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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,731 771 616
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.50% 5.76% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 6.23% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 510 369
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £438 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.58%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £27.51
Median hourly rate £29.15 £34.00 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -16.31% -17.93%
75th Percentile £52.88 £47.50 £55.75
90th Percentile £62.85 £69.75 £59.38
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +28.00% -39.39% -36.54%

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £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 £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +1 193 £550 +6.80% 382
West London +4 57 £520 +4.00% 150
South London +23 46 £525 -9.76% 40
East London +1 10 £600 +215.79% 50
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 1
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 82 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 77 (4.45%) Confluence
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.04%) CMS
7 14 (0.81%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 76 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.17%) InDesign
7 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Magento
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.17%) Endur
9 3 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 389 (22.47%) Azure
2 328 (18.95%) AWS
3 148 (8.55%) Power Platform
4 117 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (6.53%) GitHub
6 107 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.66%) GCP
8 82 (4.74%) Entra ID
9 72 (4.16%) Serverless
10 62 (3.58%) SaaS
11 60 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (3.35%) Amazon S3
13 55 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
15 40 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (2.02%) Snowflake
18 31 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.08%) Firewall
2 34 (1.96%) Network Security
3 33 (1.91%) DNS
4 22 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.04%) VPN
5 18 (1.04%) WAN
6 13 (0.75%) DHCP
7 11 (0.64%) LAN
8 9 (0.52%) VoIP
9 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.29%) HTTP
11 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.29%) WebEx
12 4 (0.23%) BGP
12 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.23%) SAN
12 4 (0.23%) SSL
12 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (6.24%) Power BI
2 59 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 50 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.60%) Metadata
5 39 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.39%) Delta Lake
9 24 (1.39%) Tableau
10 20 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.92%) Power Query
12 15 (0.87%) Parquet
13 12 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.64%) Big Data
15 10 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.58%) MySQL
16 7 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 154 (8.90%) JIRA
2 112 (6.47%) Git
3 93 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 52 (3.00%) GitLab
5 36 (2.08%) Selenium
6 16 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.81%) JUnit
8 14 (0.81%) Postman
9 13 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.52%) Maven
12 7 (0.40%) Gradle
12 7 (0.40%) Mockito
12 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.35%) XCTest
13 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
14 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 781 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 534 (30.85%) Finance
3 400 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (17.27%) Public Sector
5 207 (11.96%) Banking
6 75 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (3.35%) Legal
9 51 (2.95%) Retail
10 50 (2.89%) Front Office
11 48 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (2.14%) Law
12 37 (2.14%) Marketing
13 36 (2.08%) Local Government
14 35 (2.02%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 226 (13.06%) Lead
2 201 (11.61%) Senior
3 174 (10.05%) Analyst
3 174 (10.05%) Developer
4 86 (4.97%) Architect
5 67 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 65 (3.76%) Project Manager
7 58 (3.35%) Data Engineer
8 55 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
9 53 (3.06%) Consultant
10 52 (3.00%) Business Analyst
11 48 (2.77%) Software Engineer
12 40 (2.31%) Scrum Master
13 39 (2.25%) Product Manager
13 39 (2.25%) Senior Manager
14 35 (2.02%) Product Owner
15 32 (1.85%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.79%) Java Developer
17 29 (1.68%) Applications Support
17 29 (1.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (8.49%) Terraform
2 98 (5.66%) REST
3 79 (4.56%) RESTful
4 59 (3.41%) Kafka
5 58 (3.35%) .NET
6 53 (3.06%) React
6 53 (3.06%) Spring
7 49 (2.83%) Spring Boot
8 43 (2.48%) HTML
9 42 (2.43%) AngularJS
9 42 (2.43%) Web Services
10 36 (2.08%) CSS
11 32 (1.85%) SOAP
12 31 (1.79%) Django
12 31 (1.79%) PySpark
13 24 (1.39%) Middleware
13 24 (1.39%) Node.js
14 23 (1.33%) JSON
14 23 (1.33%) XML
15 21 (1.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 216 (12.48%) Product Ownership
2 137 (7.91%) Onboarding
3 123 (7.11%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 45 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 28 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.44%) CMDB
13 24 (1.39%) Data Centre
13 24 (1.39%) NHS
14 22 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.16%) Low-Code
16 18 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.93%) Windows
2 92 (5.31%) Linux
3 35 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.56%) Unix
5 21 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.98%) Android
7 15 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) zOS
11 1 (0.058%) HPUX
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.058%) Solaris
11 1 (0.058%) SUSE
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (39.34%) Agile
2 577 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 453 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 377 (21.78%) CI/CD
5 358 (20.68%) DevOps
6 343 (19.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 313 (18.08%) Decision-Making
8 304 (17.56%) AI
9 247 (14.27%) Roadmaps
10 212 (12.25%) Analytics
11 195 (11.27%) Scrum
12 179 (10.34%) Change Management
13 167 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 167 (9.65%) Software Engineering
14 166 (9.59%) Test Automation
15 158 (9.13%) Migration
16 153 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
17 152 (8.78%) Risk Management
18 146 (8.43%) ITIL
18 146 (8.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 309 (17.85%) Python
2 276 (15.94%) SQL
3 147 (8.49%) Java
4 98 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.56%) C#
7 61 (3.52%) Bash
8 58 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.92%) Groovy
13 15 (0.87%) Go
14 14 (0.81%) Korn
14 14 (0.81%) Perl
15 13 (0.75%) Bicep
16 12 (0.69%) R
17 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 402 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 344 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 150 (8.67%) Degree
4 56 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.12%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.12%) PMP
6 45 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 35 (2.02%) CISSP
9 34 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.16%) CISM
12 18 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (8.90%) QA
2 150 (8.67%) Data Quality
3 77 (4.45%) PMO
4 50 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 47 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.37%) NIST
6 41 (2.37%) SLA
7 34 (1.96%) GDPR
8 32 (1.85%) GRC
9 19 (1.10%) NCSC
10 17 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.75%) COBIT
11 13 (0.75%) WCAG
12 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 120 (6.93%) Docker
2 82 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.52%) 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
1 150 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.41%) Ansible
3 50 (2.89%) Grafana
4 49 (2.83%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.69%) Kibana
7 12 (0.69%) SCCM
8 6 (0.35%) 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%) Control-M
11 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.17%) Nagios
11 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.12%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 321 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.53%) Oracle
3 112 (6.47%) ServiceNow
4 62 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 55 (3.18%) Google
5 55 (3.18%) SAP
6 44 (2.54%) Databricks
6 44 (2.54%) Splunk
7 33 (1.91%) IBM
8 24 (1.39%) Cisco
9 22 (1.27%) VMware
10 19 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 16 (0.92%) Zscaler
12 14 (0.81%) Adobe
12 14 (0.81%) Apple
12 14 (0.81%) UiPath
13 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.58%) Okta
14 10 (0.58%) Qualys
14 10 (0.58%) Workday