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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 62 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 -50
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 64 118 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.93% 3.44% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 3.77% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 69 79
10th Percentile £348 £449 £398
25th Percentile £472 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +9.09% -13.73%
75th Percentile £694 £750 £675
90th Percentile £775 £828 £725
Central London median daily rate £531 £588 £531
% change year-on-year -9.57% +10.59% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.69
25th Percentile - - £21.57
Median hourly rate - - £25.10
75th Percentile - - £30.57
90th Percentile - - £32.63
Central London median hourly rate - - £25.10
% change year-on-year - - +0.38%

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 1,974 3,133 3,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.47% 91.45% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 2,108 2,870
10th Percentile £356 £363 £384
25th Percentile £458 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +5.99%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £25.44
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -14.63% +92.94%
75th Percentile £40.00 £53.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

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

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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 21 June 2024.

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
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 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.56%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) Azure
2 8 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.94%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.38%) SaaS
5 5 (7.81%) Azure API Management
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Functions
5 5 (7.81%) Serverless
6 3 (4.69%) AWS
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.69%) WhatsApp
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.13%) IaaS
7 2 (3.13%) OCI
7 2 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) VoIP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Tableau
4 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.13%) Finance
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
6 6 (9.38%) Legal
7 4 (6.25%) Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Local Government
8 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Police
9 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (12.50%) Senior
2 7 (10.94%) Lead
3 6 (9.38%) Analyst
3 6 (9.38%) Developer
4 5 (7.81%) DevOps Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Product Owner
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Product Owner
6 3 (4.69%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.13%) ITIL Service Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Operational Security Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Scrum Master
7 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) .NET
2 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
2 3 (4.69%) Blazor
2 3 (4.69%) HTML
2 3 (4.69%) XML
3 2 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.56%) Dojo
4 1 (1.56%) JSON
4 1 (1.56%) Node.js
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Blog
4 1 (1.56%) CMDB
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) Agile
2 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (28.13%) DevOps
4 12 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 11 (17.19%) Coaching
6 10 (15.63%) Analytics
6 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 10 (15.63%) Project Management
7 8 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.94%) Business Case
8 7 (10.94%) Change Management
8 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.94%) ETL
8 7 (10.94%) Scrum
9 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.38%) Information Security
9 6 (9.38%) Kanban
9 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) C#
2 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.50%) SQL
2 8 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 4 (6.25%) Java
3 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.25%) Python
4 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.13%) C++
5 2 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.56%) Perl
6 1 (1.56%) Ruby
6 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) CISM
3 4 (6.25%) CISSP
3 4 (6.25%) PMP
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CAPM
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) SLA
2 8 (12.50%) QA
3 4 (6.25%) NIST
4 3 (4.69%) PMO
5 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 20 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Cadence
2 6 (9.38%) iManage
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.56%) Brio
5 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Juniper
5 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk