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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 81 88
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 567 779 1,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.24% 3.06% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.37% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 532 754
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +12.15%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £713
90th Percentile £825 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 36
10th Percentile £17.00 £33.99 £37.38
25th Percentile £21.84 £40.04 £39.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +34.83% +78.00%
75th Percentile £53.13 £63.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.80 -
England median hourly rate £36.50 £51.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.78% +15.17% +93.48%

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 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £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 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +2 73 £531 -7.61% 41
West London +24 25 £425 -32.00% 42
East London -6 7 £495 -1.00% 20
North London +6 5 £561 -6.46% 9
South London +5 5 £488 -11.36% 17
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 15 (2.65%) Confluence
1 15 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (0.88%) CMS
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.88%) nginx
3 4 (0.71%) govService
4 2 (0.35%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.88%) SPSS
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.18%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.18%) Unica
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 113 (19.93%) Azure
2 66 (11.64%) AWS
3 42 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (6.17%) GCP
5 34 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 19 (3.35%) npm
9 18 (3.17%) Azure API Management
10 17 (3.00%) Serverless
11 14 (2.47%) GitHub
12 13 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.29%) IaaS
12 13 (2.29%) PaaS
12 13 (2.29%) SaaS
13 11 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.59%) Azure Functions
16 8 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.76%) DNS
2 9 (1.59%) DHCP
2 9 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.06%) Firewall
3 6 (1.06%) Internet
4 5 (0.88%) Kerberos
4 5 (0.88%) LAN
4 5 (0.88%) NAS
4 5 (0.88%) SAN
4 5 (0.88%) VLAN
5 4 (0.71%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.53%) AMQP
6 3 (0.53%) VoIP
6 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.35%) Broadband
7 2 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.35%) SNMP
7 2 (0.35%) tcpdump
7 2 (0.35%) VPN
7 2 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.76%) Power BI
2 25 (4.41%) Relational Database
3 24 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.53%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.76%) Tableau
7 8 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.41%) Big Data
8 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.06%) Metadata
10 5 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.71%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.71%) KDB
11 4 (0.71%) Power Query
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.53%) BusinessObjects XI
12 3 (0.53%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 68 (11.99%) JIRA
2 34 (6.00%) Git
3 30 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.82%) webpack
5 13 (2.29%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.12%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.59%) GitLab
8 6 (1.06%) Maven
9 5 (0.88%) ERwin
10 4 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.71%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Selenium
11 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.53%) JMeter
11 3 (0.53%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.53%) Mocha
12 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 229 (40.39%) Social Skills
2 178 (31.39%) Finance
3 132 (23.28%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 54 (9.52%) Banking
6 38 (6.70%) Front Office
7 26 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.53%) Marketing
10 19 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.35%) Retail
11 16 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.47%) Legal
13 12 (2.12%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.59%) German Language
14 9 (1.59%) Local Government
15 5 (0.88%) Electronics
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
16 4 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (15.17%) Developer
2 70 (12.35%) Senior
3 58 (10.23%) Analyst
3 58 (10.23%) Lead
4 35 (6.17%) Delivery Manager
5 31 (5.47%) Architect
6 24 (4.23%) Project Manager
7 23 (4.06%) Consultant
7 23 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (4.06%) Full Stack Developer
8 17 (3.00%) Business Analyst
8 17 (3.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 16 (2.82%) Angular Developer
9 16 (2.82%) Scrum Master
10 15 (2.65%) Applications Developer
11 14 (2.47%) Product Owner
11 14 (2.47%) React Developer
11 14 (2.47%) Real Time Developer
11 14 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.29%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.88%) React
2 26 (4.59%) AngularJS
3 25 (4.41%) REST
4 24 (4.23%) CSS
5 22 (3.88%) HTML
6 20 (3.53%) .NET
7 16 (2.82%) RxJS
7 16 (2.82%) WebSockets
7 16 (2.82%) XML
8 12 (2.12%) Redux
9 11 (1.94%) Kafka
9 11 (1.94%) Web Services
10 10 (1.76%) .NET Core
10 10 (1.76%) Reactive Extensions
11 9 (1.59%) RESTful
12 8 (1.41%) JSON
12 8 (1.41%) Swagger
13 7 (1.23%) Spring
14 6 (1.06%) Blazor
14 6 (1.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.70%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.82%) Fixed Income
4 13 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.12%) Virtual Team
6 11 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.76%) Wiki
8 9 (1.59%) Equities
9 8 (1.41%) Clustering
9 8 (1.41%) CMDB
9 8 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.06%) Replication
10 6 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.71%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.23%) Windows
2 18 (3.17%) Linux
3 8 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.88%) Solaris
4 5 (0.88%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (38.98%) Agile
2 138 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (20.81%) DevOps
4 105 (18.52%) Project Management
5 69 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (11.99%) Roadmaps
7 64 (11.29%) Analytics
8 61 (10.76%) Mentoring
9 59 (10.41%) Scrum
10 54 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 52 (9.17%) Change Management
11 52 (9.17%) Decision-Making
12 48 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (8.29%) Project Delivery
14 46 (8.11%) ITIL
15 44 (7.76%) Software Engineering
16 43 (7.58%) Service Management
17 40 (7.05%) User Experience
18 39 (6.88%) Coaching
19 38 (6.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 81 (14.29%) SQL
2 69 (12.17%) Python
3 56 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 53 (9.35%) C#
5 41 (7.23%) TypeScript
6 32 (5.64%) Java
7 24 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.29%) Bash
9 12 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.59%) Scala
11 7 (1.23%) Go
11 7 (1.23%) Perl
11 7 (1.23%) Ruby
12 6 (1.06%) C++
13 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.53%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.53%) Groovy
15 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 97 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 74 (13.05%) Degree
4 30 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.65%) PMP
8 11 (1.94%) CISM
8 11 (1.94%) CISSP
9 10 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 7 (1.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.53%) CCA
13 3 (0.53%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.47%) QA
2 29 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.70%) PMO
4 20 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.47%) GDPR
5 14 (2.47%) SLA
6 8 (1.41%) NIST
7 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) COSHH
11 1 (0.18%) HL7
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.18%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 34 (6.00%) Docker
2 16 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.35%) Terraform
3 17 (3.00%) Ansible
4 8 (1.41%) Grafana
5 7 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (0.88%) Netcool
6 5 (0.88%) Podman
6 5 (0.88%) Tivoli
6 5 (0.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (0.71%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.53%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.35%) Nmap
9 2 (0.35%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.35%) Packer
9 2 (0.35%) Puppet
9 2 (0.35%) SCCM
9 2 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.29%) Oracle
3 21 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 16 (2.82%) SAP
4 16 (2.82%) Splunk
5 12 (2.12%) Cisco
6 11 (1.94%) Dell
6 11 (1.94%) VMware
7 9 (1.59%) Databricks
8 7 (1.23%) Cadence
8 7 (1.23%) IBM
8 7 (1.23%) Informatica
9 6 (1.06%) EMC
9 6 (1.06%) HP
9 6 (1.06%) iManage
9 6 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.88%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.88%) Foundry
10 5 (0.88%) Isilon
10 5 (0.88%) Palantir