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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 41 64
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,690 736 582
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.41% 5.50% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.44% 5.94% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 492 354
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £435 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £680
90th Percentile £756 £775 £775
England median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.94 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.12 £27.51
Median hourly rate £31.95 £35.24 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% -13.26% -29.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.38 £56.88
90th Percentile £72.75 £61.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £28.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.58% -42.50% -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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 0 170 £547 +9.40% 184
West London +6 58 £520 +1.56% 111
South London +19 48 £525 -9.17% 19
East London +5 13 £750 +294.74% 27
North London -1 4 £450 -18.18% 2
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 79 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.38%) Confluence
3 29 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.01%) CMS
6 16 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.59%) Apache
8 7 (0.41%) IIS
9 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) SAS
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.059%) MTS
13 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 81 (4.79%) 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 (1.24%) 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
1 402 (23.79%) Azure
2 316 (18.70%) AWS
3 164 (9.70%) Power Platform
4 119 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (6.09%) GitHub
7 101 (5.98%) GCP
8 82 (4.85%) Entra ID
9 60 (3.55%) SaaS
10 59 (3.49%) Serverless
11 55 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 44 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
15 31 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (1.72%) Azure AKS
17 29 (1.72%) Datadog
17 29 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.37%) Firewall
2 37 (2.19%) Network Security
3 34 (2.01%) DNS
4 22 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.30%) WAN
5 15 (0.89%) DHCP
5 15 (0.89%) VPN
6 12 (0.71%) LAN
7 10 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.59%) VoIP
8 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.41%) BGP
10 6 (0.36%) HTTP
11 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.30%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.30%) MPLS
11 5 (0.30%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.30%) WebEx
11 5 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.51%) Power BI
2 51 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 49 (2.90%) Metadata
4 40 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.72%) Tableau
8 28 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (1.48%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.42%) Delta Lake
11 16 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 15 (0.89%) Power Query
13 14 (0.83%) Parquet
14 12 (0.71%) Big Data
15 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.47%) MySQL
17 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 155 (9.17%) JIRA
2 102 (6.04%) Git
3 81 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.66%) GitLab
5 32 (1.89%) Selenium
6 16 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.71%) Postman
9 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.59%) JUnit
11 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.47%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.47%) Zephyr
13 7 (0.41%) Gradle
13 7 (0.41%) Maven
14 6 (0.36%) JMeter
14 6 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.36%) XCTest
14 6 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 762 (45.09%) Social Skills
2 545 (32.25%) Finance
3 382 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (16.75%) Public Sector
5 192 (11.36%) Banking
6 70 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.55%) Legal
9 56 (3.31%) Law
10 52 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.96%) Retail
12 48 (2.84%) Front Office
12 48 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (2.43%) Local Government
14 37 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 36 (2.13%) Marketing
16 31 (1.83%) Telecoms
17 28 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 232 (13.73%) Lead
2 186 (11.01%) Senior
3 175 (10.36%) Analyst
4 165 (9.76%) Developer
5 112 (6.63%) Architect
6 64 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 61 (3.61%) Project Manager
8 56 (3.31%) Consultant
9 54 (3.20%) Business Analyst
9 54 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
10 45 (2.66%) Data Engineer
11 43 (2.54%) Software Engineer
12 40 (2.37%) Scrum Master
13 37 (2.19%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.13%) Lead Architect
15 35 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 33 (1.95%) Cloud Engineer
17 32 (1.89%) Product Manager
18 31 (1.83%) Functional Architect
18 31 (1.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.93%) Terraform
2 97 (5.74%) REST
3 77 (4.56%) RESTful
4 54 (3.20%) React
5 51 (3.02%) .NET
6 50 (2.96%) Kafka
7 48 (2.84%) Spring
8 43 (2.54%) Spring Boot
9 42 (2.49%) HTML
10 41 (2.43%) AngularJS
11 37 (2.19%) CSS
12 33 (1.95%) Web Services
13 31 (1.83%) Django
14 24 (1.42%) Node.js
14 24 (1.42%) SOAP
15 23 (1.36%) JSON
16 22 (1.30%) Middleware
16 22 (1.30%) PySpark
16 22 (1.30%) XML
17 21 (1.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 200 (11.83%) Product Ownership
2 130 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 116 (6.86%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 36 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.54%) CMDB
13 26 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 26 (1.54%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (1.42%) NHS
16 20 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (1.12%) Operational Technology
18 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.57%) Windows
2 86 (5.09%) Linux
3 30 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.48%) Unix
5 22 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.89%) Android
9 14 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
13 1 (0.059%) HPUX
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) SUSE
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (39.59%) Agile
2 525 (31.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 433 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
4 359 (21.24%) DevOps
5 353 (20.89%) CI/CD
6 341 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 305 (18.05%) Decision-Making
8 282 (16.69%) AI
9 222 (13.14%) Roadmaps
10 206 (12.19%) Analytics
11 182 (10.77%) Change Management
12 179 (10.59%) Scrum
13 173 (10.24%) Migration
14 162 (9.59%) Test Automation
15 151 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
15 151 (8.93%) Software Engineering
16 146 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
16 146 (8.64%) Mentoring
17 139 (8.22%) ITIL
18 137 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 293 (17.34%) Python
2 256 (15.15%) SQL
3 136 (8.05%) Java
4 89 (5.27%) JavaScript
5 87 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 67 (3.96%) C#
7 58 (3.43%) Bash
8 49 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.07%) Bicep
11 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 16 (0.95%) Go
13 15 (0.89%) Groovy
13 15 (0.89%) Perl
14 12 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.71%) Korn
14 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.71%) R
15 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 364 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 308 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.17%) Degree
4 54 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.66%) PMP
7 39 (2.31%) PMI Certification
8 34 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.95%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.66%) CISSP
11 18 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.83%) CISM
13 14 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.65%) CCNP
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (8.99%) QA
2 135 (7.99%) Data Quality
3 81 (4.79%) PMO
4 46 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.54%) SLA
6 40 (2.37%) GDPR
6 40 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.37%) NIST
7 25 (1.48%) GRC
8 17 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.89%) NCSC
10 12 (0.71%) COBIT
10 12 (0.71%) WCAG
11 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.30%) IFRS
14 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 103 (6.09%) Docker
2 86 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.53%) IAG
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.059%) UAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.90%) Ansible
3 48 (2.84%) Grafana
4 47 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.59%) Kibana
7 10 (0.59%) SCCM
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
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%) Nagios
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Argo
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 321 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.80%) ServiceNow
3 104 (6.15%) Oracle
4 67 (3.96%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.79%) SAP
6 59 (3.49%) Google
7 37 (2.19%) Databricks
8 34 (2.01%) Splunk
9 28 (1.66%) Cisco
10 24 (1.42%) VMware
11 23 (1.36%) IBM
12 20 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.83%) Apple
15 13 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.71%) Adobe
17 10 (0.59%) Foundry
18 9 (0.53%) Ariba
18 9 (0.53%) Murex