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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 60 66
Rank change year-on-year +33 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,203 487 591
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.22% 3.79% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 4.16% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 287 402
10th Percentile £350 £359 £385
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £748 £700
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.69 £40.40 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% +34.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.69 £72.38 £84.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.94% +53.33% -36.44%

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 14,953 11,720 16,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.78% 91.29% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,029 7,873 11,444
10th Percentile £353 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 165 339
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.18 £15.99
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +19.67% -21.54%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.15 £69.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +25 144 £540 +8.00% 187
South London +3 33 £500 -14.24% 16
West London -17 15 £475 - 35
East London +8 12 £598 - 25
North London - 2 £550 - 2
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 84 (6.98%) Confluence
2 48 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.42%) Apache
6 5 (0.42%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Camunda
7 4 (0.33%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.25%) Appian
8 3 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.25%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.083%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.083%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.083%) SAS
Applications
1 78 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.91%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.083%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.083%) Mingle
11 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.83%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.33%) Actimize
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) iTrent
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.17%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.17%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 273 (22.69%) Azure
2 195 (16.21%) AWS
3 115 (9.56%) Power Platform
4 110 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.15%) GitHub
6 58 (4.82%) GCP
7 48 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
8 46 (3.82%) Serverless
9 45 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
10 43 (3.57%) SaaS
11 37 (3.08%) Amazon S3
12 35 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
13 34 (2.83%) Entra ID
14 28 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (1.58%) Power Automate
17 19 (1.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.58%) Firewall
2 26 (2.16%) Network Security
3 18 (1.50%) DNS
4 13 (1.08%) DHCP
5 12 (1.00%) WAN
6 11 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.67%) VPN
9 7 (0.58%) BGP
9 7 (0.58%) LAN
9 7 (0.58%) OSPF
10 6 (0.50%) Broadband
10 6 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 6 (0.50%) Modbus
10 6 (0.50%) RS-232
10 6 (0.50%) RS-485
11 5 (0.42%) 5G
11 5 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.42%) MPLS
12 4 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (7.73%) Power BI
2 33 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.41%) Tableau
4 24 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.91%) Metadata
6 21 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.58%) MySQL
11 6 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.50%) Big Data
11 6 (0.50%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.50%) Redis
11 6 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.42%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 167 (13.88%) JIRA
2 53 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.41%) GitLab
4 39 (3.24%) Git
5 21 (1.75%) Selenium
6 17 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.00%) JMeter
8 11 (0.91%) JUnit
8 11 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.58%) Postman
12 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.42%) Gatling
12 5 (0.42%) Maven
12 5 (0.42%) MSTest
12 5 (0.42%) TestRail
13 4 (0.33%) Gradle
13 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 513 (42.64%) Social Skills
2 414 (34.41%) Finance
3 248 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 89 (7.40%) Banking
6 51 (4.24%) Legal
7 44 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (3.41%) Marketing
9 37 (3.08%) Retail
10 33 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.24%) Front Office
14 23 (1.91%) Law
15 20 (1.66%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.50%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.41%) Local Government
18 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 170 (14.13%) Lead
2 162 (13.47%) Analyst
3 113 (9.39%) Senior
4 90 (7.48%) Developer
5 77 (6.40%) Architect
6 67 (5.57%) Business Analyst
7 51 (4.24%) Consultant
8 48 (3.99%) Delivery Manager
9 45 (3.74%) Project Manager
10 34 (2.83%) Data Engineer
11 32 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.49%) Senior Manager
13 28 (2.33%) Lead Architect
14 25 (2.08%) Scrum Master
15 23 (1.91%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (1.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (1.91%) Technical Manager
16 22 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (1.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.49%) .NET
2 36 (2.99%) REST
3 33 (2.74%) React
4 28 (2.33%) Node.js
5 27 (2.24%) HTML
5 27 (2.24%) RESTful
6 26 (2.16%) CSS
7 18 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.50%) Spring
8 14 (1.16%) Middleware
8 14 (1.16%) Web Services
9 13 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (1.08%) Kafka
9 13 (1.08%) Playwright
9 13 (1.08%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.00%) PySpark
11 11 (0.91%) Next.js
11 11 (0.91%) XML
12 10 (0.83%) OAuth
13 9 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.14%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 49 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 29 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 20 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.25%) PMI
13 14 (1.16%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.91%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.57%) Windows
2 49 (4.07%) Linux
3 13 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.83%) Unix
7 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.58%) Android
8 7 (0.58%) VMS
9 6 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.17%) AIX
12 1 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.083%) Solaris
12 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (38.24%) Agile
2 289 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 274 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
4 259 (21.53%) DevOps
5 250 (20.78%) CI/CD
6 211 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 183 (15.21%) Decision-Making
8 150 (12.47%) Analytics
9 145 (12.05%) AI
10 135 (11.22%) Roadmaps
11 133 (11.06%) Migration
12 113 (9.39%) Test Automation
13 111 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
13 111 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 105 (8.73%) Change Management
14 105 (8.73%) Risk Management
15 104 (8.65%) Scrum
16 100 (8.31%) Project Delivery
17 98 (8.15%) Project Management
18 94 (7.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 187 (15.54%) Python
2 185 (15.38%) SQL
3 75 (6.23%) Java
4 56 (4.66%) JavaScript
4 56 (4.66%) PowerShell
5 37 (3.08%) C#
6 36 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 31 (2.58%) Bash
8 16 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.16%) C++
9 14 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.00%) Bicep
12 8 (0.67%) Swift
13 7 (0.58%) Go
13 7 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.50%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.42%) ABAP
15 5 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 206 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 175 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.48%) Degree
4 34 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 30 (2.49%) PMI Certification
6 23 (1.91%) ACCA
7 22 (1.83%) CISSP
8 19 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.58%) CISM
9 17 (1.41%) PMP
10 16 (1.33%) ISTQB
11 15 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.91%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.91%) IIBA
14 9 (0.75%) CIMA
15 8 (0.67%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (10.72%) QA
2 74 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.82%) GDPR
4 53 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (3.66%) NIST
6 40 (3.33%) Accessibility
7 38 (3.16%) PMO
8 27 (2.24%) SLA
9 21 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.58%) GRC
10 19 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (1.16%) IFRS
12 11 (0.91%) COBIT
12 11 (0.91%) NCSC
12 11 (0.91%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.58%) ITGC
13 7 (0.58%) MiFID
13 7 (0.58%) WCAG
14 6 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.50%) PERC
System Software
1 72 (5.99%) Docker
2 28 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.50%) Firmware
5 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.083%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.083%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.083%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (8.40%) Terraform
2 85 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.66%) Ansible
4 23 (1.91%) Grafana
5 22 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.33%) SCCM
8 8 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.50%) HP ALM
9 6 (0.50%) WSUS
10 4 (0.33%) Kibana
10 4 (0.33%) Puppet
10 4 (0.33%) SCOM
11 3 (0.25%) Control-M
11 3 (0.25%) logstash
11 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.25%) vRealize
12 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 210 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.48%) ServiceNow
3 62 (5.15%) SAP
4 58 (4.82%) Oracle
5 56 (4.66%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.74%) Google
7 29 (2.41%) Databricks
8 17 (1.41%) VMware
9 15 (1.25%) Splunk
10 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.83%) Adobe
12 9 (0.75%) Cisco
12 9 (0.75%) Foundry
13 8 (0.67%) Remedy
14 7 (0.58%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.58%) Murex
14 7 (0.58%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.50%) Ariba
15 6 (0.50%) Okta
15 6 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud