Continuous Improvement Contracts in South London

Continual Improvement
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.57% 2.21% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 2.35% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £353 £464 £431
25th Percentile £563 £466 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.18% -11.36% -13.73%
75th Percentile £588 £506 £719
90th Percentile £678 - £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 170 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.86% 93.92% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 120 233
10th Percentile £218 £357 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £567 £613
90th Percentile £712 £725 £725
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 18
10th Percentile - - £15.32
25th Percentile - £17.25 £25.10
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -61.32% +14.31%
75th Percentile - £59.34 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.44 £58.58
London median hourly rate £29.75 £34.25 £41.27
% change year-on-year -13.14% -17.01% +17.08%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in South London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in South London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in South London over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in South London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 28 July 2025. 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
Croydon +3 5 £581 +19.18% 9
Bromley - 2 £725 - 4
Merton - 1 £225 - 3
Continuous Improvement
London

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Payments Architect
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Service Support Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Service Management
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (50.00%) People Management
2 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware