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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 61
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,734 780 623
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.52% 5.79% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 6.25% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 513 370
10th Percentile £350 £315 £350
25th Percentile £438 £420 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -4.58%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 12
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £18.04
25th Percentile £25.25 £19.78 £29.17
Median hourly rate £29.15 £29.58 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -39.33% -1.52%
75th Percentile £52.88 £47.31 £60.94
90th Percentile £62.85 £68.25 £74.63
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.17 £48.75
% change year-on-year +32.42% -50.43% -25.00%

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £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 £673 £675
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 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -1 193 £550 +6.80% 368
West London +2 56 £520 +4.00% 149
South London +20 44 £530 -8.90% 47
East London 0 10 £600 +215.79% 48
North London +2 5 £488 -11.36% 4
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 80 (4.61%) Confluence
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.04%) CMS
7 14 (0.81%) Apache
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Magento
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.17%) Endur
9 3 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.12%) Changepoint
Cloud Services
1 390 (22.49%) Azure
2 329 (18.97%) AWS
3 146 (8.42%) Power Platform
4 117 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (6.57%) GitHub
6 107 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (5.71%) GCP
8 81 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 71 (4.09%) Serverless
10 62 (3.58%) SaaS
11 60 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (3.34%) Amazon S3
13 54 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 39 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (2.02%) Snowflake
18 34 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
19 31 (1.79%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.19%) Firewall
2 35 (2.02%) Network Security
3 33 (1.90%) DNS
4 22 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.10%) WAN
6 18 (1.04%) VPN
7 13 (0.75%) DHCP
8 12 (0.69%) LAN
9 9 (0.52%) VoIP
10 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.29%) HTTP
13 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.29%) WebEx
14 4 (0.23%) DKIM
14 4 (0.23%) DMARC
14 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.23%) SAN
14 4 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.11%) Power BI
2 60 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 51 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.60%) Metadata
5 41 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.38%) Delta Lake
10 23 (1.33%) Tableau
11 20 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.92%) Power Query
13 15 (0.87%) Parquet
14 12 (0.69%) MySQL
14 12 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.63%) Big Data
15 11 (0.63%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 155 (8.94%) JIRA
2 112 (6.46%) Git
3 93 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 52 (3.00%) GitLab
5 36 (2.08%) Selenium
6 16 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.81%) JUnit
8 14 (0.81%) Postman
9 13 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.52%) Maven
12 7 (0.40%) Gradle
12 7 (0.40%) Mockito
12 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.35%) XCTest
13 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
14 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 781 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 531 (30.62%) Finance
3 401 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 209 (12.05%) Banking
6 76 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (3.34%) Legal
9 50 (2.88%) Front Office
9 50 (2.88%) Retail
10 48 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.13%) Marketing
12 36 (2.08%) Law
12 36 (2.08%) Local Government
13 35 (2.02%) Investment Banking
14 27 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.38%) Military
16 24 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 221 (12.75%) Lead
2 200 (11.53%) Senior
3 175 (10.09%) Developer
4 172 (9.92%) Analyst
5 84 (4.84%) Architect
6 67 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 66 (3.81%) Project Manager
8 58 (3.34%) Data Engineer
9 55 (3.17%) Consultant
9 55 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.00%) Business Analyst
11 48 (2.77%) Software Engineer
12 40 (2.31%) Product Manager
12 40 (2.31%) Scrum Master
13 38 (2.19%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.08%) Product Owner
15 32 (1.85%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.79%) Applications Support
16 31 (1.79%) Java Developer
17 30 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (8.48%) Terraform
2 99 (5.71%) REST
3 80 (4.61%) RESTful
4 60 (3.46%) Kafka
5 58 (3.34%) .NET
6 53 (3.06%) React
6 53 (3.06%) Spring
7 49 (2.83%) Spring Boot
8 43 (2.48%) HTML
8 43 (2.48%) Web Services
9 42 (2.42%) AngularJS
10 36 (2.08%) CSS
11 34 (1.96%) SOAP
12 31 (1.79%) Django
12 31 (1.79%) PySpark
13 24 (1.38%) Node.js
14 23 (1.33%) JSON
14 23 (1.33%) Middleware
14 23 (1.33%) XML
15 21 (1.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 219 (12.63%) Product Ownership
2 138 (7.96%) Onboarding
3 125 (7.21%) Cloud Native
4 53 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 39 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 39 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.85%) Security Posture
10 28 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.44%) CMDB
11 25 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.38%) NHS
13 21 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.15%) Low-Code
15 18 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.92%) Windows
2 92 (5.31%) Linux
3 35 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.56%) Unix
5 21 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.98%) Android
7 15 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) zOS
11 1 (0.058%) HPUX
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.058%) Solaris
11 1 (0.058%) SUSE
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (39.56%) Agile
2 580 (33.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 453 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
4 377 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 359 (20.70%) DevOps
6 343 (19.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 313 (18.05%) Decision-Making
8 306 (17.65%) AI
9 246 (14.19%) Roadmaps
10 212 (12.23%) Analytics
11 198 (11.42%) Scrum
12 178 (10.27%) Change Management
13 168 (9.69%) Software Engineering
14 167 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 167 (9.63%) Test Automation
15 154 (8.88%) Migration
15 154 (8.88%) Risk Management
16 152 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (8.54%) ITIL
18 146 (8.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 310 (17.88%) Python
2 278 (16.03%) SQL
3 147 (8.48%) Java
4 98 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 87 (5.02%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.56%) C#
7 61 (3.52%) Bash
8 58 (3.34%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.92%) Go
12 16 (0.92%) Groovy
13 14 (0.81%) Korn
13 14 (0.81%) Perl
14 13 (0.75%) Bicep
15 12 (0.69%) R
16 11 (0.63%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.58%) C++
17 10 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 405 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 347 (20.01%) SC Cleared
3 153 (8.82%) Degree
4 57 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.23%) PMP
6 54 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.71%) PMI Certification
8 37 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 36 (2.08%) CISSP
10 34 (1.96%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (1.15%) CISM
13 19 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.58%) GIAC
16 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (8.77%) QA
2 150 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.33%) PMO
4 50 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.42%) NIST
6 42 (2.42%) SLA
7 34 (1.96%) GDPR
8 32 (1.85%) GRC
9 20 (1.15%) NCSC
10 17 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.75%) COBIT
11 13 (0.75%) WCAG
12 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 122 (7.04%) Docker
2 82 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.52%) IAG
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) RACF
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) zsh
9 1 (0.058%) Ceph
9 1 (0.058%) UAG
9 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 152 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.40%) Ansible
3 51 (2.94%) Grafana
4 50 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 38 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.69%) Kibana
7 12 (0.69%) SCCM
8 6 (0.35%) 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%) Control-M
11 3 (0.17%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.17%) Nagios
11 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 318 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.46%) Oracle
2 112 (6.46%) ServiceNow
3 61 (3.52%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.17%) Google
5 54 (3.11%) SAP
6 45 (2.60%) Splunk
7 44 (2.54%) Databricks
8 35 (2.02%) IBM
9 25 (1.44%) Cisco
10 22 (1.27%) VMware
11 19 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.92%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.87%) UiPath
14 14 (0.81%) Adobe
14 14 (0.81%) Apple
15 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.58%) Okta
16 10 (0.58%) Qualys
16 10 (0.58%) Workday