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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 47 71
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,526 675 547
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.72% 4.96% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 5.38% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 447 370
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £697
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 16
10th Percentile £24.75 £27.29 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.05 £24.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +29.97% -47.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.38 £50.31
90th Percentile £93.00 £57.63 £66.88
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +61.76% -2.86% -34.40%

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 17,596 12,550 15,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.20% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,685 8,395 10,963
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -4 159 £535 +6.90% 285
South London +19 53 £500 -14.00% 23
West London -1 46 £520 +2.77% 165
East London +13 13 £675 +15.38% 32
North London -2 2 £450 -18.18% 7
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 72 (4.72%) Confluence
2 59 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.66%) CMS
7 7 (0.46%) Apache
8 6 (0.39%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.066%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.066%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.066%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.066%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.066%) InDesign
9 1 (0.066%) Mingle
9 1 (0.066%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.31%) NetSuite
1 20 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.59%) Actimize
3 9 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.33%) Magento
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.33%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.26%) Endur
8 4 (0.26%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.20%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 342 (22.41%) Azure
2 295 (19.33%) AWS
3 141 (9.24%) Power Platform
4 107 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (6.16%) GitHub
6 85 (5.57%) GCP
7 74 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (4.06%) SaaS
9 61 (4.00%) Entra ID
10 56 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (3.67%) Serverless
11 51 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (3.08%) Amazon S3
13 45 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 27 (1.77%) Azure AKS
19 25 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.10%) Firewall
2 27 (1.77%) Network Security
3 19 (1.25%) DNS
4 15 (0.98%) WAN
5 11 (0.72%) VoIP
6 9 (0.59%) LAN
7 8 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.33%) BGP
9 5 (0.33%) DHCP
9 5 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.33%) MPLS
9 5 (0.33%) NGFW
9 5 (0.33%) OSPF
9 5 (0.33%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.33%) WebEx
10 4 (0.26%) DKIM
10 4 (0.26%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.26%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.54%) Power BI
2 41 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 37 (2.42%) Tableau
4 36 (2.36%) Metadata
5 34 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 15 (0.98%) Delta Lake
12 12 (0.79%) Power Query
13 11 (0.72%) Parquet
14 10 (0.66%) Big Data
15 9 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 7 (0.46%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
18 6 (0.39%) MySQL
18 6 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 163 (10.68%) JIRA
2 71 (4.65%) Git
3 70 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.95%) GitLab
5 24 (1.57%) Selenium
6 17 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.59%) JMeter
9 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.52%) JUnit
9 8 (0.52%) Postman
9 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.46%) Maven
11 6 (0.39%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.39%) Gradle
11 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.39%) Vite
11 6 (0.39%) XCTest
12 5 (0.33%) tSQLt
General
1 623 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 526 (34.47%) Finance
3 329 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (14.42%) Public Sector
5 147 (9.63%) Banking
6 59 (3.87%) Legal
7 58 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.41%) Law
10 47 (3.08%) Retail
11 40 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (2.49%) Local Government
13 37 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (2.29%) Marketing
14 35 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (2.23%) Front Office
16 29 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.77%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 212 (13.89%) Lead
2 152 (9.96%) Senior
3 150 (9.83%) Analyst
4 137 (8.98%) Developer
5 94 (6.16%) Architect
6 66 (4.33%) Project Manager
7 55 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (3.54%) Consultant
9 53 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
10 46 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 43 (2.82%) Business Analyst
12 40 (2.62%) Scrum Master
13 38 (2.49%) Software Engineer
14 37 (2.42%) Senior Manager
15 34 (2.23%) Lead Architect
16 31 (2.03%) Functional Architect
17 30 (1.97%) Azure Engineer
18 29 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
18 29 (1.90%) Java Developer
18 29 (1.90%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.13%) REST
2 58 (3.80%) RESTful
3 50 (3.28%) React
4 39 (2.56%) Spring
5 36 (2.36%) .NET
6 35 (2.29%) HTML
6 35 (2.29%) Spring Boot
7 34 (2.23%) Kafka
8 32 (2.10%) CSS
9 29 (1.90%) AngularJS
10 26 (1.70%) Node.js
11 20 (1.31%) Django
11 20 (1.31%) Middleware
12 19 (1.25%) Web Services
13 16 (1.05%) JSON
13 16 (1.05%) Playwright
14 15 (0.98%) Next.js
14 15 (0.98%) SOAP
15 14 (0.92%) OAuth
15 14 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 102 (6.68%) Cloud Native
3 86 (5.64%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.01%) Virtual Team
5 42 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 27 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.51%) CMDB
14 22 (1.44%) AI Agents
14 22 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 17 (1.11%) Derivative
17 16 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
18 14 (0.92%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.44%) Windows
2 59 (3.87%) Linux
3 19 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.72%) Unix
8 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.26%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.066%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.066%) HPUX
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.066%) Solaris
12 1 (0.066%) SUSE
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (38.07%) Agile
2 409 (26.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 368 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
4 322 (21.10%) DevOps
5 312 (20.45%) CI/CD
6 285 (18.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 280 (18.35%) Decision-Making
8 232 (15.20%) AI
9 185 (12.12%) Analytics
10 183 (11.99%) Roadmaps
11 163 (10.68%) Scrum
12 157 (10.29%) Change Management
13 153 (10.03%) Migration
14 141 (9.24%) Test Automation
15 136 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
16 131 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 130 (8.52%) Risk Management
18 126 (8.26%) Mentoring
19 125 (8.19%) Software Engineering
19 125 (8.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 243 (15.92%) Python
2 229 (15.01%) SQL
3 119 (7.80%) Java
4 78 (5.11%) JavaScript
5 65 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 51 (3.34%) C#
7 46 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.62%) Bash
9 25 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.72%) Bicep
13 11 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.66%) Go
15 9 (0.59%) C++
15 9 (0.59%) Groovy
15 9 (0.59%) Perl
15 9 (0.59%) Ruby
15 9 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 313 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 267 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 138 (9.04%) Degree
4 50 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.36%) PMP
7 35 (2.29%) CISSP
7 35 (2.29%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.51%) CISM
11 19 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.85%) ACCA
13 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.72%) CCNP
14 11 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.66%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.72%) QA
2 108 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 70 (4.59%) PMO
4 48 (3.15%) GDPR
5 43 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 39 (2.56%) NIST
7 32 (2.10%) SLA
8 24 (1.57%) GRC
9 14 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.79%) IFRS
11 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.52%) NCSC
13 6 (0.39%) GAAP
13 6 (0.39%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.33%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (5.70%) Docker
2 57 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.39%) IAG
4 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.066%) Ceph
8 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.066%) Firmware
8 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.066%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.066%) UAG
8 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.066%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.066%) zsh
Systems Management
1 127 (8.32%) Terraform
2 123 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.82%) Ansible
4 36 (2.36%) Grafana
4 36 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.33%) Kibana
8 5 (0.33%) SCCM
9 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) Puppet
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 101 (6.62%) ServiceNow
3 95 (6.23%) Oracle
4 70 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 56 (3.67%) SAP
6 46 (3.01%) Google
7 31 (2.03%) Databricks
8 18 (1.18%) Cisco
9 16 (1.05%) Splunk
10 15 (0.98%) VMware
11 13 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.79%) Apple
12 12 (0.79%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.72%) Okta
14 10 (0.66%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.66%) Foundry
14 10 (0.66%) Murex
15 9 (0.59%) IBM
16 8 (0.52%) Workday
17 7 (0.46%) Zscaler