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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 79 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +23
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 598 850 1,231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.36% 3.18% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.49% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 581 788
10th Percentile £373 £400 £412
25th Percentile £431 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 37
10th Percentile £17.00 £44.20 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £55.69 £39.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £62.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.80% +40.45% +78.00%
75th Percentile £62.19 £65.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £81.63 £76.88 £50.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £57.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.06% +29.76% +78.00%

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 15,808 24,326 35,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 90.98% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,340 17,488 26,268
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
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% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.95 £63.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +14 81 £538 -6.52% 69
West London +28 28 £450 -28.00% 27
East London -2 7 £495 -1.00% 17
South London +9 5 £488 -11.36% 11
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
5 4 (0.67%) nginx
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.33%) 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%) 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 17 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.67%) SPSS
5 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.33%) Unica
3 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
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
1 110 (18.39%) Azure
2 71 (11.87%) AWS
3 38 (6.35%) GCP
4 37 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 32 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.85%) npm
8 22 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (3.01%) Serverless
11 15 (2.51%) Azure API Management
11 15 (2.51%) IaaS
11 15 (2.51%) PaaS
12 14 (2.34%) SaaS
13 13 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (2.01%) GitHub
15 10 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.67%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.01%) DNS
2 11 (1.84%) DHCP
2 11 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.67%) Firewall
4 9 (1.51%) VLAN
5 7 (1.17%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.17%) NAS
5 7 (1.17%) SAN
6 6 (1.00%) LAN
7 5 (0.84%) Internet
8 4 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 4 (0.67%) VPN
8 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) VoIP
9 3 (0.50%) WAN
10 2 (0.33%) BGP
10 2 (0.33%) Broadband
10 2 (0.33%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.33%) OSPF
10 2 (0.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.02%) Power BI
1 30 (5.02%) Relational Database
2 25 (4.18%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.84%) Tableau
5 9 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.51%) Big Data
5 9 (1.51%) Metadata
6 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.67%) Power Query
9 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
9 3 (0.50%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 80 (13.38%) JIRA
2 34 (5.69%) Git
3 31 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 21 (3.51%) webpack
5 20 (3.34%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.84%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.34%) ERwin
8 7 (1.17%) GitLab
9 6 (1.00%) Maven
10 4 (0.67%) Selenium
11 3 (0.50%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 1 (0.17%) Ant
13 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 251 (41.97%) Social Skills
2 184 (30.77%) Finance
3 156 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 58 (9.70%) Banking
6 46 (7.69%) Front Office
7 28 (4.68%) Marketing
8 26 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.51%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.18%) Retail
11 19 (3.18%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.51%) Legal
13 14 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.67%) Local Government
15 9 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.34%) Electronics
17 7 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (1.00%) German Language
19 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (15.72%) Developer
2 64 (10.70%) Lead
3 58 (9.70%) Analyst
4 53 (8.86%) Senior
5 38 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
6 37 (6.19%) Architect
7 26 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
8 24 (4.01%) Consultant
9 23 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 21 (3.51%) Angular Developer
11 19 (3.18%) Applications Developer
11 19 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 18 (3.01%) Real Time Developer
12 18 (3.01%) Scrum Master
13 17 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (2.84%) Product Owner
14 16 (2.68%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 16 (2.68%) Web Applications Developer
15 15 (2.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 15 (2.51%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.53%) React
2 33 (5.52%) CSS
3 29 (4.85%) REST
4 28 (4.68%) AngularJS
5 25 (4.18%) HTML
6 22 (3.68%) WebSockets
7 21 (3.51%) .NET
7 21 (3.51%) RxJS
8 17 (2.84%) Redux
9 16 (2.68%) XML
10 15 (2.51%) Reactive Extensions
11 11 (1.84%) .NET Core
11 11 (1.84%) Kafka
12 10 (1.67%) JSON
12 10 (1.67%) WPF
13 9 (1.51%) Node.js
13 9 (1.51%) Web Services
14 8 (1.34%) Blazor
15 7 (1.17%) LDAP
15 7 (1.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.51%) Fixed Income
3 15 (2.51%) Wiki
4 14 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.84%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.67%) Clustering
7 10 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.51%) Equities
9 8 (1.34%) CMDB
9 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.34%) Replication
10 6 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.00%) FMCG
10 6 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.68%) Linux
1 22 (3.68%) Windows
2 9 (1.51%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
3 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.17%) Solaris
4 5 (0.84%) Unix
5 3 (0.50%) Android
5 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (38.63%) Agile
2 142 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (18.90%) DevOps
4 106 (17.73%) Project Management
5 80 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 67 (11.20%) Roadmaps
7 63 (10.54%) Scrum
8 62 (10.37%) Decision-Making
8 62 (10.37%) Mentoring
9 60 (10.03%) Analytics
10 57 (9.53%) User Experience
11 54 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
11 54 (9.03%) Change Management
12 52 (8.70%) CI/CD
13 51 (8.53%) ITIL
13 51 (8.53%) Software Engineering
14 49 (8.19%) Project Delivery
15 47 (7.86%) Service Management
16 44 (7.36%) Data Modelling
17 43 (7.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.88%) SQL
2 73 (12.21%) Python
3 65 (10.87%) JavaScript
4 58 (9.70%) C#
5 53 (8.86%) TypeScript
6 37 (6.19%) Java
7 25 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.34%) Bash
8 14 (2.34%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.67%) Go
9 10 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.51%) Scala
11 8 (1.34%) C++
12 7 (1.17%) Perl
13 5 (0.84%) Ruby
14 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.50%) Groovy
16 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 87 (14.55%) Degree
3 74 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.84%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.51%) PMP
8 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.17%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 7 (1.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 6 (1.00%) CISM
10 6 (1.00%) CISSP
11 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
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 53 (8.86%) QA
2 31 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.85%) PMO
4 20 (3.34%) GDPR
5 18 (3.01%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.51%) SLA
7 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.50%) NIST
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) WCAG
12 1 (0.17%) COBIT
12 1 (0.17%) COSHH
12 1 (0.17%) GAAP
12 1 (0.17%) HL7
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (5.02%) Docker
2 15 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.18%) Terraform
3 14 (2.34%) Ansible
4 7 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (1.17%) Grafana
4 7 (1.17%) Netcool
4 7 (1.17%) Tivoli
4 7 (1.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.84%) Podman
7 4 (0.67%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) Opsgenie
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.33%) Nmap
9 2 (0.33%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.33%) Packer
9 2 (0.33%) Rancher
9 2 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.52%) Oracle
3 27 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 22 (3.68%) SAP
5 18 (3.01%) Splunk
6 16 (2.68%) Cisco
7 13 (2.17%) VMware
8 10 (1.67%) Databricks
8 10 (1.67%) Dell
9 9 (1.51%) IBM
10 8 (1.34%) EMC
10 8 (1.34%) HP
10 8 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.34%) Sparx
11 7 (1.17%) Cadence
11 7 (1.17%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.17%) Informatica
11 7 (1.17%) Isilon
11 7 (1.17%) Qualys
11 7 (1.17%) Serena