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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 52 58
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 949 591 682
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.58% 4.04% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 4.48% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 325 451
10th Percentile £325 £366 £390
25th Percentile £425 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £713
90th Percentile £756 £833 £850
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 7
10th Percentile £17.45 £17.08 £19.40
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -50.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £56.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £61.67 £72.00 £91.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -51.22% -21.15% +4.00%

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 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +13 131 £525 -4.55% 108
East London +5 15 £190 -65.69% 25
West London -13 14 £463 -2.63% 22
South London -12 6 £563 +6.43% 9
North London +6 3 £600 - 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 64 (6.74%) 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
5 5 (0.53%) HCL Notes
5 5 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.42%) Appian
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 66 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.79%) 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 30 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.53%) Endur
3 5 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.42%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.32%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.21%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
6 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 173 (18.23%) Azure
2 121 (12.75%) AWS
3 81 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 71 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.16%) GitHub
6 47 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (4.00%) GCP
8 31 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (3.27%) SaaS
8 31 (3.27%) Serverless
9 23 (2.42%) Entra ID
10 22 (2.32%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (2.32%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.00%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.37%) PaaS
15 12 (1.26%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.21%) Firewall
2 18 (1.90%) DNS
3 14 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.37%) DHCP
5 10 (1.05%) VPN
6 9 (0.95%) Network Security
7 6 (0.63%) Modbus
8 5 (0.53%) Broadband
8 5 (0.53%) LAN
8 5 (0.53%) WAN
9 4 (0.42%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.42%) Multicast
9 4 (0.42%) RS-232
9 4 (0.42%) RS-485
9 4 (0.42%) tcpdump
9 4 (0.42%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.32%) 5G
10 3 (0.32%) DKIM
10 3 (0.32%) DMARC
10 3 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.74%) Power BI
2 25 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.11%) Tableau
4 18 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.48%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.16%) MySQL
10 10 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.05%) Metadata
11 8 (0.84%) Redis
12 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.42%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 126 (13.28%) JIRA
2 43 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.85%) Git
4 25 (2.63%) GitLab
5 15 (1.58%) JUnit
5 15 (1.58%) Selenium
6 11 (1.16%) Postman
7 10 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.84%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.63%) Maven
10 6 (0.63%) Mockito
10 6 (0.63%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.53%) JMeter
11 5 (0.53%) Xcode
12 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.42%) Subversion
12 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.42%) XCTest
General
1 444 (46.79%) Social Skills
2 276 (29.08%) Finance
3 188 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (12.75%) Public Sector
5 77 (8.11%) Banking
6 45 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (4.21%) Marketing
8 38 (4.00%) Legal
9 34 (3.58%) Manufacturing
10 28 (2.95%) Retail
11 24 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.79%) Front Office
14 15 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.58%) Publishing
15 13 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.26%) Local Government
16 12 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (15.28%) Analyst
2 128 (13.49%) Lead
3 88 (9.27%) Senior
4 77 (8.11%) Developer
5 61 (6.43%) Business Analyst
6 52 (5.48%) Consultant
7 48 (5.06%) Architect
8 39 (4.11%) Project Manager
9 23 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (2.42%) Senior Manager
10 20 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
10 20 (2.11%) Security Engineer
11 19 (2.00%) Product Owner
12 18 (1.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (1.79%) Product Manager
14 16 (1.69%) Programme Manager
15 15 (1.58%) Scrum Master
16 14 (1.48%) Change Manager
16 14 (1.48%) Data Engineer
16 14 (1.48%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.06%) REST
2 25 (2.63%) .NET
2 25 (2.63%) RESTful
3 23 (2.42%) Node.js
3 23 (2.42%) Spring
4 21 (2.21%) React
5 20 (2.11%) CSS
5 20 (2.11%) HTML
6 18 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.69%) Kafka
8 15 (1.58%) SOAP
8 15 (1.58%) Web Services
9 14 (1.48%) XML
10 11 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.05%) OAuth
12 9 (0.95%) ARM Templates
12 9 (0.95%) Hibernate
12 9 (0.95%) Middleware
13 8 (0.84%) Playwright
13 8 (0.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.27%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 46 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.69%) PMI
9 15 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.43%) Windows
2 40 (4.21%) Linux
3 17 (1.79%) Unix
4 13 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.05%) Android
5 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.74%) VMS
7 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.21%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) tvOS
11 1 (0.11%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (39.41%) Agile
2 266 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
3 221 (23.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 182 (19.18%) DevOps
5 172 (18.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 163 (17.18%) CI/CD
7 123 (12.96%) Decision-Making
7 123 (12.96%) Roadmaps
8 112 (11.80%) Analytics
9 91 (9.59%) AI
9 91 (9.59%) Project Management
10 90 (9.48%) Project Delivery
11 87 (9.17%) Scrum
12 80 (8.43%) Mentoring
13 75 (7.90%) Test Automation
14 74 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
15 72 (7.59%) Change Management
16 69 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (7.27%) ITIL
16 69 (7.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 132 (13.91%) SQL
2 128 (13.49%) Python
3 72 (7.59%) Java
4 47 (4.95%) PowerShell
5 46 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.48%) Bash
7 28 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.42%) C#
9 15 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (1.26%) C++
11 7 (0.74%) Bicep
11 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.74%) R
12 6 (0.63%) Korn
13 5 (0.53%) Groovy
13 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.42%) RPG
14 4 (0.42%) Ruby
14 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 113 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.69%) Degree
4 38 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.85%) PMP
6 26 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.26%) ACCA
10 11 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.05%) CIMA
11 10 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.84%) CISSP
14 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.74%) IIBA
14 7 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.59%) QA
2 44 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.32%) Accessibility
4 39 (4.11%) GDPR
5 32 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (3.37%) PMO
6 20 (2.11%) NIST
6 20 (2.11%) SLA
7 17 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 16 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.26%) GRC
10 10 (1.05%) COBIT
11 9 (0.95%) ITGC
11 9 (0.95%) MiFID
11 9 (0.95%) NCSC
12 7 (0.74%) EMIR
13 6 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.63%) SOX 404
13 6 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (6.95%) Docker
2 24 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.42%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.11%) RACF
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 61 (6.43%) Terraform
3 29 (3.06%) Ansible
4 19 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.90%) SCCM
6 17 (1.79%) Grafana
7 12 (1.26%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.84%) WSUS
10 6 (0.63%) Kibana
11 5 (0.53%) Control-M
12 4 (0.42%) SCOM
13 3 (0.32%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.32%) logstash
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.21%) Argo
14 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.21%) Packer
14 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 170 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.43%) SAP
3 44 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 43 (4.53%) Oracle
5 40 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 38 (4.00%) Google
7 18 (1.90%) Splunk
8 17 (1.79%) Databricks
9 13 (1.37%) Adobe
10 12 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.95%) Workday
12 8 (0.84%) IBM
12 8 (0.84%) VMware
13 7 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
13 7 (0.74%) TIBCO
14 6 (0.63%) Murex
14 6 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.63%) Remedy
14 6 (0.63%) Solace
14 6 (0.63%) Sophos