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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 51 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,377 561 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.30% 4.56% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 4.94% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 378 382
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -6.62%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £682
90th Percentile £725 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £28.03 £21.84
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +29.97% -50.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £49.38 £53.13
90th Percentile £93.50 £57.63 £83.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £46.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year +19.41% +26.19% -12.74%

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 16,752 11,363 15,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.32% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,163 7,612 11,136
10th Percentile £360 £345 £343
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -23.90%
75th Percentile £58.88 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +6 158 £525 +5.00% 150
South London +21 45 £500 -13.79% 7
West London -5 40 £500 - 28
East London +10 15 £600 +2.56% 34
North London 0 1 £450 -18.18% 4
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 71 (5.16%) Confluence
2 55 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.65%) CMS
6 7 (0.51%) Apache
7 6 (0.44%) IIS
8 5 (0.36%) Camunda
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) Appian
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.073%) govService
11 1 (0.073%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.073%) Mingle
9 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.45%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.58%) Actimize
4 8 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.36%) Magento
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.22%) Endur
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.22%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.22%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.15%) Global One
10 2 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 310 (22.51%) Azure
2 251 (18.23%) AWS
3 135 (9.80%) Power Platform
4 98 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (6.83%) GitHub
6 78 (5.66%) GCP
7 64 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (4.36%) SaaS
9 55 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (3.78%) Serverless
11 51 (3.70%) Entra ID
12 44 (3.20%) Amazon S3
12 44 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (1.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.61%) Firewall
2 32 (2.32%) Network Security
3 16 (1.16%) DNS
4 15 (1.09%) WAN
5 10 (0.73%) LAN
5 10 (0.73%) VoIP
6 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.44%) BGP
7 6 (0.44%) DHCP
7 6 (0.44%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.44%) OSPF
7 6 (0.44%) VPN
8 5 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.36%) Modbus
8 5 (0.36%) NGFW
8 5 (0.36%) RS-232
8 5 (0.36%) RS-485
8 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.29%) IOS XR
9 4 (0.29%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (7.99%) Power BI
2 41 (2.98%) Tableau
3 35 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.32%) Metadata
5 30 (2.18%) Relational Database
6 27 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (1.53%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.02%) Power Query
11 13 (0.94%) Delta Lake
12 12 (0.87%) Big Data
13 9 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.65%) Parquet
14 8 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.44%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 169 (12.27%) JIRA
2 58 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.99%) Git
4 40 (2.90%) GitLab
5 21 (1.53%) Selenium
6 16 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.65%) JMeter
9 8 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.58%) JUnit
9 8 (0.58%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.44%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.44%) Postman
10 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.44%) Vite
10 6 (0.44%) XCTest
11 5 (0.36%) Mocha
11 5 (0.36%) Mockito
11 5 (0.36%) MSTest
General
1 551 (40.01%) Social Skills
2 483 (35.08%) Finance
3 284 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (13.36%) Public Sector
5 119 (8.64%) Banking
6 51 (3.70%) Legal
7 50 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.49%) Law
9 45 (3.27%) Retail
10 43 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (2.47%) Marketing
13 32 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.25%) Local Government
15 27 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.60%) Front Office
17 17 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 187 (13.58%) Lead
2 145 (10.53%) Analyst
3 129 (9.37%) Senior
4 113 (8.21%) Developer
5 87 (6.32%) Architect
6 59 (4.28%) Project Manager
7 51 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
7 51 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (3.63%) Consultant
9 48 (3.49%) Business Analyst
10 44 (3.20%) Data Engineer
11 39 (2.83%) Scrum Master
12 34 (2.47%) Senior Manager
13 32 (2.32%) Lead Architect
14 31 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
14 31 (2.25%) Functional Architect
15 30 (2.18%) Cloud Engineer
16 26 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 25 (1.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.56%) REST
2 46 (3.34%) React
3 44 (3.20%) RESTful
4 37 (2.69%) HTML
5 33 (2.40%) CSS
5 33 (2.40%) Spring
6 30 (2.18%) .NET
7 29 (2.11%) Spring Boot
8 26 (1.89%) AngularJS
9 25 (1.82%) Kafka
10 18 (1.31%) Node.js
11 17 (1.23%) Middleware
12 16 (1.16%) Web Services
13 14 (1.02%) Next.js
13 14 (1.02%) PySpark
14 13 (0.94%) OAuth
15 12 (0.87%) JSON
15 12 (0.87%) Playwright
16 10 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (0.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 145 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 94 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 67 (4.87%) Onboarding
4 40 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 38 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 33 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.96%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.16%) CMDB
15 15 (1.09%) Derivative
15 15 (1.09%) FMCG
16 14 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 12 (0.87%) NHS
17 12 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.94%) Windows
2 46 (3.34%) Linux
3 15 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.94%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.73%) Unix
6 10 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.44%) Android
8 5 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.29%) VMS
10 2 (0.15%) AIX
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.073%) HPUX
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
11 1 (0.073%) SUSE
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (37.55%) Agile
2 332 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 303 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 297 (21.57%) DevOps
5 284 (20.62%) CI/CD
6 245 (17.79%) Decision-Making
7 235 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 207 (15.03%) AI
9 175 (12.71%) Analytics
10 162 (11.76%) Roadmaps
11 149 (10.82%) Migration
12 146 (10.60%) Scrum
13 142 (10.31%) Change Management
14 126 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
15 123 (8.93%) Risk Management
15 123 (8.93%) Test Automation
16 122 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
17 113 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 113 (8.21%) Project Management
18 107 (7.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 214 (15.54%) Python
2 205 (14.89%) SQL
3 98 (7.12%) Java
4 62 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 55 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 42 (3.05%) C#
7 37 (2.69%) TypeScript
8 30 (2.18%) Bash
9 22 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.80%) C++
13 10 (0.73%) Bicep
13 10 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.73%) R
14 9 (0.65%) Go
14 9 (0.65%) Swift
15 8 (0.58%) Perl
15 8 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 276 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 232 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 129 (9.37%) Degree
4 41 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.54%) CISSP
6 33 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.25%) PMP
8 30 (2.18%) PMI Certification
9 29 (2.11%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.67%) CISM
11 22 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.16%) ACCA
14 11 (0.80%) CCNP
14 11 (0.80%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.93%) QA
2 92 (6.68%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.36%) PMO
4 51 (3.70%) GDPR
5 49 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (3.41%) NIST
7 33 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 28 (2.03%) SLA
9 22 (1.60%) GRC
10 19 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 17 (1.23%) PCI DSS
12 15 (1.09%) IFRS
13 12 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.73%) NCSC
15 6 (0.44%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.36%) GAAP
16 5 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.36%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.36%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (5.59%) Docker
2 48 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.22%) IAG
8 2 (0.15%) Squid
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.073%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.073%) vSphere
9 1 (0.073%) zsh
Systems Management
1 125 (9.08%) Terraform
2 110 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.98%) Ansible
4 29 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.03%) Grafana
6 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.36%) SCCM
10 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.29%) Kibana
10 4 (0.29%) Puppet
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.15%) Control-M
12 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.15%) Nessus
12 2 (0.15%) QRadar
12 2 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 231 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.75%) ServiceNow
3 82 (5.95%) Oracle
4 73 (5.30%) Salesforce
5 50 (3.63%) Google
6 45 (3.27%) SAP
7 32 (2.32%) Databricks
8 15 (1.09%) Cisco
9 13 (0.94%) VMware
10 11 (0.80%) Okta
10 11 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.73%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.73%) Splunk
12 9 (0.65%) Apple
12 9 (0.65%) Foundry
13 8 (0.58%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.58%) Remedy
13 8 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.58%) Zscaler
14 7 (0.51%) CrowdStrike