Continuous Improvement Contracts in Central London

Continual Improvement
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 68 70
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 +33
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 119 69 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.11% 2.94% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 3.22% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 43 69
10th Percentile £281 £334 £440
25th Percentile £385 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £660 £728 £713
90th Percentile £838 £795 £805
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.93 - -
25th Percentile £39.31 - -
Median hourly rate £48.25 - -
75th Percentile £56.81 - -
90th Percentile £60.98 - -
London median hourly rate £38.99 £30.00 £60.75
% change year-on-year +29.97% -50.62% +36.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,822 2,143 3,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.53% 91.27% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,499 2,261
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.25 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.50% -25.00% +10.48%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Central London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Central London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Central London

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
City of London +30 108 £525 -12.50% 446
City of Westminster +6 6 £409 -22.10% 8
West End of London +4 1 £625 +147.84% 11
Southwark - 1 £375 -
Continuous Improvement
London

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 12 (10.08%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) CMS
2 4 (3.36%) Headless CMS
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.52%) Trello
5 2 (1.68%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Endur
2 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.84%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.21%) Azure
2 16 (13.45%) Power Platform
3 15 (12.61%) AWS
3 15 (12.61%) SaaS
4 10 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.52%) GCP
5 3 (2.52%) GitHub
6 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.68%) OCI
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.84%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.84%) Kong
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.84%) Miro
7 1 (0.84%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) Power BI
2 8 (6.72%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.52%) Redis
4 3 (2.52%) Tableau
5 2 (1.68%) Metadata
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.84%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.84%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.84%) Parquet
6 1 (0.84%) Power Query
6 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (16.81%) JIRA
2 10 (8.40%) Git
3 4 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) Postman
3 4 (3.36%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (2.52%) JUnit
4 3 (2.52%) Maven
4 3 (2.52%) Mockito
4 3 (2.52%) SoapUI
4 3 (2.52%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.52%) Subversion
4 3 (2.52%) Xcode
4 3 (2.52%) XCTest
5 2 (1.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.84%) Appium
6 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.84%) TestRail
General
1 56 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 50 (42.02%) Finance
3 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.13%) Banking
5 8 (6.72%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.04%) Back Office
7 6 (5.04%) Law
7 6 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Legal
8 5 (4.20%) Marketing
9 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.68%) Front Office
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) International Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (19.33%) Analyst
2 18 (15.13%) Senior
3 12 (10.08%) Developer
3 12 (10.08%) Lead
4 11 (9.24%) Consultant
4 11 (9.24%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.56%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.88%) Risk Consultant
6 7 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (5.04%) Endur Support
7 6 (5.04%) OpenLink Support
8 5 (4.20%) Digital Analyst
9 4 (3.36%) OpenLink Developer
9 4 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.36%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.52%) Data Analyst
10 3 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.52%) Java Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Security Manager
10 3 (2.52%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) .NET
2 8 (6.72%) AngularJS
3 7 (5.88%) REST
4 5 (4.20%) CSS
4 5 (4.20%) HTML
4 5 (4.20%) React
4 5 (4.20%) Vue
5 4 (3.36%) Next.js
5 4 (3.36%) Spring
5 4 (3.36%) Swagger
6 3 (2.52%) Bootstrap
6 3 (2.52%) CSS3
6 3 (2.52%) HTML5
6 3 (2.52%) JPA
6 3 (2.52%) Kafka
6 3 (2.52%) Material-UI
6 3 (2.52%) SOAP
6 3 (2.52%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.52%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.72%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.36%) PMI
6 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.52%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.84%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Unix
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.18%) Agile
2 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (18.49%) Analytics
3 22 (18.49%) Project Management
4 20 (16.81%) Decision-Making
5 18 (15.13%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (15.13%) DevOps
6 17 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.45%) Scrum
7 16 (13.45%) Service Delivery
8 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
9 14 (11.76%) SDLC
10 12 (10.08%) Project Delivery
10 12 (10.08%) User Stories
11 11 (9.24%) Change Management
11 11 (9.24%) Risk Management
11 11 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (8.40%) Backlog Refinement
12 10 (8.40%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (8.40%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.01%) SQL
2 12 (10.08%) Java
3 11 (9.24%) Python
4 10 (8.40%) C#
5 7 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.52%) Groovy
7 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.68%) VBA
9 1 (0.84%) Bash
9 1 (0.84%) C++
9 1 (0.84%) COBOL
9 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.84%) Go
9 1 (0.84%) JCL
9 1 (0.84%) Perl
9 1 (0.84%) R
9 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.84%) CCAB
7 1 (0.84%) CEH
7 1 (0.84%) CFA
7 1 (0.84%) CISSP
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.84%) PMP
7 1 (0.84%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) QA
2 7 (5.88%) Basel II
3 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.36%) PMO
4 3 (2.52%) GDPR
4 3 (2.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.84%) COBIT
6 1 (0.84%) GAAP
6 1 (0.84%) GRC
6 1 (0.84%) GxP
6 1 (0.84%) IFRS
6 1 (0.84%) MiFID
6 1 (0.84%) NIST
6 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.84%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.20%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) SCCM
4 1 (0.84%) Consul
4 1 (0.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.84%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.84%) Packer
4 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.84%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.88%) Oracle
3 5 (4.20%) Splunk
4 4 (3.36%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.52%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.52%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) SAP
6 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.68%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.68%) Databricks
6 2 (1.68%) Informatica
6 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.68%) UiPath
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe
7 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.84%) Exabeam
7 1 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) Sun