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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 61 70
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,236 483 580
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.35% 3.80% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 4.16% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 291 398
10th Percentile £356 £363 £384
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £690
90th Percentile £750 £881 £850
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £21.73 £30.81 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.45% +0.18% -50.80%
75th Percentile £36.69 £45.74 £64.69
90th Percentile £82.23 £58.50 £81.63
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.94% +53.33% -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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £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 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +21 145 £525 +5.00% 175
South London +4 35 £500 -14.24% 10
West London -13 19 £488 +2.63% 27
East London +12 12 £598 - 21
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 81 (6.55%) Confluence
2 48 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.49%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.32%) 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 (0.081%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.081%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.081%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.081%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.081%) SAS
Applications
1 81 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.89%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Notion
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.081%) Mingle
10 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.81%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.32%) Actimize
6 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 279 (22.57%) Azure
2 202 (16.34%) AWS
3 130 (10.52%) Power Platform
4 107 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (7.12%) GitHub
6 59 (4.77%) GCP
7 48 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
7 48 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (3.88%) Serverless
8 46 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
9 45 (3.64%) SaaS
10 39 (3.16%) Amazon S3
11 37 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 30 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (1.70%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (1.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.59%) Firewall
2 24 (1.94%) Network Security
3 19 (1.54%) DNS
4 13 (1.05%) DHCP
4 13 (1.05%) WAN
5 11 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.73%) VPN
8 7 (0.57%) BGP
8 7 (0.57%) LAN
8 7 (0.57%) OSPF
9 6 (0.49%) Broadband
9 6 (0.49%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.49%) Modbus
9 6 (0.49%) RS-232
9 6 (0.49%) RS-485
10 5 (0.40%) 5G
10 5 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.40%) MPLS
11 4 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (8.58%) Power BI
2 34 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.35%) Tableau
4 26 (2.10%) Metadata
4 26 (2.10%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.05%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (0.57%) Big Data
10 7 (0.57%) MySQL
11 6 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 165 (13.35%) JIRA
2 50 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.32%) Git
4 38 (3.07%) GitLab
5 19 (1.54%) Selenium
6 15 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.97%) JMeter
8 11 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.89%) JUnit
9 10 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (0.65%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.57%) Postman
12 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.40%) Gatling
12 5 (0.40%) Maven
12 5 (0.40%) MSTest
12 5 (0.40%) TestRail
13 4 (0.32%) Gradle
13 4 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 515 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 442 (35.76%) Finance
3 255 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (12.06%) Public Sector
5 98 (7.93%) Banking
6 51 (4.13%) Legal
7 44 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (3.32%) Marketing
9 39 (3.16%) Retail
10 37 (2.99%) Law
11 34 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.10%) Front Office
15 20 (1.62%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.46%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.38%) Local Government
18 16 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (1.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (14.81%) Lead
2 162 (13.11%) Analyst
3 118 (9.55%) Senior
4 92 (7.44%) Architect
5 90 (7.28%) Developer
6 67 (5.42%) Business Analyst
7 52 (4.21%) Consultant
7 52 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
8 44 (3.56%) Project Manager
9 39 (3.16%) Lead Architect
10 38 (3.07%) Data Engineer
11 32 (2.59%) Senior Manager
12 30 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.43%) Functional Architect
13 27 (2.18%) Technical Manager
14 26 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (2.02%) Scrum Master
16 24 (1.94%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (1.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.16%) .NET
2 37 (2.99%) REST
3 36 (2.91%) React
4 31 (2.51%) RESTful
5 30 (2.43%) HTML
6 29 (2.35%) Node.js
7 28 (2.27%) CSS
8 20 (1.62%) Spring
9 17 (1.38%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.29%) Middleware
10 16 (1.29%) Web Services
11 14 (1.13%) Kafka
11 14 (1.13%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (1.05%) Next.js
12 13 (1.05%) Playwright
13 12 (0.97%) PySpark
14 11 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (0.81%) ARM Templates
16 9 (0.73%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 73 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 50 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 30 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 27 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.46%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.21%) PMI
13 14 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.45%) Windows
2 47 (3.80%) Linux
3 13 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.97%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.65%) Unix
6 8 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.57%) Android
7 7 (0.57%) VMS
8 6 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 1 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.081%) Solaris
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (38.19%) Agile
2 297 (24.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 284 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
4 262 (21.20%) DevOps
5 251 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 218 (17.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 193 (15.61%) Decision-Making
8 156 (12.62%) AI
9 154 (12.46%) Analytics
10 147 (11.89%) Migration
11 141 (11.41%) Roadmaps
12 124 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
13 111 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 109 (8.82%) Test Automation
15 108 (8.74%) Change Management
16 104 (8.41%) Scrum
17 103 (8.33%) Mentoring
18 101 (8.17%) Risk Management
19 100 (8.09%) User Acceptance Testing
20 99 (8.01%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 191 (15.45%) Python
2 188 (15.21%) SQL
3 73 (5.91%) Java
4 58 (4.69%) JavaScript
4 58 (4.69%) PowerShell
5 38 (3.07%) TypeScript
6 36 (2.91%) C#
7 28 (2.27%) Bash
8 17 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.05%) C++
10 13 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.89%) Bicep
12 8 (0.65%) Swift
13 7 (0.57%) Go
13 7 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.49%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 211 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 181 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 113 (9.14%) Degree
4 35 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.35%) PMI Certification
7 25 (2.02%) ACCA
8 21 (1.70%) CISSP
9 19 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.54%) CISM
10 16 (1.29%) PMP
11 15 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.13%) ISTQB
13 13 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.89%) CIMA
15 11 (0.89%) IIBA
16 7 (0.57%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.60%) QA
2 80 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 56 (4.53%) GDPR
4 51 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (3.56%) NIST
6 43 (3.48%) PMO
7 40 (3.24%) Accessibility
8 29 (2.35%) SLA
9 20 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.46%) GRC
12 15 (1.21%) IFRS
13 11 (0.89%) COBIT
13 11 (0.89%) NCSC
14 10 (0.81%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.65%) WCAG
16 7 (0.57%) ITGC
16 7 (0.57%) MiFID
17 6 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.49%) PERC
System Software
1 71 (5.74%) Docker
2 31 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.49%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.16%) IAG
8 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.081%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.081%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.081%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (8.17%) Terraform
2 86 (6.96%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.24%) Ansible
4 22 (1.78%) Grafana
5 20 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.21%) SCCM
8 8 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Kibana
10 4 (0.32%) Puppet
10 4 (0.32%) SCOM
11 3 (0.24%) logstash
11 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.24%) vRealize
12 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 223 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.63%) ServiceNow
3 65 (5.26%) SAP
4 64 (5.18%) Oracle
5 59 (4.77%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.40%) Google
7 29 (2.35%) Databricks
8 17 (1.38%) VMware
9 15 (1.21%) Splunk
10 13 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.81%) Foundry
12 9 (0.73%) Adobe
13 8 (0.65%) Cisco
13 8 (0.65%) Remedy
14 7 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.57%) Planview
15 6 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.49%) Murex
15 6 (0.49%) Okta
15 6 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud