Continuous Improvement Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Continual Improvement England / London
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	140	145	204
Rank change year-on-year	+5	+59
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement	378	376	247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.85%	1.73%	1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.13%	2.03%	1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted	272	264	156
Median daily rate	£500	£466	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.23%	+3.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£333	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£643	£573
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£388
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	5
Median hourly rate	-	-	£22.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.50	£27.50	£23.00
% change year-on-year	-	+19.56%

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

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17711	18496	19220
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.64%	85.33%	82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	12688	13519	13610
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£630	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	188	159	261
Median hourly rate	£26.50	£21.00	£21.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+26.19%	-2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.25	£46.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-7	32	£488	+9.55%	25
Croydon	-	3	£413	-
Canary Wharf	+2	2	-	-
Westminster	-	2	£600	-
Feltham	+5	1	-	-
Docklands, London	+1	1	£550	+4.76%
Osterley	-4	1	£480	-2.53%
Chiswick	-	1	£300	-
Continuous Improvement England

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Continuous Improvement also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Continuous Improvement.

1	387 (52.87%)	Agile Software Development
2	180 (24.59%)	TDD
3	178 (24.32%)	Finance
4	169 (23.09%)	Scrum
5	144 (19.67%)	JavaScript
6	107 (14.62%)	SQL
7	106 (14.48%)	DevOps
8	105 (14.34%)	Java
8	105 (14.34%)	Banking
9	102 (13.93%)	AngularJS
10	95 (12.98%)	HTML
11	92 (12.57%)	Continuous Integration
12	89 (12.16%)	Degree
12	89 (12.16%)	Software Engineering
13	85 (11.61%)	QA

14	83 (11.34%)	.NET
15	80 (10.93%)	C#
15	80 (10.93%)	SDLC
16	79 (10.79%)	Microsoft
17	78 (10.66%)	Analytical Skills
18	77 (10.52%)	Microsoft Azure
19	76 (10.38%)	CSS
19	76 (10.38%)	Linux
20	72 (9.84%)	Project Management
21	71 (9.70%)	Kanban
21	71 (9.70%)	Open Source
21	71 (9.70%)	BDD
22	70 (9.56%)	HTML5
22	70 (9.56%)	User Experience
23	68 (9.29%)	ITIL

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	34 (4.64%)	Confluence
2	27 (3.69%)	Elasticsearch
3	24 (3.28%)	SharePoint
4	17 (2.32%)	Apache Spark
5	15 (2.05%)	CMS
6	14 (1.91%)	WebSphere
7	13 (1.78%)	Tomcat
8	10 (1.37%)	JBoss
9	8 (1.09%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	8 (1.09%)	Oracle Workflow
10	7 (0.96%)	Apache
11	6 (0.82%)	Jetty
11	6 (0.82%)	WildFly
12	5 (0.68%)	Apache Solr
12	5 (0.68%)	Exchange Server 2010
12	5 (0.68%)	IIS
12	5 (0.68%)	MS Exchange
12	5 (0.68%)	Mule ESB
12	5 (0.68%)	Skype for Business
12	5 (0.68%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	35 (4.78%)	Microsoft Excel
2	23 (3.14%)	Microsoft Office
3	16 (2.19%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	14 (1.91%)	Photoshop
5	12 (1.64%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	9 (1.23%)	MS Visio
7	6 (0.82%)	Spreadsheet
8	5 (0.68%)	HipChat
8	5 (0.68%)	Microsoft Project
9	4 (0.55%)	InVision
9	4 (0.55%)	UXPin
10	3 (0.41%)	Adobe After Effects
10	3 (0.41%)	CINEMA 4D
11	1 (0.14%)	Camtasia
11	1 (0.14%)	InDesign

Business Applications
1	3 (0.41%)	Eloqua
2	2 (0.27%)	Dynamics CRM
2	2 (0.27%)	FastStats
2	2 (0.27%)	FastStats PeopleStage
2	2 (0.27%)	ION MarketView
2	2 (0.27%)	Salesforce.com CRM
2	2 (0.27%)	SAP APO
2	2 (0.27%)	SAP CRM
2	2 (0.27%)	SAP S/4HANA
3	1 (0.14%)	Actimize
3	1 (0.14%)	Endur
3	1 (0.14%)	Findur
3	1 (0.14%)	Maximo
3	1 (0.14%)	Oracle BPM
3	1 (0.14%)	Oracle EBS
3	1 (0.14%)	Oracle iProcurement
3	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Manufacturing
3	1 (0.14%)	Oracle SCM
3	1 (0.14%)	SAP BPC
3	1 (0.14%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	77 (10.52%)	Microsoft Azure
2	67 (9.15%)	Amazon AWS
3	23 (3.14%)	GitHub
4	22 (3.01%)	Office 365
5	21 (2.87%)	Amazon EC2
6	12 (1.64%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	10 (1.37%)	SaaS
8	9 (1.23%)	Mimecast
9	8 (1.09%)	PaaS
10	7 (0.96%)	Google Analytics
11	6 (0.82%)	Akamai
12	5 (0.68%)	IaaS
13	4 (0.55%)	Amazon S3
14	3 (0.41%)	AWS Lambda
14	3 (0.41%)	Yammer
15	2 (0.27%)	Adobe Analytics
15	2 (0.27%)	AWS OpsWorks
15	2 (0.27%)	Google Cloud Platform
15	2 (0.27%)	Responsys
15	2 (0.27%)	Salesforce Service Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	39 (5.33%)	Firewall
2	23 (3.14%)	VPN
3	21 (2.87%)	Network Security
4	19 (2.60%)	DNS
5	17 (2.32%)	BGP
5	17 (2.32%)	MPLS
5	17 (2.32%)	OSPF
6	16 (2.19%)	Internet
6	16 (2.19%)	SNMP
7	14 (1.91%)	SSL
7	14 (1.91%)	WAN
8	13 (1.78%)	ICMP
8	13 (1.78%)	IPv4
8	13 (1.78%)	IPv6
8	13 (1.78%)	VLAN
9	11 (1.50%)	HTTP
10	10 (1.37%)	LAN
11	8 (1.09%)	DHCP
12	7 (0.96%)	Skype
12	7 (0.96%)	TCP/IP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	54 (7.38%)	Relational Database
2	50 (6.83%)	NoSQL
3	43 (5.87%)	SQL Server
4	21 (2.87%)	Amazon DynamoDB
4	21 (2.87%)	Big Data
4	21 (2.87%)	Hadoop
5	20 (2.73%)	MongoDB
6	17 (2.32%)	MySQL
7	14 (1.91%)	Redis
8	12 (1.64%)	Data Warehouse
9	9 (1.23%)	Apache Cassandra
10	8 (1.09%)	Oracle Database
11	6 (0.82%)	RDBMS
12	5 (0.68%)	DataStage
12	5 (0.68%)	DB2
12	5 (0.68%)	PostgreSQL
13	4 (0.55%)	Azure SQL Database
13	4 (0.55%)	SQL Server 2012
13	4 (0.55%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
13	4 (0.55%)	SQL Server Integration Services

Development Applications
1	61 (8.33%)	JIRA
2	56 (7.65%)	Jenkins
3	49 (6.69%)	Git (software)
4	42 (5.74%)	TeamCity
5	28 (3.83%)	Maven
6	27 (3.69%)	NUnit
7	26 (3.55%)	Subversion
8	22 (3.01%)	Octopus Deploy
9	20 (2.73%)	Selenium
10	17 (2.32%)	Jasmine
11	16 (2.19%)	Gradle
12	15 (2.05%)	Bitbucket
13	14 (1.91%)	gulp
13	14 (1.91%)	Mocha
13	14 (1.91%)	Mockito
14	11 (1.50%)	webpack
15	10 (1.37%)	Babel
15	10 (1.37%)	Cucumber
16	9 (1.23%)	Eclipse
17	7 (0.96%)	Visual Studio

General
1	178 (24.32%)	Finance
2	105 (14.34%)	Banking
3	59 (8.06%)	Investment Banking
4	42 (5.74%)	Front Office
5	38 (5.19%)	Retail
6	26 (3.55%)	Marketing
7	21 (2.87%)	Telecoms
8	20 (2.73%)	Legal
9	15 (2.05%)	Publishing
10	13 (1.78%)	Military
11	12 (1.64%)	Law
12	10 (1.37%)	Back Office
13	8 (1.09%)	Games
14	7 (0.96%)	Retail Banking
15	6 (0.82%)	Manufacturing
16	5 (0.68%)	Advertising
16	5 (0.68%)	Financial Institution
17	4 (0.55%)	Pharmaceutical
18	3 (0.41%)	Billing
19	1 (0.14%)	Polish Language

Job Titles
1	223 (30.46%)	Developer
2	77 (10.52%)	Analyst
3	72 (9.84%)	JavaScript Developer
4	53 (7.24%)	C# Developer
5	52 (7.10%)	Architect
6	48 (6.56%)	Java Developer
7	41 (5.60%)	Senior Developer
8	36 (4.92%)	Agile Developer
9	35 (4.78%)	Project Manager
10	32 (4.37%)	Angular Developer
11	30 (4.10%)	.NET Developer
11	30 (4.10%)	DevOps Engineer
12	24 (3.28%)	Consultant
12	24 (3.28%)	Scrum Master
12	24 (3.28%)	Silverlight Developer
13	22 (3.01%)	Business Analyst
14	21 (2.87%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15	19 (2.60%)	C# .NET Developer
15	19 (2.60%)	Senior C# Developer
16	18 (2.46%)	UI Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	102 (13.93%)	AngularJS
2	95 (12.98%)	HTML
3	83 (11.34%)	.NET
4	76 (10.38%)	CSS
5	70 (9.56%)	HTML5
6	56 (7.65%)	Node.js
7	48 (6.56%)	CSS3
8	41 (5.60%)	RESTful
9	39 (5.33%)	Spring
10	37 (5.05%)	REST
11	36 (4.92%)	ASP.NET Web API
11	36 (4.92%)	React
12	30 (4.10%)	Web Services
13	27 (3.69%)	Sass
14	26 (3.55%)	ASP.NET
14	26 (3.55%)	WPF
15	25 (3.42%)	jQuery
15	25 (3.42%)	Silverlight
16	24 (3.28%)	ASP.NET MVC
17	23 (3.14%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	78 (10.66%)	Analytical Skills
2	70 (9.56%)	User Experience
3	33 (4.51%)	Management Information System
4	29 (3.96%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	29 (3.96%)	Greenfield Project
4	29 (3.96%)	Virtual Team
5	26 (3.55%)	Public Cloud
6	24 (3.28%)	Computer Science
7	19 (2.60%)	Blog
8	18 (2.46%)	Derivative
8	18 (2.46%)	Fixed Income
9	16 (2.19%)	PKI
10	14 (1.91%)	Enterprise Software
11	13 (1.78%)	Data Centre
11	13 (1.78%)	Data Structures
11	13 (1.78%)	Equity Derivative
11	13 (1.78%)	Social Media
12	12 (1.64%)	FMCG
12	12 (1.64%)	Hybrid Cloud
13	10 (1.37%)	Mobile App

Operating Systems
1	76 (10.38%)	Linux
2	57 (7.79%)	Windows
3	31 (4.23%)	Unix
4	13 (1.78%)	CentOS
4	13 (1.78%)	Windows Server
5	12 (1.64%)	Ubuntu
6	10 (1.37%)	Apple iOS
6	10 (1.37%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	9 (1.23%)	Android
7	9 (1.23%)	Windows 10
8	7 (0.96%)	Windows 7
8	7 (0.96%)	Windows Server 2008
9	6 (0.82%)	Windows Server 2012
10	4 (0.55%)	OpenVMS
11	3 (0.41%)	Solaris
11	3 (0.41%)	Windows Phone
12	2 (0.27%)	AIX
12	2 (0.27%)	SUSE
12	2 (0.27%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	2 (0.27%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	387 (52.87%)	Agile Software Development
2	180 (24.59%)	TDD
3	169 (23.09%)	Scrum
4	106 (14.48%)	DevOps
5	92 (12.57%)	Continuous Integration
6	89 (12.16%)	Software Engineering
7	80 (10.93%)	SDLC
8	72 (9.84%)	Project Management
9	71 (9.70%)	BDD
9	71 (9.70%)	Kanban
9	71 (9.70%)	Open Source
10	68 (9.29%)	ITIL
11	67 (9.15%)	Mentoring
12	65 (8.88%)	Pair Programming
13	64 (8.74%)	Stakeholder Management
14	61 (8.33%)	Coaching
14	61 (8.33%)	E-Commerce
14	61 (8.33%)	Test Automation
15	54 (7.38%)	OO
16	52 (7.10%)	Service Management

Programming Languages
1	144 (19.67%)	JavaScript
2	107 (14.62%)	SQL
3	105 (14.34%)	Java
4	80 (10.93%)	C#
5	43 (5.87%)	Python
6	41 (5.60%)	ES6
7	30 (4.10%)	Ruby
8	27 (3.69%)	Scala
9	20 (2.73%)	TypeScript
10	19 (2.60%)	Bash Shell
10	19 (2.60%)	C++
11	16 (2.19%)	Shell Script
12	14 (1.91%)	Perl
12	14 (1.91%)	PowerShell
13	11 (1.50%)	XAML
14	10 (1.37%)	Groovy
15	8 (1.09%)	Apple Swift
15	8 (1.09%)	Objective-C
15	8 (1.09%)	PL/SQL
16	6 (0.82%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	89 (12.16%)	Degree
2	37 (5.05%)	Security Cleared
3	23 (3.14%)	SC Cleared
4	21 (2.87%)	CISSP
5	18 (2.46%)	CISM
6	16 (2.19%)	Cisco Certification
7	15 (2.05%)	CCIE
8	14 (1.91%)	JNCIE
9	10 (1.37%)	Computer Science Degree
10	8 (1.09%)	CISA
11	7 (0.96%)	BPSS Clearance
11	7 (0.96%)	MCSE
11	7 (0.96%)	Microsoft Certification
11	7 (0.96%)	PMI Certification
11	7 (0.96%)	PMP
11	7 (0.96%)	SANS
11	7 (0.96%)	SSCP
12	6 (0.82%)	ITIL Certification
12	6 (0.82%)	RHCA
12	6 (0.82%)	RHCE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	85 (11.61%)	QA
2	23 (3.14%)	SLA
3	21 (2.87%)	PCI DSS
4	18 (2.46%)	PMO
5	17 (2.32%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	12 (1.64%)	COBIT
7	11 (1.50%)	GDPR
8	10 (1.37%)	Data Quality
9	8 (1.09%)	Disclosure Scotland
10	7 (0.96%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
11	6 (0.82%)	MiFID
12	4 (0.55%)	Actionable Recommendations
12	4 (0.55%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13	3 (0.41%)	ISO 14001
13	3 (0.41%)	ISO 9001
13	3 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 20000
14	2 (0.27%)	GCP
14	2 (0.27%)	GxP
14	2 (0.27%)	P3O
14	2 (0.27%)	SEPA

System Software
1	24 (3.28%)	Docker
2	22 (3.01%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	20 (2.73%)	Active Directory
4	12 (1.64%)	Hyper-V
5	7 (0.96%)	VMware ESXi
6	6 (0.82%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	6 (0.82%)	Virtual Machines
6	6 (0.82%)	Xen
7	4 (0.55%)	RACF
8	2 (0.27%)	iptables
8	2 (0.27%)	KVM
8	2 (0.27%)	UAG
8	2 (0.27%)	vSphere
9	1 (0.14%)	Microsoft App-V
9	1 (0.14%)	Snort
9	1 (0.14%)	Virtual Desktop
9	1 (0.14%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	44 (6.01%)	Opscode Chef
2	28 (3.83%)	Puppet
3	25 (3.42%)	Ansible
4	10 (1.37%)	Kubernetes
4	10 (1.37%)	SCCM
5	8 (1.09%)	Mesos
5	8 (1.09%)	Nagios
6	7 (0.96%)	FreeIPA
7	6 (0.82%)	Marathon
8	5 (0.68%)	Terraform
9	4 (0.55%)	Kibana
9	4 (0.55%)	logstash
9	4 (0.55%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
10	3 (0.41%)	Graphite
10	3 (0.41%)	HAProxy
10	3 (0.41%)	HP Quality Center
10	3 (0.41%)	Oracle Identity Manager
11	2 (0.27%)	Cisco CUCM
11	2 (0.27%)	OSSEC
11	2 (0.27%)	vMotion

Vendors
1	79 (10.79%)	Microsoft
2	56 (7.65%)	Oracle
3	31 (4.23%)	VMware
4	27 (3.69%)	SAP
5	26 (3.55%)	Cisco
6	20 (2.73%)	Red Hat
7	18 (2.46%)	IBM
8	13 (1.78%)	Adobe
8	13 (1.78%)	Citrix
9	12 (1.64%)	ServiceNow
10	11 (1.50%)	Apple
10	11 (1.50%)	Google
10	11 (1.50%)	Splunk
11	7 (0.96%)	Atlassian
11	7 (0.96%)	Qualys
11	7 (0.96%)	Salesforce.com
11	7 (0.96%)	Tufin
12	6 (0.82%)	Bloomberg
12	6 (0.82%)	CA Agile Central
12	6 (0.82%)	WorldPay