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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 57
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,732 793 632
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.59% 5.91% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.68% 6.39% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 525 365
10th Percentile £338 £318 £355
25th Percentile £435 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £688
90th Percentile £752 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £24.59 £18.25 £28.34
Median hourly rate £27.75 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -50.00% +23.58%
75th Percentile £46.25 £46.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £57.63 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.50 £20.98 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.61% -40.06% -46.15%

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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £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 £664 £663 £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 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +2 191 £556 +5.95% 368
West London +5 53 £520 +4.00% 86
South London +20 46 £525 -9.76% 41
East London -1 8 £600 +215.79% 35
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 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.56%) Confluence
3 31 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.04%) CMS
7 15 (0.87%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Productboard
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.058%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.40%) Magento
4 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
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 Payables
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) Maximo
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
8 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 398 (22.98%) Azure
2 330 (19.05%) AWS
3 132 (7.62%) Power Platform
4 118 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
5 117 (6.76%) GitHub
6 108 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (5.72%) GCP
8 81 (4.68%) Entra ID
9 68 (3.93%) Serverless
10 63 (3.64%) SaaS
11 62 (3.58%) Amazon S3
11 62 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
14 40 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (2.25%) Snowflake
16 37 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (1.79%) PowerApps
18 30 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.14%) Network Security
2 36 (2.08%) Firewall
3 32 (1.85%) DNS
4 22 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.04%) WAN
6 17 (0.98%) VPN
7 13 (0.75%) DHCP
8 12 (0.69%) LAN
9 10 (0.58%) VoIP
10 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.35%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.35%) WebEx
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
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 94 (5.43%) Power BI
2 68 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 51 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (2.71%) Metadata
4 47 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 32 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.62%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.39%) Delta Lake
9 22 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.15%) Tableau
11 17 (0.98%) MongoDB
12 15 (0.87%) MySQL
12 15 (0.87%) Power Query
13 13 (0.75%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.69%) Parquet
15 10 (0.58%) Big Data
16 7 (0.40%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.35%) Redis
17 6 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (8.66%) JIRA
2 124 (7.16%) Git
3 91 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.12%) GitLab
5 35 (2.02%) Selenium
6 15 (0.87%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 14 (0.81%) Postman
8 13 (0.75%) JUnit
9 11 (0.64%) Maven
10 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.52%) Gradle
10 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.35%) Mockito
12 6 (0.35%) XCTest
12 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
13 5 (0.29%) eggPlant
13 5 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 775 (44.75%) Social Skills
2 515 (29.73%) Finance
3 406 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (17.09%) Public Sector
5 206 (11.89%) Banking
6 74 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 64 (3.70%) Legal
9 50 (2.89%) Front Office
10 49 (2.83%) Retail
11 48 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 38 (2.19%) Investment Banking
14 37 (2.14%) Local Government
15 34 (1.96%) Marketing
16 30 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.50%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.39%) Law
19 23 (1.33%) Military
19 23 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 204 (11.78%) Lead
2 202 (11.66%) Senior
3 182 (10.51%) Developer
4 176 (10.16%) Analyst
5 73 (4.21%) Architect
6 72 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 69 (3.98%) Project Manager
8 57 (3.29%) Data Engineer
9 56 (3.23%) Business Analyst
10 52 (3.00%) Consultant
11 51 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
12 48 (2.77%) Software Engineer
13 44 (2.54%) Product Manager
14 37 (2.14%) Product Owner
14 37 (2.14%) Scrum Master
14 37 (2.14%) Senior Manager
15 34 (1.96%) Applications Support
16 33 (1.91%) Support Engineer
17 31 (1.79%) Java Developer
18 30 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (8.55%) Terraform
2 107 (6.18%) REST
3 80 (4.62%) RESTful
4 66 (3.81%) .NET
5 65 (3.75%) Kafka
6 52 (3.00%) Spring
7 51 (2.94%) React
8 50 (2.89%) Spring Boot
9 46 (2.66%) AngularJS
10 45 (2.60%) HTML
10 45 (2.60%) Web Services
11 38 (2.19%) CSS
12 35 (2.02%) SOAP
13 33 (1.91%) Django
14 31 (1.79%) PySpark
15 28 (1.62%) JSON
16 25 (1.44%) XML
17 23 (1.33%) Node.js
18 22 (1.27%) Middleware
18 22 (1.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 211 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 138 (7.97%) Onboarding
3 134 (7.74%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 51 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 38 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (2.02%) Security Posture
10 35 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.44%) NHS
13 22 (1.27%) CMDB
14 20 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.15%) Low-Code
15 18 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.10%) Windows
2 100 (5.77%) Linux
3 38 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.62%) Unix
5 22 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.98%) Android
7 17 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) VMS
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) zOS
12 1 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.058%) Solaris
12 1 (0.058%) SUSE
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (39.26%) Agile
2 588 (33.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 455 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
4 382 (22.06%) CI/CD
5 356 (20.55%) DevOps
6 326 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 311 (17.96%) AI
8 305 (17.61%) Decision-Making
9 249 (14.38%) Roadmaps
10 217 (12.53%) Analytics
11 199 (11.49%) Scrum
12 174 (10.05%) Change Management
13 172 (9.93%) Test Automation
14 168 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 167 (9.64%) Software Engineering
16 160 (9.24%) Risk Management
17 150 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
18 147 (8.49%) ITIL
18 147 (8.49%) Validation
19 143 (8.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 316 (18.24%) Python
2 288 (16.63%) SQL
3 145 (8.37%) Java
4 102 (5.89%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.14%) PowerShell
6 88 (5.08%) C#
7 67 (3.87%) Bash
8 61 (3.52%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.92%) Go
11 16 (0.92%) Groovy
12 14 (0.81%) Bicep
12 14 (0.81%) Korn
12 14 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.75%) Perl
14 11 (0.64%) R
15 10 (0.58%) C++
15 10 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 403 (23.27%) Security Cleared
2 344 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 152 (8.78%) Degree
4 59 (3.41%) PMP
5 54 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.89%) PMI Certification
8 37 (2.14%) CISSP
9 35 (2.02%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.21%) CISM
13 20 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.58%) CRISC
17 10 (0.58%) GIAC
17 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (9.01%) QA
2 148 (8.55%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.75%) PMO
4 50 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 50 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.48%) NIST
6 39 (2.25%) SLA
7 35 (2.02%) GDPR
8 33 (1.91%) GRC
9 20 (1.15%) NCSC
10 19 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.75%) COBIT
11 13 (0.75%) WCAG
12 12 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 131 (7.56%) Docker
2 81 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.40%) IAG
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.17%) 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
1 153 (8.83%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.41%) Ansible
3 54 (3.12%) Grafana
4 53 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.69%) Kibana
7 12 (0.69%) SCCM
8 8 (0.46%) 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 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.17%) Nagios
11 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 327 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.47%) Oracle
3 106 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 57 (3.29%) SAP
5 55 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 54 (3.12%) Google
7 52 (3.00%) Databricks
8 47 (2.71%) Splunk
9 37 (2.14%) IBM
10 26 (1.50%) Cisco
11 22 (1.27%) VMware
12 19 (1.10%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.92%) UiPath
13 16 (0.92%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.87%) Adobe
15 14 (0.81%) Apple
16 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.64%) Workday
18 10 (0.58%) Qualys
19 9 (0.52%) Bloomberg