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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 46 70
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,559 678 543
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.88% 5.00% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 5.43% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 452 364
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £430 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -4.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £691
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 14
10th Percentile £22.31 £27.29 £19.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.05 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +26.80% -37.88%
75th Percentile £62.50 £49.38 £53.44
90th Percentile £92.75 £57.63 £70.63
England median hourly rate £53.00 £32.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +65.63% -13.51% -33.24%

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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -2 165 £544 +8.80% 183
South London +21 57 £500 -13.94% 20
West London +5 51 £520 +2.77% 36
East London +10 11 £675 +15.38% 26
North London 0 3 £450 -18.18% 3
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 75 (4.81%) Confluence
2 65 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.90%) CMS
6 12 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.51%) Apache
8 6 (0.38%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.064%) JBoss
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.064%) InDesign
9 1 (0.064%) Mingle
9 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.28%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.58%) Actimize
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.45%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.32%) Magento
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.32%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.26%) Endur
8 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.19%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 359 (23.03%) Azure
2 290 (18.60%) AWS
3 139 (8.92%) Power Platform
4 111 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (6.16%) GitHub
6 88 (5.64%) GCP
7 83 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (4.49%) Entra ID
9 61 (3.91%) SaaS
10 55 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (3.46%) Serverless
12 51 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (2.82%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 28 (1.80%) Azure AKS
19 25 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
20 22 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.25%) Firewall
2 28 (1.80%) Network Security
3 24 (1.54%) DNS
4 16 (1.03%) WAN
5 10 (0.64%) LAN
5 10 (0.64%) VoIP
6 9 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.45%) DHCP
9 6 (0.38%) BGP
10 5 (0.32%) HTTP
10 5 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.32%) MPLS
10 5 (0.32%) OSPF
10 5 (0.32%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.32%) WebEx
11 4 (0.26%) DKIM
11 4 (0.26%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.26%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.18%) Power BI
2 44 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 37 (2.37%) Metadata
4 35 (2.25%) Tableau
5 34 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.96%) Delta Lake
11 12 (0.77%) Parquet
12 11 (0.71%) Power Query
13 10 (0.64%) Big Data
13 10 (0.64%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.38%) MySQL
15 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 167 (10.71%) JIRA
2 69 (4.43%) Git
3 68 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 38 (2.44%) GitLab
5 24 (1.54%) Selenium
6 18 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.58%) JMeter
9 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.51%) JUnit
9 8 (0.51%) Postman
9 8 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.45%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.45%) Maven
10 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.45%) XCTest
10 7 (0.45%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.38%) Gradle
11 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.32%) tSQLt
General
1 650 (41.69%) Social Skills
2 534 (34.25%) Finance
3 339 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (15.59%) Public Sector
5 151 (9.69%) Banking
6 59 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (3.66%) Legal
9 53 (3.40%) Law
10 49 (3.14%) Retail
11 42 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.57%) Local Government
13 39 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 36 (2.31%) Marketing
15 32 (2.05%) Front Office
15 32 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.67%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 215 (13.79%) Lead
2 161 (10.33%) Senior
3 154 (9.88%) Analyst
4 139 (8.92%) Developer
5 95 (6.09%) Architect
6 66 (4.23%) Project Manager
7 57 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
8 53 (3.40%) Consultant
9 51 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 45 (2.89%) Business Analyst
11 43 (2.76%) Scrum Master
12 40 (2.57%) Data Engineer
13 39 (2.50%) Software Engineer
14 38 (2.44%) Senior Manager
15 34 (2.18%) Lead Architect
16 33 (2.12%) Product Owner
17 31 (1.99%) Functional Architect
18 30 (1.92%) Java Developer
18 30 (1.92%) Technical Manager
19 29 (1.86%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.30%) REST
2 59 (3.78%) RESTful
3 45 (2.89%) React
4 40 (2.57%) .NET
4 40 (2.57%) Spring
5 36 (2.31%) HTML
5 36 (2.31%) Kafka
6 35 (2.25%) Spring Boot
7 32 (2.05%) CSS
8 31 (1.99%) AngularJS
9 23 (1.48%) Node.js
10 21 (1.35%) Middleware
11 20 (1.28%) Django
11 20 (1.28%) Web Services
12 18 (1.15%) SOAP
13 17 (1.09%) JSON
13 17 (1.09%) Playwright
14 15 (0.96%) Next.js
15 13 (0.83%) GraphQL
15 13 (0.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 180 (11.55%) Product Ownership
2 102 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.54%) Onboarding
3 45 (2.89%) Virtual Team
4 42 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
5 41 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.73%) Security Posture
9 26 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.60%) CMDB
10 25 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.09%) Operational Technology
14 16 (1.03%) FMCG
14 16 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.52%) Windows
2 56 (3.59%) Linux
3 22 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.77%) Unix
7 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.32%) Android
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.064%) HPUX
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.064%) Solaris
10 1 (0.064%) SUSE
10 1 (0.064%) VMS
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (38.81%) Agile
2 437 (28.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 379 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
4 326 (20.91%) DevOps
5 310 (19.88%) CI/CD
6 299 (19.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 287 (18.41%) Decision-Making
8 247 (15.84%) AI
9 189 (12.12%) Roadmaps
10 186 (11.93%) Analytics
11 169 (10.84%) Change Management
12 165 (10.58%) Scrum
13 158 (10.13%) Migration
14 138 (8.85%) Test Automation
15 133 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
16 131 (8.40%) Risk Management
16 131 (8.40%) Software Engineering
17 128 (8.21%) Validation
18 127 (8.15%) Mentoring
19 123 (7.89%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 245 (15.72%) Python
2 224 (14.37%) SQL
3 116 (7.44%) Java
4 76 (4.87%) JavaScript
5 66 (4.23%) PowerShell
6 55 (3.53%) C#
7 43 (2.76%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.63%) Bash
9 24 (1.54%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.90%) Bicep
13 12 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.64%) Groovy
16 9 (0.58%) Go
16 9 (0.58%) Perl
16 9 (0.58%) Ruby
16 9 (0.58%) Swift
17 8 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 322 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 275 (17.64%) SC Cleared
3 137 (8.79%) Degree
4 46 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.69%) PMP
6 41 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 33 (2.12%) CISSP
9 26 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.28%) CISM
12 19 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.71%) ACCA
14 11 (0.71%) CCNP
14 11 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.64%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.85%) QA
2 109 (6.99%) Data Quality
3 72 (4.62%) PMO
4 46 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.89%) GDPR
6 40 (2.57%) Accessibility
7 38 (2.44%) NIST
8 35 (2.25%) SLA
9 21 (1.35%) GRC
10 15 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.71%) NCSC
13 10 (0.64%) IFRS
13 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.45%) WCAG
15 6 (0.38%) GAAP
15 6 (0.38%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 81 (5.20%) Docker
2 66 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.58%) IAG
5 8 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Squid
8 2 (0.13%) zsh
9 1 (0.064%) Ceph
9 1 (0.064%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.064%) UAG
9 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (7.83%) Terraform
2 121 (7.76%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.50%) Ansible
4 37 (2.37%) Grafana
5 35 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.38%) Kibana
10 5 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.32%) SCCM
11 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.26%) QRadar
12 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.13%) Puppet
13 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 262 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 95 (6.09%) Oracle
4 70 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 61 (3.91%) SAP
6 53 (3.40%) Google
7 31 (1.99%) Databricks
8 22 (1.41%) Cisco
9 19 (1.22%) VMware
10 16 (1.03%) Splunk
11 14 (0.90%) IBM
12 13 (0.83%) Apple
12 13 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.77%) Zscaler
14 11 (0.71%) Okta
15 10 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.64%) Foundry
16 9 (0.58%) Murex
16 9 (0.58%) Workday