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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 56 64
Rank change year-on-year +30 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,265 518 597
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.18% 4.09% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 4.44% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 326 405
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £749 £688
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 14
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £73.75 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £94.00 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £54.50 £56.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +50.33% -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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +10 144 £525 +2.94% 167
South London +12 39 £500 -14.24% 7
West London -3 34 £500 +5.26% 23
East London +8 13 £520 - 26
North London - 2 £550 - 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 76 (6.01%) Confluence
2 49 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) Camunda
9 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) IIS
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.079%) govService
12 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.079%) Mingle
10 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.11%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.79%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.32%) Actimize
7 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.16%) Global One
9 2 (0.16%) iTrent
9 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 276 (21.82%) Azure
2 207 (16.36%) AWS
3 131 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 97 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (6.88%) GitHub
6 65 (5.14%) GCP
7 53 (4.19%) SaaS
8 52 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 49 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (3.72%) Serverless
11 40 (3.16%) Amazon S3
12 39 (3.08%) Entra ID
13 37 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (1.90%) Power Automate
16 24 (1.90%) PowerApps
17 21 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.69%) Firewall
2 28 (2.21%) Network Security
3 21 (1.66%) DNS
4 13 (1.03%) WAN
5 11 (0.87%) DHCP
6 9 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.63%) LAN
7 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.55%) BGP
8 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.55%) OSPF
8 7 (0.55%) VPN
9 6 (0.47%) Broadband
9 6 (0.47%) Modbus
9 6 (0.47%) RS-232
9 6 (0.47%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) 5G
10 5 (0.40%) DKIM
10 5 (0.40%) DMARC
10 5 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (8.22%) Power BI
2 39 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.85%) Tableau
4 29 (2.29%) Metadata
5 27 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.71%) Delta Lake
10 8 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.63%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.55%) Power Query
12 6 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.47%) Big Data
12 6 (0.47%) Parquet
12 6 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 169 (13.36%) JIRA
2 53 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.56%) Git
4 35 (2.77%) GitLab
5 16 (1.26%) Selenium
6 14 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.71%) JMeter
8 9 (0.71%) JUnit
8 9 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.55%) Postman
9 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.47%) TestRail
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.32%) Gatling
12 4 (0.32%) Maven
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 504 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 451 (35.65%) Finance
3 250 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (12.49%) Public Sector
5 103 (8.14%) Banking
6 50 (3.95%) Legal
7 45 (3.56%) Marketing
8 43 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (3.08%) Law
9 39 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.92%) Retail
11 36 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.06%) Local Government
15 21 (1.66%) Front Office
16 17 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 175 (13.83%) Lead
2 139 (10.99%) Analyst
3 108 (8.54%) Senior
4 95 (7.51%) Developer
5 89 (7.04%) Architect
6 57 (4.51%) Business Analyst
7 50 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
8 49 (3.87%) Project Manager
9 47 (3.72%) Consultant
10 40 (3.16%) Data Engineer
11 35 (2.77%) Lead Architect
12 32 (2.53%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (2.45%) Functional Architect
14 30 (2.37%) Scrum Master
15 27 (2.13%) Technical Manager
16 26 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
16 26 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (1.98%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (1.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.16%) React
2 38 (3.00%) RESTful
3 36 (2.85%) HTML
4 34 (2.69%) .NET
4 34 (2.69%) CSS
5 33 (2.61%) REST
6 26 (2.06%) Spring
7 25 (1.98%) Node.js
8 20 (1.58%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.50%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.26%) Kafka
11 14 (1.11%) Playwright
11 14 (1.11%) PySpark
11 14 (1.11%) Web Services
12 13 (1.03%) Middleware
12 13 (1.03%) Next.js
13 12 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (0.95%) OAuth
14 10 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
15 9 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.61%) Virtual Team
5 32 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 19 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.11%) CMDB
13 14 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.19%) Windows
2 44 (3.48%) Linux
3 14 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.55%) Android
8 6 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.47%) Unix
9 5 (0.40%) VMS
10 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (38.74%) Agile
2 305 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 270 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
4 269 (21.26%) DevOps
5 252 (19.92%) CI/CD
6 217 (17.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 209 (16.52%) Decision-Making
8 172 (13.60%) AI
9 159 (12.57%) Analytics
10 151 (11.94%) Migration
10 151 (11.94%) Roadmaps
11 122 (9.64%) Change Management
12 121 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
13 116 (9.17%) Scrum
14 115 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 114 (9.01%) Project Management
15 114 (9.01%) Risk Management
16 110 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
17 101 (7.98%) Mentoring
18 99 (7.83%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 189 (14.94%) Python
2 181 (14.31%) SQL
3 79 (6.25%) Java
4 63 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 53 (4.19%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 35 (2.77%) C#
8 25 (1.98%) Bash
9 20 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.87%) Bicep
11 11 (0.87%) C++
11 11 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.63%) Swift
14 7 (0.55%) Go
14 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.47%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.47%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 227 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 192 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.33%) Degree
4 36 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.98%) CISSP
7 24 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.74%) ACCA
9 21 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.58%) CISM
11 17 (1.34%) PMP
12 16 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.71%) CIMA
15 9 (0.71%) IIBA
16 8 (0.63%) CCNP
16 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (10.67%) QA
2 82 (6.48%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.51%) PMO
4 56 (4.43%) GDPR
5 43 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (3.16%) NIST
7 30 (2.37%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.06%) SLA
9 21 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.19%) GRC
10 15 (1.19%) IFRS
11 11 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.79%) NCSC
12 10 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.71%) WCAG
14 6 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.47%) PERC
15 5 (0.40%) COBIT
15 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (5.22%) Docker
2 29 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.47%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 107 (8.46%) Terraform
2 91 (7.19%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.16%) Ansible
4 21 (1.66%) Grafana
5 19 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.87%) SCCM
8 8 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.47%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.40%) WSUS
11 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.24%) Kibana
12 3 (0.24%) Packer
12 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) SCOM
12 3 (0.24%) vRealize
13 2 (0.16%) Control-M
13 2 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 224 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 94 (7.43%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.38%) Oracle
4 60 (4.74%) SAP
5 58 (4.58%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.56%) Google
7 28 (2.21%) Databricks
8 17 (1.34%) VMware
9 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.79%) Adobe
10 10 (0.79%) Cisco
10 10 (0.79%) ForgeRock
10 10 (0.79%) Foundry
10 10 (0.79%) Okta
10 10 (0.79%) Workday
11 9 (0.71%) Splunk
12 8 (0.63%) Remedy
13 7 (0.55%) Murex
13 7 (0.55%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud