Continuous Improvement Contracts in the City of London

Continual Improvement
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 66 91
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -45
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 71 114 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.26% 3.21% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.51% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 67 86
10th Percentile £350 £448 £413
25th Percentile £450 £509 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £766 £681
90th Percentile £775 £845 £725
Central London median daily rate £538 £569 £561
% change year-on-year -5.49% +1.34% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £34.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,971 3,251 3,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.45% 91.55% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 2,187 2,928
10th Percentile £351 £354 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £677
90th Percentile £823 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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

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 8 May 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 6 (8.45%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (2.82%) Unica
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.41%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.39%) Azure
2 11 (15.49%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (11.27%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (11.27%) Azure Functions
3 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.27%) Serverless
4 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (8.45%) Azure Storage
5 5 (7.04%) Azure API Management
5 5 (7.04%) SaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) IaaS
7 2 (2.82%) PaaS
7 2 (2.82%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) DNS
1 1 (1.41%) Firewall
1 1 (1.41%) LAN
1 1 (1.41%) VoIP
1 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.41%) Power Query
4 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) GitLab
2 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (49.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.39%) Finance
3 15 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.08%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (9.86%) Legal
6 5 (7.04%) Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Local Government
8 2 (2.82%) Marketing
8 2 (2.82%) Police
9 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.41%) Front Office
9 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (12.68%) Developer
1 9 (12.68%) Senior
2 6 (8.45%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (7.04%) Analyst
3 5 (7.04%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (7.04%) DevOps Manager
3 5 (7.04%) Lead
3 5 (7.04%) Product Owner
4 4 (5.63%) Scrum Master
4 4 (5.63%) Senior Product Owner
5 3 (4.23%) Architect
5 3 (4.23%) Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) ITIL Manager
5 3 (4.23%) Service Manager
5 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Business Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing Consultant
6 2 (2.82%) Operations Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) .NET
2 6 (8.45%) .NET Core
2 6 (8.45%) Blazor
3 4 (5.63%) HTML
4 3 (4.23%) CSS
4 3 (4.23%) XML
5 2 (2.82%) JSON
5 2 (2.82%) Middleware
5 2 (2.82%) YAML
6 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.41%) Dojo
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) OAuth
6 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.41%) RESTful
6 1 (1.41%) Spring
6 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.82%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (2.82%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.41%) Blog
4 1 (1.41%) CMDB
4 1 (1.41%) DataPower
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Agile
2 21 (29.58%) DevOps
2 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.90%) Analytics
3 12 (16.90%) Project Management
3 12 (16.90%) Scrum
4 10 (14.08%) Data Analysis
4 10 (14.08%) Mentoring
5 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.68%) Coaching
5 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
6 8 (11.27%) Microservices
6 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
6 8 (11.27%) SDLC
7 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (9.86%) Front End Development
7 7 (9.86%) Kanban
7 7 (9.86%) Software Engineering
7 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (9.86%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.90%) T-SQL
2 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.08%) SQL
3 9 (12.68%) C#
3 9 (12.68%) Python
4 8 (11.27%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.86%) Go
6 6 (8.45%) C++
6 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.63%) Java
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) C
8 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
2 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) CISM
4 3 (4.23%) CISSP
4 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.23%) PMP
5 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) CISA
6 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) QA
2 9 (12.68%) SLA
3 4 (5.63%) PMO
4 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) NIST
5 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) GAAP
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.41%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.86%) Oracle
3 6 (8.45%) Cadence
3 6 (8.45%) iManage
3 6 (8.45%) MuleSoft
4 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.82%) Adobe
5 2 (2.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Murex
6 1 (1.41%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.41%) Splunk