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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 51 72
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,242 539 566
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.95% 4.35% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 4.71% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 353 393
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £610 £695 £700
90th Percentile £731 £850 £850
England median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.21% -2.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 13
10th Percentile £22.73 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £76.67 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £56.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £56.50 £49.23 £36.50
% change year-on-year +14.77% +34.88% -34.53%

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 15,783 11,435 15,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.26% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,560 7,742 11,125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 176 311
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +7 137 £547 +7.25% 158
South London +16 41 £498 -14.67% 13
West London -8 34 £510 -0.39% 30
East London +8 14 £600 - 21
North London - 1 £500 - 1
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 76 (6.12%) Confluence
2 50 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.64%) CMS
6 7 (0.56%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.081%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.081%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.081%) govService
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.081%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.081%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.081%) Mingle
10 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (1.29%) NetSuite
2 15 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.89%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.56%) Actimize
5 7 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.16%) Global One
10 2 (0.16%) iTrent
10 2 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
10 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 271 (21.82%) Azure
2 211 (16.99%) AWS
3 130 (10.47%) Power Platform
4 84 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (6.76%) GitHub
5 69 (5.56%) GCP
6 56 (4.51%) SaaS
7 52 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (3.54%) Serverless
11 41 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 37 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (2.98%) Entra ID
13 30 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (1.77%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.74%) Firewall
2 28 (2.25%) Network Security
3 19 (1.53%) DNS
4 14 (1.13%) WAN
5 10 (0.81%) DHCP
6 9 (0.72%) LAN
6 9 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.56%) BGP
7 7 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.56%) OSPF
7 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.48%) Modbus
8 6 (0.48%) RS-232
8 6 (0.48%) RS-485
9 5 (0.40%) VPN
10 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.32%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.32%) MPLS
10 4 (0.32%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (8.21%) Power BI
2 40 (3.22%) Tableau
3 39 (3.14%) SQL Server
4 30 (2.42%) Metadata
4 30 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.89%) Power Query
10 10 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.72%) Parquet
12 8 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.56%) Big Data
14 6 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.40%) PowerPivot
15 5 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 166 (13.37%) JIRA
2 54 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.62%) Git
4 36 (2.90%) GitLab
5 16 (1.29%) Selenium
6 14 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.72%) JMeter
8 9 (0.72%) JUnit
8 9 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.48%) Postman
9 6 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.48%) Vite
10 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.40%) TestRail
10 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 4 (0.32%) Mockito
General
1 481 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 445 (35.83%) Finance
3 247 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 103 (8.29%) Banking
6 42 (3.38%) Law
7 41 (3.30%) Legal
8 40 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (3.06%) Retail
11 35 (2.82%) Marketing
12 33 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.85%) Front Office
14 23 (1.85%) Local Government
15 21 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.05%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.97%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 173 (13.93%) Lead
2 142 (11.43%) Analyst
3 109 (8.78%) Senior
4 92 (7.41%) Developer
5 86 (6.92%) Architect
6 52 (4.19%) Business Analyst
7 50 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
8 46 (3.70%) Project Manager
9 40 (3.22%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.14%) Consultant
11 36 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (2.74%) Scrum Master
13 33 (2.66%) Lead Architect
13 33 (2.66%) Senior Manager
14 31 (2.50%) Functional Architect
15 26 (2.09%) Technical Manager
16 25 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
17 23 (1.85%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (1.85%) Security Engineer
18 22 (1.77%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.46%) React
2 40 (3.22%) RESTful
3 37 (2.98%) REST
4 33 (2.66%) HTML
5 31 (2.50%) CSS
6 30 (2.42%) .NET
7 27 (2.17%) Spring
8 22 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 21 (1.69%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.53%) Kafka
11 18 (1.45%) Node.js
12 16 (1.29%) Next.js
13 14 (1.13%) Middleware
14 13 (1.05%) Playwright
15 12 (0.97%) OAuth
15 12 (0.97%) PySpark
15 12 (0.97%) Web Services
16 11 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (0.81%) GraphQL
17 10 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 126 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 53 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 30 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (1.93%) Data Centre
8 23 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 20 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 20 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.13%) CMDB
13 14 (1.13%) Derivative
13 14 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.97%) FMCG
15 12 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.27%) Windows
2 42 (3.38%) Linux
3 12 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.64%) Unix
7 7 (0.56%) Android
7 7 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.40%) VMS
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.081%) AIX
12 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (39.05%) Agile
2 288 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 265 (21.34%) DevOps
3 265 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
4 250 (20.13%) CI/CD
5 216 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 203 (16.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 177 (14.25%) AI
8 157 (12.64%) Analytics
9 150 (12.08%) Migration
10 147 (11.84%) Roadmaps
11 124 (9.98%) Change Management
12 123 (9.90%) Scrum
13 120 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
14 114 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 113 (9.10%) Project Management
15 113 (9.10%) Test Automation
16 112 (9.02%) Risk Management
17 102 (8.21%) Mentoring
18 97 (7.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 185 (14.90%) SQL
2 181 (14.57%) Python
3 82 (6.60%) Java
4 56 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 37 (2.98%) C#
7 34 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.77%) Bash
9 21 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.45%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.81%) C++
13 8 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.64%) Bicep
13 8 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.56%) Go
14 7 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.56%) R
14 7 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.48%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 231 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 194 (15.62%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.66%) Degree
4 36 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.33%) CISSP
6 26 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.77%) PMP
9 20 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.61%) CISM
10 18 (1.45%) ACCA
10 18 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.81%) CCNP
13 9 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.64%) GIAC
14 8 (0.64%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (10.06%) QA
2 86 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.91%) PMO
4 46 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (3.70%) NIST
5 45 (3.62%) GDPR
6 30 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 25 (2.01%) SLA
8 21 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (1.21%) GRC
9 15 (1.21%) IFRS
10 14 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.72%) NCSC
13 8 (0.64%) WCAG
14 6 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.40%) COBIT
15 5 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 68 (5.48%) Docker
2 29 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.081%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.081%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (8.94%) Terraform
2 93 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.90%) Ansible
4 21 (1.69%) Grafana
5 20 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.72%) SCCM
8 7 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) Kibana
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
13 1 (0.081%) Nagios
Vendors
1 214 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.17%) ServiceNow
3 70 (5.64%) Oracle
4 59 (4.75%) Salesforce
5 48 (3.86%) SAP
6 43 (3.46%) Google
7 27 (2.17%) Databricks
8 15 (1.21%) VMware
9 14 (1.13%) Cisco
10 11 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.81%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.81%) Foundry
11 10 (0.81%) Okta
12 9 (0.72%) Splunk
13 8 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.64%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.64%) Murex
13 8 (0.64%) Workday
14 7 (0.56%) Ariba
14 7 (0.56%) Zscaler