Continuous Improvement Contracts in the City of London

Continual Improvement
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 76 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -31
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 64 115 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.88% 3.11% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.39% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 98
10th Percentile £338 £454 £410
25th Percentile £445 £510 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -1.79% -9.92%
75th Percentile £641 £753 £681
90th Percentile £731 £843 £725
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £34.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,388 3,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.18% 91.69% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,265 2,992
10th Percentile £354 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £808 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £19.36 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +78.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.38%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (3.13%) Unica
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.56%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.38%) Azure Functions
4 6 (9.38%) Azure Storage
4 6 (9.38%) Serverless
5 5 (7.81%) SaaS
6 3 (4.69%) Azure API Management
6 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.56%) GitHub
8 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.56%) OCI
8 1 (1.56%) PaaS
8 1 (1.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (9.38%) MongoDB
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.56%) Power Query
3 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 30 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (37.50%) Finance
3 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Legal
4 7 (10.94%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Local Government
7 2 (3.13%) Marketing
7 2 (3.13%) Police
8 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.56%) Front Office
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Analyst
2 8 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (7.81%) DevOps Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Product Owner
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Scrum Master
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Product Owner
7 3 (4.69%) ITIL Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Marketing Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) .NET
1 6 (9.38%) .NET Core
1 6 (9.38%) Blazor
2 3 (4.69%) HTML
2 3 (4.69%) XML
3 2 (3.13%) CSS
3 2 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (1.56%) Dojo
4 1 (1.56%) JSON
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.56%) Blog
5 1 (1.56%) DataPower
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.56%) Social Media
5 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (28.13%) DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) Scrum
5 10 (15.63%) Data Analysis
5 10 (15.63%) Project Management
6 9 (14.06%) Analytics
6 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
7 8 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 8 (12.50%) Microservices
8 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.94%) Kanban
8 7 (10.94%) Roadmaps
8 7 (10.94%) SDLC
8 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
8 7 (10.94%) Strategic Thinking
9 6 (9.38%) Change Management
9 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.38%) ETL
9 6 (9.38%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.75%) T-SQL
2 10 (15.63%) SQL
3 9 (14.06%) C#
4 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.50%) Python
5 7 (10.94%) Go
6 6 (9.38%) C++
6 6 (9.38%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.69%) Java
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) C
8 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (4.69%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) CISA
3 1 (1.56%) CISM
3 1 (1.56%) CISSP
3 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) QA
1 8 (12.50%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) GAAP
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) Cadence
3 6 (9.38%) iManage
3 6 (9.38%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.13%) Adobe
5 2 (3.13%) SAP
6 1 (1.56%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Murex