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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 48 61
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 +24
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 958 617 693
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 4.09% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 4.55% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 338 464
10th Percentile £333 £354 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £656 £700 £725
90th Percentile £760 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 6
10th Percentile - £17.08 £19.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.19% -43.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £35.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £72.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.33 £33.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.87% -48.08% +1.96%

All Process and 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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +17 136 £525 -6.67% 69
West London -12 16 £450 - 33
East London +5 13 £190 -63.98% 28
South London -3 9 £581 +9.90% 38
North London +6 3 £600 - 2
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 68 (7.10%) Confluence
2 42 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.52%) Apache
4 5 (0.52%) CMS
4 5 (0.52%) HCL Notes
4 5 (0.52%) MQSeries
5 4 (0.42%) Appian
6 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.31%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.21%) Drupal
7 2 (0.21%) Luigi
7 2 (0.21%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.10%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 69 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.42%) Notion
7 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.42%) Trello
8 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.10%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.63%) Endur
4 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.42%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.21%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.21%) SAP SRM
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 171 (17.85%) Azure
2 126 (13.15%) AWS
3 81 (8.46%) Power Platform
4 68 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (4.59%) GitHub
7 38 (3.97%) GCP
8 32 (3.34%) SaaS
9 30 (3.13%) Serverless
10 29 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (2.51%) Entra ID
12 23 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.40%) Power Automate
13 21 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 20 (2.09%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 13 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.09%) DNS
1 20 (2.09%) Firewall
2 14 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.36%) DHCP
4 12 (1.25%) VPN
5 7 (0.73%) LAN
5 7 (0.73%) Network Security
5 7 (0.73%) WAN
6 5 (0.52%) Broadband
7 4 (0.42%) DKIM
7 4 (0.42%) DMARC
7 4 (0.42%) Multicast
7 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.42%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.42%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.31%) 5G
8 3 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.31%) Modbus
9 2 (0.21%) SSL
9 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.68%) Power BI
2 25 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.98%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.67%) Tableau
6 14 (1.46%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.15%) Metadata
10 10 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.04%) MySQL
11 8 (0.84%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.84%) Redis
12 7 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 124 (12.94%) JIRA
2 41 (4.28%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.92%) Git
4 23 (2.40%) GitLab
5 15 (1.57%) Selenium
6 14 (1.46%) JUnit
7 11 (1.15%) Postman
8 10 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.84%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.63%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.52%) Maven
13 5 (0.52%) Mockito
13 5 (0.52%) Xcode
14 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.42%) Subversion
14 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.42%) XCTest
15 3 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 451 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 281 (29.33%) Finance
3 190 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (12.53%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.25%) Banking
6 45 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (4.28%) Legal
8 37 (3.86%) Marketing
9 36 (3.76%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.82%) Retail
11 24 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.77%) Front Office
14 17 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.46%) Publishing
17 13 (1.36%) Local Government
18 11 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (15.66%) Analyst
2 128 (13.36%) Lead
3 92 (9.60%) Senior
4 83 (8.66%) Developer
5 62 (6.47%) Business Analyst
6 54 (5.64%) Consultant
7 50 (5.22%) Architect
8 39 (4.07%) Project Manager
9 26 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
10 25 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (2.40%) Senior Manager
12 21 (2.19%) Security Engineer
13 20 (2.09%) Product Manager
14 17 (1.77%) Product Owner
14 17 (1.77%) Programme Manager
15 15 (1.57%) Data Engineer
15 15 (1.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (1.57%) Scrum Master
16 14 (1.46%) Change Manager
16 14 (1.46%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.03%) REST
2 27 (2.82%) .NET
3 26 (2.71%) RESTful
4 25 (2.61%) Spring
5 23 (2.40%) Node.js
6 20 (2.09%) React
7 18 (1.88%) Kafka
8 17 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.57%) CSS
9 15 (1.57%) SOAP
9 15 (1.57%) Web Services
10 14 (1.46%) HTML
11 13 (1.36%) XML
12 12 (1.25%) OAuth
13 10 (1.04%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.94%) Hibernate
15 8 (0.84%) JSON
15 8 (0.84%) Middleware
15 8 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
15 8 (0.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.19%) Product Ownership
2 58 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 30 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.88%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.67%) PMI
10 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.70%) Windows
2 42 (4.38%) Linux
3 19 (1.98%) Unix
4 14 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.04%) Android
5 10 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.52%) VMS
7 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) tvOS
10 1 (0.10%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (38.94%) Agile
2 281 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
3 224 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 179 (18.68%) DevOps
5 176 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 164 (17.12%) CI/CD
7 125 (13.05%) Roadmaps
8 119 (12.42%) Decision-Making
9 110 (11.48%) Analytics
10 96 (10.02%) Scrum
11 95 (9.92%) Project Management
12 90 (9.39%) AI
13 88 (9.19%) Project Delivery
14 83 (8.66%) Mentoring
15 80 (8.35%) Change Management
16 79 (8.25%) Test Automation
17 75 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
18 74 (7.72%) ITIL
19 68 (7.10%) Migration
20 63 (6.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (13.99%) SQL
2 126 (13.15%) Python
3 77 (8.04%) Java
4 49 (5.11%) PowerShell
5 46 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 36 (3.76%) Bash
7 29 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.51%) C#
9 15 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.15%) C++
11 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.84%) VBA
12 7 (0.73%) Bicep
12 7 (0.73%) Korn
13 5 (0.52%) Groovy
13 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.52%) R
14 4 (0.42%) ABAP
14 4 (0.42%) Scala
14 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.02%) Degree
4 39 (4.07%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.92%) PMP
6 24 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.04%) ACCA
11 10 (1.04%) CIMA
12 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.73%) CISSP
13 7 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.92%) QA
2 45 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 42 (4.38%) GDPR
5 34 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (3.24%) PMO
7 20 (2.09%) SLA
8 18 (1.88%) NIST
9 17 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.46%) GRC
11 12 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (1.04%) ITGC
13 9 (0.94%) COBIT
13 9 (0.94%) MiFID
13 9 (0.94%) NCSC
14 7 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.73%) EMIR
15 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.63%) SOX 404
System Software
1 65 (6.78%) Docker
2 27 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 67 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 57 (5.95%) Terraform
3 28 (2.92%) Ansible
4 22 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.09%) Grafana
5 20 (2.09%) SCCM
6 15 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (0.84%) WSUS
9 6 (0.63%) Kibana
10 5 (0.52%) Control-M
11 4 (0.42%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.42%) SCOM
12 3 (0.31%) logstash
12 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.21%) BladeLogic
13 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.21%) Packer
13 2 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 176 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.26%) SAP
3 46 (4.80%) Oracle
4 45 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.55%) Google
6 33 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.19%) Splunk
8 16 (1.67%) Databricks
9 13 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.15%) Adobe
11 10 (1.04%) VMware
12 9 (0.94%) Workday
13 8 (0.84%) IBM
13 8 (0.84%) TIBCO
14 7 (0.73%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.63%) Murex
15 6 (0.63%) Remedy
15 6 (0.63%) Solace
15 6 (0.63%) Sophos