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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 548 758 1,181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.12% 3.01% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.31% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 518 758
10th Percentile £353 £400 £412
25th Percentile £431 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £596
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.05% +10.16%
75th Percentile £679 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £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 38
10th Percentile £17.00 £33.99 £32.30
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 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +81.63%

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 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £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 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -3 69 £531 -9.57% 41
West London +28 25 £425 -32.00% 32
East London -6 7 £495 -1.00% 16
South London +6 5 £488 -11.36% 16
North London +5 4 £561 -6.46% 4
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 16 (2.92%) Confluence
2 15 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.91%) nginx
4 4 (0.73%) CMS
4 4 (0.73%) govService
5 3 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.36%) IIS
6 2 (0.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 13 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.91%) SPSS
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.55%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
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 SD
3 1 (0.18%) Unica
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 109 (19.89%) Azure
2 63 (11.50%) AWS
3 42 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (6.39%) GCP
5 34 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.20%) Power Platform
6 21 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 18 (3.28%) Azure API Management
9 16 (2.92%) npm
10 15 (2.74%) Serverless
11 14 (2.55%) GitHub
12 13 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.37%) PaaS
12 13 (2.37%) SaaS
13 12 (2.19%) IaaS
14 10 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (1.46%) Power Automate
16 8 (1.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) DNS
2 9 (1.64%) DHCP
2 9 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.09%) Firewall
3 6 (1.09%) Internet
4 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
4 5 (0.91%) LAN
4 5 (0.91%) NAS
4 5 (0.91%) SAN
4 5 (0.91%) VLAN
5 4 (0.73%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.55%) AMQP
6 3 (0.55%) VoIP
6 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.36%) SNMP
7 2 (0.36%) tcpdump
7 2 (0.36%) VPN
7 2 (0.36%) WebEx
7 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.93%) Power BI
2 25 (4.56%) Relational Database
3 24 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.28%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.82%) Tableau
7 8 (1.46%) Big Data
8 7 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.91%) Metadata
10 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.73%) KDB
11 4 (0.73%) Power Query
12 3 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.55%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 64 (11.68%) JIRA
2 35 (6.39%) Git
3 29 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.37%) webpack
5 12 (2.19%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.01%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.64%) GitLab
8 6 (1.09%) Maven
9 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.73%) ERwin
9 4 (0.73%) Postman
9 4 (0.73%) Selenium
10 3 (0.55%) JMeter
10 3 (0.55%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.55%) Mocha
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
General
1 219 (39.96%) Social Skills
2 171 (31.20%) Finance
3 126 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 51 (9.31%) Banking
6 34 (6.20%) Front Office
7 25 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.65%) Marketing
9 18 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 17 (3.10%) Retail
11 15 (2.74%) Legal
12 14 (2.55%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.64%) German Language
14 9 (1.64%) Local Government
15 4 (0.73%) Billing
15 4 (0.73%) Electronics
15 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (15.15%) Developer
2 71 (12.96%) Senior
3 59 (10.77%) Analyst
4 58 (10.58%) Lead
5 34 (6.20%) Delivery Manager
6 29 (5.29%) Architect
7 24 (4.38%) Project Manager
8 23 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (3.83%) Consultant
10 20 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
11 16 (2.92%) Business Analyst
11 16 (2.92%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 15 (2.74%) Product Owner
13 14 (2.55%) React Developer
14 13 (2.37%) Angular Developer
14 13 (2.37%) Applications Developer
14 13 (2.37%) C# Developer
14 13 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.19%) Product Manager
15 12 (2.19%) Real Time Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.39%) React
2 24 (4.38%) AngularJS
2 24 (4.38%) CSS
3 23 (4.20%) HTML
4 22 (4.01%) REST
5 18 (3.28%) .NET
6 16 (2.92%) XML
7 13 (2.37%) RxJS
7 13 (2.37%) WebSockets
8 12 (2.19%) Web Services
9 11 (2.01%) Kafka
9 11 (2.01%) Redux
10 9 (1.64%) .NET Core
10 9 (1.64%) Reactive Extensions
10 9 (1.64%) RESTful
11 8 (1.46%) JSON
11 8 (1.46%) Swagger
12 7 (1.28%) ARM Templates
12 7 (1.28%) Spring
13 6 (1.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.12%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.74%) Fixed Income
4 13 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.19%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.64%) Equities
6 9 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.46%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.46%) Clustering
7 8 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.46%) Wiki
8 7 (1.28%) CMDB
9 6 (1.09%) Replication
9 6 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.91%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.01%) Windows
2 16 (2.92%) Linux
3 8 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.91%) Solaris
4 5 (0.91%) Unix
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (38.32%) Agile
2 138 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (20.99%) DevOps
4 99 (18.07%) Project Management
5 68 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (11.68%) Roadmaps
7 62 (11.31%) Analytics
8 61 (11.13%) Mentoring
9 55 (10.04%) Scrum
10 53 (9.67%) Change Management
10 53 (9.67%) CI/CD
11 49 (8.94%) Decision-Making
12 47 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (8.39%) Project Delivery
14 44 (8.03%) ITIL
15 41 (7.48%) Service Management
15 41 (7.48%) Software Engineering
16 40 (7.30%) User Experience
17 39 (7.12%) Computer Science
18 37 (6.75%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 78 (14.23%) SQL
2 65 (11.86%) Python
3 53 (9.67%) C#
4 52 (9.49%) JavaScript
5 37 (6.75%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.47%) Java
7 24 (4.38%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.37%) Bash
9 10 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.64%) Scala
11 7 (1.28%) Perl
11 7 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.28%) Ruby
12 5 (0.91%) Go
13 4 (0.73%) C++
13 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.55%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.55%) Groovy
15 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 83 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 76 (13.87%) Degree
4 31 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.10%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.92%) PMP
8 11 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.01%) CISM
8 11 (2.01%) CISSP
9 7 (1.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 7 (1.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.55%) CCA
12 3 (0.55%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.55%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.55%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.76%) QA
2 28 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.65%) PMO
4 14 (2.55%) SLA
5 13 (2.37%) GDPR
6 8 (1.46%) NIST
7 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
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 (6.20%) Docker
2 16 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.39%) Terraform
3 17 (3.10%) Ansible
4 8 (1.46%) Grafana
5 7 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (0.91%) Netcool
6 5 (0.91%) Podman
6 5 (0.91%) Tivoli
6 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (0.73%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.55%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.36%) Nmap
9 2 (0.36%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) SCCM
9 2 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.11%) Oracle
3 20 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 15 (2.74%) Splunk
5 14 (2.55%) SAP
6 13 (2.37%) Cisco
7 12 (2.19%) VMware
8 11 (2.01%) Dell
9 9 (1.64%) Databricks
10 8 (1.46%) Cadence
11 7 (1.28%) IBM
11 7 (1.28%) Informatica
12 6 (1.09%) EMC
12 6 (1.09%) HP
12 6 (1.09%) iManage
13 5 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.91%) Foundry
13 5 (0.91%) Isilon
13 5 (0.91%) Palantir
13 5 (0.91%) Qualys