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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 42 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 +10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,646 714 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.12% 5.26% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 5.70% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,064 481 349
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.33 £26.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.70 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.24 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% +4.41% -41.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £46.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £92.13 £54.25 £76.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.75 £51.25
% change year-on-year +65.22% -43.90% -10.87%

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 18,082 12,534 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 8,375 10,138
10th Percentile £363 £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 £660 £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 298 249 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.05 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -4 171 £550 +10.00% 241
South London +20 61 £503 -13.51% 26
West London +4 53 £520 +1.51% 73
East London +4 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 76 (4.62%) Confluence
2 72 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.97%) CMS
6 13 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.49%) Apache
8 7 (0.43%) 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
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 75 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.061%) InDesign
9 1 (0.061%) Mingle
9 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.43%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) Shopify
10 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 384 (23.33%) Azure
2 303 (18.41%) AWS
3 150 (9.11%) Power Platform
4 110 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (6.32%) GitHub
6 101 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
7 99 (6.01%) GCP
8 82 (4.98%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.83%) SaaS
10 57 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (3.46%) Serverless
11 55 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
12 45 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (2.67%) Amazon S3
14 38 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (1.94%) Azure AKS
17 29 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (1.58%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.43%) Firewall
2 31 (1.88%) DNS
3 30 (1.82%) Network Security
4 21 (1.28%) WAN
5 15 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.79%) DHCP
6 13 (0.79%) VPN
7 12 (0.73%) LAN
8 10 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.61%) VoIP
9 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.36%) BGP
10 6 (0.36%) MPLS
11 5 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.30%) HTTP
11 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.30%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.30%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.17%) Power BI
2 47 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.43%) Metadata
4 38 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.94%) Tableau
6 30 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 17 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.79%) Parquet
12 13 (0.79%) Power Query
13 12 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.67%) Big Data
15 8 (0.49%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.43%) MySQL
16 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
17 6 (0.36%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 163 (9.90%) JIRA
2 85 (5.16%) Git
3 77 (4.68%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.73%) GitLab
5 24 (1.46%) Selenium
6 18 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.67%) JMeter
9 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.55%) JUnit
9 9 (0.55%) Postman
9 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.55%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.49%) Maven
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 (0.36%) Gatling
General
1 711 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 552 (33.54%) Finance
3 367 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (16.52%) Public Sector
5 175 (10.63%) Banking
6 66 (4.01%) Legal
7 64 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 63 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.28%) Law
10 53 (3.22%) Retail
11 46 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (2.55%) Local Government
14 38 (2.31%) Front Office
15 36 (2.19%) Marketing
16 32 (1.94%) Investment Banking
17 31 (1.88%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
20 19 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 223 (13.55%) Lead
2 171 (10.39%) Senior
3 159 (9.66%) Analyst
4 151 (9.17%) Developer
5 103 (6.26%) Architect
6 65 (3.95%) Project Manager
7 62 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
8 56 (3.40%) Consultant
9 52 (3.16%) Business Analyst
9 52 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 45 (2.73%) Data Engineer
11 42 (2.55%) Scrum Master
11 42 (2.55%) Software Engineer
12 37 (2.25%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.07%) Lead Architect
13 34 (2.07%) Product Owner
14 33 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (1.88%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (1.88%) Functional Architect
15 31 (1.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (4.86%) REST
2 68 (4.13%) RESTful
3 48 (2.92%) React
4 45 (2.73%) Spring
5 44 (2.67%) .NET
6 41 (2.49%) Kafka
7 39 (2.37%) HTML
7 39 (2.37%) Spring Boot
8 36 (2.19%) AngularJS
9 33 (2.00%) CSS
10 26 (1.58%) Web Services
11 23 (1.40%) Node.js
12 22 (1.34%) Django
12 22 (1.34%) Middleware
13 21 (1.28%) JSON
13 21 (1.28%) SOAP
14 19 (1.15%) Playwright
15 18 (1.09%) XML
16 16 (0.97%) PySpark
17 15 (0.91%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 196 (11.91%) Product Ownership
2 120 (7.29%) Onboarding
3 109 (6.62%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 39 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.58%) CMDB
11 26 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.46%) Security Posture
13 20 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 19 (1.15%) NHS
15 18 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.32%) Windows
2 66 (4.01%) Linux
3 26 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 15 (0.91%) Unix
7 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.61%) Android
9 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) VMS
11 1 (0.061%) HPUX
11 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.061%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) SUSE
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (39.31%) Agile
2 474 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 409 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
4 342 (20.78%) DevOps
5 336 (20.41%) CI/CD
6 327 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 299 (18.17%) Decision-Making
8 261 (15.86%) AI
9 205 (12.45%) Roadmaps
10 196 (11.91%) Analytics
11 182 (11.06%) Change Management
12 169 (10.27%) Scrum
13 163 (9.90%) Migration
14 152 (9.23%) Test Automation
15 147 (8.93%) Software Engineering
16 143 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 139 (8.44%) Mentoring
18 138 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
19 130 (7.90%) Translating Business Requirements
19 130 (7.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 268 (16.28%) Python
2 241 (14.64%) SQL
3 131 (7.96%) Java
4 84 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.86%) PowerShell
6 61 (3.71%) C#
7 48 (2.92%) Bash
8 43 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.03%) Bicep
11 17 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.79%) Groovy
13 12 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.67%) Go
14 11 (0.67%) Perl
15 9 (0.55%) C++
15 9 (0.55%) Ruby
15 9 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 350 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 299 (18.17%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.87%) Degree
4 49 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 44 (2.67%) PMP
7 40 (2.43%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.13%) CISSP
9 32 (1.94%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.28%) CISM
12 17 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.67%) CCNP
15 10 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.55%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (8.81%) QA
2 120 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 76 (4.62%) PMO
4 49 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.61%) NIST
6 41 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 41 (2.49%) GDPR
6 41 (2.49%) SLA
7 24 (1.46%) GRC
8 17 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.91%) NCSC
10 13 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.55%) COBIT
12 9 (0.55%) IFRS
13 8 (0.49%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 93 (5.65%) Docker
2 78 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.55%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.061%) Ceph
9 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.061%) UAG
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 132 (8.02%) Terraform
3 45 (2.73%) Ansible
4 40 (2.43%) Grafana
4 40 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.49%) SCCM
7 6 (0.36%) Kibana
8 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) QRadar
9 4 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 290 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.74%) ServiceNow
3 96 (5.83%) Oracle
4 68 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 63 (3.83%) Google
6 62 (3.77%) SAP
7 36 (2.19%) Databricks
8 26 (1.58%) Cisco
9 22 (1.34%) Splunk
9 22 (1.34%) VMware
10 21 (1.28%) IBM
11 18 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.85%) Apple
12 14 (0.85%) Okta
12 14 (0.85%) Zscaler
13 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.67%) Foundry
15 10 (0.61%) ForgeRock
16 9 (0.55%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.55%) Workday