Continuous Improvement Contracts in London

Continual Improvement
England > 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 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 78 80
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 593 875 1,280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.32% 3.19% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.50% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 600 838
10th Percentile £375 £400 £410
25th Percentile £431 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £698
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 37
10th Percentile £17.00 £50.73 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £57.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £62.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.80% +40.45% +53.45%
75th Percentile £64.69 £69.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £81.63 £79.65 £50.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +61.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,764 24,998 36,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 91.09% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 17,888 26,458
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 285 428
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.63 £17.86
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +7.64% +13.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.75 £50.65
90th Percentile £66.93 £78.30 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Central London +14 79 £550 -4.35% 60
West London +25 27 £485 -22.40% 25
East London +1 7 £495 -1.00% 17
South London +12 5 £494 -10.23% 12
North London +5 5 £561 -6.46% 6
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (3.04%) Confluence
2 16 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.67%) govService
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.34%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Tornado
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.51%) SPSS
6 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.34%) Unica
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) Primavera
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 107 (18.04%) Azure
2 71 (11.97%) AWS
3 36 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 35 (5.90%) GCP
5 31 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.05%) npm
8 23 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (2.53%) Serverless
11 14 (2.36%) IaaS
11 14 (2.36%) SaaS
12 13 (2.19%) Azure API Management
12 13 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.19%) PaaS
13 11 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.69%) GitHub
14 10 (1.69%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.85%) Firewall
1 11 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.69%) DHCP
2 10 (1.69%) DNS
3 9 (1.52%) VLAN
4 7 (1.18%) Kerberos
4 7 (1.18%) NAS
4 7 (1.18%) SAN
5 5 (0.84%) Internet
5 5 (0.84%) LAN
6 4 (0.67%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.67%) VPN
6 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.51%) VoIP
7 3 (0.51%) WAN
8 2 (0.34%) BGP
8 2 (0.34%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.34%) OSPF
8 2 (0.34%) SNMP
8 2 (0.34%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.89%) Power BI
2 28 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.87%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.85%) Tableau
6 9 (1.52%) Big Data
7 8 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.18%) Metadata
9 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.67%) Power Query
12 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.51%) BusinessObjects XI
12 3 (0.51%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.51%) PowerPivot
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (13.49%) JIRA
2 29 (4.89%) Git
2 29 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.05%) webpack
4 22 (3.71%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.01%) ERwin
7 4 (0.67%) GitLab
7 4 (0.67%) Maven
8 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.51%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Gradle
10 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
General
1 252 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 180 (30.35%) Finance
3 164 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 55 (9.27%) Banking
6 48 (8.09%) Front Office
7 33 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (4.22%) Marketing
9 21 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (3.04%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.70%) Legal
11 16 (2.70%) Retail
12 11 (1.85%) Local Government
12 11 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.18%) Electronics
15 4 (0.67%) Billing
15 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (16.36%) Developer
2 66 (11.13%) Lead
3 62 (10.46%) Analyst
4 43 (7.25%) Senior
5 40 (6.75%) Delivery Manager
6 35 (5.90%) Architect
7 27 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
8 24 (4.05%) Angular Developer
8 24 (4.05%) Consultant
9 22 (3.71%) Business Analyst
10 21 (3.54%) Applications Developer
11 20 (3.37%) Project Manager
11 20 (3.37%) Real Time Developer
12 19 (3.20%) Scrum Master
12 19 (3.20%) UI Developer
13 18 (3.04%) Web Applications Developer
14 17 (2.87%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 17 (2.87%) ITIL Manager
14 17 (2.87%) React Developer
15 16 (2.70%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.11%) React
2 33 (5.56%) CSS
3 30 (5.06%) REST
4 28 (4.72%) AngularJS
5 25 (4.22%) WebSockets
6 24 (4.05%) HTML
6 24 (4.05%) RxJS
7 20 (3.37%) Redux
8 18 (3.04%) .NET
9 17 (2.87%) Reactive Extensions
10 16 (2.70%) XML
11 12 (2.02%) WPF
12 11 (1.85%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.35%) Blazor
13 8 (1.35%) Kafka
13 8 (1.35%) Web Services
14 7 (1.18%) JSON
14 7 (1.18%) LDAP
14 7 (1.18%) Node.js
14 7 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.09%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.22%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 15 (2.53%) Wiki
5 13 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.35%) Clustering
8 8 (1.35%) CMDB
8 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.35%) Replication
9 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.01%) Equities
9 6 (1.01%) FMCG
9 6 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.05%) Windows
2 21 (3.54%) Linux
3 10 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.18%) Solaris
5 5 (0.84%) Unix
6 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.51%) Android
7 3 (0.51%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (38.79%) Agile
2 140 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (18.55%) DevOps
4 97 (16.36%) Project Management
5 84 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 66 (11.13%) Decision-Making
7 64 (10.79%) Mentoring
7 64 (10.79%) User Experience
8 63 (10.62%) Roadmaps
8 63 (10.62%) Scrum
9 60 (10.12%) ITIL
10 56 (9.44%) Service Management
11 54 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (8.94%) Change Management
13 52 (8.77%) Analytics
14 50 (8.43%) CI/CD
14 50 (8.43%) Software Engineering
15 47 (7.93%) Design Patterns
15 47 (7.93%) Project Delivery
16 43 (7.25%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 80 (13.49%) SQL
2 69 (11.64%) Python
3 66 (11.13%) JavaScript
4 60 (10.12%) C#
5 54 (9.11%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.06%) Java
7 22 (3.71%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.36%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.19%) Bash
10 9 (1.52%) C++
10 9 (1.52%) Go
10 9 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.52%) Scala
11 3 (0.51%) Perl
12 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.34%) Groovy
12 2 (0.34%) PHP
12 2 (0.34%) Ruby
12 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 88 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 82 (13.83%) Degree
3 75 (12.65%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.69%) PMP
8 8 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.18%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 7 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 6 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.51%) CCA
13 3 (0.51%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.51%) OSCP
13 3 (0.51%) PgMP
14 2 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.42%) QA
2 30 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.37%) PMO
4 18 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 18 (3.04%) GDPR
5 14 (2.36%) SLA
6 7 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) Basel III
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) COSHH
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (4.55%) Docker
2 15 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.89%) Terraform
3 16 (2.70%) Ansible
4 7 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (1.18%) Netcool
4 7 (1.18%) Tivoli
4 7 (1.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (1.01%) Grafana
6 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.51%) Podman
8 3 (0.51%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Argo
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.34%) Nmap
9 2 (0.34%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.56%) Oracle
3 26 (4.38%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.54%) SAP
5 17 (2.87%) Cisco
6 14 (2.36%) Splunk
7 12 (2.02%) VMware
8 10 (1.69%) Databricks
8 10 (1.69%) Dell
8 10 (1.69%) IBM
9 8 (1.35%) Cadence
9 8 (1.35%) HP
9 8 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.18%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.18%) EMC
10 7 (1.18%) Informatica
10 7 (1.18%) Isilon
10 7 (1.18%) Qualys
10 7 (1.18%) Serena
11 6 (1.01%) iManage