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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 41 62
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,729 749 609
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.50% 5.59% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 6.04% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 496 367
10th Percentile £350 £325 £358
25th Percentile £440 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £18.12 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £27.51
Median hourly rate £30.30 £36.48 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -10.20% -17.93%
75th Percentile £54.75 £55.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.86 £48.48
% change year-on-year +25.65% -42.54% -22.44%

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 18,098 12,396 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.01% 92.48% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,824 8,192 9,654
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 255 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.76 £25.01 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £63.75 £72.81
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -2 183 £550 +10.00% 231
West London +7 57 £520 +2.77% 110
South London +23 50 £525 -9.64% 41
East London +6 14 £675 +255.26% 43
North London 0 5 £488 -11.36% 3
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 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.28%) Confluence
3 30 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.04%) CMS
6 17 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.64%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Camunda
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Appian
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.058%) MTS
Applications
1 81 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Mingle
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.40%) Magento
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.35%) Actimize
7 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.23%) Endur
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.23%) Shopify
10 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 400 (23.13%) Azure
2 324 (18.74%) AWS
3 166 (9.60%) Power Platform
4 114 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
6 106 (6.13%) GitHub
7 102 (5.90%) GCP
8 82 (4.74%) Entra ID
9 67 (3.88%) Serverless
10 64 (3.70%) SaaS
11 56 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
14 51 (2.95%) Amazon S3
15 38 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
18 30 (1.74%) PowerApps
19 28 (1.62%) Datadog
20 27 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.20%) Network Security
2 35 (2.02%) Firewall
3 33 (1.91%) DNS
4 21 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.10%) WAN
6 15 (0.87%) DHCP
6 15 (0.87%) VPN
7 12 (0.69%) LAN
8 9 (0.52%) VoIP
9 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.29%) HTTP
11 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.29%) WebEx
11 5 (0.29%) Wireless
12 4 (0.23%) BGP
12 4 (0.23%) DKIM
12 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.40%) Power BI
2 54 (3.12%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.78%) Metadata
4 42 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.56%) Tableau
9 26 (1.50%) Delta Lake
10 25 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.93%) Power Query
13 15 (0.87%) Parquet
14 12 (0.69%) Big Data
14 12 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.52%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.52%) MySQL
16 7 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.40%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (8.85%) JIRA
2 107 (6.19%) Git
3 89 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.72%) GitLab
5 35 (2.02%) Selenium
6 17 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.75%) JUnit
7 13 (0.75%) Postman
8 12 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.52%) Maven
9 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.40%) Gradle
10 7 (0.40%) Mockito
10 7 (0.40%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.35%) JMeter
11 6 (0.35%) XCTest
11 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
General
1 776 (44.88%) Social Skills
2 565 (32.68%) Finance
3 402 (23.25%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (16.89%) Public Sector
5 204 (11.80%) Banking
6 70 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.53%) Legal
9 55 (3.18%) Law
10 53 (3.07%) Retail
11 49 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.83%) Front Office
12 48 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (2.31%) Local Government
14 37 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 36 (2.08%) Marketing
16 30 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.33%) Military
18 23 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 237 (13.71%) Lead
2 199 (11.51%) Senior
3 179 (10.35%) Analyst
4 168 (9.72%) Developer
5 113 (6.54%) Architect
6 66 (3.82%) Project Manager
7 65 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (3.30%) Consultant
9 54 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.01%) Business Analyst
10 52 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 44 (2.54%) Software Engineer
12 43 (2.49%) Scrum Master
13 39 (2.26%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.08%) Product Owner
15 34 (1.97%) Lead Architect
16 33 (1.91%) Product Manager
16 33 (1.91%) Support Engineer
17 31 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (1.74%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (7.81%) Terraform
2 95 (5.49%) REST
3 81 (4.68%) RESTful
4 55 (3.18%) React
5 54 (3.12%) Spring
6 52 (3.01%) .NET
6 52 (3.01%) Kafka
7 51 (2.95%) Spring Boot
8 43 (2.49%) AngularJS
9 42 (2.43%) HTML
10 37 (2.14%) CSS
10 37 (2.14%) Web Services
11 31 (1.79%) Django
12 27 (1.56%) SOAP
13 26 (1.50%) PySpark
14 24 (1.39%) Middleware
15 23 (1.33%) JSON
15 23 (1.33%) Node.js
15 23 (1.33%) XML
16 22 (1.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 210 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 134 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 120 (6.94%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 46 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 33 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 31 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 30 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.50%) CMDB
14 25 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 25 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.33%) NHS
16 20 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.16%) Operational Technology
17 18 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.42%) Windows
2 87 (5.03%) Linux
3 33 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.50%) Unix
5 22 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.93%) Android
8 15 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Solaris
12 1 (0.058%) SUSE
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (39.62%) Agile
2 547 (31.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 453 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
4 358 (20.71%) CI/CD
5 357 (20.65%) DevOps
6 353 (20.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 314 (18.16%) Decision-Making
8 285 (16.48%) AI
9 234 (13.53%) Roadmaps
10 206 (11.91%) Analytics
11 194 (11.22%) Scrum
12 185 (10.70%) Change Management
13 177 (10.24%) Migration
14 162 (9.37%) Test Automation
15 159 (9.20%) Software Engineering
16 156 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
17 148 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
18 147 (8.50%) Mentoring
19 146 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
20 144 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 297 (17.18%) Python
2 264 (15.27%) SQL
3 140 (8.10%) Java
4 92 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.09%) PowerShell
6 71 (4.11%) C#
7 59 (3.41%) Bash
8 54 (3.12%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.87%) Bicep
12 15 (0.87%) Go
12 15 (0.87%) Groovy
12 15 (0.87%) Perl
13 14 (0.81%) Korn
14 12 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.69%) R
15 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 387 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 331 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 155 (8.96%) Degree
4 55 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.89%) PMP
7 43 (2.49%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.91%) CISSP
10 20 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.04%) CISM
12 16 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (9.08%) QA
2 143 (8.27%) Data Quality
3 81 (4.68%) PMO
4 45 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.49%) NIST
5 43 (2.49%) SLA
6 41 (2.37%) GDPR
7 31 (1.79%) GRC
8 17 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (0.98%) NCSC
9 12 (0.69%) COBIT
9 12 (0.69%) WCAG
10 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 22301
14 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 111 (6.42%) Docker
2 85 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.52%) IAG
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.058%) Ceph
8 1 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.058%) UAG
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.89%) Ansible
2 50 (2.89%) Grafana
2 50 (2.89%) Prometheus
3 39 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.58%) Kibana
5 10 (0.58%) SCCM
6 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.23%) Control-M
7 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.23%) Puppet
7 4 (0.23%) QRadar
8 3 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.17%) Nagios
8 3 (0.17%) WSUS
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) Packer
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 332 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.48%) Oracle
3 111 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 66 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.70%) SAP
6 60 (3.47%) Google
7 42 (2.43%) Splunk
8 40 (2.31%) Databricks
9 25 (1.45%) Cisco
9 25 (1.45%) IBM
10 24 (1.39%) VMware
11 19 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.98%) Zscaler
13 14 (0.81%) Apple
13 14 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.75%) Adobe
15 10 (0.58%) Ariba
15 10 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.58%) Workday
16 9 (0.52%) Okta