Continuous Improvement Contracts in the City of London

Continual Improvement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 60 69
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 91 68 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.18% 3.10% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 3.43% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 70
10th Percentile £332 £343 £449
25th Percentile £456 £435 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -10.87% -1.71%
75th Percentile £725 £647 £759
90th Percentile £838 £756 £839
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £42.88 - -
90th Percentile £55.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year -63.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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 3 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the City of London

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
Central 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 8 (8.79%) Confluence
2 4 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.10%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (6.59%) Trello
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (2.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Endur
2 1 (1.10%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Azure
2 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
3 10 (10.99%) SaaS
4 9 (9.89%) AWS
5 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.30%) Asana
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.20%) GCP
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
7 2 (2.20%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.10%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) 4G
2 1 (1.10%) 5G
2 1 (1.10%) 5G NR
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) LAN
2 1 (1.10%) LTE
2 1 (1.10%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) WAN
2 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Power BI
2 6 (6.59%) Data Mining
3 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.40%) Tableau
4 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.10%) Flink
5 1 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.10%) Parquet
5 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) JIRA
2 6 (6.59%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 35 (38.46%) Finance
3 23 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.89%) Banking
6 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.49%) Law
7 5 (5.49%) Marketing
8 4 (4.40%) Back Office
8 4 (4.40%) Front Office
8 4 (4.40%) Legal
9 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.20%) Police
10 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (13.19%) Analyst
1 12 (13.19%) Senior
2 10 (10.99%) Project Manager
3 8 (8.79%) Lead
4 7 (7.69%) Developer
5 6 (6.59%) Consultant
6 5 (5.49%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) Data Scientist
6 5 (5.49%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Algorithm Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Digital Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) OpenLink Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Consultant
9 2 (2.20%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) .NET
2 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.40%) Blazor
3 2 (2.20%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.20%) REST
3 2 (2.20%) YAML
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.10%) Django
4 1 (1.10%) React
4 1 (1.10%) SPFx
4 1 (1.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Market Risk
3 4 (4.40%) PMI
4 3 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.30%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (2.20%) Multi-touch
5 2 (2.20%) NHS
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.05%) Agile
2 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (24.18%) Project Management
4 17 (18.68%) CI/CD
5 16 (17.58%) Analytics
6 14 (15.38%) DevOps
6 14 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (13.19%) Decision-Making
8 12 (13.19%) Scrum
9 10 (10.99%) Change Management
9 10 (10.99%) Risk Management
9 10 (10.99%) Service Delivery
10 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
10 9 (9.89%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (9.89%) User Stories
11 8 (8.79%) Business Case
11 8 (8.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.58%) Python
2 15 (16.48%) SQL
3 10 (10.99%) C#
4 6 (6.59%) Java
5 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.20%) C++
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) Go
7 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.10%) Scala
7 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.30%) PMP
6 2 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.10%) CEH
7 1 (1.10%) CFA
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PgMP
7 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) GDPR
3 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) PMO
4 3 (3.30%) Basel II
4 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.30%) SLA
5 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.20%) NIST
6 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.10%) COBIT
6 1 (1.10%) GRC
6 1 (1.10%) GxP
6 1 (1.10%) MiFID
6 1 (1.10%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.49%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Ansible
2 2 (2.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.49%) Databricks
3 4 (4.40%) OpenLink
4 3 (3.30%) Google
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.10%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.10%) Adobe
6 1 (1.10%) Advent
6 1 (1.10%) Aruba
6 1 (1.10%) Brio
6 1 (1.10%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (1.10%) Concur
6 1 (1.10%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.10%) Informatica
6 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.10%) Planview
6 1 (1.10%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) SimCorp