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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 58 63
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,144 506 613
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.04% 3.81% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 4.19% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 295 424
10th Percentile £350 £363 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -1.65%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £713
90th Percentile £750 £874 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £18.94 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.52% +2.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £54.63 £38.23
% change year-on-year -16.78% +42.90% -34.08%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
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% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +14 143 £543 +6.37% 251
South London -1 27 £513 -12.09% 29
West London -18 15 £488 +11.43% 38
East London +7 7 £450 - 31
North London +2 2 £550 - 9
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 (7.08%) Confluence
2 40 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.44%) CMS
6 4 (0.35%) Apache
6 4 (0.35%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.26%) Appian
7 3 (0.26%) Camunda
7 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.26%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.087%) Drupal
9 1 (0.087%) Mule
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 73 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.05%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.35%) Notion
7 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.35%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.087%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.087%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.87%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.17%) iTrent
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 243 (21.24%) Azure
2 174 (15.21%) AWS
3 103 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 83 (7.26%) GitHub
6 47 (4.11%) GCP
7 45 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
7 45 (3.93%) SaaS
8 42 (3.67%) Serverless
9 41 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (3.06%) Amazon S3
11 32 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.45%) Entra ID
13 26 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.66%) Google Workspace
15 19 (1.66%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.53%) Firewall
2 20 (1.75%) Network Security
3 18 (1.57%) DNS
4 13 (1.14%) DHCP
4 13 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.87%) WAN
6 9 (0.79%) VPN
7 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.52%) BGP
8 6 (0.52%) Broadband
8 6 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.52%) LAN
8 6 (0.52%) Modbus
8 6 (0.52%) OSPF
8 6 (0.52%) RS-232
8 6 (0.52%) RS-485
9 5 (0.44%) 5G
10 4 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.35%) MPLS
11 3 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.56%) Power BI
2 31 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.45%) Tableau
4 25 (2.19%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.40%) Metadata
8 15 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.79%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.70%) MySQL
12 7 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.61%) Redis
13 6 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.44%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 163 (14.25%) JIRA
2 51 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.50%) Git
4 37 (3.23%) GitLab
5 20 (1.75%) Selenium
6 17 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.05%) JUnit
8 11 (0.96%) JMeter
9 10 (0.87%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.61%) Postman
12 6 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.44%) Gatling
13 5 (0.44%) MSTest
13 5 (0.44%) TestRail
14 4 (0.35%) Gradle
14 4 (0.35%) Maven
14 4 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 498 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 369 (32.26%) Finance
3 237 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.26%) Banking
6 47 (4.11%) Legal
7 41 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (3.58%) Marketing
8 36 (3.15%) Retail
9 33 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (2.01%) Front Office
12 23 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.31%) Local Government
16 15 (1.31%) Publishing
17 12 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 163 (14.25%) Analyst
2 155 (13.55%) Lead
3 107 (9.35%) Senior
4 95 (8.30%) Developer
5 70 (6.12%) Business Analyst
6 49 (4.28%) Architect
7 48 (4.20%) Project Manager
8 43 (3.76%) Consultant
8 43 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (2.88%) Data Engineer
10 29 (2.53%) Senior Manager
11 26 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.01%) Security Engineer
12 23 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (1.75%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (1.75%) Scrum Master
13 20 (1.75%) Technical Manager
14 18 (1.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (1.57%) Product Manager
14 18 (1.57%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.50%) .NET
2 36 (3.15%) REST
3 30 (2.62%) React
4 28 (2.45%) Node.js
5 27 (2.36%) HTML
5 27 (2.36%) RESTful
6 26 (2.27%) CSS
7 17 (1.49%) Spring
8 16 (1.40%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.31%) XML
10 14 (1.22%) Web Services
11 13 (1.14%) Playwright
12 12 (1.05%) PySpark
12 12 (1.05%) SOAP
12 12 (1.05%) Spring Boot
13 11 (0.96%) JSON
13 11 (0.96%) Kafka
14 10 (0.87%) OAuth
15 9 (0.79%) Middleware
15 9 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 103 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.51%) Cloud Native
3 52 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 28 (2.45%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.22%) PMI
11 14 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.72%) Windows
2 48 (4.20%) Linux
3 13 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 11 (0.96%) Unix
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.79%) VMS
7 8 (0.70%) Android
8 6 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
11 1 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (39.16%) Agile
2 275 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
4 250 (21.85%) DevOps
5 236 (20.63%) CI/CD
6 185 (16.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 166 (14.51%) Decision-Making
8 153 (13.37%) Analytics
9 139 (12.15%) Roadmaps
10 133 (11.63%) AI
11 109 (9.53%) Migration
11 109 (9.53%) Test Automation
12 103 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 101 (8.83%) Risk Management
14 99 (8.65%) Project Management
15 98 (8.57%) Project Delivery
16 95 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
16 95 (8.30%) Scrum
17 92 (8.04%) Change Management
18 84 (7.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 183 (16.00%) SQL
2 172 (15.03%) Python
3 75 (6.56%) Java
4 55 (4.81%) JavaScript
5 47 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 37 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 35 (3.06%) C#
8 31 (2.71%) Bash
9 15 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (1.31%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.22%) C++
11 12 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.70%) Bicep
13 7 (0.61%) Swift
14 6 (0.52%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.44%) Go
15 5 (0.44%) R
15 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 195 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 165 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.92%) Degree
4 31 (2.71%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.92%) ACCA
8 19 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.66%) PMP
9 17 (1.49%) CISSP
10 16 (1.40%) CISM
10 16 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 15 (1.31%) ISTQB
12 13 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.96%) IIBA
14 11 (0.96%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.79%) CIMA
17 8 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (10.84%) QA
2 68 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.55%) GDPR
4 49 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (4.11%) Accessibility
6 35 (3.06%) NIST
7 30 (2.62%) PMO
8 25 (2.19%) SLA
9 24 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (1.57%) GRC
10 18 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (1.14%) IFRS
12 11 (0.96%) COBIT
12 11 (0.96%) NCSC
12 11 (0.96%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.70%) WCAG
14 7 (0.61%) ITGC
14 7 (0.61%) MiFID
15 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.52%) SOX 404
System Software
1 75 (6.56%) Docker
2 25 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.52%) Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.087%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.087%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (8.04%) Terraform
2 83 (7.26%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.85%) Ansible
4 18 (1.57%) Grafana
4 18 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.49%) SCCM
6 8 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.61%) WSUS
8 5 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.44%) Kibana
9 4 (0.35%) Control-M
9 4 (0.35%) logstash
9 4 (0.35%) Puppet
9 4 (0.35%) SCOM
10 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.26%) vRealize
11 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 179 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.56%) ServiceNow
3 55 (4.81%) SAP
4 53 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 49 (4.28%) Oracle
6 41 (3.58%) Google
7 26 (2.27%) Databricks
8 15 (1.31%) VMware
9 13 (1.14%) Splunk
10 11 (0.96%) Adobe
11 10 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.70%) IBM
12 8 (0.70%) Remedy
13 7 (0.61%) Cisco
13 7 (0.61%) Foundry
14 6 (0.52%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.52%) Murex
14 6 (0.52%) Okta
15 5 (0.44%) BMC
15 5 (0.44%) HP