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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 41 64
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,687 740 592
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.39% 5.49% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.42% 5.94% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 495 361
10th Percentile £350 £318 £363
25th Percentile £438 £423 £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 £762 £775 £775
England median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.94 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.12 £27.51
Median hourly rate £31.95 £35.24 £40.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% -13.26% -29.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.38 £56.88
90th Percentile £72.75 £61.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £28.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.81% -43.00% -16.67%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -1 170 £550 +10.00% 165
West London +5 57 £520 +1.56% 125
South London +17 49 £525 -9.17% 31
East London +5 13 £750 +294.74% 39
North London +1 4 £450 -18.18% 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 80 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.39%) Confluence
3 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.01%) CMS
6 16 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.59%) Apache
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.36%) 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
12 1 (0.059%) MTS
12 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 80 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.36%) 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
Business Applications
1 21 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.36%) Actimize
6 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.30%) Magento
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.24%) Endur
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.24%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 401 (23.77%) Azure
2 319 (18.91%) AWS
3 166 (9.84%) Power Platform
4 115 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
6 104 (6.16%) GitHub
7 101 (5.99%) GCP
8 84 (4.98%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.73%) Serverless
10 60 (3.56%) SaaS
11 54 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
13 48 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (2.73%) Amazon S3
15 34 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
17 31 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.78%) PowerApps
19 28 (1.66%) Power Automate
20 27 (1.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.19%) Firewall
1 37 (2.19%) Network Security
2 34 (2.02%) DNS
3 22 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 21 (1.24%) WAN
5 15 (0.89%) DHCP
5 15 (0.89%) VPN
6 12 (0.71%) LAN
7 10 (0.59%) VoIP
8 9 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.36%) BGP
10 6 (0.36%) HTTP
11 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.30%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.30%) WebEx
11 5 (0.30%) Wireless
12 4 (0.24%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.59%) Power BI
2 49 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.85%) Metadata
4 41 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.60%) Tableau
9 26 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.42%) Delta Lake
11 16 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 15 (0.89%) Power Query
13 14 (0.83%) Parquet
14 12 (0.71%) Big Data
15 9 (0.53%) MySQL
15 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
17 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 151 (8.95%) JIRA
2 101 (5.99%) Git
3 82 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.73%) GitLab
5 32 (1.90%) Selenium
6 16 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.71%) Postman
8 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.59%) JUnit
10 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.41%) Maven
11 7 (0.41%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.41%) Zephyr
12 6 (0.36%) Gradle
12 6 (0.36%) JMeter
12 6 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.36%) XCTest
12 6 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 759 (44.99%) Social Skills
2 546 (32.37%) Finance
3 386 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (16.72%) Public Sector
5 196 (11.62%) Banking
6 71 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.56%) Legal
9 55 (3.26%) Law
10 50 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.90%) Retail
12 48 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 47 (2.79%) Front Office
14 40 (2.37%) Local Government
15 37 (2.19%) Investment Banking
16 36 (2.13%) Marketing
17 31 (1.84%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.30%) Military
19 22 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 233 (13.81%) Lead
2 188 (11.14%) Senior
3 176 (10.43%) Analyst
4 162 (9.60%) Developer
5 113 (6.70%) Architect
6 64 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (3.56%) Project Manager
8 58 (3.44%) Consultant
9 54 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (3.02%) Business Analyst
11 48 (2.85%) Data Engineer
12 43 (2.55%) Software Engineer
13 41 (2.43%) Scrum Master
14 37 (2.19%) Senior Manager
15 35 (2.07%) Lead Architect
15 35 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 33 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
17 32 (1.90%) Product Manager
17 32 (1.90%) Support Engineer
18 30 (1.78%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.94%) Terraform
2 93 (5.51%) REST
3 79 (4.68%) RESTful
4 53 (3.14%) React
5 50 (2.96%) Kafka
5 50 (2.96%) Spring
6 48 (2.85%) .NET
7 45 (2.67%) Spring Boot
8 42 (2.49%) HTML
9 41 (2.43%) AngularJS
10 37 (2.19%) CSS
11 34 (2.02%) Web Services
12 31 (1.84%) Django
13 24 (1.42%) SOAP
14 23 (1.36%) Node.js
14 23 (1.36%) PySpark
15 22 (1.30%) JSON
15 22 (1.30%) Middleware
15 22 (1.30%) XML
16 21 (1.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 201 (11.91%) Product Ownership
2 129 (7.65%) Onboarding
3 114 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 37 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.07%) AI Agents
10 29 (1.72%) Security Posture
11 28 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.54%) CMDB
12 26 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.48%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.36%) NHS
15 20 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.13%) Operational Technology
17 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.52%) Windows
2 85 (5.04%) Linux
3 31 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.48%) Unix
5 23 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.95%) Android
8 15 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.36%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (39.42%) Agile
2 527 (31.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 439 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
4 355 (21.04%) DevOps
5 348 (20.63%) CI/CD
6 342 (20.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 307 (18.20%) Decision-Making
8 282 (16.72%) AI
9 226 (13.40%) Roadmaps
10 205 (12.15%) Analytics
11 184 (10.91%) Change Management
12 182 (10.79%) Scrum
13 172 (10.20%) Migration
14 154 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 153 (9.07%) Software Engineering
15 153 (9.07%) Test Automation
16 146 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
17 145 (8.60%) Mentoring
18 142 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
19 141 (8.36%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 288 (17.07%) Python
2 252 (14.94%) SQL
3 136 (8.06%) Java
4 89 (5.28%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.22%) PowerShell
6 65 (3.85%) C#
7 58 (3.44%) Bash
8 47 (2.79%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.01%) Bicep
11 17 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.95%) Go
13 15 (0.89%) Groovy
13 15 (0.89%) Perl
14 12 (0.71%) Korn
14 12 (0.71%) R
15 11 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 11 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 372 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 316 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 153 (9.07%) Degree
4 55 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 46 (2.73%) PMP
7 40 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.07%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.78%) CISSP
11 18 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.89%) CISM
13 15 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.65%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.59%) CCNP
15 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (8.89%) QA
2 137 (8.12%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.74%) PMO
4 46 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.55%) SLA
6 41 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.43%) NIST
7 39 (2.31%) GDPR
8 28 (1.66%) GRC
9 17 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.01%) NCSC
10 12 (0.71%) COBIT
10 12 (0.71%) WCAG
11 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.36%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 106 (6.28%) Docker
2 87 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.77%) 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%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.059%) UAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 137 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.90%) Ansible
3 48 (2.85%) Grafana
4 47 (2.79%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.59%) Kibana
7 10 (0.59%) SCCM
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) QRadar
10 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.18%) Nagios
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.12%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 327 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.70%) ServiceNow
3 103 (6.11%) Oracle
4 66 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.79%) SAP
6 60 (3.56%) Google
7 38 (2.25%) Splunk
8 36 (2.13%) Databricks
9 27 (1.60%) Cisco
10 24 (1.42%) VMware
11 22 (1.30%) IBM
12 19 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.83%) Apple
15 13 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.71%) Adobe
17 9 (0.53%) Ariba
17 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (0.53%) Murex