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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 49 57
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 971 569 651
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.66% 4.10% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 4.53% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 314 431
10th Percentile £325 £365 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £720
90th Percentile £751 £838 £850
England median daily rate £500 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 8
10th Percentile - £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.77 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -56.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.81 £71.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £72.38 £91.13
England median hourly rate £27.22 £50.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year -45.56% -18.03% -0.41%

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 13,291 12,555 16,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.17% 90.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,813 8,005 11,559
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 154 294
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +12.45% -12.32%
75th Percentile £55.25 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +10 127 £525 -4.55% 119
East London +4 18 £190 -65.69% 24
West London -13 15 £488 +2.63% 36
South London -13 6 £563 -3.43% 35
North London +7 3 £600 - 5
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 62 (6.39%) Confluence
2 39 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.51%) Apache
5 5 (0.51%) CMS
6 4 (0.41%) Appian
6 4 (0.41%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.41%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.31%) Camunda
7 3 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 72 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.51%) Trello
8 4 (0.41%) Notion
9 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Sketch
11 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.41%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.41%) SAP PS
7 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.21%) Endur
8 2 (0.21%) iTrent
8 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.21%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
8 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 178 (18.33%) Azure
2 135 (13.90%) AWS
3 86 (8.86%) Power Platform
4 79 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (6.39%) GitHub
6 42 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (4.02%) GCP
7 39 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (3.91%) SaaS
9 31 (3.19%) Serverless
10 24 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.27%) Entra ID
11 22 (2.27%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (1.96%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.44%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.47%) Firewall
2 19 (1.96%) DNS
3 14 (1.44%) DHCP
3 14 (1.44%) Network Security
4 13 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.24%) VPN
6 8 (0.82%) Modbus
7 7 (0.72%) LAN
7 7 (0.72%) WAN
8 6 (0.62%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.62%) RS-232
8 6 (0.62%) RS-485
9 5 (0.51%) Broadband
10 4 (0.41%) 5G
10 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.31%) DKIM
11 3 (0.31%) DMARC
11 3 (0.31%) Multicast
11 3 (0.31%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.00%) Power BI
2 21 (2.16%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.06%) Tableau
4 18 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.13%) Metadata
9 10 (1.03%) MySQL
10 9 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.82%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.62%) Redis
14 5 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.51%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.51%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.51%) Power Query
15 4 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 127 (13.08%) JIRA
2 46 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.19%) GitLab
4 24 (2.47%) Git
5 17 (1.75%) Selenium
6 13 (1.34%) JUnit
7 10 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.82%) Postman
10 6 (0.62%) JMeter
10 6 (0.62%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.41%) Maven
11 4 (0.41%) MLflow
11 4 (0.41%) Mockito
11 4 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.31%) Gradle
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.31%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 452 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 281 (28.94%) Finance
3 200 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 76 (7.83%) Banking
6 45 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (4.22%) Legal
8 39 (4.02%) Marketing
9 31 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 28 (2.88%) Retail
11 23 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.85%) Front Office
14 16 (1.65%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.54%) Publishing
16 14 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 149 (15.35%) Analyst
2 132 (13.59%) Lead
3 93 (9.58%) Senior
4 76 (7.83%) Developer
5 61 (6.28%) Business Analyst
6 49 (5.05%) Consultant
7 48 (4.94%) Architect
8 38 (3.91%) Project Manager
9 26 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
11 22 (2.27%) Security Engineer
11 22 (2.27%) Senior Manager
12 20 (2.06%) Data Engineer
13 17 (1.75%) Product Manager
14 15 (1.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (1.54%) Designer
14 15 (1.54%) Product Owner
15 14 (1.44%) QA Engineer
15 14 (1.44%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.99%) REST
2 27 (2.78%) .NET
3 25 (2.57%) React
4 24 (2.47%) Node.js
5 23 (2.37%) RESTful
6 22 (2.27%) CSS
7 21 (2.16%) HTML
8 20 (2.06%) Spring
9 17 (1.75%) Spring Boot
10 15 (1.54%) XML
11 13 (1.34%) SOAP
12 12 (1.24%) Web Services
13 11 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.03%) ARM Templates
14 10 (1.03%) OAuth
15 9 (0.93%) JSON
15 9 (0.93%) Kafka
15 9 (0.93%) Playwright
15 9 (0.93%) PySpark
16 7 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 55 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.65%) PMI
9 15 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.93%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.15%) Windows
2 45 (4.63%) Linux
3 14 (1.44%) Unix
4 13 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.03%) Android
5 10 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.93%) VMS
7 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (38.21%) Agile
2 264 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
3 227 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 201 (20.70%) DevOps
5 181 (18.64%) CI/CD
6 170 (17.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 123 (12.67%) Decision-Making
8 121 (12.46%) Roadmaps
9 119 (12.26%) Analytics
10 94 (9.68%) AI
11 92 (9.47%) Project Delivery
12 87 (8.96%) Project Management
12 87 (8.96%) Scrum
13 84 (8.65%) Test Automation
14 81 (8.34%) Infrastructure as Code
15 79 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
16 76 (7.83%) Mentoring
17 74 (7.62%) ITIL
18 72 (7.42%) Change Management
18 72 (7.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (13.80%) Python
1 134 (13.80%) SQL
2 71 (7.31%) Java
3 47 (4.84%) JavaScript
3 47 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.40%) Bash
5 32 (3.30%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.27%) C#
7 16 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 14 (1.44%) C++
9 7 (0.72%) Bicep
9 7 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.62%) Embedded C++
10 6 (0.62%) Korn
10 6 (0.62%) R
11 5 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.41%) ABAP
12 4 (0.41%) RPG
13 3 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 121 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 97 (9.99%) Degree
4 32 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.16%) PMP
8 16 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.54%) ACCA
10 12 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.24%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.93%) CIMA
13 9 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.93%) CISSP
14 8 (0.82%) IIBA
15 7 (0.72%) CBAP
15 7 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.78%) QA
2 49 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.43%) GDPR
4 42 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 40 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (2.99%) PMO
7 25 (2.57%) NIST
8 20 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.96%) SLA
10 17 (1.75%) GRC
11 10 (1.03%) COBIT
11 10 (1.03%) NCSC
12 8 (0.82%) ITGC
12 8 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.62%) GMP
14 6 (0.62%) IFRS
14 6 (0.62%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (7.21%) Docker
2 26 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.62%) Firmware
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.10%) RACF
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 73 (7.52%) Terraform
3 39 (4.02%) Ansible
4 20 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.85%) SCCM
6 16 (1.65%) Grafana
7 14 (1.44%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.82%) WSUS
10 6 (0.62%) Kibana
11 5 (0.51%) Puppet
12 4 (0.41%) Control-M
12 4 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.41%) SCOM
13 3 (0.31%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.31%) logstash
13 3 (0.31%) vRealize
14 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.21%) Packer
14 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 161 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.18%) SAP
3 52 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 49 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.22%) Oracle
6 39 (4.02%) Google
7 16 (1.65%) Databricks
8 15 (1.54%) Splunk
9 12 (1.24%) Adobe
10 9 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.93%) Remedy
10 9 (0.93%) VMware
10 9 (0.93%) Workday
11 7 (0.72%) IBM
12 6 (0.62%) BMC
12 6 (0.62%) Murex
12 6 (0.62%) New Relic
12 6 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.62%) Sophos
12 6 (0.62%) TIBCO