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

6 months to
5 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 1,702 736 598
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.44% 5.53% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 5.98% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 490 365
10th Percentile £350 £325 £355
25th Percentile £438 £425 £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 £761 £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% -29.35%
75th Percentile £54.75 £55.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.27 £28.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.74% -43.00% -18.37%

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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
10th Percentile £360 £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 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
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 £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 177 £550 +10.00% 247
West London +8 56 £520 +2.77% 122
South London +20 48 £525 -9.17% 37
East London +4 13 £750 +294.74% 39
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 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.35%) Confluence
3 30 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.06%) CMS
6 17 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.65%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.059%) MTS
Applications
1 79 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.059%) Mingle
9 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.35%) Actimize
7 6 (0.35%) Magento
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 (0.24%) Endur
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) Shopify
10 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 395 (23.21%) Azure
2 319 (18.74%) AWS
3 166 (9.75%) Power Platform
4 114 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
5 110 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (6.05%) GitHub
7 100 (5.88%) GCP
8 82 (4.82%) Entra ID
9 64 (3.76%) Serverless
10 63 (3.70%) SaaS
11 53 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.82%) Amazon S3
15 35 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
16 32 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (1.76%) PowerApps
18 27 (1.59%) Datadog
18 27 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.23%) Network Security
2 35 (2.06%) Firewall
3 33 (1.94%) DNS
4 21 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.12%) WAN
6 15 (0.88%) DHCP
6 15 (0.88%) VPN
7 12 (0.71%) LAN
8 9 (0.53%) VoIP
9 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.41%) 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 (0.24%) BGP
12 4 (0.24%) DKIM
12 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.52%) Power BI
2 52 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.82%) Metadata
4 42 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.59%) Tableau
9 26 (1.53%) Delta Lake
10 24 (1.41%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.94%) Power Query
13 15 (0.88%) Parquet
14 12 (0.71%) Big Data
15 11 (0.65%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.53%) MySQL
17 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
18 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
19 6 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (8.99%) JIRA
2 104 (6.11%) Git
3 85 (4.99%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.64%) GitLab
5 33 (1.94%) Selenium
6 17 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.71%) JUnit
7 12 (0.71%) Postman
8 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.53%) Maven
9 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.41%) Gradle
10 7 (0.41%) Mockito
10 7 (0.41%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.35%) JMeter
11 6 (0.35%) XCTest
11 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
General
1 765 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 548 (32.20%) Finance
3 394 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (17.04%) Public Sector
5 197 (11.57%) Banking
6 70 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (3.47%) Legal
9 55 (3.23%) Law
10 52 (3.06%) Retail
11 49 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
12 48 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 46 (2.70%) Front Office
14 40 (2.35%) Local Government
15 37 (2.17%) Investment Banking
16 36 (2.12%) Marketing
17 30 (1.76%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
19 23 (1.35%) Military
20 22 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 233 (13.69%) Lead
2 193 (11.34%) Senior
3 177 (10.40%) Analyst
4 165 (9.69%) Developer
5 113 (6.64%) Architect
6 65 (3.82%) Project Manager
7 64 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (3.35%) Consultant
9 54 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.06%) Business Analyst
11 49 (2.88%) Data Engineer
12 43 (2.53%) Software Engineer
13 41 (2.41%) Scrum Master
14 39 (2.29%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.12%) Product Owner
16 34 (2.00%) Lead Architect
17 33 (1.94%) Product Manager
18 32 (1.88%) Support Engineer
19 31 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
20 30 (1.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.81%) Terraform
2 94 (5.52%) REST
3 78 (4.58%) RESTful
4 55 (3.23%) React
5 52 (3.06%) Kafka
6 51 (3.00%) Spring
7 50 (2.94%) .NET
8 48 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 43 (2.53%) AngularJS
10 42 (2.47%) HTML
11 37 (2.17%) CSS
12 36 (2.12%) Web Services
13 31 (1.82%) Django
14 26 (1.53%) SOAP
15 25 (1.47%) PySpark
16 23 (1.35%) Middleware
16 23 (1.35%) Node.js
17 22 (1.29%) JSON
17 22 (1.29%) XML
18 21 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 208 (12.22%) Product Ownership
2 132 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 116 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 52 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 45 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 32 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 31 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 30 (1.76%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.53%) CMDB
14 25 (1.47%) Data Centre
14 25 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.35%) NHS
16 20 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (1.12%) Operational Technology
18 18 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.52%) Windows
2 86 (5.05%) Linux
3 33 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.53%) Unix
5 22 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.94%) Android
8 15 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
13 1 (0.059%) HPUX
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) SUSE
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (39.84%) Agile
2 534 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 449 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
4 350 (20.56%) DevOps
5 349 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 347 (20.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 309 (18.16%) Decision-Making
8 281 (16.51%) AI
9 228 (13.40%) Roadmaps
10 203 (11.93%) Analytics
11 191 (11.22%) Scrum
12 185 (10.87%) Change Management
13 173 (10.16%) Migration
14 157 (9.22%) Test Automation
15 153 (8.99%) Software Engineering
16 152 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 147 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
18 145 (8.52%) Mentoring
19 142 (8.34%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (8.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 289 (16.98%) Python
2 254 (14.92%) SQL
3 136 (7.99%) Java
4 91 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 69 (4.05%) C#
7 59 (3.47%) Bash
8 53 (3.11%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.88%) Bicep
12 15 (0.88%) Go
12 15 (0.88%) Groovy
12 15 (0.88%) Perl
13 13 (0.76%) Korn
14 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.71%) R
15 10 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 380 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 324 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 153 (8.99%) Degree
4 55 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 49 (2.88%) PMP
7 42 (2.47%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 34 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.82%) CISSP
11 20 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.94%) CISM
12 16 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (8.93%) QA
2 139 (8.17%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.70%) PMO
4 44 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.53%) SLA
6 42 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (2.41%) GDPR
7 41 (2.41%) NIST
8 30 (1.76%) GRC
9 17 (1.00%) NCSC
10 16 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.71%) COBIT
11 12 (0.71%) WCAG
12 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 107 (6.29%) Docker
2 85 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.53%) IAG
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) RACF
8 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.059%) UAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 137 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.94%) Grafana
2 50 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 49 (2.88%) Ansible
4 39 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.59%) Kibana
6 10 (0.59%) SCCM
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.24%) Control-M
8 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.24%) Puppet
8 4 (0.24%) QRadar
9 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.18%) Nagios
9 3 (0.18%) WSUS
10 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.12%) Packer
10 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 328 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 107 (6.29%) Oracle
4 65 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 63 (3.70%) SAP
6 60 (3.53%) Google
7 41 (2.41%) Splunk
8 38 (2.23%) Databricks
9 25 (1.47%) Cisco
10 24 (1.41%) VMware
11 23 (1.35%) IBM
12 19 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.94%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.82%) Apple
15 13 (0.76%) Adobe
15 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.59%) Ariba
16 10 (0.59%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.59%) Workday
17 9 (0.53%) Okta