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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 53 67
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,322 543 567
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.21% 4.50% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 4.87% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 363 395
10th Percentile £350 £359 £363
25th Percentile £425 £432 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £700
90th Percentile £725 £850 £825
England median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 15
10th Percentile - £26.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.03 £21.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +29.97% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.67 £49.38 £53.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £57.63 £83.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £48.46 £36.50
% change year-on-year +13.50% +32.77% -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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +7 147 £525 +5.53% 202
South London +17 45 £500 -13.04% 8
West London -4 40 £500 -2.39% 34
East London +8 15 £600 +2.56% 29
North London - 2 £475 - 5
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 67 (5.07%) Confluence
2 53 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.61%) CMS
7 7 (0.53%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) IIS
9 5 (0.38%) Camunda
10 3 (0.23%) Appian
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.076%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.076%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.076%) SAS
Applications
1 65 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.076%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.076%) Mingle
8 1 (0.076%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.61%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.53%) Actimize
5 7 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.30%) Magento
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.15%) Endur
10 2 (0.15%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.15%) Global One
10 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 296 (22.39%) Azure
2 238 (18.00%) AWS
3 133 (10.06%) Power Platform
4 92 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
4 92 (6.96%) GitHub
5 73 (5.52%) GCP
6 59 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 56 (4.24%) SaaS
8 53 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (3.63%) Serverless
11 43 (3.25%) Entra ID
12 42 (3.18%) Amazon S3
13 41 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (1.59%) Azure AKS
18 20 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.57%) Firewall
2 29 (2.19%) Network Security
3 16 (1.21%) DNS
4 15 (1.13%) WAN
5 10 (0.76%) LAN
6 9 (0.68%) VoIP
7 8 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.53%) DHCP
9 6 (0.45%) BGP
9 6 (0.45%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.45%) OSPF
10 5 (0.38%) Modbus
10 5 (0.38%) NGFW
10 5 (0.38%) RS-232
10 5 (0.38%) RS-485
10 5 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.38%) VPN
11 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.30%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (8.17%) Power BI
2 40 (3.03%) Tableau
3 38 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.27%) Metadata
6 25 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.13%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.06%) Power Query
11 12 (0.91%) Delta Lake
12 9 (0.68%) Big Data
12 9 (0.68%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.68%) Parquet
13 8 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.45%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 165 (12.48%) JIRA
2 55 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.86%) Git
4 38 (2.87%) GitLab
5 19 (1.44%) Selenium
6 15 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.68%) JMeter
10 7 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.53%) JUnit
11 6 (0.45%) Postman
11 6 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.45%) Vite
12 5 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.38%) TestRail
12 5 (0.38%) XCTest
12 5 (0.38%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.30%) Gatling
General
1 517 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 467 (35.33%) Finance
3 268 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 107 (8.09%) Banking
6 47 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
7 45 (3.40%) Legal
8 44 (3.33%) Law
8 44 (3.33%) Retail
9 38 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.57%) Marketing
11 33 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (2.19%) Local Government
12 29 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.74%) Front Office
16 16 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (1.06%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 183 (13.84%) Lead
2 139 (10.51%) Analyst
3 124 (9.38%) Senior
4 103 (7.79%) Developer
5 84 (6.35%) Architect
6 55 (4.16%) Project Manager
7 53 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
8 49 (3.71%) Business Analyst
9 48 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 44 (3.33%) Consultant
11 42 (3.18%) Data Engineer
12 37 (2.80%) Scrum Master
12 37 (2.80%) Senior Manager
13 32 (2.42%) Lead Architect
14 31 (2.34%) Functional Architect
15 30 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (2.04%) Technical Manager
17 26 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
17 26 (1.97%) Security Engineer
18 23 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.48%) REST
2 45 (3.40%) React
3 41 (3.10%) RESTful
4 33 (2.50%) HTML
5 31 (2.34%) .NET
6 30 (2.27%) CSS
6 30 (2.27%) Spring
7 26 (1.97%) Spring Boot
8 23 (1.74%) AngularJS
9 21 (1.59%) Kafka
10 18 (1.36%) Node.js
11 16 (1.21%) Middleware
12 15 (1.13%) Next.js
13 14 (1.06%) Web Services
14 13 (0.98%) OAuth
14 13 (0.98%) Playwright
14 13 (0.98%) PySpark
15 10 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (0.76%) GraphQL
16 9 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.44%) Product Ownership
2 88 (6.66%) Cloud Native
3 64 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
4 34 (2.57%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.57%) Virtual Team
5 26 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 22 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 19 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.06%) Derivative
12 14 (1.06%) FMCG
13 13 (0.98%) CMDB
13 13 (0.98%) Replication
14 12 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.46%) Windows
2 43 (3.25%) Linux
3 15 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.68%) Unix
6 9 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.38%) Android
7 5 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.38%) VMS
8 4 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.076%) AIX
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (37.82%) Agile
2 313 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 282 (21.33%) DevOps
3 282 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 269 (20.35%) CI/CD
5 234 (17.70%) Decision-Making
6 224 (16.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 199 (15.05%) AI
8 168 (12.71%) Analytics
9 154 (11.65%) Roadmaps
10 150 (11.35%) Migration
11 138 (10.44%) Scrum
12 135 (10.21%) Change Management
13 125 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
14 119 (9.00%) Risk Management
14 119 (9.00%) Test Automation
15 116 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 112 (8.47%) Project Management
17 105 (7.94%) Mentoring
18 104 (7.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 201 (15.20%) Python
2 196 (14.83%) SQL
3 86 (6.51%) Java
4 57 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 39 (2.95%) C#
7 34 (2.57%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.97%) Bash
9 21 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.76%) Bicep
13 9 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.61%) C++
14 8 (0.61%) Swift
15 7 (0.53%) Go
15 7 (0.53%) Perl
15 7 (0.53%) R
15 7 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 258 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 215 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 123 (9.30%) Degree
4 37 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.50%) CISSP
6 31 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.04%) PMP
9 23 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.66%) CISM
11 19 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.21%) ACCA
14 12 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.83%) CCNP
16 10 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.76%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (9.83%) QA
2 85 (6.43%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.61%) PMO
4 49 (3.71%) GDPR
5 48 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (3.56%) NIST
7 32 (2.42%) Accessibility
8 31 (2.34%) SLA
9 20 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (1.36%) GRC
11 16 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 15 (1.13%) IFRS
13 11 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.68%) NCSC
15 7 (0.53%) WCAG
16 6 (0.45%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.38%) GAAP
17 5 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.38%) GxP
17 5 (0.38%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 72 (5.45%) Docker
2 38 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.23%) IAG
7 2 (0.15%) Squid
8 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.076%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.076%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.076%) vSphere
8 1 (0.076%) zsh
Systems Management
1 118 (8.93%) Terraform
2 103 (7.79%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.80%) Ansible
4 25 (1.89%) Grafana
4 25 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.38%) SCCM
9 4 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.30%) Puppet
10 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.23%) Kibana
10 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.15%) Control-M
11 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.15%) Nessus
11 2 (0.15%) WSUS
12 1 (0.076%) Nagios
Vendors
1 222 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.96%) ServiceNow
3 77 (5.82%) Oracle
4 67 (5.07%) Salesforce
5 48 (3.63%) Google
6 43 (3.25%) SAP
7 30 (2.27%) Databricks
8 15 (1.13%) Cisco
9 14 (1.06%) VMware
10 11 (0.83%) Okta
11 10 (0.76%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.68%) Foundry
12 9 (0.68%) Splunk
13 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.61%) Murex
13 8 (0.61%) Remedy
14 7 (0.53%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.53%) Qualys
14 7 (0.53%) Zscaler