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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 44 71
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,578 693 540
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.95% 5.10% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.93% 5.53% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 463 352
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 12
10th Percentile £18.92 £24.62 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.21 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £36.48 £32.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +11.82% -34.09%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.50 £55.63
90th Percentile £92.13 £56.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £49.00 £30.81 £47.50
% change year-on-year +59.07% -35.15% -17.39%

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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 0 165 £550 +8.92% 130
South London +18 60 £503 -13.51% 20
West London +4 52 £520 +2.77% 64
East London +12 11 £675 +15.38% 32
North London -1 3 £450 -18.18% 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 77 (4.88%) Confluence
2 67 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.95%) CMS
5 14 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.57%) Apache
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.25%) WordPress
9 3 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Appian
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
10 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 71 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.063%) InDesign
9 1 (0.063%) Mingle
9 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (1.33%) NetSuite
1 21 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.51%) Actimize
3 8 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.32%) Magento
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.25%) Endur
7 4 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.25%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 365 (23.13%) Azure
2 294 (18.63%) AWS
3 145 (9.19%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (6.02%) GitHub
6 93 (5.89%) GCP
7 89 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (4.69%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.99%) SaaS
10 54 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (3.42%) Serverless
11 52 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
12 43 (2.72%) Amazon S3
13 42 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (1.84%) Azure AKS
16 29 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.41%) Firewall
2 28 (1.77%) DNS
3 27 (1.71%) Network Security
4 18 (1.14%) WAN
5 12 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.70%) LAN
7 10 (0.63%) DHCP
7 10 (0.63%) VoIP
8 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.44%) VPN
10 6 (0.38%) MPLS
10 6 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.32%) BGP
11 5 (0.32%) HTTP
11 5 (0.32%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.32%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.32%) WebEx
12 4 (0.25%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.25%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.41%) Power BI
2 47 (2.98%) SQL Server
3 38 (2.41%) Metadata
4 34 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (2.15%) Tableau
5 30 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.08%) Delta Lake
9 13 (0.82%) Parquet
10 12 (0.76%) Power Query
11 11 (0.70%) Big Data
11 11 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.44%) MySQL
12 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 163 (10.33%) JIRA
2 75 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 73 (4.63%) Git
4 42 (2.66%) GitLab
5 24 (1.52%) Selenium
6 18 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.63%) JMeter
9 9 (0.57%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.51%) JUnit
10 8 (0.51%) Maven
10 8 (0.51%) Postman
10 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.44%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.44%) Gradle
11 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.44%) XCTest
12 6 (0.38%) Gatling
General
1 667 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 538 (34.09%) Finance
3 352 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (16.16%) Public Sector
5 160 (10.14%) Banking
6 60 (3.80%) Legal
6 60 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.42%) Law
9 48 (3.04%) Retail
10 46 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (2.47%) Local Government
13 37 (2.34%) Marketing
14 35 (2.22%) Front Office
15 30 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 29 (1.84%) Investment Banking
17 28 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (13.43%) Lead
2 163 (10.33%) Senior
3 157 (9.95%) Analyst
4 144 (9.13%) Developer
5 98 (6.21%) Architect
6 63 (3.99%) Project Manager
7 59 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
8 53 (3.36%) Consultant
9 51 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 50 (3.17%) Business Analyst
11 43 (2.72%) Scrum Master
12 42 (2.66%) Data Engineer
12 42 (2.66%) Software Engineer
13 34 (2.15%) Lead Architect
13 34 (2.15%) Product Owner
13 34 (2.15%) Senior Manager
14 31 (1.96%) Functional Architect
14 31 (1.96%) Java Developer
15 29 (1.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 28 (1.77%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (4.69%) REST
2 62 (3.93%) RESTful
3 47 (2.98%) React
4 43 (2.72%) .NET
4 43 (2.72%) Spring
5 38 (2.41%) Spring Boot
6 37 (2.34%) HTML
6 37 (2.34%) Kafka
7 35 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 33 (2.09%) CSS
9 23 (1.46%) Node.js
10 21 (1.33%) Middleware
10 21 (1.33%) SOAP
11 20 (1.27%) Django
12 19 (1.20%) Web Services
13 18 (1.14%) JSON
14 17 (1.08%) Playwright
15 15 (0.95%) XML
16 14 (0.89%) Next.js
16 14 (0.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 188 (11.91%) Product Ownership
2 108 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 104 (6.59%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.79%) Virtual Team
5 42 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.65%) CMDB
9 26 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.58%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.14%) NHS
13 17 (1.08%) FMCG
13 17 (1.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.89%) Windows
2 64 (4.06%) Linux
3 26 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.82%) Unix
5 13 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.32%) Android
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.063%) HPUX
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
9 1 (0.063%) SUSE
9 1 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (39.16%) Agile
2 449 (28.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 384 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
4 327 (20.72%) DevOps
5 320 (20.28%) CI/CD
6 306 (19.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 287 (18.19%) Decision-Making
8 249 (15.78%) AI
9 194 (12.29%) Roadmaps
10 190 (12.04%) Analytics
11 172 (10.90%) Change Management
12 168 (10.65%) Scrum
13 154 (9.76%) Migration
14 141 (8.94%) Test Automation
15 140 (8.87%) Software Engineering
16 134 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
17 132 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 130 (8.24%) Mentoring
19 128 (8.11%) Validation
20 127 (8.05%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 249 (15.78%) Python
2 231 (14.64%) SQL
3 128 (8.11%) Java
4 82 (5.20%) JavaScript
5 70 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 59 (3.74%) C#
7 46 (2.92%) Bash
8 41 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.95%) Bicep
13 14 (0.89%) Groovy
14 12 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.76%) Go
14 12 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.70%) Perl
16 9 (0.57%) C++
16 9 (0.57%) Ruby
16 9 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 330 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 283 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 142 (9.00%) Degree
4 47 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.79%) PMP
6 43 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.53%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.09%) CISSP
9 32 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.20%) CISM
13 16 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.70%) CCNP
16 10 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.63%) ACCA
16 10 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.00%) QA
2 115 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 71 (4.50%) PMO
4 46 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.72%) GDPR
6 41 (2.60%) NIST
7 39 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 37 (2.34%) SLA
9 22 (1.39%) GRC
10 15 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.70%) NCSC
13 10 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.57%) IFRS
15 8 (0.51%) COBIT
16 6 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.32%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (5.45%) Docker
2 71 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.57%) IAG
5 9 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) zsh
8 1 (0.063%) Ceph
8 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.063%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.063%) UAG
8 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 123 (7.79%) Terraform
3 43 (2.72%) Ansible
4 41 (2.60%) Grafana
4 41 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 34 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.38%) Kibana
7 6 (0.38%) SCCM
7 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.25%) Puppet
9 4 (0.25%) QRadar
10 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 266 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.72%) ServiceNow
3 96 (6.08%) Oracle
4 69 (4.37%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.80%) SAP
6 57 (3.61%) Google
7 35 (2.22%) Databricks
8 25 (1.58%) Cisco
9 21 (1.33%) VMware
10 19 (1.20%) Splunk
11 18 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.01%) IBM
13 14 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.76%) Apple
15 11 (0.70%) Foundry
15 11 (0.70%) Okta
15 11 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.63%) ForgeRock
17 9 (0.57%) Murex
17 9 (0.57%) Workday