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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 60 65
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,193 482 593
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.23% 3.78% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.06% 4.14% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 286 404
10th Percentile £350 £358 £386
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £750 £704
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
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 £56.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.36% +50.33% -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 14,808 11,647 16,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.77% 91.28% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,938 7,820 11,448
10th Percentile £351 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 341
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £76.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +24 144 £540 +8.00% 174
South London +2 32 £500 -14.24% 17
West London -17 15 £475 - 35
East London +8 12 £598 - 23
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 83 (6.96%) Confluence
2 47 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.42%) Apache
6 5 (0.42%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Camunda
7 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.084%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.084%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.084%) SAS
Applications
1 78 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.34%) Notion
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.084%) Mingle
11 1 (0.084%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.84%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.34%) 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
1 272 (22.80%) Azure
2 195 (16.35%) AWS
3 111 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 109 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.21%) GitHub
6 58 (4.86%) GCP
7 48 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 46 (3.86%) Serverless
9 45 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
10 43 (3.60%) SaaS
11 37 (3.10%) Amazon S3
12 35 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (2.77%) Entra ID
14 31 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
15 28 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (1.59%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.60%) Firewall
2 26 (2.18%) Network Security
3 18 (1.51%) DNS
4 13 (1.09%) DHCP
5 12 (1.01%) WAN
6 11 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.67%) VPN
9 7 (0.59%) BGP
9 7 (0.59%) LAN
9 7 (0.59%) 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 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (7.46%) Power BI
2 33 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.43%) Tableau
4 24 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.93%) Metadata
6 21 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.59%) 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
1 165 (13.83%) JIRA
2 53 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.44%) GitLab
4 39 (3.27%) Git
5 21 (1.76%) Selenium
6 17 (1.42%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.01%) JMeter
8 11 (0.92%) JUnit
8 11 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.59%) 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 (0.34%) Gradle
13 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 510 (42.75%) Social Skills
2 406 (34.03%) Finance
3 246 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 88 (7.38%) Banking
6 50 (4.19%) Legal
7 43 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (3.44%) Marketing
9 37 (3.10%) Retail
10 33 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.26%) Front Office
14 20 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.59%) Law
16 18 (1.51%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.42%) Local Government
18 15 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (13.91%) Lead
2 162 (13.58%) Analyst
3 113 (9.47%) Senior
4 90 (7.54%) Developer
5 73 (6.12%) Architect
6 67 (5.62%) Business Analyst
7 50 (4.19%) Consultant
8 48 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
9 45 (3.77%) Project Manager
10 34 (2.85%) Data Engineer
11 32 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.51%) Senior Manager
13 24 (2.01%) Lead Architect
13 24 (2.01%) Scrum Master
14 23 (1.93%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (1.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (1.93%) Technical Manager
15 22 (1.84%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (1.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.52%) .NET
2 36 (3.02%) REST
3 33 (2.77%) React
4 27 (2.26%) HTML
4 27 (2.26%) Node.js
4 27 (2.26%) RESTful
5 26 (2.18%) CSS
6 18 (1.51%) AngularJS
6 18 (1.51%) Spring
7 14 (1.17%) Middleware
7 14 (1.17%) Web Services
8 13 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (1.09%) Kafka
8 13 (1.09%) Playwright
8 13 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.01%) PySpark
10 11 (0.92%) Next.js
10 11 (0.92%) XML
11 10 (0.84%) OAuth
12 9 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 109 (9.14%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 48 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 29 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 20 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.26%) PMI
13 14 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.92%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.61%) Windows
2 49 (4.11%) Linux
3 13 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.84%) Unix
7 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.59%) Android
8 7 (0.59%) VMS
9 6 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.17%) AIX
12 1 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.084%) Solaris
12 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (38.31%) Agile
2 288 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
4 259 (21.71%) DevOps
5 250 (20.96%) CI/CD
6 205 (17.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 181 (15.17%) Decision-Making
8 150 (12.57%) Analytics
9 144 (12.07%) AI
10 134 (11.23%) Roadmaps
11 129 (10.81%) Migration
12 112 (9.39%) Test Automation
13 111 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 107 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
15 105 (8.80%) Change Management
16 103 (8.63%) Risk Management
17 102 (8.55%) Scrum
18 100 (8.38%) Project Delivery
19 98 (8.21%) Project Management
20 94 (7.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 186 (15.59%) Python
2 185 (15.51%) SQL
3 75 (6.29%) Java
4 56 (4.69%) PowerShell
5 55 (4.61%) JavaScript
6 37 (3.10%) C#
7 36 (3.02%) TypeScript
8 31 (2.60%) Bash
9 16 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.17%) C++
10 14 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.01%) Bicep
13 8 (0.67%) Swift
14 7 (0.59%) Go
14 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.50%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.42%) ABAP
16 5 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 206 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 175 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.56%) Degree
4 34 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.51%) Azure Certification
5 30 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 23 (1.93%) ACCA
7 22 (1.84%) CISSP
8 19 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.59%) CISM
9 17 (1.42%) PMP
10 15 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.26%) ISTQB
11 12 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.92%) IIBA
13 9 (0.75%) CIMA
14 8 (0.67%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (10.65%) QA
2 74 (6.20%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.78%) GDPR
4 52 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (3.52%) NIST
6 40 (3.35%) Accessibility
7 38 (3.19%) PMO
8 27 (2.26%) SLA
9 21 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.59%) GRC
11 18 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (1.17%) IFRS
13 11 (0.92%) COBIT
13 11 (0.92%) NCSC
13 11 (0.92%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.59%) ITGC
14 7 (0.59%) MiFID
14 7 (0.59%) WCAG
15 6 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.50%) PERC
System Software
1 72 (6.04%) Docker
2 28 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.50%) Firmware
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.084%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.084%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (8.47%) Terraform
2 85 (7.12%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.69%) Ansible
4 23 (1.93%) Grafana
5 22 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.34%) 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 (0.34%) Kibana
10 4 (0.34%) Puppet
10 4 (0.34%) 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
1 206 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.54%) ServiceNow
3 62 (5.20%) SAP
4 58 (4.86%) Oracle
5 56 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.77%) Google
7 29 (2.43%) Databricks
8 17 (1.42%) VMware
9 15 (1.26%) Splunk
10 12 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.84%) Adobe
12 9 (0.75%) Cisco
12 9 (0.75%) Foundry
13 8 (0.67%) Remedy
14 7 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.59%) Murex
14 7 (0.59%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.50%) Ariba
15 6 (0.50%) Okta
15 6 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud