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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 52 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 953 606 688
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.60% 4.05% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 4.49% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 330 458
10th Percentile £331 £369 £393
25th Percentile £425 £459 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.09% -0.09%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £713
90th Percentile £760 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 6
10th Percentile - £17.08 £19.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.19% -43.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £72.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.33 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -54.48% -21.15% +4.00%

All Process and 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 13,200 13,500 16,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.19% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,658 11,798
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 166 236
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.05 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +9.91% -13.95%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +13 134 £525 -6.67% 195
West London -11 15 £463 +2.78% 22
East London +2 13 £190 -63.98% 26
South London -6 9 £581 +9.90% 26
North London +6 3 £600 - 6
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 65 (6.82%) Confluence
2 41 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.52%) Apache
5 5 (0.52%) CMS
5 5 (0.52%) HCL Notes
5 5 (0.52%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.42%) Appian
7 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) Camunda
9 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.73%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.52%) Trello
8 4 (0.42%) Notion
8 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Sketch
10 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.63%) Endur
4 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.42%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.21%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 169 (17.73%) Azure
2 125 (13.12%) AWS
3 81 (8.50%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (4.51%) GitHub
7 38 (3.99%) GCP
8 31 (3.25%) Serverless
9 30 (3.15%) SaaS
10 29 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.41%) Entra ID
11 23 (2.41%) Power Automate
12 22 (2.31%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.10%) PowerApps
14 16 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.10%) Firewall
2 19 (1.99%) DNS
3 14 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.36%) DHCP
5 12 (1.26%) VPN
6 7 (0.73%) LAN
6 7 (0.73%) WAN
7 6 (0.63%) Network Security
8 5 (0.52%) Broadband
9 4 (0.42%) DKIM
9 4 (0.42%) DMARC
9 4 (0.42%) Modbus
9 4 (0.42%) Multicast
9 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.42%) tcpdump
9 4 (0.42%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.31%) 5G
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.72%) Power BI
2 25 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.89%) Tableau
4 16 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.05%) Metadata
8 10 (1.05%) MySQL
9 8 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.84%) Redis
10 7 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.42%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 125 (13.12%) JIRA
2 41 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.94%) Git
4 24 (2.52%) GitLab
5 15 (1.57%) Selenium
6 14 (1.47%) JUnit
7 11 (1.15%) Postman
8 9 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.84%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.63%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.52%) Maven
12 5 (0.52%) Mockito
12 5 (0.52%) Xcode
13 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.42%) Subversion
13 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.42%) XCTest
14 3 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 447 (46.90%) Social Skills
2 280 (29.38%) Finance
3 187 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.29%) Banking
6 45 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
7 39 (4.09%) Legal
7 39 (4.09%) Marketing
8 34 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.04%) Retail
10 25 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.10%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.78%) Front Office
15 16 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.57%) Publishing
17 13 (1.36%) Local Government
17 13 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (15.53%) Analyst
2 127 (13.33%) Lead
3 89 (9.34%) Senior
4 82 (8.60%) Developer
5 62 (6.51%) Business Analyst
6 53 (5.56%) Consultant
7 49 (5.14%) Architect
8 40 (4.20%) Project Manager
9 23 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
9 23 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (2.41%) Senior Manager
10 21 (2.20%) Security Engineer
11 19 (1.99%) Product Owner
12 18 (1.89%) Product Manager
13 17 (1.78%) Programme Manager
14 15 (1.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 14 (1.47%) Change Manager
15 14 (1.47%) Designer
15 14 (1.47%) Scrum Master
15 14 (1.47%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.04%) REST
2 25 (2.62%) .NET
2 25 (2.62%) RESTful
3 24 (2.52%) Spring
4 23 (2.41%) Node.js
5 19 (1.99%) React
6 18 (1.89%) Kafka
7 17 (1.78%) CSS
7 17 (1.78%) HTML
7 17 (1.78%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.57%) SOAP
8 15 (1.57%) Web Services
9 14 (1.47%) XML
10 11 (1.15%) OAuth
11 10 (1.05%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.94%) Hibernate
12 9 (0.94%) Middleware
13 8 (0.84%) JSON
13 8 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (0.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 42 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 30 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.10%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (1.57%) PMI
11 13 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.62%) Windows
2 40 (4.20%) Linux
3 18 (1.89%) Unix
4 14 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.05%) Android
5 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.52%) VMS
7 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.21%) AIX
9 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) tvOS
10 1 (0.10%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (39.03%) Agile
2 276 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
3 223 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 175 (18.36%) DevOps
4 175 (18.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 160 (16.79%) CI/CD
6 126 (13.22%) Roadmaps
7 119 (12.49%) Decision-Making
8 111 (11.65%) Analytics
9 97 (10.18%) Project Management
10 92 (9.65%) Scrum
11 90 (9.44%) Project Delivery
12 89 (9.34%) AI
13 80 (8.39%) Mentoring
14 78 (8.18%) Change Management
15 74 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (7.76%) Test Automation
16 73 (7.66%) ITIL
17 66 (6.93%) Migration
18 64 (6.72%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (13.96%) SQL
2 127 (13.33%) Python
3 75 (7.87%) Java
4 49 (5.14%) PowerShell
5 45 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 35 (3.67%) Bash
7 28 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.41%) C#
9 15 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.05%) C++
11 8 (0.84%) VBA
12 7 (0.73%) Bicep
12 7 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.63%) Korn
13 6 (0.63%) R
14 5 (0.52%) Groovy
14 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.42%) RPG
15 4 (0.42%) Ruby
15 4 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 111 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.07%) Degree
4 39 (4.09%) PMI Certification
5 30 (3.15%) PMP
6 27 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.52%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.15%) ACCA
10 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.05%) CIMA
11 10 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.84%) CISSP
14 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.65%) QA
2 45 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.51%) GDPR
4 42 (4.41%) Accessibility
5 36 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (3.25%) PMO
7 20 (2.10%) NIST
7 20 (2.10%) SLA
8 17 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (1.47%) GRC
10 10 (1.05%) COBIT
10 10 (1.05%) ITGC
10 10 (1.05%) NCSC
11 9 (0.94%) MiFID
12 7 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.73%) EMIR
13 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.63%) SOX 404
System Software
1 66 (6.93%) Docker
2 26 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 67 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.09%) Terraform
3 27 (2.83%) Ansible
4 20 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (2.10%) SCCM
5 18 (1.89%) Grafana
6 13 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (0.84%) WSUS
9 6 (0.63%) Kibana
10 5 (0.52%) Control-M
11 4 (0.42%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.42%) SCOM
12 3 (0.31%) logstash
12 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.21%) BladeLogic
13 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.21%) Packer
13 2 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 172 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.40%) SAP
3 45 (4.72%) Oracle
3 45 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 36 (3.78%) Google
5 35 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.99%) Splunk
7 16 (1.68%) Databricks
8 13 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.26%) Adobe
10 10 (1.05%) VMware
11 9 (0.94%) Workday
12 8 (0.84%) IBM
12 8 (0.84%) TIBCO
13 6 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.63%) Murex
13 6 (0.63%) Remedy
13 6 (0.63%) Solace
13 6 (0.63%) Sophos