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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 62
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,707 759 615
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.47% 5.69% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 6.14% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 505 369
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £438 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £754 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.71 £27.51
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.24 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% -13.26% -17.93%
75th Percentile £52.88 £53.13 £56.88
90th Percentile £62.85 £68.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +28.13% -47.05% -26.92%

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 17,900 12,362 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.61% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,695 8,173 9,697
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 255 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.09 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -1 187 £550 +9.45% 322
West London +5 57 £520 +4.00% 127
South London +23 47 £525 -9.64% 53
East London +4 13 £750 +294.74% 47
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 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 85 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.34%) Confluence
3 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.05%) CMS
6 17 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.64%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) 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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Magento
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Actimize
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 386 (22.61%) Azure
2 315 (18.45%) AWS
3 159 (9.31%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (6.39%) GitHub
7 94 (5.51%) GCP
8 80 (4.69%) Entra ID
9 66 (3.87%) Serverless
10 62 (3.63%) SaaS
11 59 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (2.99%) Amazon S3
12 51 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
15 37 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (1.82%) PowerApps
18 29 (1.70%) Azure AKS
18 29 (1.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.99%) Firewall
2 33 (1.93%) DNS
3 32 (1.87%) Network Security
4 22 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.05%) WAN
6 16 (0.94%) VPN
7 15 (0.88%) DHCP
8 11 (0.64%) LAN
9 9 (0.53%) VoIP
10 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) WebEx
13 4 (0.23%) BGP
13 4 (0.23%) DKIM
13 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.23%) SAN
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (6.97%) Power BI
2 55 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 43 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (2.52%) Metadata
4 37 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.52%) Tableau
8 25 (1.46%) Delta Lake
8 25 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 16 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.94%) Power Query
10 15 (0.88%) Parquet
11 11 (0.64%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.59%) Big Data
13 9 (0.53%) MongoDB
13 9 (0.53%) MySQL
14 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (8.90%) JIRA
2 107 (6.27%) Git
3 89 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.64%) GitLab
5 33 (1.93%) Selenium
6 16 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.76%) JUnit
8 12 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.70%) Postman
9 10 (0.59%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.53%) Maven
11 7 (0.41%) Gradle
11 7 (0.41%) Mockito
12 6 (0.35%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.35%) XCTest
12 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 773 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 548 (32.10%) Finance
3 393 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (16.99%) Public Sector
5 198 (11.60%) Banking
6 70 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 69 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.34%) Legal
9 52 (3.05%) Retail
10 50 (2.93%) Front Office
11 49 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.87%) Law
12 48 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (2.17%) Local Government
14 36 (2.11%) Marketing
15 35 (2.05%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.58%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.41%) Military
19 23 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 228 (13.36%) Lead
2 201 (11.78%) Senior
3 176 (10.31%) Analyst
4 170 (9.96%) Developer
5 98 (5.74%) Architect
6 66 (3.87%) Project Manager
7 65 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (3.10%) Business Analyst
8 53 (3.10%) Consultant
8 53 (3.10%) Data Engineer
9 51 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
10 47 (2.75%) Software Engineer
11 43 (2.52%) Scrum Master
12 39 (2.28%) Senior Manager
13 36 (2.11%) Product Manager
14 35 (2.05%) Product Owner
15 31 (1.82%) Support Engineer
16 30 (1.76%) Java Developer
16 30 (1.76%) Security Engineer
17 28 (1.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (8.03%) Terraform
2 95 (5.57%) REST
3 81 (4.75%) RESTful
4 54 (3.16%) .NET
4 54 (3.16%) Kafka
4 54 (3.16%) React
5 53 (3.10%) Spring
6 50 (2.93%) Spring Boot
7 43 (2.52%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.46%) HTML
9 38 (2.23%) Web Services
10 37 (2.17%) CSS
11 31 (1.82%) Django
12 27 (1.58%) PySpark
12 27 (1.58%) SOAP
13 23 (1.35%) JSON
13 23 (1.35%) Node.js
13 23 (1.35%) XML
14 22 (1.29%) Middleware
15 21 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 213 (12.48%) Product Ownership
2 133 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 114 (6.68%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
5 46 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 36 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.70%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.46%) CMDB
12 24 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (1.35%) NHS
14 21 (1.23%) Data Centre
15 20 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.05%) Operational Technology
16 18 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 112 (6.56%) Windows
2 87 (5.10%) Linux
3 32 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.46%) Unix
5 22 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.94%) Android
8 15 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
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
12 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (39.60%) Agile
2 546 (31.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 446 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
4 357 (20.91%) CI/CD
5 353 (20.68%) DevOps
6 349 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 310 (18.16%) Decision-Making
8 293 (17.16%) AI
9 238 (13.94%) Roadmaps
10 202 (11.83%) Analytics
11 195 (11.42%) Scrum
12 181 (10.60%) Change Management
13 166 (9.72%) Migration
14 161 (9.43%) Software Engineering
15 159 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 159 (9.31%) Test Automation
16 146 (8.55%) Risk Management
17 144 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (8.32%) Mentoring
19 139 (8.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 295 (17.28%) Python
2 264 (15.47%) SQL
3 144 (8.44%) Java
4 93 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.28%) C#
7 60 (3.51%) Bash
8 55 (3.22%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.88%) Go
12 15 (0.88%) Groovy
12 15 (0.88%) Perl
13 14 (0.82%) Korn
14 13 (0.76%) Bicep
15 12 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.70%) R
16 10 (0.59%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 387 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 331 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.73%) Degree
4 56 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.93%) PMP
7 43 (2.52%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.76%) CISSP
11 21 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.94%) CISM
12 16 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (9.20%) QA
2 139 (8.14%) Data Quality
3 79 (4.63%) PMO
4 44 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.34%) NIST
6 40 (2.34%) SLA
7 36 (2.11%) GDPR
8 31 (1.82%) GRC
9 17 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.00%) NCSC
10 12 (0.70%) COBIT
10 12 (0.70%) WCAG
11 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 111 (6.50%) Docker
2 83 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.53%) IAG
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) RACF
8 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.059%) UAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.16%) Ansible
3 49 (2.87%) Grafana
3 49 (2.87%) Prometheus
4 38 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.64%) SCCM
7 10 (0.59%) Kibana
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.23%) QRadar
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%) Packer
11 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 329 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.56%) Oracle
3 110 (6.44%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.51%) SAP
6 56 (3.28%) Google
7 43 (2.52%) Splunk
8 39 (2.28%) Databricks
9 26 (1.52%) IBM
10 24 (1.41%) Cisco
11 23 (1.35%) VMware
12 19 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.00%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
14 14 (0.82%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.76%) Adobe
16 10 (0.59%) UiPath
16 10 (0.59%) Workday
17 9 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.53%) Okta