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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 62 63
Rank change year-on-year +35 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,148 478 608
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.09% 3.70% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 4.07% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 283 419
10th Percentile £350 £356 £384
25th Percentile £425 £437 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £748 £701
90th Percentile £750 £875 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 12
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.38 £30.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +2.68% -52.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.63 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.70 £72.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.72% +47.33% -33.03%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +20 142 £541 +8.25% 204
South London +6 32 £513 -12.09% 20
West London -15 16 £488 +2.63% 30
East London +8 8 £450 - 25
North London +2 2 £550 - 8
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 (7.06%) Confluence
2 42 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.44%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) Camunda
7 4 (0.35%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.26%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.26%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.17%) Appian
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Drupal
10 1 (0.087%) Mule
10 1 (0.087%) nginx
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.05%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Notion
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.087%) Mingle
10 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.87%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.26%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.17%) iTrent
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
9 1 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 249 (21.69%) Azure
2 182 (15.85%) AWS
3 103 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
4 97 (8.45%) Power Platform
5 87 (7.58%) GitHub
6 52 (4.53%) GCP
7 47 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (3.92%) SaaS
8 45 (3.92%) Serverless
9 41 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 34 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (2.70%) Entra ID
13 27 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.66%) Google Workspace
16 18 (1.57%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.70%) Firewall
2 22 (1.92%) Network Security
3 18 (1.57%) DNS
4 13 (1.13%) DHCP
5 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.05%) WAN
6 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.78%) VPN
7 7 (0.61%) BGP
7 7 (0.61%) LAN
7 7 (0.61%) OSPF
8 6 (0.52%) Broadband
8 6 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.52%) Modbus
8 6 (0.52%) RS-232
8 6 (0.52%) RS-485
9 5 (0.44%) 5G
9 5 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.44%) MPLS
10 4 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.71%) Power BI
2 33 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.35%) Tableau
4 25 (2.18%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.66%) Metadata
7 18 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (1.13%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.61%) MySQL
11 7 (0.61%) Redis
12 6 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.52%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.44%) Big Data
13 5 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 163 (14.20%) JIRA
2 50 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.57%) Git
4 40 (3.48%) GitLab
5 20 (1.74%) Selenium
6 18 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.05%) JUnit
8 11 (0.96%) JMeter
9 10 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.52%) Postman
10 6 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.44%) Gatling
11 5 (0.44%) MSTest
11 5 (0.44%) TestRail
12 4 (0.35%) Gradle
12 4 (0.35%) Maven
12 4 (0.35%) MLflow
12 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 497 (43.29%) Social Skills
2 378 (32.93%) Finance
3 243 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 86 (7.49%) Banking
6 49 (4.27%) Legal
7 41 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.48%) Marketing
9 38 (3.31%) Retail
10 32 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.18%) Front Office
14 19 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.66%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.22%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.22%) Publishing
17 13 (1.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 159 (13.85%) Analyst
2 154 (13.41%) Lead
3 106 (9.23%) Senior
4 92 (8.01%) Developer
5 66 (5.75%) Business Analyst
6 59 (5.14%) Architect
7 46 (4.01%) Consultant
7 46 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
8 45 (3.92%) Project Manager
9 32 (2.79%) Data Engineer
10 28 (2.44%) Senior Manager
11 26 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (1.83%) Security Engineer
13 21 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (1.83%) Technical Manager
14 20 (1.74%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (1.74%) Scrum Master
14 20 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (1.66%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.48%) .NET
2 37 (3.22%) REST
3 32 (2.79%) React
4 28 (2.44%) Node.js
5 27 (2.35%) HTML
6 26 (2.26%) CSS
6 26 (2.26%) RESTful
7 17 (1.48%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.48%) Spring
8 14 (1.22%) Web Services
9 13 (1.13%) Playwright
9 13 (1.13%) XML
10 12 (1.05%) PySpark
10 12 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.96%) Kafka
11 11 (0.96%) Middleware
11 11 (0.96%) SOAP
12 10 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (0.87%) JSON
13 9 (0.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 68 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 51 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 24 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.22%) PMI
12 14 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.13%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.05%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.79%) Windows
2 47 (4.09%) Linux
3 12 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 12 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.96%) Unix
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.70%) Android
6 8 (0.70%) VMS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
11 1 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (39.11%) Agile
2 276 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
4 251 (21.86%) DevOps
5 243 (21.17%) CI/CD
6 192 (16.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 170 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 151 (13.15%) Analytics
9 136 (11.85%) AI
10 130 (11.32%) Roadmaps
11 114 (9.93%) Migration
11 114 (9.93%) Test Automation
12 104 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 100 (8.71%) Risk Management
14 98 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
15 97 (8.45%) Project Delivery
16 96 (8.36%) Scrum
17 95 (8.28%) Project Management
18 92 (8.01%) Change Management
19 86 (7.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 182 (15.85%) SQL
2 180 (15.68%) Python
3 74 (6.45%) Java
4 57 (4.97%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.27%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 36 (3.14%) C#
8 30 (2.61%) Bash
9 15 (1.31%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.22%) C++
10 14 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.87%) Bicep
13 7 (0.61%) Swift
14 6 (0.52%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.52%) Go
14 6 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 193 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 163 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 107 (9.32%) Degree
4 32 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.00%) ACCA
8 19 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.66%) CISSP
9 16 (1.39%) CISM
9 16 (1.39%) PMP
10 15 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.31%) ISTQB
11 14 (1.22%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.96%) IIBA
13 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.78%) CIMA
16 8 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (10.89%) QA
2 75 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.62%) GDPR
4 52 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (3.66%) Accessibility
6 39 (3.40%) NIST
7 32 (2.79%) PMO
8 27 (2.35%) SLA
9 22 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.66%) GRC
11 18 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (1.22%) IFRS
13 11 (0.96%) COBIT
13 11 (0.96%) NCSC
13 11 (0.96%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.70%) WCAG
15 7 (0.61%) ITGC
15 7 (0.61%) MiFID
16 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.52%) SOX 404
System Software
1 75 (6.53%) Docker
2 27 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.52%) Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.087%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.087%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (8.36%) Terraform
2 85 (7.40%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.92%) Ansible
4 20 (1.74%) Grafana
5 19 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.39%) SCCM
8 8 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 7 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.52%) WSUS
11 5 (0.44%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.35%) Kibana
12 4 (0.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.35%) SCOM
13 3 (0.26%) Control-M
13 3 (0.26%) logstash
13 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.26%) vRealize
14 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 187 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 57 (4.97%) SAP
4 54 (4.70%) Salesforce
5 48 (4.18%) Oracle
6 45 (3.92%) Google
7 28 (2.44%) Databricks
8 16 (1.39%) VMware
9 13 (1.13%) Splunk
10 10 (0.87%) Adobe
10 10 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.78%) Cisco
12 8 (0.70%) Murex
12 8 (0.70%) Remedy
13 7 (0.61%) Foundry
13 7 (0.61%) IBM
14 6 (0.52%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.52%) Okta
15 5 (0.44%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.44%) New Relic