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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 52 72
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,265 549 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.99% 4.49% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 4.87% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 364 389
10th Percentile £350 £361 £374
25th Percentile £425 £435 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £700
90th Percentile £725 £850 £840
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -2.88% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 14
10th Percentile - £24.52 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.50 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.48 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +21.60% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.67 £47.50 £44.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £56.75 £79.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £48.46 £36.50
% change year-on-year +13.50% +32.77% -27.00%

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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +10 143 £535 +4.83% 106
South London +10 43 £495 -15.09% 13
West London -7 38 £520 +5.37% 35
East London +8 14 £600 - 26
North London - 1 £500 - 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 72 (5.69%) Confluence
2 51 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.63%) CMS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache
8 5 (0.40%) Camunda
8 5 (0.40%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.079%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 66 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.079%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.079%) Mingle
10 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (1.50%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.71%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.55%) Actimize
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.16%) Endur
11 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
11 2 (0.16%) Global One
11 2 (0.16%) iTrent
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 279 (22.06%) Azure
2 221 (17.47%) AWS
3 131 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 88 (6.96%) GitHub
5 86 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (5.38%) GCP
7 54 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (4.27%) SaaS
8 52 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (3.48%) Serverless
11 40 (3.16%) Entra ID
12 39 (3.08%) Amazon S3
13 37 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (1.74%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.74%) PowerApps
17 22 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.61%) Firewall
2 28 (2.21%) Network Security
3 19 (1.50%) DNS
4 14 (1.11%) WAN
5 10 (0.79%) DHCP
6 9 (0.71%) LAN
6 9 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.55%) BGP
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) OSPF
7 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.55%) VoIP
8 6 (0.47%) Modbus
8 6 (0.47%) RS-232
8 6 (0.47%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) VPN
9 4 (0.32%) IOS XR
9 4 (0.32%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.32%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.32%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (8.22%) Power BI
2 41 (3.24%) Tableau
3 38 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.53%) Metadata
5 30 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 23 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.95%) Power Query
12 11 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 9 (0.71%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.71%) Parquet
14 8 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.63%) Big Data
15 6 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 163 (12.89%) JIRA
2 54 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.87%) Git
4 35 (2.77%) GitLab
5 19 (1.50%) Selenium
6 15 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.71%) JMeter
9 9 (0.71%) JUnit
10 7 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.47%) Postman
11 6 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.47%) Vite
12 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.40%) TestRail
12 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.32%) Maven
13 4 (0.32%) tSQLt
13 4 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 491 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 453 (35.81%) Finance
3 251 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.38%) Banking
6 43 (3.40%) Law
6 43 (3.40%) Legal
7 41 (3.24%) Retail
8 39 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (2.53%) Marketing
11 31 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.13%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.98%) Local Government
15 22 (1.74%) Front Office
15 22 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 14 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (13.83%) Lead
2 140 (11.07%) Analyst
3 115 (9.09%) Senior
4 96 (7.59%) Developer
5 84 (6.64%) Architect
6 51 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
7 50 (3.95%) Business Analyst
8 48 (3.79%) Project Manager
9 41 (3.24%) Consultant
10 40 (3.16%) Data Engineer
11 39 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (2.92%) Scrum Master
13 36 (2.85%) Senior Manager
14 32 (2.53%) Lead Architect
15 31 (2.45%) Functional Architect
16 27 (2.13%) Security Engineer
17 26 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
17 26 (2.06%) Technical Manager
18 25 (1.98%) Cloud Engineer
19 22 (1.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.56%) React
2 42 (3.32%) REST
3 41 (3.24%) RESTful
4 34 (2.69%) HTML
5 32 (2.53%) .NET
5 32 (2.53%) CSS
6 30 (2.37%) Spring
7 25 (1.98%) Spring Boot
8 23 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 21 (1.66%) Kafka
10 18 (1.42%) Node.js
11 16 (1.26%) Middleware
11 16 (1.26%) Next.js
12 13 (1.03%) OAuth
12 13 (1.03%) Playwright
12 13 (1.03%) PySpark
13 12 (0.95%) Web Services
14 10 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (0.79%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 130 (10.28%) Product Ownership
2 82 (6.48%) Cloud Native
3 59 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.69%) Virtual Team
5 33 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.03%) CMDB
13 13 (1.03%) Derivative
14 12 (0.95%) FMCG
15 11 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.58%) Windows
2 40 (3.16%) Linux
3 13 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.63%) Unix
7 6 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.40%) Android
8 5 (0.40%) VMS
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.079%) AIX
11 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (38.42%) Agile
2 291 (23.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (21.11%) DevOps
4 266 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 255 (20.16%) CI/CD
6 223 (17.63%) Decision-Making
7 211 (16.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 181 (14.31%) AI
9 157 (12.41%) Analytics
10 149 (11.78%) Migration
10 149 (11.78%) Roadmaps
11 131 (10.36%) Change Management
12 127 (10.04%) Scrum
13 120 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
14 115 (9.09%) Risk Management
15 114 (9.01%) Test Automation
16 109 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
16 109 (8.62%) Project Management
17 103 (8.14%) Mentoring
17 103 (8.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 191 (15.10%) SQL
2 185 (14.62%) Python
3 82 (6.48%) Java
4 59 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.00%) C#
7 36 (2.85%) TypeScript
8 21 (1.66%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.50%) Bash
11 14 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.71%) Bicep
12 9 (0.71%) C++
13 8 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.55%) Go
14 7 (0.55%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.55%) R
14 7 (0.55%) Ruby
14 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 236 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 197 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.49%) Degree
4 35 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.37%) CISSP
6 28 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.82%) PMP
10 22 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.58%) CISM
13 16 (1.26%) ACCA
14 15 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.95%) CCNP
16 11 (0.87%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.71%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 8 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (10.12%) QA
2 86 (6.80%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.74%) PMO
4 49 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (3.72%) GDPR
6 46 (3.64%) NIST
7 32 (2.53%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.06%) SLA
9 21 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (1.34%) GRC
11 15 (1.19%) IFRS
11 15 (1.19%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.71%) NCSC
14 8 (0.63%) WCAG
15 6 (0.47%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.40%) GAAP
16 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.32%) COBIT
System Software
1 69 (5.45%) Docker
2 33 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.47%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (8.70%) Terraform
2 96 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.92%) Ansible
4 22 (1.74%) Grafana
5 21 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.71%) SCCM
8 7 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Kibana
11 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
13 1 (0.079%) Nagios
Vendors
1 209 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.35%) ServiceNow
3 74 (5.85%) Oracle
4 63 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.48%) SAP
6 43 (3.40%) Google
7 28 (2.21%) Databricks
8 16 (1.26%) Cisco
9 15 (1.19%) VMware
10 10 (0.79%) ForgeRock
10 10 (0.79%) Okta
10 10 (0.79%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.79%) Splunk
11 9 (0.71%) Foundry
12 8 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (0.63%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.63%) Remedy
13 7 (0.55%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.55%) Workday
13 7 (0.55%) Zscaler