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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 36 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,712 773 635
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.47% 5.82% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 6.29% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 512 373
10th Percentile £341 £314 £353
25th Percentile £438 £420 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -3.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £753 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £526
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.99% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £18.72 £28.34
Median hourly rate £29.15 £25.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -49.85% +23.58%
75th Percentile £49.50 £46.94 £64.38
90th Percentile £60.15 £69.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.90 £23.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.45% -45.11% -34.62%

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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £325 £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 £663 £669 £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 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +1 189 £550 +4.76% 354
West London +1 53 £520 +4.00% 119
South London +23 45 £530 -8.90% 41
East London +2 10 £600 +215.79% 37
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 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 80 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.61%) Confluence
3 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.05%) CMS
7 14 (0.82%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) InDesign
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.058%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.41%) Magento
4 7 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.29%) Actimize
6 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.18%) Endur
8 3 (0.18%) Maximo
8 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
8 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 387 (22.61%) Azure
2 325 (18.98%) AWS
3 133 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 114 (6.66%) GitHub
4 114 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (5.49%) GCP
7 79 (4.61%) Entra ID
8 69 (4.03%) Serverless
9 60 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (3.50%) SaaS
10 59 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 54 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 39 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 38 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (2.10%) Snowflake
16 31 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.75%) PowerApps
18 29 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.16%) Firewall
2 36 (2.10%) Network Security
3 32 (1.87%) DNS
4 22 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.05%) WAN
6 17 (0.99%) VPN
7 13 (0.76%) DHCP
8 12 (0.70%) LAN
9 10 (0.58%) VoIP
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.35%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) WebEx
13 4 (0.23%) BGP
13 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.23%) SAN
13 4 (0.23%) SSL
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.55%) Power BI
2 64 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 51 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.63%) Metadata
5 44 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.40%) Delta Lake
10 22 (1.29%) Tableau
11 21 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 15 (0.88%) Power Query
13 14 (0.82%) MySQL
14 13 (0.76%) Parquet
15 12 (0.70%) Oracle Database
16 11 (0.64%) MongoDB
17 10 (0.58%) Big Data
18 7 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
18 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (8.94%) JIRA
2 115 (6.72%) Git
3 92 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 52 (3.04%) GitLab
5 36 (2.10%) Selenium
6 15 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.82%) Postman
8 13 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.76%) JUnit
9 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.53%) Maven
9 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.41%) Gradle
10 7 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.35%) Mockito
11 6 (0.35%) XCTest
11 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
11 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 772 (45.09%) Social Skills
2 511 (29.85%) Finance
3 394 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (17.41%) Public Sector
5 202 (11.80%) Banking
6 74 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.56%) Legal
9 51 (2.98%) Front Office
10 50 (2.92%) Retail
11 48 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
12 46 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (2.16%) Local Government
14 36 (2.10%) Investment Banking
14 36 (2.10%) Marketing
15 28 (1.64%) Law
16 26 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.40%) Military
17 24 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 209 (12.21%) Lead
2 199 (11.62%) Senior
3 179 (10.46%) Developer
4 171 (9.99%) Analyst
5 77 (4.50%) Architect
6 69 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 66 (3.86%) Project Manager
8 56 (3.27%) Data Engineer
9 54 (3.15%) Consultant
10 53 (3.10%) Business Analyst
11 51 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
12 48 (2.80%) Software Engineer
13 41 (2.39%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.34%) Scrum Master
15 36 (2.10%) Product Owner
15 36 (2.10%) Senior Manager
16 33 (1.93%) Applications Support
17 32 (1.87%) Support Engineer
18 31 (1.81%) Java Developer
19 30 (1.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (8.53%) Terraform
2 99 (5.78%) REST
3 78 (4.56%) RESTful
4 62 (3.62%) Kafka
5 61 (3.56%) .NET
6 53 (3.10%) Spring
7 51 (2.98%) React
8 50 (2.92%) Spring Boot
9 44 (2.57%) AngularJS
9 44 (2.57%) Web Services
10 43 (2.51%) HTML
11 36 (2.10%) CSS
11 36 (2.10%) SOAP
12 33 (1.93%) Django
13 31 (1.81%) PySpark
14 26 (1.52%) JSON
15 25 (1.46%) XML
16 23 (1.34%) Middleware
16 23 (1.34%) Node.js
17 22 (1.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 213 (12.44%) Product Ownership
2 137 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 128 (7.48%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 49 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
8 40 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 39 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (2.16%) AI Agents
11 33 (1.93%) Security Posture
11 33 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 26 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.40%) NHS
14 23 (1.34%) CMDB
15 21 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.11%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 120 (7.01%) Windows
2 97 (5.67%) Linux
3 37 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.58%) Unix
5 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.99%) Android
7 15 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) zOS
11 1 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.058%) HPUX
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.058%) Solaris
11 1 (0.058%) SUSE
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (39.60%) Agile
2 578 (33.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 444 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 377 (22.02%) CI/CD
5 354 (20.68%) DevOps
6 332 (19.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 304 (17.76%) AI
8 301 (17.58%) Decision-Making
9 242 (14.14%) Roadmaps
10 210 (12.27%) Analytics
11 197 (11.51%) Scrum
12 178 (10.40%) Change Management
13 170 (9.93%) Test Automation
14 167 (9.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 166 (9.70%) Software Engineering
16 157 (9.17%) Risk Management
17 149 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (8.53%) Migration
19 145 (8.47%) ITIL
20 143 (8.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 306 (17.87%) Python
2 280 (16.36%) SQL
3 147 (8.59%) Java
4 98 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.96%) PowerShell
6 82 (4.79%) C#
7 64 (3.74%) Bash
8 58 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.93%) Go
11 16 (0.93%) Groovy
11 16 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.82%) Korn
12 14 (0.82%) Perl
13 13 (0.76%) Bicep
13 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.64%) R
15 10 (0.58%) C++
15 10 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 406 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 347 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 152 (8.88%) Degree
4 57 (3.33%) PMP
5 54 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 49 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 36 (2.10%) CISSP
8 34 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.17%) CISM
12 19 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.58%) GIAC
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (8.82%) QA
2 147 (8.59%) Data Quality
3 70 (4.09%) PMO
4 48 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (2.39%) NIST
6 39 (2.28%) SLA
7 33 (1.93%) GDPR
8 32 (1.87%) GRC
9 20 (1.17%) NCSC
10 18 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.76%) COBIT
11 13 (0.76%) WCAG
12 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 122 (7.13%) Docker
2 80 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.41%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) RACF
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.058%) Ceph
9 1 (0.058%) UAG
9 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 148 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.39%) Ansible
3 51 (2.98%) Grafana
3 51 (2.98%) Prometheus
4 37 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.70%) Kibana
7 11 (0.64%) SCCM
8 6 (0.35%) Puppet
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.23%) QRadar
11 3 (0.18%) Argo
11 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 3 (0.18%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.18%) Nagios
11 3 (0.18%) Packer
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 315 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.66%) Oracle
3 108 (6.31%) ServiceNow
4 57 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 55 (3.21%) Google
6 54 (3.15%) SAP
7 46 (2.69%) Databricks
7 46 (2.69%) Splunk
8 37 (2.16%) IBM
9 26 (1.52%) Cisco
10 22 (1.29%) VMware
11 19 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.93%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.88%) UiPath
14 14 (0.82%) Adobe
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
15 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.58%) Okta
16 10 (0.58%) Qualys
16 10 (0.58%) Workday