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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,046 525 641
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.85% 3.87% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 4.27% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 296 438
10th Percentile £350 £358 £394
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £582 £554
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +5.06% -3.74%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £863 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 12
10th Percentile £17.45 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.94% +2.68% -53.85%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.88 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.00% +33.33% -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 13,830 12,308 16,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.61% 90.65% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,214 7,868 11,762
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 153 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +15 130 £540 +4.10% 94
South London 0 21 £525 -9.95% 15
West London -17 15 £475 +8.57% 26
East London +2 11 £450 -14.69% 25
North London +5 2 £550 - 10
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 73 (6.98%) Confluence
2 41 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.48%) CMS
5 4 (0.38%) Apache
5 4 (0.38%) Appian
5 4 (0.38%) HCL Notes
5 4 (0.38%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.29%) Camunda
6 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.19%) Drupal
7 2 (0.19%) WordPress
8 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.096%) Mule
8 1 (0.096%) nginx
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 74 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.05%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.38%) Notion
7 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.38%) Trello
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.19%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.096%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.096%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.096%) Sketch
9 1 (0.096%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.76%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.19%) Endur
8 2 (0.19%) iTrent
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.19%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 209 (19.98%) Azure
2 155 (14.82%) AWS
3 95 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (8.60%) Power Platform
5 72 (6.88%) GitHub
6 44 (4.21%) GCP
7 42 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (3.92%) SaaS
9 38 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.44%) Serverless
11 32 (3.06%) Amazon S3
12 26 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (2.01%) Entra ID
14 21 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.72%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.63%) Google Workspace
17 16 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.20%) Firewall
2 19 (1.82%) Network Security
3 18 (1.72%) DNS
4 14 (1.34%) DHCP
5 13 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.05%) VPN
7 8 (0.76%) LAN
7 8 (0.76%) WAN
8 6 (0.57%) Broadband
8 6 (0.57%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.57%) Modbus
8 6 (0.57%) RS-232
8 6 (0.57%) RS-485
9 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.38%) 5G
11 3 (0.29%) DKIM
11 3 (0.29%) DMARC
11 3 (0.29%) Multicast
11 3 (0.29%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.98%) Power BI
2 25 (2.39%) Tableau
3 23 (2.20%) Relational Database
4 22 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.24%) Metadata
8 11 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.76%) MySQL
11 7 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.67%) Redis
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.48%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.48%) Power Query
14 4 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 145 (13.86%) JIRA
2 47 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 33 (3.15%) GitLab
4 31 (2.96%) Git
5 18 (1.72%) Selenium
6 11 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 11 (1.05%) JUnit
7 10 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.96%) JMeter
8 8 (0.76%) Postman
8 8 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.57%) TestRail
10 5 (0.48%) Gatling
10 5 (0.48%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.38%) MLflow
12 3 (0.29%) Gradle
12 3 (0.29%) MSTest
12 3 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 473 (45.22%) Social Skills
2 335 (32.03%) Finance
3 211 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.46%) Banking
6 43 (4.11%) Legal
7 40 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (3.73%) Marketing
9 37 (3.54%) Retail
10 29 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.10%) Front Office
12 22 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.10%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.43%) Local Government
13 15 (1.43%) Publishing
14 14 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 159 (15.20%) Analyst
2 144 (13.77%) Lead
3 103 (9.85%) Senior
4 85 (8.13%) Developer
5 65 (6.21%) Business Analyst
6 46 (4.40%) Architect
7 45 (4.30%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.82%) Consultant
9 37 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
10 27 (2.58%) Data Engineer
10 27 (2.58%) Senior Manager
11 24 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (2.10%) Security Engineer
14 19 (1.82%) Scrum Master
15 17 (1.63%) Designer
15 17 (1.63%) Product Manager
15 17 (1.63%) Product Owner
16 16 (1.53%) Technical Manager
17 15 (1.43%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.96%) .NET
2 30 (2.87%) REST
3 26 (2.49%) RESTful
4 25 (2.39%) Node.js
4 25 (2.39%) React
5 24 (2.29%) CSS
6 23 (2.20%) HTML
7 17 (1.63%) Spring
8 15 (1.43%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.43%) XML
9 13 (1.24%) SOAP
10 12 (1.15%) PySpark
10 12 (1.15%) Web Services
11 11 (1.05%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.96%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.96%) JSON
12 10 (0.96%) OAuth
13 9 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (0.86%) Kafka
13 9 (0.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.27%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.35%) Cloud Native
3 49 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.91%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.24%) PMI
11 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (0.96%) Replication
14 9 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.86%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.59%) Windows
2 47 (4.49%) Linux
3 13 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.96%) Unix
6 9 (0.86%) Android
6 9 (0.86%) VMS
6 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) AIX
10 1 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.096%) Solaris
10 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (39.39%) Agile
2 254 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
2 254 (24.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 225 (21.51%) DevOps
4 203 (19.41%) CI/CD
5 168 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 146 (13.96%) Decision-Making
7 136 (13.00%) Analytics
8 128 (12.24%) Roadmaps
9 113 (10.80%) AI
10 97 (9.27%) Migration
10 97 (9.27%) Project Delivery
11 96 (9.18%) Scrum
12 90 (8.60%) Project Management
12 90 (8.60%) Test Automation
13 88 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
13 88 (8.41%) Risk Management
14 87 (8.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 83 (7.93%) Change Management
16 77 (7.36%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 155 (14.82%) SQL
2 142 (13.58%) Python
3 66 (6.31%) Java
4 51 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 30 (2.87%) Bash
8 27 (2.58%) C#
9 15 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (1.34%) C++
11 11 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.67%) Swift
14 6 (0.57%) Bicep
14 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.57%) Embedded C++
15 5 (0.48%) Go
15 5 (0.48%) Korn
15 5 (0.48%) R
16 4 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 165 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 140 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.60%) Degree
4 28 (2.68%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.82%) ACCA
8 17 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.63%) PMP
9 14 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 13 (1.24%) CISSP
11 12 (1.15%) CISM
12 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.96%) IIBA
13 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.86%) CIMA
14 9 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (10.61%) QA
2 58 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.68%) GDPR
4 48 (4.59%) Accessibility
5 44 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (2.87%) NIST
7 27 (2.58%) PMO
8 23 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (2.10%) SLA
10 19 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.72%) GRC
12 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.96%) COBIT
13 10 (0.96%) IFRS
13 10 (0.96%) NCSC
14 8 (0.76%) WCAG
15 7 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.67%) ITGC
16 6 (0.57%) MiFID
16 6 (0.57%) SOX 404
System Software
1 73 (6.98%) Docker
2 25 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.57%) Firmware
5 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.096%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.096%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (7.46%) Terraform
2 74 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.44%) Ansible
4 18 (1.72%) SCCM
5 17 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.43%) Grafana
6 15 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 7 (0.67%) WSUS
9 5 (0.48%) Kibana
10 4 (0.38%) Control-M
10 4 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.38%) logstash
10 4 (0.38%) Puppet
10 4 (0.38%) SCOM
11 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.29%) vRealize
12 2 (0.19%) Packer
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 166 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.21%) ServiceNow
3 57 (5.45%) SAP
4 50 (4.78%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.02%) Google
5 42 (4.02%) Oracle
6 21 (2.01%) Databricks
7 14 (1.34%) VMware
8 13 (1.24%) Splunk
9 12 (1.15%) Adobe
10 9 (0.86%) Remedy
11 7 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.57%) IBM
12 6 (0.57%) Informatica
12 6 (0.57%) Murex
13 5 (0.48%) BMC
13 5 (0.48%) Cisco
13 5 (0.48%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.48%) Sophos