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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 44 70
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,611 701 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.03% 5.15% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 5.59% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 469 351
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £433 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 11
10th Percentile £19.35 £24.89 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.16 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +15.53% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.31 £56.25
90th Percentile £91.75 £55.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £49.00 £31.40 £47.99
% change year-on-year +56.04% -34.56% -16.54%

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £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 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -2 168 £550 +7.87% 141
South London +21 61 £505 -13.08% 22
West London +3 53 £520 +2.77% 61
East London +11 11 £675 +15.38% 33
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 (4.78%) Confluence
2 68 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.93%) CMS
6 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.56%) Apache
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Camunda
10 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.062%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.062%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 72 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.062%) InDesign
9 1 (0.062%) Mingle
9 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.30%) NetSuite
1 21 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.50%) Actimize
3 8 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.31%) Magento
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.25%) Endur
7 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.25%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 370 (22.97%) Azure
2 298 (18.50%) AWS
3 147 (9.12%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (6.08%) GitHub
6 95 (5.90%) GCP
7 92 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (4.66%) Entra ID
9 64 (3.97%) SaaS
10 55 (3.41%) Serverless
11 54 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (2.67%) Amazon S3
13 43 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (1.80%) Azure AKS
16 29 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 25 (1.55%) PowerApps
18 24 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.36%) Firewall
2 29 (1.80%) DNS
3 28 (1.74%) Network Security
4 18 (1.12%) WAN
5 13 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.68%) DHCP
6 11 (0.68%) LAN
7 10 (0.62%) VoIP
8 8 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.50%) VPN
9 6 (0.37%) MPLS
9 6 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.31%) BGP
10 5 (0.31%) HTTP
10 5 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.31%) WebEx
11 4 (0.25%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.25%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (7.39%) Power BI
2 48 (2.98%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.48%) Metadata
4 36 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (2.11%) Tableau
6 30 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.06%) Delta Lake
10 13 (0.81%) Parquet
11 12 (0.74%) Power Query
12 11 (0.68%) Big Data
12 11 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.43%) MySQL
13 7 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 165 (10.24%) JIRA
2 76 (4.72%) Git
3 75 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.67%) GitLab
5 24 (1.49%) Selenium
6 19 (1.18%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.62%) JMeter
9 9 (0.56%) JUnit
9 9 (0.56%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.50%) Maven
10 8 (0.50%) Postman
10 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.43%) Gradle
11 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.43%) XCTest
12 6 (0.37%) Gatling
General
1 688 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 550 (34.14%) Finance
3 361 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (16.33%) Public Sector
5 169 (10.49%) Banking
6 63 (3.91%) Legal
7 61 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
7 61 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.35%) Law
9 53 (3.29%) Retail
10 46 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (2.55%) Local Government
12 38 (2.36%) Front Office
13 36 (2.23%) Marketing
14 32 (1.99%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.92%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 216 (13.41%) Lead
2 172 (10.68%) Senior
3 160 (9.93%) Analyst
4 149 (9.25%) Developer
5 99 (6.15%) Architect
6 64 (3.97%) Project Manager
7 59 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
8 53 (3.29%) Consultant
9 51 (3.17%) Business Analyst
9 51 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 44 (2.73%) Data Engineer
11 43 (2.67%) Scrum Master
12 42 (2.61%) Software Engineer
13 35 (2.17%) Product Owner
13 35 (2.17%) Senior Manager
14 34 (2.11%) Lead Architect
15 33 (2.05%) Java Developer
16 31 (1.92%) Functional Architect
17 30 (1.86%) Cloud Engineer
17 30 (1.86%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.72%) REST
2 66 (4.10%) RESTful
3 47 (2.92%) React
4 45 (2.79%) Spring
5 44 (2.73%) .NET
6 40 (2.48%) Spring Boot
7 38 (2.36%) AngularJS
8 37 (2.30%) HTML
8 37 (2.30%) Kafka
9 33 (2.05%) CSS
10 24 (1.49%) Node.js
11 21 (1.30%) Middleware
11 21 (1.30%) SOAP
12 20 (1.24%) Django
12 20 (1.24%) Web Services
13 19 (1.18%) JSON
14 17 (1.06%) Playwright
15 16 (0.99%) XML
16 14 (0.87%) Next.js
16 14 (0.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 193 (11.98%) Product Ownership
2 111 (6.89%) Onboarding
3 108 (6.70%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.73%) Virtual Team
5 42 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.61%) CMDB
11 26 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.12%) NHS
15 17 (1.06%) FMCG
15 17 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.90%) Windows
2 64 (3.97%) Linux
3 26 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.87%) Unix
5 14 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 5 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 1 (0.062%) HPUX
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.062%) Solaris
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE
10 1 (0.062%) VMS
10 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (39.54%) Agile
2 464 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 395 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
4 334 (20.73%) DevOps
5 327 (20.30%) CI/CD
6 312 (19.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 295 (18.31%) Decision-Making
8 254 (15.77%) AI
9 200 (12.41%) Roadmaps
10 193 (11.98%) Analytics
11 174 (10.80%) Change Management
12 171 (10.61%) Scrum
13 159 (9.87%) Migration
14 145 (9.00%) Software Engineering
15 143 (8.88%) Test Automation
16 136 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
17 135 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
18 131 (8.13%) Risk Management
19 130 (8.07%) Mentoring
19 130 (8.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 254 (15.77%) Python
2 236 (14.65%) SQL
3 132 (8.19%) Java
4 82 (5.09%) JavaScript
5 72 (4.47%) PowerShell
6 60 (3.72%) C#
7 46 (2.86%) Bash
8 41 (2.55%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.93%) Bicep
13 14 (0.87%) Groovy
14 13 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.74%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.74%) Go
16 11 (0.68%) Perl
17 9 (0.56%) C++
17 9 (0.56%) Ruby
17 9 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 338 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 289 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 144 (8.94%) Degree
4 49 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 44 (2.73%) PMP
7 40 (2.48%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.05%) CISSP
9 32 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.18%) CISM
13 16 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.68%) CCNP
16 10 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.62%) ACCA
16 10 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.62%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (9.00%) QA
2 118 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 73 (4.53%) PMO
4 46 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.73%) GDPR
6 43 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 41 (2.55%) NIST
8 37 (2.30%) SLA
9 23 (1.43%) GRC
10 16 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.81%) NCSC
11 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.62%) IFRS
12 10 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.50%) COBIT
14 6 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.37%) WCAG
15 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 87 (5.40%) Docker
2 73 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.56%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.062%) Ceph
8 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.062%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.062%) UAG
8 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 131 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 125 (7.76%) Terraform
3 43 (2.67%) Ansible
4 41 (2.55%) Grafana
4 41 (2.55%) Prometheus
5 35 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.43%) SCCM
8 6 (0.37%) Kibana
8 6 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.25%) Puppet
10 4 (0.25%) QRadar
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.58%) ServiceNow
3 96 (5.96%) Oracle
4 70 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.72%) SAP
6 57 (3.54%) Google
7 36 (2.23%) Databricks
8 25 (1.55%) Cisco
9 21 (1.30%) VMware
10 19 (1.18%) Splunk
11 18 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.99%) IBM
13 14 (0.87%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.74%) Apple
14 12 (0.74%) Okta
14 12 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.68%) Foundry
16 10 (0.62%) ForgeRock
17 9 (0.56%) Murex
17 9 (0.56%) Workday