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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,685 728 578
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.39% 5.44% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.42% 5.88% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 488 351
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £755 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.90% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.96 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £27.51
Median hourly rate £33.60 £35.24 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -13.26% -29.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.31 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.15 £61.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.00% -42.75% -20.00%

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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -1 169 £544 +8.80% 166
West London +10 58 £520 +1.56% 120
South London +21 49 £525 -9.17% 28
East London +3 12 £750 +294.74% 27
North London -1 4 £450 -18.18% 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 80 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.51%) Confluence
3 29 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.95%) CMS
6 15 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.53%) Apache
8 7 (0.42%) IIS
9 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.059%) MTS
13 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 80 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.059%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.36%) Actimize
6 6 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) Magento
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.24%) Endur
8 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.24%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 399 (23.68%) Azure
2 312 (18.52%) AWS
3 161 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 119 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (6.11%) GitHub
7 100 (5.93%) GCP
8 82 (4.87%) Entra ID
9 61 (3.62%) SaaS
10 57 (3.38%) Serverless
11 55 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (2.55%) Amazon S3
13 43 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
15 31 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (1.72%) Azure AKS
17 29 (1.72%) PowerApps
18 28 (1.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.43%) Firewall
2 35 (2.08%) Network Security
3 34 (2.02%) DNS
4 22 (1.31%) WAN
5 21 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.89%) DHCP
6 15 (0.89%) VPN
7 12 (0.71%) LAN
8 10 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.59%) VoIP
9 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.42%) BGP
11 5 (0.30%) HTTP
11 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.30%) MPLS
11 5 (0.30%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.30%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.30%) WebEx
11 5 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.42%) Power BI
2 50 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.85%) Metadata
4 39 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 32 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.72%) Tableau
8 28 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.48%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.36%) Delta Lake
11 16 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.83%) Parquet
12 14 (0.83%) Power Query
13 12 (0.71%) Big Data
14 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.47%) MySQL
16 7 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.42%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 158 (9.38%) JIRA
2 100 (5.93%) Git
3 80 (4.75%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.61%) GitLab
5 32 (1.90%) Selenium
6 16 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.65%) Postman
9 10 (0.59%) JUnit
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.47%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.42%) Gradle
12 7 (0.42%) Maven
12 7 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.36%) JMeter
13 6 (0.36%) XCTest
13 6 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 759 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 544 (32.28%) Finance
3 375 (22.26%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (16.91%) Public Sector
5 191 (11.34%) Banking
6 70 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.62%) Legal
9 56 (3.32%) Law
10 53 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.97%) Retail
12 49 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 46 (2.73%) Front Office
14 41 (2.43%) Local Government
15 37 (2.20%) Investment Banking
15 37 (2.20%) Marketing
16 31 (1.84%) Telecoms
17 28 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 234 (13.89%) Lead
2 183 (10.86%) Senior
3 170 (10.09%) Analyst
4 166 (9.85%) Developer
5 112 (6.65%) Architect
6 63 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 61 (3.62%) Project Manager
8 57 (3.38%) Consultant
9 55 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.09%) Business Analyst
11 44 (2.61%) Data Engineer
12 43 (2.55%) Software Engineer
13 40 (2.37%) Scrum Master
14 37 (2.20%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.14%) Lead Architect
16 35 (2.08%) Product Owner
17 33 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
17 33 (1.96%) Product Manager
18 31 (1.84%) Functional Architect
18 31 (1.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.89%) Terraform
2 96 (5.70%) REST
3 76 (4.51%) RESTful
4 53 (3.15%) React
5 50 (2.97%) Kafka
6 49 (2.91%) .NET
6 49 (2.91%) Spring
7 44 (2.61%) Spring Boot
8 43 (2.55%) HTML
9 42 (2.49%) AngularJS
10 37 (2.20%) CSS
11 33 (1.96%) Web Services
12 31 (1.84%) Django
13 24 (1.42%) Node.js
13 24 (1.42%) SOAP
14 22 (1.31%) JSON
14 22 (1.31%) Middleware
15 21 (1.25%) Playwright
15 21 (1.25%) PySpark
15 21 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (11.75%) Product Ownership
2 129 (7.66%) Onboarding
3 116 (6.88%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 35 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.90%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.60%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.54%) CMDB
14 25 (1.48%) Data Centre
14 25 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.42%) NHS
16 23 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (1.13%) Operational Technology
19 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.53%) Windows
2 84 (4.99%) Linux
3 29 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.42%) Unix
5 22 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.89%) Android
9 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.059%) HPUX
12 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.059%) Solaris
12 1 (0.059%) SUSE
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (39.76%) Agile
2 518 (30.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 428 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 357 (21.19%) DevOps
5 349 (20.71%) CI/CD
6 341 (20.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 301 (17.86%) Decision-Making
8 279 (16.56%) AI
9 222 (13.18%) Roadmaps
10 202 (11.99%) Analytics
11 180 (10.68%) Change Management
12 177 (10.50%) Scrum
13 171 (10.15%) Migration
14 160 (9.50%) Test Automation
15 150 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
16 149 (8.84%) Software Engineering
17 144 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
17 144 (8.55%) Mentoring
18 139 (8.25%) ITIL
19 136 (8.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 287 (17.03%) Python
2 254 (15.07%) SQL
3 137 (8.13%) Java
4 88 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 85 (5.04%) PowerShell
6 65 (3.86%) C#
7 55 (3.26%) Bash
8 48 (2.85%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 18 (1.07%) Bicep
11 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.89%) Go
12 15 (0.89%) Groovy
13 14 (0.83%) Perl
14 12 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.65%) Korn
15 11 (0.65%) R
16 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 366 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 310 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.14%) Degree
4 53 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.67%) PMP
7 39 (2.31%) PMI Certification
8 33 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.72%) CISSP
11 18 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.89%) CISM
13 14 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.65%) CCNP
16 9 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (8.90%) QA
2 133 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.75%) PMO
4 46 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.61%) SLA
6 41 (2.43%) GDPR
7 39 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.31%) NIST
8 25 (1.48%) GRC
9 17 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.95%) NCSC
11 12 (0.71%) COBIT
11 12 (0.71%) WCAG
12 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.30%) IFRS
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 102 (6.05%) Docker
2 86 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.53%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.059%) Ceph
9 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.059%) UAG
9 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 137 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.79%) Ansible
2 47 (2.79%) Grafana
3 46 (2.73%) Prometheus
4 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.59%) SCCM
7 9 (0.53%) Kibana
8 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) QRadar
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Packer
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 318 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.77%) ServiceNow
3 103 (6.11%) Oracle
4 67 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.80%) SAP
6 58 (3.44%) Google
7 36 (2.14%) Databricks
8 31 (1.84%) Splunk
9 28 (1.66%) Cisco
10 23 (1.36%) IBM
11 22 (1.31%) VMware
12 19 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.83%) Apple
15 12 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.71%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.65%) Adobe
17 10 (0.59%) Okta
18 9 (0.53%) Murex
18 9 (0.53%) Workday