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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +27 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,266 528 594
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.13% 4.20% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 4.56% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 330 406
10th Percentile £350 £363 £371
25th Percentile £425 £437 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £613 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £852 £850
England median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 13
10th Percentile £18.01 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £74.48 £45.74 £63.75
90th Percentile £94.25 £58.50 £84.00
England median hourly rate £55.25 £55.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +47.33% -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 15,718 11,590 15,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 92.20% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,522 7,861 11,306
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 171 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%

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 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 3 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 3 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 +11 143 £525 - 209
South London +13 40 £500 -14.24% 6
West London -9 33 £500 +1.27% 22
East London +9 13 £520 - 24
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 75 (5.92%) Confluence
2 49 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.55%) Apache
5 7 (0.55%) CMS
6 5 (0.39%) Camunda
7 4 (0.32%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.32%) IIS
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.079%) govService
10 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.50%) 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 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.11%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.87%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.39%) Actimize
7 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.16%) Global One
10 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.16%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
10 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 278 (21.96%) Azure
2 209 (16.51%) AWS
3 132 (10.43%) Power Platform
4 92 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (6.71%) GitHub
6 67 (5.29%) GCP
7 51 (4.03%) SaaS
8 49 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
8 49 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
9 46 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (3.55%) Serverless
11 39 (3.08%) Amazon S3
12 37 (2.92%) Entra ID
13 35 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (1.82%) Power Automate
17 23 (1.82%) PowerApps
18 21 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.84%) Firewall
2 28 (2.21%) 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
8 7 (0.55%) BGP
8 7 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.55%) OSPF
8 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.55%) VPN
9 6 (0.47%) Modbus
9 6 (0.47%) RS-232
9 6 (0.47%) RS-485
10 5 (0.39%) Broadband
10 5 (0.39%) DKIM
10 5 (0.39%) DMARC
10 5 (0.39%) MPLS
11 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (8.29%) Power BI
2 39 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 38 (3.00%) Tableau
4 30 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 29 (2.29%) Metadata
6 21 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.79%) Power Query
11 9 (0.71%) Delta Lake
12 8 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.63%) Parquet
13 7 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.47%) Big Data
14 6 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.39%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 168 (13.27%) JIRA
2 54 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.63%) Git
4 35 (2.76%) GitLab
5 16 (1.26%) 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 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.39%) TestRail
11 5 (0.39%) Vite
11 5 (0.39%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.32%) Maven
12 4 (0.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 505 (39.89%) Social Skills
2 450 (35.55%) Finance
3 254 (20.06%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 105 (8.29%) Banking
6 49 (3.87%) Legal
7 43 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (3.40%) Law
8 42 (3.32%) Marketing
9 40 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (2.84%) Retail
11 34 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.61%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.05%) Local Government
15 22 (1.74%) Front Office
16 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.18%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
18 14 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 171 (13.51%) Lead
2 138 (10.90%) Analyst
3 114 (9.00%) Senior
4 96 (7.58%) Developer
5 88 (6.95%) Architect
6 55 (4.34%) Business Analyst
7 51 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
8 50 (3.95%) Project Manager
9 44 (3.48%) Consultant
10 41 (3.24%) Data Engineer
11 35 (2.76%) Lead Architect
11 35 (2.76%) Senior Manager
12 32 (2.53%) Scrum Master
13 31 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (2.45%) Functional Architect
14 27 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
14 27 (2.13%) Technical Manager
15 26 (2.05%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (1.90%) Security Engineer
16 24 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.32%) React
2 40 (3.16%) RESTful
3 37 (2.92%) HTML
4 36 (2.84%) REST
5 34 (2.69%) .NET
5 34 (2.69%) CSS
6 27 (2.13%) Spring
7 24 (1.90%) Node.js
8 21 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 20 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.42%) Kafka
11 15 (1.18%) Web Services
12 14 (1.11%) Next.js
12 14 (1.11%) Playwright
13 13 (1.03%) Middleware
14 12 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (0.95%) PySpark
15 11 (0.87%) OAuth
15 11 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
16 9 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 53 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 28 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.50%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.11%) CMDB
13 14 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.27%) Windows
2 43 (3.40%) Linux
3 14 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.55%) Android
6 7 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.47%) Unix
8 5 (0.39%) VMS
9 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (38.86%) Agile
2 305 (24.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (21.09%) DevOps
5 254 (20.06%) CI/CD
6 214 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 210 (16.59%) Decision-Making
8 173 (13.67%) AI
9 158 (12.48%) Analytics
10 152 (12.01%) Roadmaps
11 150 (11.85%) Migration
12 124 (9.79%) Change Management
13 121 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
14 118 (9.32%) Scrum
15 115 (9.08%) Project Management
15 115 (9.08%) Test Automation
16 113 (8.93%) Risk Management
17 112 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 101 (7.98%) Mentoring
19 99 (7.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 184 (14.53%) Python
2 182 (14.38%) SQL
3 83 (6.56%) Java
4 63 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.00%) C#
6 38 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 25 (1.97%) Bash
8 19 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.87%) C++
10 11 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.79%) Bicep
11 10 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.63%) Swift
14 7 (0.55%) Go
14 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.47%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 235 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 198 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.40%) Degree
4 35 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.97%) CISSP
8 20 (1.58%) ACCA
8 20 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.58%) CISM
8 20 (1.58%) PMP
9 17 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.87%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.71%) CCNP
12 9 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.63%) IIBA
13 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (10.51%) QA
2 83 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.66%) PMO
4 55 (4.34%) GDPR
5 45 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (3.16%) NIST
7 32 (2.53%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.97%) SLA
9 21 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.18%) GRC
10 15 (1.18%) IFRS
11 14 (1.11%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.71%) NCSC
13 9 (0.71%) WCAG
14 6 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.47%) PERC
15 5 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 69 (5.45%) Docker
2 27 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.47%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
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
1 112 (8.85%) Terraform
2 94 (7.42%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.00%) Ansible
4 22 (1.74%) Grafana
5 19 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.63%) SCCM
7 8 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.39%) WSUS
9 4 (0.32%) Puppet
9 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.24%) Kibana
10 3 (0.24%) Packer
10 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.16%) Control-M
11 2 (0.16%) logstash
11 2 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 222 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.27%) ServiceNow
3 70 (5.53%) Oracle
4 58 (4.58%) Salesforce
4 58 (4.58%) SAP
5 45 (3.55%) Google
6 27 (2.13%) Databricks
7 15 (1.18%) VMware
8 11 (0.87%) Cisco
8 11 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.79%) Adobe
9 10 (0.79%) ForgeRock
9 10 (0.79%) Foundry
9 10 (0.79%) Okta
10 9 (0.71%) Splunk
10 9 (0.71%) Workday
11 8 (0.63%) Murex
11 8 (0.63%) Remedy
12 7 (0.55%) Ariba
12 7 (0.55%) Zscaler