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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 52 68
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,250 547 556
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.96% 4.37% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 4.74% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 362 390
10th Percentile £350 £363 £374
25th Percentile £425 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £610 £695 £700
90th Percentile £729 £850 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 13
10th Percentile £22.73 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.68% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.67 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £56.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £56.50 £49.23 £36.50
% change year-on-year +14.77% +34.88% -27.00%

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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +9 139 £544 +6.67% 153
South London +16 42 £498 -14.67% 15
West London -10 34 £510 +3.34% 26
East London +6 14 £600 - 23
North London - 1 £500 - 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 75 (6.00%) Confluence
2 50 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.64%) CMS
6 7 (0.56%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Camunda
7 5 (0.40%) IIS
8 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.080%) Drupal
10 1 (0.080%) Mule
10 1 (0.080%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.080%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.080%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.080%) Mingle
10 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.36%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.88%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.56%) Actimize
5 7 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
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 HCM
10 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.16%) Summit
10 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 273 (21.84%) Azure
2 213 (17.04%) AWS
3 130 (10.40%) Power Platform
4 85 (6.80%) GitHub
5 84 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (5.52%) GCP
7 56 (4.48%) SaaS
8 54 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
10 46 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (3.28%) Serverless
12 38 (3.04%) Amazon S3
13 37 (2.96%) Entra ID
14 34 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.76%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.76%) PowerApps
18 22 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.80%) Firewall
2 29 (2.32%) Network Security
3 19 (1.52%) DNS
4 14 (1.12%) WAN
5 10 (0.80%) DHCP
6 9 (0.72%) LAN
6 9 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.56%) BGP
7 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.56%) OSPF
7 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.48%) Modbus
8 6 (0.48%) RS-232
8 6 (0.48%) RS-485
8 6 (0.48%) VPN
9 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.32%) IOS XR
9 4 (0.32%) MPLS
9 4 (0.32%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (8.16%) Power BI
2 40 (3.20%) Tableau
3 39 (3.12%) SQL Server
4 30 (2.40%) Metadata
4 30 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.88%) Power Query
10 10 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.80%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.72%) Parquet
12 8 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.56%) Big Data
14 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.40%) PowerPivot
15 5 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 164 (13.12%) JIRA
2 52 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.60%) Git
4 33 (2.64%) GitLab
5 17 (1.36%) Selenium
6 15 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.72%) JMeter
8 9 (0.72%) JUnit
8 9 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.48%) Postman
9 6 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.48%) Vite
10 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.40%) TestRail
10 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.32%) Gatling
11 4 (0.32%) tSQLt
General
1 486 (38.88%) Social Skills
2 446 (35.68%) Finance
3 249 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 104 (8.32%) Banking
6 42 (3.36%) Law
7 41 (3.28%) Legal
8 40 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.20%) Retail
9 34 (2.72%) Marketing
9 34 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.92%) Local Government
13 23 (1.84%) Front Office
14 22 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 173 (13.84%) Lead
2 142 (11.36%) Analyst
3 112 (8.96%) Senior
4 92 (7.36%) Developer
5 85 (6.80%) Architect
6 52 (4.16%) Business Analyst
7 50 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
8 47 (3.76%) Project Manager
9 40 (3.20%) Consultant
9 40 (3.20%) Data Engineer
10 37 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (2.72%) Scrum Master
12 33 (2.64%) Senior Manager
13 32 (2.56%) Lead Architect
14 31 (2.48%) Functional Architect
15 26 (2.08%) Security Engineer
15 26 (2.08%) Technical Manager
16 25 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
17 23 (1.84%) Cloud Engineer
18 21 (1.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.44%) React
2 40 (3.20%) RESTful
3 38 (3.04%) REST
4 33 (2.64%) HTML
5 31 (2.48%) CSS
6 30 (2.40%) .NET
7 27 (2.16%) Spring
8 22 (1.76%) Spring Boot
9 21 (1.68%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.52%) Kafka
11 18 (1.44%) Node.js
12 16 (1.28%) Next.js
13 14 (1.12%) Middleware
14 13 (1.04%) Playwright
15 12 (0.96%) OAuth
15 12 (0.96%) PySpark
15 12 (0.96%) Web Services
16 11 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (0.80%) GraphQL
17 10 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 127 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 82 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 31 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 23 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 20 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.12%) CMDB
13 14 (1.12%) Derivative
14 12 (0.96%) FMCG
14 12 (0.96%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.32%) Windows
2 40 (3.20%) Linux
3 12 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.64%) Unix
7 7 (0.56%) Android
7 7 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.40%) VMS
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.080%) AIX
12 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (38.88%) Agile
2 289 (23.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 264 (21.12%) DevOps
3 264 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
4 249 (19.92%) CI/CD
5 217 (17.36%) Decision-Making
6 204 (16.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 178 (14.24%) AI
8 157 (12.56%) Analytics
9 150 (12.00%) Migration
10 149 (11.92%) Roadmaps
11 127 (10.16%) Change Management
12 124 (9.92%) Scrum
13 119 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
14 115 (9.20%) Test Automation
15 112 (8.96%) Project Management
16 111 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 111 (8.88%) Risk Management
17 103 (8.24%) Mentoring
18 100 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 187 (14.96%) SQL
2 179 (14.32%) Python
3 80 (6.40%) Java
4 56 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 37 (2.96%) C#
7 34 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 21 (1.68%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.60%) Bash
10 19 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.80%) C++
13 9 (0.72%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.64%) Bicep
14 8 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.56%) Go
15 7 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.56%) R
15 7 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 234 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 195 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.52%) Degree
4 34 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.40%) CISSP
6 26 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.84%) PMP
9 20 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.60%) CISM
10 19 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.44%) ACCA
12 15 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.80%) CCNP
15 9 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (0.64%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (10.16%) QA
2 87 (6.96%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.80%) PMO
4 47 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (3.68%) GDPR
5 46 (3.68%) NIST
6 30 (2.40%) Accessibility
7 25 (2.00%) SLA
8 21 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.36%) GRC
10 15 (1.20%) IFRS
10 15 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.72%) NCSC
13 8 (0.64%) WCAG
14 6 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.40%) COBIT
15 5 (0.40%) GAAP
15 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (5.12%) Docker
2 30 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.52%) 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 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.080%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.080%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (8.72%) Terraform
2 89 (7.12%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.88%) Ansible
4 21 (1.68%) Grafana
5 20 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.72%) SCCM
8 7 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.16%) Kibana
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
13 1 (0.080%) Nagios
Vendors
1 213 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.12%) ServiceNow
3 71 (5.68%) Oracle
4 60 (4.80%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.76%) SAP
6 43 (3.44%) Google
7 27 (2.16%) Databricks
8 15 (1.20%) VMware
9 14 (1.12%) Cisco
10 10 (0.80%) ForgeRock
10 10 (0.80%) Okta
10 10 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.80%) Splunk
11 9 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.72%) Foundry
12 8 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.64%) Murex
12 8 (0.64%) Workday
13 7 (0.56%) Ariba
13 7 (0.56%) Zscaler