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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 940 567 659
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.56% 4.06% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 4.50% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 309 437
10th Percentile £325 £374 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £713
90th Percentile £756 £838 £850
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 6
10th Percentile £17.45 £17.08 £36.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.77 £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -57.55% -2.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.81 £83.75
90th Percentile £61.67 £72.38 £91.88
England median hourly rate £25.00 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -51.22% -21.15% +8.33%

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 13,078 12,600 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.28% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,638 8,043 11,412
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.60 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.60 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +12 125 £530 -3.64% 107
East London +4 17 £190 -65.69% 19
West London -11 15 £488 +2.63% 28
South London -10 6 £563 +6.43% 25
North London +8 3 £600 - 4
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 64 (6.81%) Confluence
2 40 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.53%) Apache
5 5 (0.53%) CMS
5 5 (0.53%) HCL Notes
5 5 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.43%) Appian
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.32%) Camunda
7 3 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 68 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.64%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.53%) Trello
8 4 (0.43%) Notion
9 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Sketch
11 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 28 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.43%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.32%) Endur
6 3 (0.32%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 174 (18.51%) Azure
2 125 (13.30%) AWS
3 84 (8.94%) Power Platform
4 73 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (5.96%) GitHub
6 42 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (4.15%) GCP
8 36 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (3.51%) SaaS
10 29 (3.09%) Serverless
11 22 (2.34%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.34%) Entra ID
11 22 (2.34%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.13%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (1.49%) Google Workspace
16 13 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.55%) Firewall
2 19 (2.02%) DNS
3 14 (1.49%) DHCP
4 13 (1.38%) Network Security
4 13 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.28%) VPN
6 7 (0.74%) Modbus
7 6 (0.64%) LAN
7 6 (0.64%) WAN
8 5 (0.53%) Broadband
8 5 (0.53%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.53%) RS-232
8 5 (0.53%) RS-485
9 4 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.32%) 5G
10 3 (0.32%) DKIM
10 3 (0.32%) DMARC
10 3 (0.32%) Multicast
10 3 (0.32%) tcpdump
10 3 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.02%) Power BI
2 21 (2.23%) Tableau
3 20 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.91%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.06%) MySQL
9 9 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.96%) Metadata
10 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.64%) Redis
12 5 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.53%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 127 (13.51%) JIRA
2 45 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.98%) GitLab
4 22 (2.34%) Git
5 15 (1.60%) Selenium
6 14 (1.49%) JUnit
7 11 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.96%) Postman
9 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.64%) JMeter
10 6 (0.64%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.53%) Maven
11 5 (0.53%) Mockito
12 4 (0.43%) MLflow
12 4 (0.43%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.32%) Gradle
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 440 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 273 (29.04%) Finance
3 191 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.98%) Banking
6 46 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
7 38 (4.04%) Legal
7 38 (4.04%) Marketing
8 31 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.77%) Retail
10 22 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.81%) Front Office
14 15 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.60%) Publishing
15 14 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 146 (15.53%) Analyst
2 128 (13.62%) Lead
3 90 (9.57%) Senior
4 72 (7.66%) Developer
5 60 (6.38%) Business Analyst
6 50 (5.32%) Consultant
7 47 (5.00%) Architect
8 36 (3.83%) Project Manager
9 24 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
10 23 (2.45%) Senior Manager
11 22 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (2.13%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (2.13%) Security Engineer
13 17 (1.81%) Product Manager
14 16 (1.70%) Programme Manager
15 15 (1.60%) Change Manager
15 15 (1.60%) Product Owner
16 14 (1.49%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (1.49%) Designer
16 14 (1.49%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.09%) REST
2 25 (2.66%) .NET
3 22 (2.34%) React
4 21 (2.23%) Node.js
4 21 (2.23%) RESTful
4 21 (2.23%) Spring
5 20 (2.13%) CSS
5 20 (2.13%) HTML
6 17 (1.81%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.60%) XML
8 14 (1.49%) SOAP
9 12 (1.28%) Kafka
9 12 (1.28%) Web Services
10 10 (1.06%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.96%) ARM Templates
12 8 (0.85%) JSON
12 8 (0.85%) Middleware
12 8 (0.85%) OAuth
12 8 (0.85%) Playwright
12 8 (0.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.04%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 50 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 35 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.70%) PMI
9 15 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.96%) CMDB
14 9 (0.96%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.00%) Windows
2 41 (4.36%) Linux
3 15 (1.60%) Unix
4 12 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.06%) Android
5 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.96%) VMS
7 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (38.62%) Agile
2 256 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
3 219 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 194 (20.64%) DevOps
5 170 (18.09%) CI/CD
5 170 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 123 (13.09%) Decision-Making
7 116 (12.34%) Roadmaps
8 113 (12.02%) Analytics
9 93 (9.89%) AI
10 90 (9.57%) Project Delivery
11 85 (9.04%) Project Management
12 82 (8.72%) Scrum
13 76 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
13 76 (8.09%) Test Automation
14 74 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 74 (7.87%) ITIL
14 74 (7.87%) Mentoring
15 72 (7.66%) Change Management
16 70 (7.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 129 (13.72%) SQL
2 128 (13.62%) Python
3 71 (7.55%) Java
4 47 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 42 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 32 (3.40%) Bash
7 28 (2.98%) TypeScript
8 22 (2.34%) C#
9 15 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.38%) C++
11 7 (0.74%) Bicep
11 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.64%) Korn
12 6 (0.64%) R
13 5 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.53%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.43%) ABAP
14 4 (0.43%) RPG
14 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 117 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.79%) Degree
4 32 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.23%) PMP
8 15 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.38%) ACCA
10 12 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.28%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.96%) CIMA
13 9 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.96%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.85%) IIBA
15 7 (0.74%) CBAP
15 7 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.79%) QA
2 44 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.47%) Accessibility
4 40 (4.26%) GDPR
5 38 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (3.09%) PMO
7 23 (2.45%) NIST
8 19 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (2.02%) SLA
9 14 (1.49%) GRC
10 10 (1.06%) COBIT
10 10 (1.06%) NCSC
11 9 (0.96%) ITGC
12 7 (0.74%) WCAG
13 6 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.64%) MiFID
13 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.64%) SOX 404
14 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 66 (7.02%) Docker
2 25 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.53%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 67 (7.13%) Terraform
3 36 (3.83%) Ansible
4 20 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.91%) SCCM
6 16 (1.70%) Grafana
7 13 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.85%) WSUS
10 6 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.53%) Control-M
12 4 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.43%) SCOM
13 3 (0.32%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.32%) logstash
13 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.32%) vRealize
14 2 (0.21%) Argo
14 2 (0.21%) Packer
14 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.49%) SAP
3 51 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 45 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.36%) Oracle
6 39 (4.15%) Google
7 16 (1.70%) Splunk
8 15 (1.60%) Databricks
9 12 (1.28%) Adobe
10 10 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.96%) VMware
11 9 (0.96%) Workday
12 8 (0.85%) IBM
12 8 (0.85%) Remedy
13 7 (0.74%) Murex
14 6 (0.64%) BMC
14 6 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.64%) Sophos
14 6 (0.64%) TIBCO
15 5 (0.53%) CA Agile Central