Continuous Improvement Contracts in London

Continual Improvement
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 597 869 1,227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.37% 3.21% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.52% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 593 793
10th Percentile £375 £400 £407
25th Percentile £431 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £794
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 37
10th Percentile £17.00 £50.73 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £57.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £62.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.80% +40.45% +64.81%
75th Percentile £64.69 £69.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £81.63 £79.65 £50.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +74.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +9 83 £525 -8.70% 51
West London +23 27 £450 -28.00% 21
East London 0 7 £495 -1.00% 17
South London +11 5 £488 -11.36% 12
North London +6 5 £561 -6.46% 7
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (3.18%) Confluence
2 16 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (0.84%) CMS
4 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.67%) govService
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) Tornado
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.67%) SPSS
5 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.34%) Unica
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) Primavera
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 107 (17.92%) Azure
2 67 (11.22%) AWS
3 36 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 35 (5.86%) GCP
5 34 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (3.69%) npm
8 21 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (2.51%) IaaS
9 15 (2.51%) Serverless
10 14 (2.35%) Azure API Management
10 14 (2.35%) PaaS
10 14 (2.35%) SaaS
11 13 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.84%) GitHub
13 10 (1.68%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.84%) DNS
1 11 (1.84%) Firewall
2 10 (1.68%) DHCP
2 10 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.51%) VLAN
4 7 (1.17%) Kerberos
4 7 (1.17%) NAS
4 7 (1.17%) SAN
5 5 (0.84%) Internet
5 5 (0.84%) LAN
6 4 (0.67%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.67%) VPN
6 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.50%) VoIP
7 3 (0.50%) WAN
8 2 (0.34%) BGP
8 2 (0.34%) Broadband
8 2 (0.34%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.34%) OSPF
8 2 (0.34%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.86%) Power BI
1 29 (4.86%) Relational Database
2 25 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.02%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.84%) Tableau
5 9 (1.51%) Big Data
6 8 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.34%) Metadata
7 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.84%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.67%) Power Query
10 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.50%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.50%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 83 (13.90%) JIRA
2 30 (5.03%) Git
3 28 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 22 (3.69%) webpack
6 9 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.17%) ERwin
8 5 (0.84%) GitLab
9 4 (0.67%) Maven
9 4 (0.67%) Selenium
10 3 (0.50%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.17%) Gradle
12 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 260 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 179 (29.98%) Finance
3 164 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 56 (9.38%) Banking
6 47 (7.87%) Front Office
7 33 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (4.02%) Marketing
8 24 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (3.18%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.85%) Retail
10 17 (2.85%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.51%) Legal
12 13 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.68%) Local Government
14 8 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.17%) Electronics
16 5 (0.84%) German Language
17 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (15.91%) Developer
2 63 (10.55%) Lead
3 60 (10.05%) Analyst
4 50 (8.38%) Senior
5 38 (6.37%) Delivery Manager
6 35 (5.86%) Architect
7 26 (4.36%) Full Stack Developer
8 25 (4.19%) Consultant
9 23 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 22 (3.69%) Angular Developer
11 20 (3.35%) Applications Developer
11 20 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.18%) Real Time Developer
13 18 (3.02%) Scrum Master
14 17 (2.85%) ITIL Manager
14 17 (2.85%) Product Owner
14 17 (2.85%) React Developer
14 17 (2.85%) UI Developer
14 17 (2.85%) Web Applications Developer
15 16 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.71%) React
2 35 (5.86%) CSS
3 28 (4.69%) REST
4 27 (4.52%) AngularJS
5 25 (4.19%) HTML
6 23 (3.85%) WebSockets
7 22 (3.69%) RxJS
8 19 (3.18%) Redux
9 18 (3.02%) .NET
10 17 (2.85%) Reactive Extensions
11 16 (2.68%) XML
12 12 (2.01%) WPF
13 11 (1.84%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.51%) Kafka
15 8 (1.34%) Blazor
15 8 (1.34%) JSON
15 8 (1.34%) Web Services
16 7 (1.17%) LDAP
16 7 (1.17%) Node.js
16 7 (1.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.21%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.02%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.51%) Fixed Income
4 14 (2.35%) Wiki
5 13 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.84%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.51%) Clustering
10 8 (1.34%) CMDB
10 8 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.34%) Equities
10 8 (1.34%) Replication
11 6 (1.01%) FMCG
11 6 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.85%) Windows
2 22 (3.69%) Linux
3 9 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.17%) Solaris
5 5 (0.84%) Unix
6 4 (0.67%) Android
7 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (38.36%) Agile
2 144 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (19.10%) DevOps
4 103 (17.25%) Project Management
5 82 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 69 (11.56%) Decision-Making
7 66 (11.06%) Roadmaps
8 65 (10.89%) User Experience
9 63 (10.55%) Scrum
10 60 (10.05%) ITIL
10 60 (10.05%) Mentoring
11 56 (9.38%) Analytics
11 56 (9.38%) Service Management
12 54 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
12 54 (9.05%) Change Management
13 51 (8.54%) CI/CD
14 49 (8.21%) Software Engineering
15 47 (7.87%) Project Delivery
16 44 (7.37%) Data Modelling
16 44 (7.37%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 80 (13.40%) SQL
2 72 (12.06%) Python
3 64 (10.72%) JavaScript
4 59 (9.88%) C#
5 54 (9.05%) TypeScript
6 33 (5.53%) Java
7 24 (4.02%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.35%) Bash
8 14 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.51%) Go
9 9 (1.51%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.51%) Scala
10 8 (1.34%) C++
11 6 (1.01%) Perl
12 4 (0.67%) Ruby
13 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.34%) Groovy
13 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 90 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.07%) Degree
3 78 (13.07%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.69%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.51%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.01%) PMP
8 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.17%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 7 (1.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 6 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.67%) CISM
12 4 (0.67%) CISSP
13 3 (0.50%) CCA
13 3 (0.50%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.38%) QA
2 31 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.69%) PMO
4 19 (3.18%) GDPR
5 17 (2.85%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.35%) SLA
7 7 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) WCAG
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) COBIT
11 1 (0.17%) COSHH
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.17%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (4.52%) Docker
2 16 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.19%) Terraform
3 15 (2.51%) Ansible
4 7 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (1.17%) Netcool
4 7 (1.17%) Tivoli
4 7 (1.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (1.01%) Grafana
6 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.50%) Opsgenie
8 3 (0.50%) Podman
8 3 (0.50%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Argo
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.34%) Nmap
9 2 (0.34%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.36%) Oracle
3 27 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.52%) SAP
5 16 (2.68%) Cisco
5 16 (2.68%) Splunk
6 13 (2.18%) VMware
7 10 (1.68%) Databricks
7 10 (1.68%) Dell
8 9 (1.51%) IBM
9 8 (1.34%) HP
9 8 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.17%) Cadence
10 7 (1.17%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.17%) EMC
10 7 (1.17%) Informatica
10 7 (1.17%) Isilon
10 7 (1.17%) Qualys
10 7 (1.17%) Serena
10 7 (1.17%) Sparx