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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 52 59
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,023 520 637
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.76% 3.85% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.45% 4.25% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 290 436
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £584 £561
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +4.05% -2.39%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £863 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 12
10th Percentile £17.45 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £42.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.95% +40.00% -53.85%
75th Percentile £33.90 £67.44 £64.06
90th Percentile £61.67 £73.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.70 £54.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -43.15% +44.00% -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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +13 133 £538 +2.14% 118
West London -12 16 £475 +18.75% 27
East London +4 11 £450 -18.74% 27
South London -11 9 £525 -9.95% 14
North London +5 2 £550 - 5
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 67 (6.55%) Confluence
2 40 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.39%) Appian
7 4 (0.39%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.29%) Camunda
8 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
10 1 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.098%) Mule
10 1 (0.098%) nginx
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 72 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.88%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.39%) Notion
7 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.39%) Trello
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.098%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.098%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.098%) Sketch
9 1 (0.098%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.78%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.20%) Actimize
8 2 (0.20%) Endur
8 2 (0.20%) iTrent
8 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
8 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 203 (19.84%) Azure
2 147 (14.37%) AWS
3 93 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (8.41%) Power Platform
5 69 (6.74%) GitHub
6 42 (4.11%) GCP
7 40 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (3.91%) SaaS
8 37 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (3.13%) Serverless
10 26 (2.54%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.05%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.96%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.76%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (1.56%) Google Workspace
17 15 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.35%) Firewall
2 18 (1.76%) DNS
2 18 (1.76%) Network Security
3 14 (1.37%) DHCP
4 13 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.08%) VPN
6 8 (0.78%) LAN
6 8 (0.78%) Modbus
6 8 (0.78%) WAN
7 6 (0.59%) Broadband
7 6 (0.59%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.59%) RS-232
7 6 (0.59%) RS-485
8 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.39%) 5G
10 3 (0.29%) DKIM
10 3 (0.29%) DMARC
10 3 (0.29%) Internet
10 3 (0.29%) Multicast
10 3 (0.29%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.74%) Power BI
2 23 (2.25%) Tableau
3 22 (2.15%) Relational Database
3 22 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.27%) Metadata
7 12 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.88%) MySQL
10 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.78%) Redis
11 7 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.49%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.49%) Power Query
13 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 138 (13.49%) JIRA
2 46 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.03%) GitLab
4 28 (2.74%) Git
5 18 (1.76%) Selenium
6 11 (1.08%) Cucumber
6 11 (1.08%) JUnit
7 10 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.88%) JMeter
8 9 (0.88%) Postman
9 8 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.59%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.49%) TestRail
13 4 (0.39%) Gatling
13 4 (0.39%) Maven
13 4 (0.39%) MLflow
14 3 (0.29%) Gradle
14 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.29%) SoapUI
General
1 462 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 321 (31.38%) Finance
3 208 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.62%) Banking
6 42 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (4.01%) Legal
8 40 (3.91%) Marketing
9 36 (3.52%) Retail
10 28 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (2.05%) Front Office
14 19 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.47%) Publishing
16 14 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (1.27%) Local Government
17 13 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 154 (15.05%) Analyst
2 141 (13.78%) Lead
3 105 (10.26%) Senior
4 85 (8.31%) Developer
5 61 (5.96%) Business Analyst
6 48 (4.69%) Architect
7 42 (4.11%) Project Manager
8 41 (4.01%) Consultant
9 28 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
10 27 (2.64%) Data Engineer
10 27 (2.64%) Senior Manager
11 24 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (1.96%) Security Engineer
14 17 (1.66%) Designer
14 17 (1.66%) Product Manager
14 17 (1.66%) Product Owner
14 17 (1.66%) Scrum Master
15 15 (1.47%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (1.47%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.13%) REST
2 31 (3.03%) .NET
3 26 (2.54%) Node.js
4 25 (2.44%) CSS
4 25 (2.44%) React
4 25 (2.44%) RESTful
5 24 (2.35%) HTML
6 17 (1.66%) Spring
7 15 (1.47%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.47%) XML
8 14 (1.37%) SOAP
9 13 (1.27%) Web Services
10 12 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.08%) Kafka
11 11 (1.08%) OAuth
11 11 (1.08%) PySpark
12 10 (0.98%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.98%) JSON
13 9 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (0.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 50 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.08%) PMI
13 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.98%) Replication
14 8 (0.78%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.69%) Windows
2 47 (4.59%) Linux
3 14 (1.37%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.08%) Unix
5 10 (0.98%) Android
5 10 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.88%) VMS
6 9 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.098%) Solaris
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (39.00%) Agile
2 254 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
3 243 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 220 (21.51%) DevOps
5 196 (19.16%) CI/CD
6 171 (16.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 137 (13.39%) Decision-Making
8 133 (13.00%) Roadmaps
9 132 (12.90%) Analytics
10 110 (10.75%) AI
11 92 (8.99%) Migration
11 92 (8.99%) Scrum
12 91 (8.90%) Project Delivery
13 89 (8.70%) Project Management
14 88 (8.60%) Test Automation
15 86 (8.41%) Risk Management
16 84 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
17 83 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (7.62%) Mentoring
19 75 (7.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 152 (14.86%) SQL
2 139 (13.59%) Python
3 68 (6.65%) Java
4 52 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 31 (3.03%) Bash
8 27 (2.64%) C#
9 16 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (1.37%) C++
11 11 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.59%) Bicep
13 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.59%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.59%) Swift
14 5 (0.49%) Go
14 5 (0.49%) Korn
14 5 (0.49%) R
15 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 152 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 128 (12.51%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.09%) Degree
4 28 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.76%) ACCA
7 18 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.76%) PMP
8 14 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.98%) CISSP
11 9 (0.88%) CIMA
11 9 (0.88%) CISM
11 9 (0.88%) IIBA
12 8 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (10.46%) QA
2 58 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.79%) GDPR
4 47 (4.59%) Accessibility
5 42 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (2.93%) NIST
7 24 (2.35%) PMO
8 22 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (2.15%) SLA
9 19 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (1.66%) GRC
11 11 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.98%) COBIT
12 10 (0.98%) NCSC
13 9 (0.88%) IFRS
14 8 (0.78%) WCAG
15 7 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.68%) ITGC
16 6 (0.59%) GMP
16 6 (0.59%) SOX 404
System Software
1 72 (7.04%) Docker
2 24 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.59%) Firmware
5 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.098%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (7.33%) Terraform
2 74 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.52%) Ansible
4 18 (1.76%) SCCM
5 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.47%) Grafana
6 15 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (0.68%) WSUS
9 5 (0.49%) Kibana
9 5 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.39%) Control-M
10 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.39%) logstash
10 4 (0.39%) Puppet
10 4 (0.39%) SCOM
11 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.29%) vRealize
12 2 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 166 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.67%) ServiceNow
3 57 (5.57%) SAP
4 50 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.11%) Oracle
6 39 (3.81%) Google
7 20 (1.96%) Databricks
8 14 (1.37%) Splunk
9 13 (1.27%) VMware
10 12 (1.17%) Adobe
11 9 (0.88%) Remedy
12 7 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.59%) BMC
13 6 (0.59%) IBM
13 6 (0.59%) Informatica
13 6 (0.59%) Murex
13 6 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.59%) Workday
14 5 (0.49%) Cisco
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat