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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +26 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,015 521 643
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.77% 3.87% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.45% 4.28% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 288 439
10th Percentile £350 £356 £399
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £584 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +3.82% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £863 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 6 12
10th Percentile £17.40 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £42.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.95% +40.00% -53.85%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.44 £64.06
90th Percentile £63.33 £73.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.25 £54.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -42.13% +44.00% -37.50%

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 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +12 132 £535 +1.66% 119
West London -13 15 £475 +35.71% 31
East London +2 11 £450 -18.74% 26
South London -12 8 £563 -3.43% 15
North London +5 2 £550 - 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 67 (6.60%) Confluence
2 40 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.39%) Appian
7 4 (0.39%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.30%) Camunda
8 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
10 1 (0.099%) Mule
10 1 (0.099%) nginx
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 73 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.39%) Notion
7 4 (0.39%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.099%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.099%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.099%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.099%) Sketch
10 1 (0.099%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.79%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.20%) Actimize
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SRM
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
8 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 201 (19.80%) Azure
2 144 (14.19%) AWS
3 91 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 67 (6.60%) GitHub
6 41 (4.04%) GCP
7 40 (3.94%) SaaS
8 39 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.15%) Serverless
11 26 (2.56%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (2.07%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.97%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.77%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.58%) Google Workspace
18 15 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.36%) Firewall
2 18 (1.77%) DNS
2 18 (1.77%) Network Security
3 14 (1.38%) DHCP
4 13 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.08%) VPN
6 8 (0.79%) LAN
6 8 (0.79%) Modbus
6 8 (0.79%) WAN
7 6 (0.59%) Broadband
7 6 (0.59%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.59%) RS-232
7 6 (0.59%) RS-485
8 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.39%) 5G
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (0.30%) DKIM
10 3 (0.30%) DMARC
10 3 (0.30%) Multicast
10 3 (0.30%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.80%) Power BI
2 23 (2.27%) Tableau
3 22 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 22 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.28%) Metadata
7 12 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.89%) MySQL
10 8 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.79%) Redis
11 7 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.49%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.49%) Power Query
13 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 137 (13.50%) JIRA
2 45 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.96%) GitLab
4 28 (2.76%) Git
5 18 (1.77%) Selenium
6 11 (1.08%) Cucumber
6 11 (1.08%) JUnit
7 10 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.89%) Postman
9 8 (0.79%) JMeter
9 8 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.59%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.39%) Maven
12 4 (0.39%) MLflow
12 4 (0.39%) TestRail
13 3 (0.30%) Gradle
13 3 (0.30%) Mockito
13 3 (0.30%) MSTest
13 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
General
1 461 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 319 (31.43%) Finance
3 207 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.68%) Banking
6 42 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.94%) Legal
7 40 (3.94%) Marketing
8 36 (3.55%) Retail
9 28 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.07%) Front Office
13 19 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.48%) Publishing
15 14 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.28%) Local Government
16 13 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 154 (15.17%) Analyst
2 141 (13.89%) Lead
3 103 (10.15%) Senior
4 83 (8.18%) Developer
5 61 (6.01%) Business Analyst
6 48 (4.73%) Architect
7 42 (4.14%) Project Manager
8 41 (4.04%) Consultant
9 28 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
10 27 (2.66%) Data Engineer
11 26 (2.56%) Senior Manager
12 24 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (1.97%) Security Engineer
15 17 (1.67%) Designer
15 17 (1.67%) Product Manager
15 17 (1.67%) Product Owner
16 16 (1.58%) Scrum Master
17 15 (1.48%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (1.48%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.05%) .NET
1 31 (3.05%) REST
2 26 (2.56%) Node.js
3 25 (2.46%) CSS
3 25 (2.46%) React
3 25 (2.46%) RESTful
4 24 (2.36%) HTML
5 17 (1.67%) Spring
6 15 (1.48%) Spring Boot
6 15 (1.48%) XML
7 14 (1.38%) SOAP
8 13 (1.28%) Web Services
9 12 (1.18%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.08%) Kafka
10 11 (1.08%) OAuth
10 11 (1.08%) PySpark
11 10 (0.99%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.99%) JSON
12 9 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (0.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.87%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 49 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.77%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.08%) PMI
13 10 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.99%) Replication
14 8 (0.79%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.73%) Windows
2 47 (4.63%) Linux
3 14 (1.38%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.08%) Unix
5 10 (0.99%) Android
6 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.89%) VMS
6 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.099%) Solaris
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (38.92%) Agile
2 254 (25.02%) Problem-Solving
3 241 (23.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (21.38%) DevOps
5 194 (19.11%) CI/CD
6 170 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 136 (13.40%) Decision-Making
8 133 (13.10%) Roadmaps
9 131 (12.91%) Analytics
10 109 (10.74%) AI
11 91 (8.97%) Migration
11 91 (8.97%) Project Delivery
12 90 (8.87%) Scrum
13 89 (8.77%) Project Management
14 87 (8.57%) Test Automation
15 85 (8.37%) Risk Management
16 84 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
17 83 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (7.68%) Mentoring
19 75 (7.39%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 153 (15.07%) SQL
2 137 (13.50%) Python
3 68 (6.70%) Java
4 52 (5.12%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 31 (3.05%) Bash
6 31 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 26 (2.56%) C#
8 16 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (1.38%) C++
10 11 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.59%) Bicep
12 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.59%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.49%) Go
13 5 (0.49%) Korn
13 5 (0.49%) R
13 5 (0.49%) Swift
14 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 150 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 126 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.16%) Degree
4 28 (2.76%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.77%) ACCA
7 18 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.77%) PMP
8 13 (1.28%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.99%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.89%) CIMA
11 9 (0.89%) CISSP
11 9 (0.89%) IIBA
12 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.79%) CISM
12 8 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.34%) QA
2 58 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.73%) GDPR
4 47 (4.63%) Accessibility
5 41 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (2.86%) NIST
7 24 (2.36%) PMO
8 22 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (2.17%) SLA
9 19 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (1.48%) GRC
11 10 (0.99%) COBIT
11 10 (0.99%) NCSC
11 10 (0.99%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.89%) IFRS
13 8 (0.79%) WCAG
14 7 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.69%) ITGC
15 6 (0.59%) GMP
15 6 (0.59%) SOX 404
System Software
1 70 (6.90%) Docker
2 24 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.59%) Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.099%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (7.29%) Terraform
2 73 (7.19%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.55%) Ansible
4 18 (1.77%) SCCM
5 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.48%) Grafana
6 15 (1.48%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (0.69%) WSUS
9 5 (0.49%) Kibana
9 5 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.39%) Control-M
10 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.39%) logstash
10 4 (0.39%) Puppet
10 4 (0.39%) SCOM
11 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.30%) vRealize
12 2 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 165 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 57 (5.62%) SAP
4 50 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.14%) Oracle
6 39 (3.84%) Google
7 20 (1.97%) Databricks
8 14 (1.38%) Splunk
9 13 (1.28%) VMware
10 12 (1.18%) Adobe
11 9 (0.89%) Remedy
12 7 (0.69%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.59%) BMC
13 6 (0.59%) IBM
13 6 (0.59%) Informatica
13 6 (0.59%) Murex
13 6 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.59%) Workday
14 5 (0.49%) Cisco
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat