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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 991 534 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 3.93% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 4.34% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 294 444
10th Percentile £335 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £723 £712
90th Percentile £750 £850 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 12
10th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £30.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -2.44% -52.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.67 £72.75 £87.50
England median hourly rate £30.15 £52.00 £39.82
% change year-on-year -42.02% +30.59% -33.63%

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
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 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +13 131 £525 -0.94% 178
West London -16 14 £488 +2.63% 27
East London +1 12 £450 -18.74% 24
South London -15 7 £601 +3.09% 13
North London +5 2 £550 - 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 65 (6.56%) Confluence
2 39 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.50%) Apache
5 5 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.40%) Appian
6 4 (0.40%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.40%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.30%) Camunda
7 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Luigi
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 73 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.40%) Notion
7 4 (0.40%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Sketch
10 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.81%) Loan IQ
3 8 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.20%) Actimize
7 2 (0.20%) Endur
7 2 (0.20%) iTrent
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.20%) Summit
7 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 188 (18.97%) Azure
2 139 (14.03%) AWS
3 87 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 66 (6.66%) GitHub
6 41 (4.14%) GCP
7 40 (4.04%) SaaS
8 39 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.23%) Serverless
11 26 (2.62%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.02%) Entra ID
13 20 (2.02%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (1.72%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.51%) Google Workspace
16 14 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.32%) Firewall
2 18 (1.82%) DNS
3 17 (1.72%) Network Security
4 14 (1.41%) DHCP
5 13 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.11%) VPN
7 8 (0.81%) LAN
7 8 (0.81%) Modbus
7 8 (0.81%) WAN
8 6 (0.61%) Broadband
8 6 (0.61%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.61%) RS-232
8 6 (0.61%) RS-485
9 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.40%) 5G
11 3 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.30%) DKIM
11 3 (0.30%) DMARC
11 3 (0.30%) Multicast
11 3 (0.30%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (6.76%) Power BI
2 22 (2.22%) Tableau
3 20 (2.02%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.11%) Metadata
8 10 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.91%) MySQL
10 8 (0.81%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.81%) Redis
11 7 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.50%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.50%) Power Query
14 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 132 (13.32%) JIRA
2 45 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.03%) GitLab
4 28 (2.83%) Git
5 15 (1.51%) Selenium
6 11 (1.11%) JUnit
7 9 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.81%) Postman
9 7 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.61%) JMeter
10 6 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.40%) Maven
11 4 (0.40%) MLflow
12 3 (0.30%) Mockito
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.30%) TestRail
12 3 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 460 (46.42%) Social Skills
2 305 (30.78%) Finance
3 204 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 79 (7.97%) Banking
6 42 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
6 42 (4.24%) Legal
7 38 (3.83%) Marketing
8 33 (3.33%) Retail
9 26 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.92%) Front Office
14 16 (1.61%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.51%) Publishing
16 14 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 151 (15.24%) Analyst
2 136 (13.72%) Lead
3 99 (9.99%) Senior
4 80 (8.07%) Developer
5 61 (6.16%) Business Analyst
6 48 (4.84%) Architect
7 44 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 43 (4.34%) Consultant
9 26 (2.62%) Senior Manager
10 25 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
11 24 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.32%) Data Engineer
12 23 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.12%) Security Engineer
14 17 (1.72%) Designer
14 17 (1.72%) Product Owner
15 16 (1.61%) Product Manager
16 15 (1.51%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (1.51%) QA Engineer
17 14 (1.41%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.93%) REST
2 28 (2.83%) .NET
3 26 (2.62%) Node.js
4 25 (2.52%) RESTful
5 24 (2.42%) React
6 22 (2.22%) CSS
7 21 (2.12%) HTML
8 17 (1.72%) Spring
9 15 (1.51%) XML
10 14 (1.41%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.31%) SOAP
11 13 (1.31%) Web Services
12 11 (1.11%) OAuth
13 10 (1.01%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.01%) ARM Templates
13 10 (1.01%) JSON
13 10 (1.01%) Kafka
13 10 (1.01%) PySpark
14 8 (0.81%) Middleware
14 8 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.78%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 55 (5.55%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.31%) PMI
10 13 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.01%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.91%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.84%) Windows
2 47 (4.74%) Linux
3 14 (1.41%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.11%) Unix
5 9 (0.91%) Android
5 9 (0.91%) VMS
5 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (38.35%) Agile
2 258 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 236 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 212 (21.39%) DevOps
5 185 (18.67%) CI/CD
6 174 (17.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 130 (13.12%) Roadmaps
8 128 (12.92%) Decision-Making
9 122 (12.31%) Analytics
10 104 (10.49%) AI
11 93 (9.38%) Project Delivery
12 91 (9.18%) Project Management
13 88 (8.88%) Scrum
14 85 (8.58%) Migration
15 83 (8.38%) Test Automation
16 81 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
17 80 (8.07%) Risk Management
18 79 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 76 (7.67%) Mentoring
20 72 (7.27%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 140 (14.13%) SQL
2 134 (13.52%) Python
3 63 (6.36%) Java
4 47 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 44 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.23%) Bash
6 32 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 24 (2.42%) C#
8 17 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (1.41%) C++
10 8 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.61%) Bicep
12 6 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.61%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.50%) Korn
13 5 (0.50%) R
14 4 (0.40%) ABAP
14 4 (0.40%) Go
14 4 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 146 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.38%) Degree
4 29 (2.93%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.92%) PMP
7 18 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.72%) ACCA
9 12 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.91%) CIMA
12 9 (0.91%) CISSP
12 9 (0.91%) IIBA
13 8 (0.81%) CBAP
13 8 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.81%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (10.09%) QA
2 54 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.54%) GDPR
4 44 (4.44%) Accessibility
5 39 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.72%) PMO
7 26 (2.62%) NIST
8 21 (2.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (2.12%) SLA
9 19 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (1.61%) GRC
11 10 (1.01%) COBIT
11 10 (1.01%) NCSC
12 8 (0.81%) IFRS
12 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.81%) WCAG
13 7 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.71%) ITGC
14 6 (0.61%) GMP
14 6 (0.61%) SOX 404
System Software
1 70 (7.06%) Docker
2 24 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.61%) Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (7.37%) Terraform
2 71 (7.16%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.63%) Ansible
4 18 (1.82%) SCCM
5 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.51%) Grafana
7 13 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.71%) WSUS
10 5 (0.50%) Kibana
11 4 (0.40%) Control-M
11 4 (0.40%) logstash
11 4 (0.40%) Puppet
11 4 (0.40%) SCOM
12 3 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.30%) vRealize
13 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 163 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.75%) ServiceNow
3 55 (5.55%) SAP
4 52 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 40 (4.04%) Google
5 40 (4.04%) Oracle
6 16 (1.61%) Databricks
7 15 (1.51%) Splunk
8 12 (1.21%) Adobe
8 12 (1.21%) VMware
9 8 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.81%) Remedy
9 8 (0.81%) Workday
10 7 (0.71%) IBM
10 7 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.61%) Murex
11 6 (0.61%) New Relic
12 5 (0.50%) Cisco
12 5 (0.50%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.50%) Solace