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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 51 64
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,263 518 597
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.15% 4.12% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 4.48% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 327 405
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £436 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £748 £688
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -4.28% -0.50% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 14
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £73.75 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £94.00 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £54.50 £56.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +50.33% -37.50%

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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 April 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 April 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 +9 145 £525 +2.94% 113
South London +9 39 £500 -14.24% 7
West London -5 33 £500 +5.26% 19
East London +10 13 £520 - 20
North London - 2 £550 - 1
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 76 (6.02%) Confluence
2 49 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
6 7 (0.55%) CMS
7 5 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.079%) govService
11 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 72 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.079%) Mingle
10 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.11%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.79%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.32%) Actimize
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.16%) Global One
10 2 (0.16%) iTrent
10 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
10 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 276 (21.85%) Azure
2 208 (16.47%) AWS
3 130 (10.29%) Power Platform
4 95 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (6.89%) GitHub
6 67 (5.30%) GCP
7 52 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (4.12%) SaaS
8 49 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (3.72%) Serverless
11 40 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 39 (3.09%) Entra ID
13 37 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (1.90%) Power Automate
16 24 (1.90%) PowerApps
17 21 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.69%) Firewall
2 28 (2.22%) Network Security
3 21 (1.66%) DNS
4 13 (1.03%) WAN
5 11 (0.87%) DHCP
6 9 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.63%) LAN
7 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.55%) BGP
8 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.55%) OSPF
8 7 (0.55%) VPN
9 6 (0.48%) Broadband
9 6 (0.48%) Modbus
9 6 (0.48%) RS-232
9 6 (0.48%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) 5G
10 5 (0.40%) DKIM
10 5 (0.40%) DMARC
10 5 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.16%) Power BI
2 39 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.85%) Tableau
4 29 (2.30%) Metadata
5 28 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.71%) Delta Lake
10 9 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.63%) Power Query
12 7 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.55%) Parquet
13 6 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.48%) Big Data
13 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 169 (13.38%) JIRA
2 54 (4.28%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.56%) Git
4 36 (2.85%) GitLab
5 16 (1.27%) Selenium
6 14 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.79%) JUnit
9 9 (0.71%) JMeter
9 9 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.55%) Postman
10 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.48%) TestRail
12 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.32%) Gatling
13 4 (0.32%) Maven
13 4 (0.32%) MLflow
13 4 (0.32%) Mockito
13 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 502 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 449 (35.55%) Finance
3 250 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (12.51%) Public Sector
5 102 (8.08%) Banking
6 50 (3.96%) Legal
7 45 (3.56%) Marketing
8 43 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (3.17%) Law
10 39 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (2.93%) Retail
12 35 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.06%) Local Government
15 21 (1.66%) Front Office
16 18 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.27%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (13.78%) Lead
2 138 (10.93%) Analyst
3 110 (8.71%) Senior
4 96 (7.60%) Developer
5 89 (7.05%) Architect
6 56 (4.43%) Business Analyst
7 51 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
8 48 (3.80%) Project Manager
9 46 (3.64%) Consultant
10 41 (3.25%) Data Engineer
11 35 (2.77%) Lead Architect
12 32 (2.53%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (2.45%) Functional Architect
13 31 (2.45%) Scrum Master
14 27 (2.14%) Technical Manager
15 26 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
15 26 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (1.98%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (1.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.17%) React
2 39 (3.09%) RESTful
3 36 (2.85%) HTML
4 34 (2.69%) .NET
4 34 (2.69%) CSS
5 33 (2.61%) REST
6 27 (2.14%) Spring
7 25 (1.98%) Node.js
8 21 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.50%) AngularJS
10 17 (1.35%) Kafka
11 14 (1.11%) Playwright
11 14 (1.11%) PySpark
11 14 (1.11%) Web Services
12 13 (1.03%) Middleware
12 13 (1.03%) Next.js
13 12 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (0.95%) OAuth
14 10 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
15 9 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.61%) Virtual Team
5 32 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.58%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 18 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.11%) CMDB
13 14 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.20%) Windows
2 43 (3.40%) Linux
3 14 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.55%) Android
8 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.48%) Unix
9 5 (0.40%) VMS
10 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (38.95%) Agile
2 306 (24.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
4 269 (21.30%) DevOps
5 254 (20.11%) CI/CD
6 217 (17.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 207 (16.39%) Decision-Making
8 171 (13.54%) AI
9 158 (12.51%) Analytics
10 151 (11.96%) Migration
10 151 (11.96%) Roadmaps
11 121 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
11 121 (9.58%) Change Management
12 117 (9.26%) Scrum
13 115 (9.11%) Test Automation
14 114 (9.03%) Project Management
15 113 (8.95%) Risk Management
16 111 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
17 101 (8.00%) Mentoring
18 99 (7.84%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 189 (14.96%) Python
2 182 (14.41%) SQL
3 81 (6.41%) Java
4 63 (4.99%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 35 (2.77%) C#
8 24 (1.90%) Bash
9 20 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.87%) Bicep
11 11 (0.87%) C++
12 10 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.63%) Swift
15 7 (0.55%) Go
15 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.48%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.48%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 228 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 194 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.42%) Degree
4 37 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.98%) CISSP
7 24 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.66%) ACCA
8 21 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.58%) CISM
10 17 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.35%) PMP
11 16 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.71%) CCNP
14 9 (0.71%) IIBA
15 8 (0.63%) CIMA
15 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (10.69%) QA
2 82 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.59%) PMO
4 55 (4.35%) GDPR
5 43 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (3.17%) NIST
7 30 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.06%) SLA
9 20 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.19%) GRC
10 15 (1.19%) IFRS
11 11 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.71%) NCSC
13 9 (0.71%) WCAG
14 6 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.48%) PERC
15 5 (0.40%) COBIT
15 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (5.30%) Docker
2 29 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (8.63%) Terraform
2 91 (7.21%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.17%) Ansible
4 21 (1.66%) Grafana
5 19 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.79%) SCCM
8 8 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.48%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.40%) WSUS
11 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.24%) Kibana
12 3 (0.24%) Packer
12 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) vRealize
13 2 (0.16%) Control-M
13 2 (0.16%) logstash
13 2 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 223 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 94 (7.44%) ServiceNow
3 69 (5.46%) Oracle
4 60 (4.75%) SAP
5 58 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.56%) Google
7 27 (2.14%) Databricks
8 17 (1.35%) VMware
9 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 11 (0.87%) Cisco
11 10 (0.79%) Adobe
11 10 (0.79%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.79%) Foundry
11 10 (0.79%) Okta
11 10 (0.79%) Workday
12 9 (0.71%) Splunk
13 8 (0.63%) Remedy
14 7 (0.55%) Murex
14 7 (0.55%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud