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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 67 66
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 +29
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 115 67 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.98% 2.82% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 3.10% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 42 70
10th Percentile £281 £328 £442
25th Percentile £363 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -0.22% +6.73%
75th Percentile £660 £725 £711
90th Percentile £838 £798 £803
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £38.99 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.97% -47.83% +29.21%

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 1,798 2,160 3,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.45% 91.02% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,515 2,242
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £449 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 23 28
10th Percentile £21.78 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £22.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £49.25 £31.19 £53.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.63%

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 24 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
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 24 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 +28 103 £525 -12.32% 342
City of Westminster +10 7 £409 -22.10% 4
Southwark - 2 £375 -
West End of London +3 1 £625 +147.84% 9
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 11 (9.57%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) CMS
2 4 (3.48%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.87%) Apache
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.61%) Trello
5 2 (1.74%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Endur
2 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.87%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.87%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.87%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.22%) Azure
2 15 (13.04%) AWS
2 15 (13.04%) Power Platform
2 15 (13.04%) SaaS
3 10 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (2.61%) GitHub
5 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.74%) GCP
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.74%) OCI
5 2 (1.74%) Social Studio
6 1 (0.87%) Alation
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.87%) dbt
6 1 (0.87%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.87%) Kong
6 1 (0.87%) Miro
6 1 (0.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) LAN
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) Power BI
2 8 (6.96%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Redis
4 3 (2.61%) Tableau
5 2 (1.74%) Metadata
5 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.87%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Parquet
6 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) JIRA
2 10 (8.70%) Git
3 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.48%) Postman
3 4 (3.48%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (2.61%) JUnit
4 3 (2.61%) Maven
4 3 (2.61%) Mockito
4 3 (2.61%) SoapUI
4 3 (2.61%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.61%) Subversion
4 3 (2.61%) Xcode
4 3 (2.61%) XCTest
5 2 (1.74%) Gradle
6 1 (0.87%) Appium
6 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 53 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 46 (40.00%) Finance
3 27 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.78%) Banking
5 8 (6.96%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.22%) Back Office
7 6 (5.22%) Law
7 6 (5.22%) Marketing
7 6 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.35%) Legal
9 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) Front Office
10 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.74%) International Banking
10 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.74%) Police
10 2 (1.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (18.26%) Analyst
2 19 (16.52%) Senior
3 11 (9.57%) Consultant
3 11 (9.57%) Developer
3 11 (9.57%) Lead
3 11 (9.57%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.96%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.09%) Risk Consultant
5 7 (6.09%) Senior Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) Endur Support
6 6 (5.22%) OpenLink Support
7 5 (4.35%) Digital Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.48%) OpenLink Developer
9 3 (2.61%) Data Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Digital Business Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) IT Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Product Owner
9 3 (2.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) .NET
2 8 (6.96%) AngularJS
3 7 (6.09%) REST
4 6 (5.22%) CSS
4 6 (5.22%) HTML
5 5 (4.35%) React
5 5 (4.35%) Vue
6 4 (3.48%) Next.js
6 4 (3.48%) Spring
6 4 (3.48%) Swagger
7 3 (2.61%) CSS3
7 3 (2.61%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.61%) J2EE
7 3 (2.61%) JPA
7 3 (2.61%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.61%) SOAP
7 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.61%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.61%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.96%) Market Risk
3 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.48%) PMI
5 3 (2.61%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.87%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Unix
2 2 (1.74%) Linux
2 2 (1.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) Agile
2 32 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (19.13%) Analytics
4 21 (18.26%) Decision-Making
4 21 (18.26%) Project Management
5 19 (16.52%) DevOps
6 17 (14.78%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (13.91%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.91%) Service Delivery
8 15 (13.04%) Scrum
8 15 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.17%) SDLC
10 13 (11.30%) Project Delivery
11 12 (10.43%) User Stories
12 11 (9.57%) Change Management
12 11 (9.57%) Risk Management
13 10 (8.70%) Backlog Refinement
13 10 (8.70%) Data Management
13 10 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.61%) SQL
2 12 (10.43%) Java
3 11 (9.57%) Python
4 10 (8.70%) C#
5 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.61%) Groovy
7 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.87%) Bash
9 1 (0.87%) C++
9 1 (0.87%) COBOL
9 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.87%) Go
9 1 (0.87%) JCL
9 1 (0.87%) Perl
9 1 (0.87%) R
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Degree
1 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.48%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.87%) CCAB
6 1 (0.87%) CEH
6 1 (0.87%) CFA
6 1 (0.87%) CISSP
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.87%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) Basel II
3 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.48%) PMO
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
4 3 (2.61%) SLA
5 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.87%) COBIT
6 1 (0.87%) GAAP
6 1 (0.87%) GRC
6 1 (0.87%) GxP
6 1 (0.87%) IFRS
6 1 (0.87%) MiFID
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.87%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.22%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (5.22%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) SCCM
4 1 (0.87%) Consul
4 1 (0.87%) Grafana
4 1 (0.87%) Packer
4 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.87%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.22%) Oracle
3 5 (4.35%) Splunk
4 4 (3.48%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.61%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.61%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.74%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.74%) Databricks
6 2 (1.74%) Informatica
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.74%) UiPath
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Exabeam
7 1 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.87%) Sun