 (2.09%) CSS
11 33 (1.86%) Django
11 33 (1.86%) SOAP
12 32 (1.81%) PySpark
13 29 (1.64%) JSON
14 25 (1.41%) Node.js
14 25 (1.41%) Playwright
15 23 (1.30%) OAuth
15 23 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 139 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 134 (7.57%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.32%) Virtual Team
9 38 (2.15%) AI Agents
10 37 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (2.03%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 28 (1.58%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.30%) NHS
16 22 (1.24%) Low-Code
17 21 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
17 21 (1.19%) CMDB
18 18 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 129 (7.28%) Windows
2 103 (5.82%) Linux
3 41 (2.32%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.52%) Unix
5 23 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.02%) Android
8 17 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.85%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.056%) HPUX
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.056%) Solaris
13 1 (0.056%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (39.07%) Agile
2 604 (34.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 467 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 408 (23.04%) CI/CD
5 375 (21.17%) DevOps
6 328 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 319 (18.01%) AI
8 307 (17.33%) Decision-Making
9 256 (14.46%) Roadmaps
10 222 (12.54%) Analytics
11 206 (11.63%) Scrum
12 193 (10.90%) Test Automation
13 185 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 174 (9.82%) Change Management
15 173 (9.77%) Software Engineering
16 166 (9.37%) Risk Management
17 158 (8.92%) Validation
18 154 (8.70%) Migration
19 153 (8.64%) Technical Leadership
20 147 (8.30%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 328 (18.52%) Python
2 301 (17.00%) SQL
3 148 (8.36%) Java
4 107 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 97 (5.48%) C#
6 96 (5.42%) PowerShell
7 69 (3.90%) Bash
8 65 (3.67%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.07%) Bicep
12 17 (0.96%) Groovy
13 16 (0.90%) Go
14 15 (0.85%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.79%) Korn
15 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.73%) Perl
17 12 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.56%) R
19 9 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 418 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 362 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 157 (8.87%) Degree
4 59 (3.33%) PMP
5 58 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.82%) PMI Certification
8 38 (2.15%) AWS Certification
9 37 (2.09%) CISSP
10 32 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.19%) CISM
13 20 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.79%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.56%) GIAC
18 10 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (9.32%) QA
2 155 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.61%) PMO
4 52 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.43%) NIST
7 38 (2.15%) SLA
8 34 (1.92%) GDPR
8 34 (1.92%) GRC
9 19 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (1.07%) NCSC
10 13 (0.73%) COBIT
10 13 (0.73%) WCAG
11 12 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 138 (7.79%) Docker
2 84 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.34%) IAG
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) RACF
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) zsh
10 1 (0.056%) Ceph
10 1 (0.056%) UAG
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 160 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.50%) Ansible
3 57 (3.22%) Grafana
4 52 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.73%) SCCM
8 12 (0.68%) Kibana
9 9 (0.51%) Puppet
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.23%) QRadar
12 3 (0.17%) Argo
12 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 343 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.78%) Oracle
3 103 (5.82%) ServiceNow
4 57 (3.22%) SAP
5 56 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 55 (3.11%) Databricks
7 53 (2.99%) Google
8 48 (2.71%) Splunk
9 38 (2.15%) IBM
10 27 (1.52%) Cisco
11 24 (1.36%) Dynatrace
12 23 (1.30%) VMware
13 19 (1.07%) UiPath
14 16 (0.90%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.85%) Adobe
15 15 (0.85%) Apple
16 13 (0.73%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.56%) Ariba
17 10 (0.56%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.56%) Qualys