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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 61 70
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,254 486 575
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.33% 3.83% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 4.19% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 296 399
10th Percentile £355 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £751 £688
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £41.75 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £93.00 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.94% +53.33% -37.50%

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 15,277 11,605 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.33% 91.50% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 7,873 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 169 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +17 143 £525 +5.00% 175
South London +6 36 £500 -14.24% 10
West London -13 23 £500 +5.26% 27
East London +12 14 £598 - 21
North London - 2 £550 - 2
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 78 (6.22%) Confluence
2 50 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.48%) Apache
5 6 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.48%) CMS
6 5 (0.40%) Camunda
7 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.080%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.080%) SAS
Applications
1 81 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.88%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Notion
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.080%) Mingle
10 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.80%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.32%) Actimize
6 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.16%) iTrent
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 280 (22.33%) Azure
2 207 (16.51%) AWS
3 130 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 107 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (7.02%) GitHub
6 59 (4.70%) GCP
7 51 (4.07%) Serverless
8 48 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
9 47 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.67%) SaaS
11 40 (3.19%) Amazon S3
12 39 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (3.03%) Entra ID
14 31 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.67%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.63%) Firewall
2 24 (1.91%) Network Security
3 18 (1.44%) DNS
4 13 (1.04%) DHCP
4 13 (1.04%) WAN
5 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.72%) VPN
7 8 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.56%) BGP
8 7 (0.56%) LAN
8 7 (0.56%) OSPF
9 6 (0.48%) Broadband
9 6 (0.48%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.48%) Modbus
9 6 (0.48%) RS-232
9 6 (0.48%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) 5G
10 5 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.40%) MPLS
11 4 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (8.37%) Power BI
2 35 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 31 (2.47%) Tableau
4 28 (2.23%) Metadata
5 26 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.04%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.56%) MySQL
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.48%) Big Data
13 6 (0.48%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 166 (13.24%) JIRA
2 48 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.35%) Git
4 37 (2.95%) GitLab
5 19 (1.52%) Selenium
6 14 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.96%) JMeter
8 11 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.80%) JUnit
10 9 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.56%) Postman
13 5 (0.40%) Gatling
13 5 (0.40%) Maven
13 5 (0.40%) MSTest
13 5 (0.40%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.32%) Gradle
14 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 517 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 444 (35.41%) Finance
3 260 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.97%) Banking
6 50 (3.99%) Legal
7 44 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (3.43%) Marketing
9 40 (3.19%) Retail
10 37 (2.95%) Law
11 35 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.91%) Front Office
16 20 (1.59%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.44%) Local Government
18 17 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (1.28%) Financial Institution
19 16 (1.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (14.91%) Lead
2 157 (12.52%) Analyst
3 118 (9.41%) Senior
4 94 (7.50%) Architect
4 94 (7.50%) Developer
5 63 (5.02%) Business Analyst
6 53 (4.23%) Consultant
7 51 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
8 44 (3.51%) Project Manager
9 40 (3.19%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.11%) Lead Architect
11 32 (2.55%) Senior Manager
12 31 (2.47%) Functional Architect
13 29 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.15%) Scrum Master
14 27 (2.15%) Technical Manager
15 26 (2.07%) Azure Engineer
15 26 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (1.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 22 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.11%) React
2 38 (3.03%) .NET
3 36 (2.87%) REST
4 33 (2.63%) RESTful
5 32 (2.55%) HTML
6 30 (2.39%) CSS
7 29 (2.31%) Node.js
8 23 (1.83%) Spring
9 17 (1.36%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 16 (1.28%) Web Services
11 15 (1.20%) Kafka
12 13 (1.04%) Middleware
12 13 (1.04%) Next.js
12 13 (1.04%) Playwright
13 12 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (0.96%) PySpark
14 11 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
15 9 (0.72%) ARM Templates
15 9 (0.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (9.49%) Product Ownership
2 72 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 51 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.55%) Virtual Team
5 31 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 29 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 23 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.20%) CMDB
13 15 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.31%) Windows
2 41 (3.27%) Linux
3 13 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.56%) Android
7 7 (0.56%) VMS
8 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.48%) Unix
9 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 1 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.080%) Solaris
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (38.84%) Agile
2 304 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 280 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
4 266 (21.21%) DevOps
5 253 (20.18%) CI/CD
6 223 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 192 (15.31%) Decision-Making
8 160 (12.76%) AI
9 156 (12.44%) Analytics
10 149 (11.88%) Migration
11 141 (11.24%) Roadmaps
12 123 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
13 115 (9.17%) Change Management
14 111 (8.85%) Test Automation
15 110 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 107 (8.53%) Scrum
17 105 (8.37%) Mentoring
18 104 (8.29%) Risk Management
19 103 (8.21%) User Acceptance Testing
20 100 (7.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (14.91%) Python
2 186 (14.83%) SQL
3 74 (5.90%) Java
4 60 (4.78%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 36 (2.87%) C#
8 23 (1.83%) Bash
9 19 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.96%) Bicep
13 11 (0.88%) C++
14 8 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.64%) Swift
15 7 (0.56%) Go
16 6 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.48%) Embedded C++
16 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 222 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 190 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.17%) Degree
4 35 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.23%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.99%) ACCA
8 21 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.67%) CISSP
9 19 (1.52%) CISM
10 16 (1.28%) PMP
11 15 (1.20%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.12%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.88%) CIMA
14 11 (0.88%) IIBA
15 7 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.45%) QA
2 81 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 56 (4.47%) GDPR
4 50 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (3.83%) PMO
6 43 (3.43%) NIST
7 38 (3.03%) Accessibility
8 28 (2.23%) SLA
9 21 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (1.28%) GRC
12 15 (1.20%) IFRS
13 11 (0.88%) COBIT
13 11 (0.88%) NCSC
14 10 (0.80%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.64%) WCAG
16 7 (0.56%) ITGC
16 7 (0.56%) MiFID
17 6 (0.48%) PERC
17 6 (0.48%) SOX 404
System Software
1 68 (5.42%) Docker
2 31 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.16%) IAG
8 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.080%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.080%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.080%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (8.29%) Terraform
2 88 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.11%) Ansible
4 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.36%) Grafana
6 15 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.20%) SCCM
7 8 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.48%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Puppet
10 4 (0.32%) SCOM
11 3 (0.24%) Kibana
11 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.24%) vRealize
12 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) logstash
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 225 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.94%) ServiceNow
3 69 (5.50%) Oracle
4 65 (5.18%) SAP
5 61 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.43%) Google
7 28 (2.23%) Databricks
8 17 (1.36%) VMware
9 15 (1.20%) Splunk
10 13 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.80%) Foundry
12 9 (0.72%) Adobe
13 8 (0.64%) Cisco
13 8 (0.64%) Okta
13 8 (0.64%) Planview
13 8 (0.64%) Remedy
14 7 (0.56%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.56%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.56%) Murex
15 6 (0.48%) Ariba