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

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 60 65
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 105 63 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.00% 2.93% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 3.23% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 39 68
10th Percentile £281 £345 £448
25th Percentile £400 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +8.24%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £718
90th Percentile £838 £788 £808
Central London median daily rate £510 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -14.64% +3.91% +6.98%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 1,640 1,950 3,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.77% 90.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 1,355 2,094
10th Percentile £350 £363 £352
25th Percentile £453 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 25
10th Percentile £16.90 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.29 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.75 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% -23.93% -18.13%
75th Percentile £54.75 £40.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £47.73 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.60% -21.70% -16.67%

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 27 June 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
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 11 (10.48%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.86%) Trello
5 2 (1.90%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Endur
2 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.95%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.95%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.95%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.71%) Azure
2 16 (15.24%) AWS
3 14 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 14 (13.33%) SaaS
4 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.86%) GCP
5 3 (2.86%) GitHub
6 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.95%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Kong
7 1 (0.95%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.95%) Veeva
7 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Network Security
2 2 (1.90%) LAN
3 1 (0.95%) Firewall
3 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) WAN
3 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) Power BI
2 8 (7.62%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.86%) Tableau
5 2 (1.90%) Metadata
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.95%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.95%) Flink
6 1 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.95%) Parquet
6 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) JIRA
2 7 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (1.90%) Gradle
4 1 (0.95%) Appium
4 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) Postman
4 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.95%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.95%) TestRail
General
1 49 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 43 (40.95%) Finance
3 25 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.33%) Banking
5 8 (7.62%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.71%) Law
6 6 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.76%) Back Office
7 5 (4.76%) Legal
8 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.86%) Marketing
8 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.90%) Front Office
9 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.90%) International Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.90%) Police
10 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Analyst
2 18 (17.14%) Senior
3 11 (10.48%) Consultant
4 10 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 9 (8.57%) Lead
6 8 (7.62%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.67%) Risk Consultant
7 7 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (5.71%) Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Endur Support
8 6 (5.71%) OpenLink Support
9 5 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
10 4 (3.81%) OpenLink Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Manager
11 3 (2.86%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.86%) Digital Business Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) IT Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.57%) .NET
2 4 (3.81%) REST
3 2 (1.90%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.90%) Blazor
4 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.95%) CSS
4 1 (0.95%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.95%) Flutter
4 1 (0.95%) HTML
4 1 (0.95%) jQuery
4 1 (0.95%) Middleware
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.95%) React
4 1 (0.95%) Spring
4 1 (0.95%) Swagger
4 1 (0.95%) Vue
4 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.62%) Market Risk
3 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.81%) PMI
5 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) iPad
7 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Linux
1 2 (1.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.95%) Agile
2 29 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.05%) Analytics
4 19 (18.10%) Project Management
5 18 (17.14%) DevOps
6 16 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
7 15 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (13.33%) Scrum
9 13 (12.38%) Decision-Making
10 12 (11.43%) Project Delivery
10 12 (11.43%) User Stories
11 11 (10.48%) Risk Management
11 11 (10.48%) SDLC
11 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (9.52%) Backlog Refinement
12 10 (9.52%) Change Management
12 10 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.05%) SQL
2 10 (9.52%) C#
2 10 (9.52%) Python
3 9 (8.57%) Java
4 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.95%) Bash
6 1 (0.95%) C++
6 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.95%) Go
6 1 (0.95%) Perl
6 1 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Degree
1 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CCAB
6 1 (0.95%) CEH
6 1 (0.95%) CFA
6 1 (0.95%) CISSP
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) QA
2 7 (6.67%) Basel II
3 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.81%) PMO
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (2.86%) SLA
5 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.95%) COBIT
6 1 (0.95%) GAAP
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.95%) GxP
6 1 (0.95%) IFRS
6 1 (0.95%) MiFID
6 1 (0.95%) NIST
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.95%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (2.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (5.71%) Terraform
2 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.86%) SCCM
4 1 (0.95%) Consul
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) Packer
4 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.95%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.81%) OpenLink
3 3 (2.86%) Google
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle
4 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.90%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.90%) Databricks
4 2 (1.90%) Informatica
4 2 (1.90%) SAP
4 2 (1.90%) Splunk
4 2 (1.90%) UiPath
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe
5 1 (0.95%) Aruba
5 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.95%) Cegedim Rx
5 1 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.95%) Murex
5 1 (0.95%) Planview
5 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.95%) Sun