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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 55 63
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,096 520 617
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.92% 3.86% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 4.26% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 299 431
10th Percentile £350 £363 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £706
90th Percentile £750 £865 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.94% +2.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.09 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £54.63 £38.95
% change year-on-year -35.93% +40.24% -27.87%

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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +20 141 £550 +7.84% 115
South London 0 26 £513 -12.09% 7
West London -17 14 £488 +11.43% 23
East London -1 7 £450 -14.69% 30
North London +3 2 £550 - 8
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 79 (7.21%) Confluence
2 41 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.46%) CMS
6 4 (0.36%) Apache
6 4 (0.36%) Appian
6 4 (0.36%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.36%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.27%) Camunda
7 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.27%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.091%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.091%) Drupal
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 73 (6.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.09%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.36%) Notion
7 4 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.18%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.091%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.091%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.82%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.27%) Actimize
6 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.18%) Endur
7 2 (0.18%) iTrent
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 227 (20.71%) Azure
2 166 (15.15%) AWS
3 99 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (8.49%) Power Platform
5 79 (7.21%) GitHub
6 46 (4.20%) GCP
7 43 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (3.92%) SaaS
8 42 (3.83%) Serverless
9 38 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (3.19%) Amazon S3
11 32 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (2.28%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.82%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.73%) Google Workspace
15 19 (1.73%) PowerApps
16 18 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.19%) Firewall
2 19 (1.73%) Network Security
3 17 (1.55%) DNS
4 13 (1.19%) DHCP
5 12 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.91%) VPN
7 9 (0.82%) WAN
8 7 (0.64%) LAN
9 6 (0.55%) Broadband
9 6 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.55%) Modbus
9 6 (0.55%) RS-232
9 6 (0.55%) RS-485
10 5 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.36%) 5G
11 4 (0.36%) BGP
11 4 (0.36%) OSPF
12 3 (0.27%) Internet
12 3 (0.27%) Multicast
12 3 (0.27%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.75%) Power BI
2 27 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.37%) Tableau
4 23 (2.10%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.28%) Metadata
9 13 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.73%) MySQL
11 8 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.64%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.64%) Redis
13 6 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.46%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.46%) Power Query
14 5 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 158 (14.42%) JIRA
2 51 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.28%) GitLab
4 34 (3.10%) Git
5 19 (1.73%) Selenium
6 16 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.09%) JUnit
8 11 (1.00%) JMeter
9 10 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.64%) Postman
12 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.46%) Gatling
13 5 (0.46%) MSTest
13 5 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.46%) TestRail
14 4 (0.36%) Maven
14 4 (0.36%) MLflow
15 3 (0.27%) XCTest
General
1 483 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 351 (32.03%) Finance
3 225 (20.53%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 79 (7.21%) Banking
6 46 (4.20%) Legal
7 39 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
7 39 (3.56%) Marketing
8 37 (3.38%) Retail
9 31 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.92%) Front Office
13 18 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.55%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.37%) Local Government
15 15 (1.37%) Publishing
16 14 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 159 (14.51%) Analyst
2 150 (13.69%) Lead
3 110 (10.04%) Senior
4 89 (8.12%) Developer
5 67 (6.11%) Business Analyst
6 46 (4.20%) Architect
6 46 (4.20%) Project Manager
7 42 (3.83%) Consultant
7 42 (3.83%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (2.92%) Data Engineer
9 29 (2.65%) Senior Manager
10 25 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.01%) Security Engineer
13 19 (1.73%) Scrum Master
13 19 (1.73%) Technical Manager
14 18 (1.64%) Product Owner
15 17 (1.55%) Designer
15 17 (1.55%) Product Manager
15 17 (1.55%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.28%) .NET
2 32 (2.92%) REST
3 28 (2.55%) React
4 27 (2.46%) RESTful
5 26 (2.37%) CSS
5 26 (2.37%) HTML
5 26 (2.37%) Node.js
6 16 (1.46%) Spring
7 15 (1.37%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.37%) XML
8 14 (1.28%) Web Services
9 13 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.09%) Playwright
10 12 (1.09%) PySpark
10 12 (1.09%) SOAP
11 11 (1.00%) Kafka
12 10 (0.91%) JSON
12 10 (0.91%) OAuth
13 9 (0.82%) ARM Templates
13 9 (0.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.12%) Product Ownership
2 59 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 48 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.19%) PMI
12 13 (1.19%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.09%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.00%) Replication
15 10 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
15 10 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 51 (4.65%) Windows
2 48 (4.38%) Linux
3 13 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.00%) Unix
5 10 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.82%) VMS
6 9 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.73%) Android
8 6 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.55%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.18%) AIX
11 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.091%) Solaris
11 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (39.69%) Agile
2 266 (24.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 264 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
4 239 (21.81%) DevOps
5 221 (20.16%) CI/CD
6 175 (15.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 161 (14.69%) Decision-Making
8 145 (13.23%) Analytics
9 135 (12.32%) Roadmaps
10 120 (10.95%) AI
11 105 (9.58%) Migration
12 98 (8.94%) Project Delivery
12 98 (8.94%) Test Automation
13 97 (8.85%) Scrum
14 96 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 95 (8.67%) Project Management
15 95 (8.67%) Risk Management
16 92 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
17 88 (8.03%) Change Management
18 81 (7.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 168 (15.33%) SQL
2 162 (14.78%) Python
3 72 (6.57%) Java
4 54 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 44 (4.01%) PowerShell
6 35 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 32 (2.92%) C#
8 31 (2.83%) Bash
9 15 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (1.28%) C++
10 14 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.64%) Bicep
12 7 (0.64%) Swift
13 6 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.55%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.46%) Go
14 5 (0.46%) Korn
14 5 (0.46%) R
14 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 182 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 155 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 95 (8.67%) Degree
4 29 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.92%) ACCA
8 18 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.64%) PMP
9 16 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.37%) CISSP
11 14 (1.28%) CISM
11 14 (1.28%) ISTQB
12 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.00%) IIBA
13 11 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.82%) CIMA
15 9 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.49%) QA
2 64 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 50 (4.56%) GDPR
4 48 (4.38%) Accessibility
5 47 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.92%) NIST
7 29 (2.65%) PMO
8 25 (2.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (2.01%) SLA
10 18 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (1.55%) GRC
12 12 (1.09%) IFRS
13 11 (1.00%) COBIT
13 11 (1.00%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.91%) NCSC
15 8 (0.73%) WCAG
16 7 (0.64%) ITGC
17 6 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.55%) MiFID
17 6 (0.55%) SOX 404
System Software
1 73 (6.66%) Docker
2 23 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.55%) Firmware
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.091%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (7.85%) Terraform
2 80 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.74%) Ansible
4 18 (1.64%) SCCM
5 17 (1.55%) Grafana
5 17 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.64%) WSUS
8 5 (0.46%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Control-M
9 4 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 4 (0.36%) Puppet
9 4 (0.36%) SCOM
10 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.27%) vRealize
11 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 168 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.20%) ServiceNow
3 56 (5.11%) SAP
4 52 (4.74%) Salesforce
5 44 (4.01%) Oracle
6 42 (3.83%) Google
7 25 (2.28%) Databricks
8 15 (1.37%) VMware
9 13 (1.19%) Splunk
10 12 (1.09%) Adobe
11 9 (0.82%) Remedy
12 6 (0.55%) IBM
12 6 (0.55%) Informatica
12 6 (0.55%) Murex
12 6 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.46%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.46%) Okta
13 5 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.46%) Solace