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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 48 73
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,434 596 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.50% 4.72% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 5.11% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 403 372
10th Percentile £350 £356 £351
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £554
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.25% -3.74%
75th Percentile £613 £695 £688
90th Percentile £738 £850 £800
England median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.65% -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.20 £28.03 £21.84
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +29.97% -47.83%
75th Percentile £66.25 £49.38 £53.13
90th Percentile £93.25 £57.63 £83.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.54 £35.75
% change year-on-year +42.73% +7.79% -14.53%

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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +3 157 £525 +2.95% 88
South London +17 47 £500 -13.79% 15
West London -10 42 £500 -1.19% 31
East London +14 16 £600 +2.56% 28
North London 0 2 £450 -18.18% 5
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 75 (5.23%) Confluence
2 56 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.63%) CMS
7 8 (0.56%) Apache
8 6 (0.42%) IIS
9 5 (0.35%) Camunda
10 4 (0.28%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 1 (0.070%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.070%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.070%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.070%) govService
12 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.070%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 70 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.070%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 22 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.56%) Actimize
5 8 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) Magento
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) Endur
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.21%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.21%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 322 (22.45%) Azure
2 269 (18.76%) AWS
3 137 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 100 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (6.83%) GitHub
6 83 (5.79%) GCP
7 66 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (4.32%) SaaS
9 59 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (3.84%) Entra ID
11 51 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (3.56%) Serverless
12 43 (3.00%) Amazon S3
13 42 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (1.81%) Azure AKS
19 24 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.51%) Firewall
2 34 (2.37%) Network Security
3 17 (1.19%) DNS
4 16 (1.12%) WAN
5 11 (0.77%) VoIP
6 10 (0.70%) LAN
7 9 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.42%) BGP
8 6 (0.42%) DHCP
8 6 (0.42%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.42%) OSPF
8 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.42%) VPN
9 5 (0.35%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.35%) MPLS
9 5 (0.35%) NGFW
9 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.35%) WebEx
10 4 (0.28%) DKIM
10 4 (0.28%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (7.95%) Power BI
2 39 (2.72%) Tableau
3 37 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.30%) Metadata
5 30 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.09%) Relational Database
6 27 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (1.46%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.98%) Power Query
11 13 (0.91%) Delta Lake
12 11 (0.77%) Big Data
13 9 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.63%) Parquet
14 8 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 172 (11.99%) JIRA
2 64 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.04%) Git
4 42 (2.93%) GitLab
5 21 (1.46%) Selenium
6 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.70%) JMeter
8 10 (0.70%) JUnit
9 8 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.49%) Postman
11 6 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.42%) Maven
11 6 (0.42%) Mockito
11 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.42%) Vite
11 6 (0.42%) XCTest
12 5 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 582 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 496 (34.59%) Finance
3 304 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 130 (9.07%) Banking
6 56 (3.91%) Legal
7 53 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (3.42%) Law
10 45 (3.14%) Retail
11 37 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (2.37%) Local Government
12 34 (2.37%) Marketing
12 34 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.02%) Front Office
14 27 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.60%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 198 (13.81%) Lead
2 146 (10.18%) Analyst
3 140 (9.76%) Senior
4 119 (8.30%) Developer
5 92 (6.42%) Architect
6 59 (4.11%) Project Manager
7 54 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (3.63%) Consultant
9 49 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
10 48 (3.35%) Business Analyst
11 43 (3.00%) Data Engineer
12 39 (2.72%) Scrum Master
13 34 (2.37%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.37%) Software Engineer
14 33 (2.30%) Lead Architect
15 32 (2.23%) Azure Engineer
16 31 (2.16%) Functional Architect
17 30 (2.09%) Cloud Engineer
18 27 (1.88%) Product Owner
19 26 (1.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.91%) REST
2 49 (3.42%) React
3 47 (3.28%) RESTful
4 37 (2.58%) Spring
5 34 (2.37%) HTML
6 33 (2.30%) Spring Boot
7 31 (2.16%) CSS
7 31 (2.16%) Kafka
8 29 (2.02%) .NET
9 27 (1.88%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.26%) Node.js
11 17 (1.19%) Middleware
11 17 (1.19%) Web Services
12 15 (1.05%) Django
13 14 (0.98%) JSON
13 14 (0.98%) Next.js
13 14 (0.98%) OAuth
13 14 (0.98%) PySpark
14 13 (0.91%) SOAP
15 11 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 100 (6.97%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 42 (2.93%) Virtual Team
5 41 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (1.88%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 23 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.46%) AI Agents
13 20 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.32%) CMDB
15 17 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (1.12%) Derivative
17 15 (1.05%) FMCG
18 12 (0.84%) NHS
18 12 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 72 (5.02%) Windows
2 48 (3.35%) Linux
3 15 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.70%) Unix
6 10 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.28%) Android
7 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) AIX
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.070%) HPUX
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.070%) Solaris
9 1 (0.070%) SUSE
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (37.52%) Agile
2 358 (24.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 337 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (21.83%) DevOps
5 290 (20.22%) CI/CD
6 257 (17.92%) Decision-Making
7 252 (17.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 213 (14.85%) AI
9 174 (12.13%) Analytics
10 168 (11.72%) Roadmaps
11 154 (10.74%) Migration
11 154 (10.74%) Scrum
12 150 (10.46%) Change Management
13 131 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
13 131 (9.14%) Test Automation
14 126 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 124 (8.65%) Risk Management
16 117 (8.16%) Mentoring
17 114 (7.95%) Software Engineering
18 113 (7.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 226 (15.76%) Python
2 212 (14.78%) SQL
3 107 (7.46%) Java
4 69 (4.81%) JavaScript
5 57 (3.97%) PowerShell
6 44 (3.07%) C#
7 39 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.37%) Bash
9 23 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.46%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.84%) Go
13 11 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.77%) Bicep
13 11 (0.77%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.70%) C++
15 9 (0.63%) R
15 9 (0.63%) Swift
16 8 (0.56%) Perl
16 8 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 296 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 251 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 135 (9.41%) Degree
4 45 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.37%) CISSP
7 33 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 32 (2.23%) PMP
9 29 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 24 (1.67%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.53%) CISM
12 20 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.05%) ACCA
15 13 (0.91%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.84%) CCNP
16 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.65%) QA
2 95 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.32%) PMO
4 50 (3.49%) GDPR
5 47 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (3.14%) NIST
7 35 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 31 (2.16%) SLA
9 23 (1.60%) GRC
10 16 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.05%) IFRS
12 11 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.63%) NCSC
14 6 (0.42%) GAAP
14 6 (0.42%) GxP
14 6 (0.42%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (5.72%) Docker
2 49 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 4 (0.28%) IAG
5 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Squid
7 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.070%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.070%) vSphere
7 1 (0.070%) zsh
Systems Management
1 127 (8.86%) Terraform
2 120 (8.37%) Kubernetes
3 46 (3.21%) Ansible
4 32 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.09%) Grafana
6 23 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.35%) Kibana
9 5 (0.35%) SCCM
10 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) Puppet
11 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.21%) QRadar
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.14%) Nessus
12 2 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 237 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.76%) ServiceNow
3 87 (6.07%) Oracle
4 75 (5.23%) Salesforce
5 50 (3.49%) Google
6 49 (3.42%) SAP
7 31 (2.16%) Databricks
8 18 (1.26%) Cisco
9 13 (0.91%) Splunk
9 13 (0.91%) VMware
10 12 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 11 (0.77%) Okta
11 11 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.70%) Apple
12 10 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 10 (0.70%) Murex
13 9 (0.63%) Foundry
14 8 (0.56%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud