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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 43 62
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,662 723 566
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.27% 5.37% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.28% 5.82% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 485 353
10th Percentile £350 £327 £353
25th Percentile £435 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £22.67 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £28.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.48 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +8.09% -41.30%
75th Percentile £56.88 £47.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £76.75 £62.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.52% -42.50% -20.00%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 0 174 £550 +10.55% 106
West London +6 56 £520 +1.51% 76
South London +20 48 £505 -12.63% 30
East London +1 11 £675 +255.26% 30
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 77 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.33%) Confluence
3 27 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.96%) CMS
6 15 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.54%) Apache
8 7 (0.42%) IIS
9 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) SAS
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.060%) MTS
13 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.060%) WebLogic
Applications
1 79 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.060%) InDesign
7 1 (0.060%) Mingle
7 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.42%) Actimize
7 6 (0.36%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) Magento
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.24%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.24%) Endur
9 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) Shopify
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 392 (23.59%) Azure
2 304 (18.29%) AWS
3 156 (9.39%) Power Platform
4 114 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 105 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (6.20%) GitHub
7 98 (5.90%) GCP
8 85 (5.11%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.79%) SaaS
10 55 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
11 54 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (3.13%) Serverless
13 40 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (2.35%) Amazon S3
15 33 (1.99%) Azure AKS
16 30 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (1.68%) PowerApps
18 27 (1.62%) Datadog
18 27 (1.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.53%) Firewall
2 33 (1.99%) DNS
3 31 (1.87%) Network Security
4 21 (1.26%) WAN
5 18 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.84%) DHCP
6 14 (0.84%) VPN
7 12 (0.72%) LAN
8 10 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.60%) VoIP
9 8 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.42%) BGP
11 6 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.36%) MPLS
11 6 (0.36%) NX-OS
11 6 (0.36%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.30%) HTTP
12 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.30%) WebEx
12 5 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.22%) Power BI
2 50 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 45 (2.71%) Metadata
4 39 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 31 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.74%) Tableau
8 25 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.20%) Delta Lake
11 18 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.84%) Power Query
13 13 (0.78%) Parquet
14 12 (0.72%) Big Data
15 9 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.48%) MySQL
16 8 (0.48%) Oracle Database
17 6 (0.36%) MongoDB
17 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
17 6 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 158 (9.51%) JIRA
2 93 (5.60%) Git
3 82 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.71%) GitLab
5 31 (1.87%) Selenium
6 17 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.72%) JUnit
9 10 (0.60%) Postman
10 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.48%) Maven
11 8 (0.48%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.48%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.42%) Gradle
12 7 (0.42%) JMeter
12 7 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.36%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 732 (44.04%) Social Skills
2 548 (32.97%) Finance
3 374 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (16.79%) Public Sector
5 183 (11.01%) Banking
6 69 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
8 63 (3.79%) Legal
9 55 (3.31%) Law
10 51 (3.07%) Retail
11 49 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
12 48 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (2.53%) Front Office
14 41 (2.47%) Local Government
15 38 (2.29%) Marketing
16 35 (2.11%) Investment Banking
17 30 (1.81%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
19 23 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
20 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (13.60%) Lead
2 180 (10.83%) Senior
3 164 (9.87%) Analyst
4 163 (9.81%) Developer
5 109 (6.56%) Architect
6 60 (3.61%) Project Manager
7 58 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (3.37%) Consultant
8 56 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
9 50 (3.01%) Business Analyst
10 45 (2.71%) Data Engineer
11 42 (2.53%) Software Engineer
12 39 (2.35%) Scrum Master
13 38 (2.29%) Senior Manager
14 34 (2.05%) Java Developer
14 34 (2.05%) Lead Architect
14 34 (2.05%) Product Owner
15 33 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (1.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (1.99%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.48%) REST
2 75 (4.51%) RESTful
3 50 (3.01%) .NET
3 50 (3.01%) Spring
4 49 (2.95%) React
5 48 (2.89%) Kafka
6 44 (2.65%) Spring Boot
7 42 (2.53%) HTML
8 40 (2.41%) AngularJS
9 35 (2.11%) CSS
10 32 (1.93%) Web Services
11 27 (1.62%) Django
12 24 (1.44%) Node.js
13 23 (1.38%) SOAP
14 22 (1.32%) JSON
15 21 (1.26%) Middleware
15 21 (1.26%) Playwright
15 21 (1.26%) XML
16 17 (1.02%) PySpark
17 15 (0.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 193 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 123 (7.40%) Onboarding
3 115 (6.92%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
5 45 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 39 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.56%) CMDB
11 26 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.38%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.20%) NHS
15 18 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.44%) Windows
2 80 (4.81%) Linux
3 27 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.38%) Unix
5 20 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.84%) Android
9 12 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.060%) HPUX
12 1 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.060%) Solaris
12 1 (0.060%) SUSE
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (39.35%) Agile
2 496 (29.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 422 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
4 350 (21.06%) DevOps
5 344 (20.70%) CI/CD
6 339 (20.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 300 (18.05%) Decision-Making
8 270 (16.25%) AI
9 220 (13.24%) Roadmaps
10 194 (11.67%) Analytics
11 177 (10.65%) Change Management
12 169 (10.17%) Migration
12 169 (10.17%) Scrum
13 162 (9.75%) Test Automation
14 151 (9.09%) Software Engineering
15 149 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 144 (8.66%) Mentoring
17 139 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
18 137 (8.24%) Translating Business Requirements
19 134 (8.06%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 277 (16.67%) Python
2 251 (15.10%) SQL
3 142 (8.54%) Java
4 86 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.93%) PowerShell
6 66 (3.97%) C#
7 51 (3.07%) Bash
8 45 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.08%) Bicep
10 18 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.84%) Go
11 14 (0.84%) Groovy
12 13 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.72%) Perl
14 10 (0.60%) VBA
15 9 (0.54%) C++
15 9 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 357 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 306 (18.41%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.27%) Degree
4 52 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.71%) PMP
6 44 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 31 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.81%) CISSP
10 18 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.96%) CISM
12 13 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.66%) CCNP
15 10 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.60%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.54%) CompTIA CySA+
17 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.90%) QA
2 128 (7.70%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.51%) PMO
4 44 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.47%) NIST
6 41 (2.47%) SLA
7 40 (2.41%) GDPR
8 22 (1.32%) GRC
9 18 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.96%) NCSC
11 12 (0.72%) COBIT
12 10 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.60%) WCAG
13 7 (0.42%) IFRS
14 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.24%) GAAP
System Software
1 95 (5.72%) Docker
2 82 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.54%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.060%) Ceph
9 1 (0.060%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.060%) UAG
9 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 142 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 133 (8.00%) Terraform
3 49 (2.95%) Ansible
4 45 (2.71%) Grafana
5 44 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.54%) SCCM
9 7 (0.42%) Kibana
10 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.24%) Puppet
11 4 (0.24%) QRadar
12 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.18%) Control-M
12 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.18%) WSUS
13 2 (0.12%) Argo
13 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.68%) ServiceNow
3 101 (6.08%) Oracle
4 65 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.85%) SAP
6 61 (3.67%) Google
7 36 (2.17%) Databricks
8 28 (1.68%) Cisco
9 25 (1.50%) Splunk
10 21 (1.26%) IBM
10 21 (1.26%) VMware
11 19 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.84%) Apple
12 14 (0.84%) Okta
13 13 (0.78%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.72%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.60%) Adobe
15 10 (0.60%) ForgeRock
16 9 (0.54%) Workday