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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 36 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,746 799 632
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.58% 5.93% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 6.40% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 529 369
10th Percentile £338 £323 £350
25th Percentile £435 £415 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £752 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 11
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £17.08
25th Percentile £24.81 £18.25 £28.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -50.00% +23.58%
75th Percentile £49.00 £46.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £59.95 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.22 £20.98 £42.50
% change year-on-year +44.04% -50.64% -34.62%

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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -2 192 £550 +4.76% 332
West London 0 53 £520 +4.00% 123
South London +20 45 £525 -9.76% 46
East London +1 9 £600 +215.79% 33
North London +2 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 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.52%) Confluence
3 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.03%) CMS
7 15 (0.86%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.34%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.11%) Productboard
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.40%) Magento
4 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.29%) Actimize
5 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
6 4 (0.23%) Shopify
7 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.17%) Endur
7 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 402 (23.02%) Azure
2 332 (19.01%) AWS
3 135 (7.73%) Power Platform
4 118 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (6.53%) GitHub
6 110 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (5.73%) GCP
8 81 (4.64%) Entra ID
9 69 (3.95%) Serverless
10 63 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 63 (3.61%) SaaS
11 60 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
14 40 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 37 (2.12%) Snowflake
17 32 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.83%) PowerApps
18 30 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.12%) Network Security
2 36 (2.06%) Firewall
3 32 (1.83%) DNS
4 22 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.03%) WAN
6 17 (0.97%) VPN
7 13 (0.74%) DHCP
8 12 (0.69%) LAN
9 10 (0.57%) VoIP
10 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.34%) WebEx
12 5 (0.29%) HTTP
13 4 (0.23%) BGP
13 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.23%) SAN
13 4 (0.23%) SSL
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.50%) Power BI
2 69 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 51 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (2.63%) Metadata
4 46 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.60%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.37%) Delta Lake
9 21 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.20%) Tableau
10 15 (0.86%) MongoDB
10 15 (0.86%) MySQL
10 15 (0.86%) Power Query
11 13 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 12 (0.69%) Parquet
13 10 (0.57%) Big Data
14 7 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.40%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (8.71%) JIRA
2 124 (7.10%) Git
3 93 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.09%) GitLab
5 35 (2.00%) Selenium
6 15 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 14 (0.80%) Postman
8 13 (0.74%) JUnit
9 11 (0.63%) Maven
10 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.52%) Gradle
10 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.34%) Mockito
12 6 (0.34%) XCTest
12 6 (0.34%) XCUITest
13 5 (0.29%) JMeter
13 5 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 786 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 521 (29.84%) Finance
3 408 (23.37%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (17.07%) Public Sector
5 207 (11.86%) Banking
6 75 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 63 (3.61%) Legal
9 51 (2.92%) Front Office
10 50 (2.86%) Retail
11 48 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 45 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (2.23%) Investment Banking
14 37 (2.12%) Local Government
15 34 (1.95%) Marketing
16 29 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.49%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.37%) Law
18 24 (1.37%) Military
18 24 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 207 (11.86%) Lead
2 201 (11.51%) Senior
3 185 (10.60%) Developer
4 175 (10.02%) Analyst
5 76 (4.35%) Architect
6 71 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 69 (3.95%) Project Manager
8 59 (3.38%) Data Engineer
9 55 (3.15%) Business Analyst
10 54 (3.09%) Consultant
11 51 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
12 49 (2.81%) Software Engineer
13 43 (2.46%) Product Manager
14 37 (2.12%) Product Owner
14 37 (2.12%) Scrum Master
14 37 (2.12%) Senior Manager
15 34 (1.95%) Applications Support
16 33 (1.89%) Support Engineer
17 32 (1.83%) Java Developer
18 30 (1.72%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.65%) Terraform
2 108 (6.19%) REST
3 82 (4.70%) RESTful
4 66 (3.78%) .NET
4 66 (3.78%) Kafka
5 53 (3.04%) Spring
6 51 (2.92%) React
6 51 (2.92%) Spring Boot
7 46 (2.63%) AngularJS
7 46 (2.63%) HTML
8 45 (2.58%) Web Services
9 39 (2.23%) CSS
10 36 (2.06%) SOAP
11 33 (1.89%) Django
12 32 (1.83%) PySpark
13 28 (1.60%) JSON
14 25 (1.43%) XML
15 23 (1.32%) Node.js
16 22 (1.26%) Middleware
16 22 (1.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 214 (12.26%) Product Ownership
2 136 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 133 (7.62%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 45 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 40 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 40 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 38 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.95%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 26 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.43%) NHS
14 23 (1.32%) CMDB
15 21 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Low-Code
17 19 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
18 18 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 122 (6.99%) Windows
2 100 (5.73%) Linux
3 38 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.60%) Unix
5 21 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.97%) Android
6 17 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) zOS
11 1 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.057%) HPUX
11 1 (0.057%) Solaris
11 1 (0.057%) SUSE
11 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (39.58%) Agile
2 591 (33.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 452 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
4 386 (22.11%) CI/CD
5 362 (20.73%) DevOps
6 328 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 312 (17.87%) AI
8 308 (17.64%) Decision-Making
9 250 (14.32%) Roadmaps
10 216 (12.37%) Analytics
11 202 (11.57%) Scrum
12 176 (10.08%) Change Management
13 173 (9.91%) Test Automation
14 172 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 172 (9.85%) Software Engineering
15 160 (9.16%) Risk Management
16 152 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (8.48%) ITIL
18 144 (8.25%) Project Delivery
18 144 (8.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 317 (18.16%) Python
2 291 (16.67%) SQL
3 149 (8.53%) Java
4 103 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.10%) PowerShell
6 88 (5.04%) C#
7 67 (3.84%) Bash
8 61 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 29 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.92%) Go
11 16 (0.92%) Groovy
12 15 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.80%) Bicep
13 14 (0.80%) Korn
13 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.74%) Perl
15 11 (0.63%) R
16 10 (0.57%) C++
16 10 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 410 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 351 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 154 (8.82%) Degree
4 59 (3.38%) PMP
5 55 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.86%) PMI Certification
8 37 (2.12%) CISSP
9 34 (1.95%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.20%) CISM
13 20 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.57%) CRISC
17 10 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (8.93%) QA
2 148 (8.48%) Data Quality
3 68 (3.89%) PMO
4 50 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.81%) Accessibility
6 43 (2.46%) NIST
7 39 (2.23%) SLA
8 34 (1.95%) GDPR
9 33 (1.89%) GRC
10 20 (1.15%) NCSC
11 19 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.74%) COBIT
12 13 (0.74%) WCAG
13 12 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.34%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.29%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 131 (7.50%) Docker
2 80 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.40%) IAG
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) RACF
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) zsh
9 1 (0.057%) Ceph
9 1 (0.057%) UAG
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.44%) Ansible
3 54 (3.09%) Grafana
4 53 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.69%) Kibana
7 12 (0.69%) SCCM
8 8 (0.46%) Puppet
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.23%) QRadar
11 3 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.17%) Nagios
11 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.11%) Control-M
12 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 327 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.53%) Oracle
3 107 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 56 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.21%) SAP
5 55 (3.15%) Google
6 50 (2.86%) Databricks
7 47 (2.69%) Splunk
8 37 (2.12%) IBM
9 26 (1.49%) Cisco
10 22 (1.26%) VMware
11 19 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.92%) UiPath
12 16 (0.92%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.86%) Adobe
14 14 (0.80%) Apple
15 13 (0.74%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.63%) Workday
17 10 (0.57%) Okta
17 10 (0.57%) Qualys