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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 33 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,806 815 605
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.81% 6.09% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.89% 6.59% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 547 345
10th Percentile £341 £325 £371
25th Percentile £434 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 11
10th Percentile £13.73 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.06 £28.34
Median hourly rate £27.75 £23.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -53.34% +23.58%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £59.75 £61.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £20.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.46% -41.43% -46.15%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 0 198 £550 +4.76% 67
West London +3 51 £520 +4.00% 46
South London +18 45 £525 -9.76% 14
East London +2 10 £563 +196.05% 21
North London -1 5 £488 -11.36% 3
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 86 (4.76%) Confluence
2 76 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.16%) CMS
7 16 (0.89%) Apache
8 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.33%) IIS
9 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.22%) SAS
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 74 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Productboard
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.055%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.39%) Magento
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.28%) Actimize
6 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.22%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.22%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) Maximo
8 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 427 (23.64%) Azure
2 353 (19.55%) AWS
3 136 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 131 (7.25%) GitHub
5 119 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
7 103 (5.70%) GCP
8 88 (4.87%) Entra ID
9 84 (4.65%) Serverless
10 69 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 67 (3.71%) SaaS
12 65 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 60 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (2.38%) Snowflake
16 42 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 41 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
18 37 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
18 37 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
19 31 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.16%) Network Security
2 37 (2.05%) Firewall
3 34 (1.88%) DNS
4 22 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.00%) VPN
5 18 (1.00%) WAN
6 14 (0.78%) DHCP
7 12 (0.66%) LAN
8 10 (0.55%) VoIP
9 8 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.33%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.33%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.33%) WebEx
11 5 (0.28%) BGP
11 5 (0.28%) HTTP
12 4 (0.22%) DKIM
12 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.22%) SAN
12 4 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.32%) Power BI
2 77 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 56 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (2.82%) Metadata
6 38 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 35 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.50%) Delta Lake
10 22 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.16%) Tableau
12 20 (1.11%) MongoDB
13 18 (1.00%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.94%) MySQL
15 14 (0.78%) Power Query
16 12 (0.66%) Big Data
17 10 (0.55%) Parquet
18 9 (0.50%) Redis
18 9 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 8 (0.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 163 (9.03%) JIRA
2 130 (7.20%) Git
3 98 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 62 (3.43%) GitLab
5 43 (2.38%) Selenium
6 24 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 22 (1.22%) Postman
8 15 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.78%) JUnit
10 12 (0.66%) Gradle
10 12 (0.66%) Maven
11 9 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.50%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.39%) Mockito
12 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.33%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.33%) Snyk
13 6 (0.33%) XCTest
13 6 (0.33%) XCUITest
General
1 807 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 532 (29.46%) Finance
3 424 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 309 (17.11%) Public Sector
5 222 (12.29%) Banking
6 74 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 69 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.38%) Legal
9 56 (3.10%) Front Office
10 50 (2.77%) Retail
11 47 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 44 (2.44%) Investment Banking
13 40 (2.21%) Local Government
14 33 (1.83%) Marketing
15 32 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.55%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.50%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.44%) Manufacturing
19 23 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 218 (12.07%) Senior
2 212 (11.74%) Lead
3 193 (10.69%) Developer
4 181 (10.02%) Analyst
5 80 (4.43%) Architect
6 78 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 71 (3.93%) Project Manager
8 62 (3.43%) Data Engineer
9 59 (3.27%) Business Analyst
10 53 (2.93%) Consultant
11 51 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.60%) Software Engineer
13 45 (2.49%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.21%) Product Owner
15 38 (2.10%) Applications Support
15 38 (2.10%) Scrum Master
16 36 (1.99%) Senior Manager
17 35 (1.94%) Security Engineer
17 35 (1.94%) Senior Developer
18 34 (1.88%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (9.25%) Terraform
2 124 (6.87%) REST
3 83 (4.60%) RESTful
4 76 (4.21%) .NET
5 67 (3.71%) Kafka
6 56 (3.10%) React
7 55 (3.05%) Spring
8 54 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 46 (2.55%) AngularJS
9 46 (2.55%) Web Services
10 43 (2.38%) HTML
11 36 (1.99%) CSS
12 34 (1.88%) SOAP
13 33 (1.83%) Django
14 31 (1.72%) PySpark
15 30 (1.66%) JSON
16 28 (1.55%) Node.js
17 27 (1.50%) Playwright
18 26 (1.44%) Middleware
19 24 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 223 (12.35%) Product Ownership
2 144 (7.97%) Cloud Native
3 136 (7.53%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 41 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 37 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (1.99%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
15 23 (1.27%) CMDB
15 23 (1.27%) NHS
16 22 (1.22%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 129 (7.14%) Windows
2 104 (5.76%) Linux
3 41 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.50%) Unix
5 23 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.22%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.00%) Android
8 17 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.83%) macOS
10 6 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.055%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.055%) HPUX
13 1 (0.055%) Solaris
13 1 (0.055%) SUSE
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (39.20%) Agile
2 623 (34.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 477 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
4 428 (23.70%) CI/CD
5 394 (21.82%) DevOps
6 327 (18.11%) AI
6 327 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 313 (17.33%) Decision-Making
8 260 (14.40%) Roadmaps
9 228 (12.62%) Analytics
10 210 (11.63%) Scrum
11 201 (11.13%) Test Automation
12 193 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 178 (9.86%) Software Engineering
14 173 (9.58%) Change Management
15 168 (9.30%) Risk Management
16 164 (9.08%) Validation
17 159 (8.80%) Migration
18 154 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
19 150 (8.31%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 335 (18.55%) Python
2 306 (16.94%) SQL
3 150 (8.31%) Java
4 109 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 101 (5.59%) C#
6 96 (5.32%) PowerShell
7 70 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 69 (3.82%) Bash
9 28 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.05%) Bicep
12 17 (0.94%) Groovy
13 16 (0.89%) Go
14 14 (0.78%) Korn
14 14 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.72%) Perl
16 12 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.55%) R
18 9 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 428 (23.70%) Security Cleared
2 371 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 158 (8.75%) Degree
4 60 (3.32%) PMP
5 58 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 51 (2.82%) PMI Certification
8 42 (2.33%) AWS Certification
9 37 (2.05%) CISSP
10 33 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.22%) CISM
13 20 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.78%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.55%) CRISC
18 10 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (9.41%) QA
2 159 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.49%) PMO
4 53 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.33%) NIST
7 38 (2.10%) SLA
8 34 (1.88%) GDPR
8 34 (1.88%) GRC
9 20 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.05%) NCSC
11 13 (0.72%) COBIT
11 13 (0.72%) WCAG
12 12 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.33%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 144 (7.97%) Docker
2 85 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.33%) IAG
6 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) RACF
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) zsh
9 1 (0.055%) Ceph
9 1 (0.055%) UAG
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 166 (9.19%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.49%) Ansible
3 59 (3.27%) Grafana
4 52 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.72%) SCCM
8 12 (0.66%) Kibana
9 9 (0.50%) Puppet
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.22%) QRadar
12 3 (0.17%) Argo
12 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 344 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.64%) Oracle
3 105 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 58 (3.21%) Databricks
4 58 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 56 (3.10%) SAP
6 54 (2.99%) Google
7 49 (2.71%) Splunk
8 39 (2.16%) IBM
9 27 (1.50%) Cisco
10 25 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.33%) VMware
12 19 (1.05%) UiPath
13 16 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.83%) Adobe
14 15 (0.83%) Apple
15 13 (0.72%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.55%) Ariba
16 10 (0.55%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.55%) Qualys