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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 54 65
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 889 602 731
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.46% 3.88% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.00% 4.35% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 327 490
10th Percentile £339 £367 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% -0.87% -
75th Percentile £672 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 8
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £19.55
25th Percentile £17.50 £30.00 £34.57
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -1.48% -32.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £71.25 £70.39
90th Percentile £49.40 £75.25 £87.59
England median hourly rate £23.33 £33.93 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.24% -47.80% -6.47%

All Process and 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 12,709 13,828 18,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.13% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,364 8,905 13,142
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 162 248
10th Percentile £17.74 £17.28 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.63 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £46.81 £55.94 £60.44
90th Percentile £64.88 £80.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025. 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 +15 129 £515 -13.99% 826
West London +2 21 £475 +11.76% 87
East London +4 14 £190 -64.40% 27
South London -1 10 £581 +22.39% 38
North London +5 3 £550 - 14
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 58 (6.52%) Confluence
2 34 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.79%) CMS
6 6 (0.67%) Apache
7 5 (0.56%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.34%) Appian
8 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.34%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Luigi
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.34%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) Notion
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 34 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.24%) Endur
3 5 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
4 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.45%) SAP PS
4 4 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.34%) ION MarketView
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.22%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.22%) Workfront
7 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 147 (16.54%) Azure
2 122 (13.72%) AWS
3 72 (8.10%) Power Platform
4 52 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (4.16%) GCP
7 35 (3.94%) SaaS
8 34 (3.82%) GitHub
9 30 (3.37%) Serverless
10 22 (2.47%) Entra ID
11 21 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.02%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (1.80%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.69%) PaaS
17 13 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (1.35%) dbt
18 12 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.02%) Firewall
2 17 (1.91%) DNS
3 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.12%) DHCP
4 10 (1.12%) VPN
5 7 (0.79%) Network Security
5 7 (0.79%) WAN
6 6 (0.67%) LAN
7 4 (0.45%) DKIM
7 4 (0.45%) DMARC
7 4 (0.45%) Multicast
7 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.34%) 5G
8 3 (0.34%) Broadband
8 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.34%) SSL
9 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.64%) Power BI
2 27 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.91%) Tableau
6 14 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.46%) SAP HANA
8 11 (1.24%) MySQL
9 10 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.12%) Metadata
10 9 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.01%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.01%) Redis
10 9 (1.01%) SQL Server
11 8 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.67%) GIS
14 5 (0.56%) Big Data
14 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 113 (12.71%) JIRA
2 40 (4.50%) Git
3 36 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.80%) Selenium
5 14 (1.57%) GitLab
6 13 (1.46%) JUnit
7 11 (1.24%) Postman
8 10 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.01%) REST Assured
10 8 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.79%) Maven
11 7 (0.79%) SoapUI
12 6 (0.67%) Mockito
12 6 (0.67%) Xcode
13 5 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.56%) Subversion
13 5 (0.56%) XCTest
14 3 (0.34%) JMeter
14 3 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 426 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 243 (27.33%) Finance
3 175 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.45%) Banking
6 39 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 35 (3.94%) Legal
8 28 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.15%) Marketing
9 27 (3.04%) Retail
9 27 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 24 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (2.02%) Front Office
14 15 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.46%) Local Government
15 13 (1.46%) Publishing
16 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (15.07%) Analyst
2 119 (13.39%) Lead
3 90 (10.12%) Developer
4 84 (9.45%) Senior
5 59 (6.64%) Consultant
6 55 (6.19%) Architect
7 53 (5.96%) Business Analyst
8 38 (4.27%) Project Manager
9 21 (2.36%) Data Engineer
10 20 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
11 19 (2.14%) Product Owner
12 18 (2.02%) Java Developer
13 16 (1.80%) Product Manager
14 15 (1.69%) Designer
14 15 (1.69%) IT Analyst
14 15 (1.69%) Scrum Master
14 15 (1.69%) Security Engineer
14 15 (1.69%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.57%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.05%) REST
2 34 (3.82%) Spring
3 31 (3.49%) Web Services
4 27 (3.04%) RESTful
5 26 (2.92%) .NET
6 24 (2.70%) Kafka
7 23 (2.59%) Spring Boot
8 20 (2.25%) React
9 17 (1.91%) Node.js
9 17 (1.91%) SOAP
10 16 (1.80%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.80%) XML
11 14 (1.57%) CSS
12 13 (1.46%) HTML
12 13 (1.46%) OAuth
13 10 (1.12%) Hibernate
13 10 (1.12%) JSON
13 10 (1.12%) Middleware
14 9 (1.01%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.01%) Product Ownership
2 49 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 39 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 30 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.46%) PMI
11 13 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.12%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.12%) Operational Technology
15 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.05%) Linux
1 36 (4.05%) Windows
2 22 (2.47%) Unix
3 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.67%) Android
5 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) AIX
6 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) tvOS
7 1 (0.11%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (38.13%) Agile
2 279 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
3 186 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 158 (17.77%) DevOps
5 146 (16.42%) CI/CD
6 145 (16.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 107 (12.04%) Decision-Making
7 107 (12.04%) Roadmaps
8 97 (10.91%) Scrum
9 96 (10.80%) Analytics
10 84 (9.45%) Project Management
11 83 (9.34%) Project Delivery
12 78 (8.77%) Mentoring
13 70 (7.87%) AI
14 69 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
15 68 (7.65%) Change Management
16 62 (6.97%) Microservices
16 62 (6.97%) Test Automation
17 61 (6.86%) Risk Management
18 57 (6.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 137 (15.41%) SQL
2 119 (13.39%) Python
3 77 (8.66%) Java
4 43 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 42 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 28 (3.15%) Bash
7 26 (2.92%) C#
8 19 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.24%) C++
11 10 (1.12%) VBA
12 9 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.90%) Korn
14 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.67%) Groovy
16 5 (0.56%) Bicep
16 5 (0.56%) Ruby
16 5 (0.56%) Scala
17 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 124 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 97 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.34%) Degree
4 38 (4.27%) PMI Certification
5 29 (3.26%) PMP
6 27 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.79%) ACCA
11 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.79%) CIMA
11 7 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.79%) CISSP
11 7 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.65%) QA
2 40 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.16%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.60%) GDPR
5 31 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.70%) PMO
7 21 (2.36%) NIST
8 17 (1.91%) SLA
9 15 (1.69%) GRC
10 13 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (1.12%) ITGC
12 9 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (1.01%) NCSC
13 8 (0.90%) COBIT
14 7 (0.79%) MiFID
15 6 (0.67%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.67%) SOX 404
16 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (7.31%) Docker
2 27 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 67 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 45 (5.06%) Terraform
3 26 (2.92%) Ansible
4 19 (2.14%) Grafana
5 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.80%) SCCM
7 14 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.56%) Control-M
8 5 (0.56%) Kibana
9 4 (0.45%) SCOM
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.45%) WSUS
10 3 (0.34%) BladeLogic
10 3 (0.34%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.34%) QRadar
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) logstash
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 157 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.41%) SAP
3 49 (5.51%) Oracle
4 31 (3.49%) Google
5 28 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.81%) Splunk
8 19 (2.14%) Databricks
9 15 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.01%) TIBCO
11 8 (0.90%) Adobe
11 8 (0.90%) UiPath
11 8 (0.90%) VMware
11 8 (0.90%) Workday
12 7 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (0.67%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.67%) IBM
13 6 (0.67%) Informatica
13 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.67%) Solace