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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 50 71
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,277 550 553
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.00% 4.50% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 4.88% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 367 387
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £432 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £694
90th Percentile £725 £850 £838
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 14
10th Percentile - £24.52 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.50 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.48 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +21.60% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.67 £47.50 £44.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £56.75 £79.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +36.99% -28.78%

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 16,137 11,264 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.21% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,779 7,595 11,054
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 182 310
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.67 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% +13.83% -29.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.23 £66.78
England median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +7 145 £544 +8.80% 167
South London +11 43 £495 -15.09% 8
West London -7 38 £520 +5.37% 29
East London +7 14 £600 - 29
North London - 1 £500 - 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 72 (5.64%) Confluence
2 52 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.63%) CMS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache
8 5 (0.39%) Camunda
8 5 (0.39%) IIS
9 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.078%) govService
11 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.078%) Mule
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 66 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.23%) Notion
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.078%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.078%) Mingle
10 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.70%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.55%) Actimize
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.16%) Endur
11 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
11 2 (0.16%) Global One
11 2 (0.16%) Magento
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
11 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 282 (22.08%) Azure
2 226 (17.70%) AWS
3 132 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.05%) GitHub
5 89 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (5.40%) GCP
7 55 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (4.23%) SaaS
9 52 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.52%) Serverless
12 40 (3.13%) Entra ID
13 39 (3.05%) Amazon S3
14 38 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.72%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.72%) PowerApps
18 22 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.58%) Firewall
2 28 (2.19%) Network Security
3 19 (1.49%) DNS
4 14 (1.10%) WAN
5 10 (0.78%) DHCP
6 9 (0.70%) LAN
6 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.55%) BGP
7 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.55%) OSPF
7 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.55%) VoIP
8 6 (0.47%) Modbus
8 6 (0.47%) RS-232
8 6 (0.47%) RS-485
8 6 (0.47%) VPN
9 4 (0.31%) IOS XR
9 4 (0.31%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.31%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.31%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (8.22%) Power BI
2 41 (3.21%) Tableau
3 38 (2.98%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.51%) Metadata
5 30 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.94%) Delta Lake
11 12 (0.94%) Power Query
12 9 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.70%) Parquet
13 8 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.63%) Big Data
14 7 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 164 (12.84%) JIRA
2 54 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.84%) Git
4 35 (2.74%) GitLab
5 19 (1.49%) Selenium
6 15 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.70%) JMeter
9 9 (0.70%) JUnit
10 7 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.47%) Postman
11 6 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.47%) Vite
12 5 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.39%) TestRail
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.31%) Maven
13 4 (0.31%) Mocha
13 4 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 496 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 455 (35.63%) Finance
3 253 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.30%) Banking
6 43 (3.37%) Law
6 43 (3.37%) Legal
6 43 (3.37%) Retail
7 39 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (2.58%) Marketing
10 31 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.96%) Local Government
14 22 (1.72%) Front Office
14 22 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (13.70%) Lead
2 140 (10.96%) Analyst
3 118 (9.24%) Senior
4 98 (7.67%) Developer
5 84 (6.58%) Architect
6 51 (3.99%) Delivery Manager
7 50 (3.92%) Business Analyst
8 49 (3.84%) Project Manager
9 42 (3.29%) Consultant
10 41 (3.21%) Data Engineer
11 39 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (2.90%) Scrum Master
13 36 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 32 (2.51%) Lead Architect
15 31 (2.43%) Functional Architect
16 27 (2.11%) Security Engineer
17 26 (2.04%) Azure Engineer
17 26 (2.04%) Technical Manager
18 25 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
19 22 (1.72%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.52%) React
2 43 (3.37%) REST
3 41 (3.21%) RESTful
4 34 (2.66%) HTML
5 32 (2.51%) .NET
5 32 (2.51%) CSS
6 30 (2.35%) Spring
7 25 (1.96%) Spring Boot
8 23 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 21 (1.64%) Kafka
10 18 (1.41%) Node.js
11 16 (1.25%) Middleware
11 16 (1.25%) Next.js
12 13 (1.02%) OAuth
12 13 (1.02%) Playwright
12 13 (1.02%) PySpark
12 13 (1.02%) Web Services
13 10 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (0.78%) GraphQL
13 10 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 132 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 83 (6.50%) Cloud Native
3 59 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.66%) Virtual Team
5 33 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.02%) CMDB
12 13 (1.02%) Derivative
13 12 (0.94%) FMCG
14 11 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.54%) Windows
2 40 (3.13%) Linux
3 13 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.63%) Unix
7 6 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.39%) Android
8 5 (0.39%) VMS
9 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.078%) AIX
11 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (38.29%) Agile
2 293 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (21.22%) DevOps
4 269 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (20.13%) CI/CD
6 224 (17.54%) Decision-Making
7 213 (16.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 184 (14.41%) AI
9 161 (12.61%) Analytics
10 151 (11.82%) Roadmaps
11 149 (11.67%) Migration
12 131 (10.26%) Change Management
13 127 (9.95%) Scrum
14 122 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
15 116 (9.08%) Test Automation
16 115 (9.01%) Risk Management
17 111 (8.69%) Project Management
18 110 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
19 104 (8.14%) Mentoring
19 104 (8.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 192 (15.04%) SQL
2 190 (14.88%) Python
3 83 (6.50%) Java
4 59 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 38 (2.98%) C#
7 37 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 21 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.57%) Bash
9 20 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.70%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.70%) Bicep
11 9 (0.70%) C++
12 8 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.55%) Go
13 7 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.55%) R
13 7 (0.55%) Ruby
13 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 240 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 200 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.48%) Degree
4 35 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.35%) CISSP
6 29 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.80%) PMP
10 22 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.57%) CISM
13 16 (1.25%) ACCA
14 15 (1.17%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.94%) CCNP
16 11 (0.86%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.70%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 8 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (10.10%) QA
2 88 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.70%) PMO
4 49 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (3.68%) GDPR
6 46 (3.60%) NIST
7 32 (2.51%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.04%) SLA
9 21 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (1.33%) GRC
11 15 (1.17%) IFRS
11 15 (1.17%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.70%) NCSC
14 8 (0.63%) WCAG
15 6 (0.47%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.39%) GAAP
16 5 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.31%) GMP
System Software
1 69 (5.40%) Docker
2 33 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.47%) Firmware
5 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.23%) IAG
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.078%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.078%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (8.77%) Terraform
2 97 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.90%) Ansible
4 22 (1.72%) Grafana
5 21 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.70%) SCCM
8 7 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.39%) WSUS
10 4 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.31%) Puppet
11 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.23%) Kibana
11 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
13 1 (0.078%) Nagios
Vendors
1 210 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.28%) ServiceNow
3 74 (5.79%) Oracle
4 64 (5.01%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.45%) Google
5 44 (3.45%) SAP
6 28 (2.19%) Databricks
7 16 (1.25%) Cisco
8 15 (1.17%) VMware
9 10 (0.78%) ForgeRock
9 10 (0.78%) Okta
9 10 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.78%) Splunk
10 9 (0.70%) Foundry
11 8 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.63%) Remedy
12 7 (0.55%) Murex
12 7 (0.55%) Workday
12 7 (0.55%) Zscaler