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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 44 65
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,631 709 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.07% 5.23% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 5.66% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 478 344
10th Percentile £350 £350 £354
25th Percentile £435 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £691
90th Percentile £750 £777 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.33 £26.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.70 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.24 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% +4.41% -41.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £46.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £92.13 £54.25 £76.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.75 £51.25
% change year-on-year +65.22% -43.90% -10.87%

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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -3 167 £544 +8.80% 243
South London +21 61 £503 -13.51% 26
West London +2 52 £520 +1.51% 73
East London +4 11 £675 +255.26% 31
North London -2 3 £450 -18.18% 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 76 (4.66%) Confluence
2 71 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.98%) CMS
6 13 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.49%) Apache
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 5 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.25%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.061%) InDesign
9 1 (0.061%) Mingle
9 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.23%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Actimize
7 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.31%) Magento
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.25%) Endur
9 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.25%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.25%) Shopify
10 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 379 (23.24%) Azure
2 302 (18.52%) AWS
3 149 (9.14%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (6.19%) GitHub
6 100 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
7 98 (6.01%) GCP
8 81 (4.97%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.86%) SaaS
10 57 (3.49%) Serverless
11 56 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
13 45 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (2.70%) Amazon S3
15 37 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.90%) Azure AKS
18 29 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 26 (1.59%) Power Automate
19 26 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.39%) Firewall
2 30 (1.84%) DNS
3 28 (1.72%) Network Security
4 21 (1.29%) WAN
5 14 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.74%) DHCP
6 12 (0.74%) LAN
7 11 (0.67%) VPN
8 10 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.61%) VoIP
9 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.37%) MPLS
11 5 (0.31%) BGP
11 5 (0.31%) HTTP
11 5 (0.31%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.31%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.31%) WebEx
12 4 (0.25%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.25%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.17%) Power BI
2 47 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.45%) Metadata
4 37 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.96%) Tableau
6 30 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.10%) Delta Lake
11 17 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.80%) Parquet
13 12 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.74%) Power Query
14 11 (0.67%) Big Data
15 8 (0.49%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.43%) MySQL
16 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
17 6 (0.37%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 162 (9.93%) JIRA
2 83 (5.09%) Git
3 76 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.64%) GitLab
5 23 (1.41%) Selenium
6 17 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.61%) JMeter
9 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.55%) JUnit
9 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.55%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.49%) Maven
11 7 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.43%) Gradle
11 7 (0.43%) Postman
11 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.43%) XCTest
12 6 (0.37%) Gatling
General
1 703 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 548 (33.60%) Finance
3 365 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (16.62%) Public Sector
5 173 (10.61%) Banking
6 66 (4.05%) Legal
7 63 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.31%) Law
9 53 (3.25%) Retail
10 46 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (2.51%) Local Government
13 37 (2.27%) Front Office
14 35 (2.15%) Marketing
15 32 (1.96%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 219 (13.43%) Lead
2 171 (10.48%) Senior
3 158 (9.69%) Analyst
4 150 (9.20%) Developer
5 101 (6.19%) Architect
6 64 (3.92%) Project Manager
7 62 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
8 56 (3.43%) Consultant
9 52 (3.19%) Business Analyst
9 52 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 44 (2.70%) Data Engineer
11 42 (2.58%) Scrum Master
11 42 (2.58%) Software Engineer
12 37 (2.27%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.08%) Lead Architect
13 34 (2.08%) Product Owner
14 32 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (1.90%) Functional Architect
15 31 (1.90%) Java Developer
16 30 (1.84%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (4.72%) REST
2 68 (4.17%) RESTful
3 47 (2.88%) React
4 45 (2.76%) Spring
5 43 (2.64%) .NET
6 39 (2.39%) Kafka
6 39 (2.39%) Spring Boot
7 36 (2.21%) AngularJS
7 36 (2.21%) HTML
8 31 (1.90%) CSS
9 25 (1.53%) Web Services
10 23 (1.41%) Node.js
11 22 (1.35%) Django
12 21 (1.29%) Middleware
13 20 (1.23%) JSON
13 20 (1.23%) SOAP
14 18 (1.10%) Playwright
15 17 (1.04%) XML
16 15 (0.92%) PySpark
17 14 (0.86%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 194 (11.89%) Product Ownership
2 120 (7.36%) Onboarding
3 107 (6.56%) Cloud Native
4 43 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 42 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 39 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.59%) CMDB
10 26 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.47%) Security Posture
13 20 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 19 (1.16%) NHS
15 18 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.04%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.32%) Windows
2 65 (3.99%) Linux
3 26 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.86%) Unix
8 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.61%) Android
10 5 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.061%) HPUX
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
12 1 (0.061%) SUSE
12 1 (0.061%) VMS
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (39.30%) Agile
2 471 (28.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 405 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
4 338 (20.72%) DevOps
5 330 (20.23%) CI/CD
6 324 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 295 (18.09%) Decision-Making
8 259 (15.88%) AI
9 205 (12.57%) Roadmaps
10 194 (11.89%) Analytics
11 179 (10.97%) Change Management
12 168 (10.30%) Scrum
13 160 (9.81%) Migration
14 146 (8.95%) Software Engineering
14 146 (8.95%) Test Automation
15 139 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
16 137 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
17 136 (8.34%) Mentoring
18 130 (7.97%) Translating Business Requirements
19 128 (7.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 260 (15.94%) Python
2 237 (14.53%) SQL
3 129 (7.91%) Java
4 81 (4.97%) JavaScript
5 79 (4.84%) PowerShell
6 61 (3.74%) C#
7 48 (2.94%) Bash
8 42 (2.58%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.29%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.04%) Bicep
11 17 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.80%) Groovy
13 12 (0.74%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.67%) Go
14 11 (0.67%) Perl
15 9 (0.55%) C++
15 9 (0.55%) Ruby
16 8 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 346 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 295 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 145 (8.89%) Degree
4 48 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 44 (2.70%) PMP
7 40 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 34 (2.08%) CISSP
9 32 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.23%) CISM
13 17 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.67%) CCNP
16 10 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.55%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (8.89%) QA
2 119 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.60%) PMO
4 48 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (2.58%) NIST
6 41 (2.51%) Accessibility
6 41 (2.51%) GDPR
6 41 (2.51%) SLA
7 23 (1.41%) GRC
8 17 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.86%) NCSC
10 13 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.55%) COBIT
12 9 (0.55%) IFRS
13 8 (0.49%) WCAG
14 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.37%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 90 (5.52%) Docker
2 77 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.55%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.061%) Ceph
9 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.061%) UAG
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 133 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 130 (7.97%) Terraform
3 44 (2.70%) Ansible
4 39 (2.39%) Grafana
4 39 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.43%) SCCM
7 6 (0.37%) Kibana
8 5 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.25%) Puppet
9 4 (0.25%) QRadar
9 4 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 285 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.62%) ServiceNow
3 95 (5.82%) Oracle
4 68 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 62 (3.80%) Google
6 61 (3.74%) SAP
7 35 (2.15%) Databricks
8 25 (1.53%) Cisco
9 21 (1.29%) Splunk
9 21 (1.29%) VMware
10 19 (1.16%) IBM
11 18 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.86%) Apple
12 14 (0.86%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.80%) Okta
14 12 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.67%) Foundry
16 10 (0.61%) ForgeRock
17 9 (0.55%) Adobe
17 9 (0.55%) Workday