Continuous Improvement Contracts

Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 74 77
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,558 1,738 2,817
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.64% 3.09% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 3.44% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,154 1,833
10th Percentile £323 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 50 63
10th Percentile £16.55 £22.27 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £31.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +61.82%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.31 £61.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.08 £49.00
% change year-on-year -18.62% -5.96% +78.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England +26 1,361 £525 -7.08% 2,218
UK excluding London +25 862 £500 -7.41% 1,706
London +8 559 £550 -8.33% 585
Work from Home +30 507 £513 -6.82% 789
South East +29 246 £525 -4.55% 365
North of England +12 177 £500 -9.09% 434
South West +35 162 £500 -17.53% 211
Midlands +36 129 £475 -10.38% 341
North West +36 106 £525 +3.45% 241
Scotland -5 87 £440 -7.37% 130
West Midlands +5 75 £550 +0.46% 215
East of England -9 60 £500 - 183
Yorkshire -13 53 £500 -9.09% 144
East Midlands +37 50 £269 -55.87% 126
North East +3 18 £554 -1.99% 58
Wales +8 5 £513 -6.82% 65
Northern Ireland +6 2 £640 +293.85% 22
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 52 (3.34%) Confluence
2 49 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.58%) nginx
5 8 (0.51%) CMS
6 5 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.26%) govService
7 4 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
8 3 (0.19%) Apache
9 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.064%) JBoss
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.064%) SAS
10 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.51%) CATIA
6 5 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
6 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.26%) SPSS
8 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Sketch
8 3 (0.19%) Trello
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.96%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.51%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 234 (15.02%) Azure
2 123 (7.89%) AWS
3 88 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 66 (4.24%) GCP
5 65 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
8 40 (2.57%) Serverless
9 29 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (1.73%) IaaS
11 26 (1.67%) Azure Functions
12 24 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (1.54%) OpenShift
12 24 (1.54%) PaaS
12 24 (1.54%) SaaS
13 23 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (1.41%) Entra ID
15 21 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (1.28%) GitHub
16 20 (1.28%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.18%) Modbus
1 34 (2.18%) RS-422
1 34 (2.18%) RS-485
2 33 (2.12%) Firewall
3 25 (1.60%) DNS
4 18 (1.16%) BGP
4 18 (1.16%) DHCP
4 18 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.09%) LAN
6 11 (0.71%) VPN
7 8 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (0.51%) SAN
8 7 (0.45%) Broadband
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
9 6 (0.39%) HTTP
9 6 (0.39%) Intranet
9 6 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.39%) NAS
9 6 (0.39%) VLAN
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.81%) Power BI
2 50 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.05%) Relational Database
4 31 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 20 (1.28%) Tableau
7 17 (1.09%) Metadata
8 14 (0.90%) Data Mining
9 13 (0.83%) MySQL
10 11 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.64%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.51%) Big Data
13 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.45%) Power Query
15 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 139 (8.92%) JIRA
2 87 (5.58%) Git
3 60 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.22%) Selenium
5 17 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.09%) GitLab
5 17 (1.09%) webpack
6 14 (0.90%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.77%) Maven
8 10 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (0.64%) Postman
9 9 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.45%) JUnit
11 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.39%) ERwin
12 5 (0.32%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.19%) Gradle
14 3 (0.19%) Mocha
General
1 662 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 359 (23.04%) Finance
3 329 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 82 (5.26%) Banking
7 79 (5.07%) Manufacturing
8 71 (4.56%) Legal
8 71 (4.56%) Marketing
9 54 (3.47%) Electronics
9 54 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (3.15%) Retail
12 41 (2.63%) Front Office
13 22 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.22%) Local Government
15 16 (1.03%) Billing
15 16 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 184 (11.81%) Analyst
2 174 (11.17%) Developer
3 158 (10.14%) Lead
4 156 (10.01%) Senior
5 98 (6.29%) Architect
6 84 (5.39%) Project Manager
7 68 (4.36%) Delivery Manager
8 57 (3.66%) Consultant
9 49 (3.15%) Software Engineer
10 46 (2.95%) Full Stack Developer
11 38 (2.44%) Business Analyst
11 38 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (2.18%) Scrum Master
13 32 (2.05%) IT Manager
14 31 (1.99%) Senior Manager
14 31 (1.99%) Service Manager
15 29 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
16 28 (1.80%) C++ Software Engineer
17 24 (1.54%) Designer
17 24 (1.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.33%) React
2 46 (2.95%) .NET
3 41 (2.63%) CSS
3 41 (2.63%) REST
4 39 (2.50%) HTML
5 36 (2.31%) AngularJS
6 27 (1.73%) Web Services
7 23 (1.48%) RESTful
8 18 (1.16%) JSON
8 18 (1.16%) XML
9 17 (1.09%) Kafka
9 17 (1.09%) Node.js
10 16 (1.03%) RxJS
10 16 (1.03%) Spring
10 16 (1.03%) WebSockets
11 14 (0.90%) Redux
11 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
12 13 (0.83%) LDAP
12 13 (0.83%) OAuth
13 12 (0.77%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.02%) Product Ownership
2 92 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
5 31 (1.99%) CSOC
6 20 (1.28%) CMDB
6 20 (1.28%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 16 (1.03%) Life Science
9 16 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 14 (0.90%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.83%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.77%) Robotics
13 11 (0.71%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 74 (4.75%) Windows
2 62 (3.98%) Linux
3 12 (0.77%) Unix
3 12 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
6 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.39%) Android
7 6 (0.39%) Kali Linux
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.32%) CentOS
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (35.37%) Agile
2 404 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 280 (17.97%) Project Management
4 257 (16.50%) DevOps
5 182 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 166 (10.65%) ITIL
7 161 (10.33%) Decision-Making
8 160 (10.27%) Roadmaps
9 151 (9.69%) Change Management
10 149 (9.56%) Analytics
11 147 (9.44%) Project Delivery
12 131 (8.41%) Scrum
13 120 (7.70%) Mentoring
14 118 (7.57%) Service Management
15 116 (7.45%) CI/CD
16 112 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
16 112 (7.19%) Coaching
17 105 (6.74%) Software Engineering
18 102 (6.55%) Computer Science
18 102 (6.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (9.82%) Python
2 135 (8.66%) SQL
3 105 (6.74%) C#
4 95 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 72 (4.62%) Java
6 53 (3.40%) PowerShell
7 48 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.82%) C++
9 38 (2.44%) C
10 36 (2.31%) Bash
11 21 (1.35%) Perl
12 16 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.83%) Go
15 11 (0.71%) Scala
15 11 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.51%) Ruby
17 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.39%) Groovy
17 6 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 262 (16.82%) Degree
2 250 (16.05%) Security Cleared
3 152 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 71 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.12%) PMP
9 26 (1.67%) CISSP
10 25 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.41%) SANS
12 21 (1.35%) CISM
13 19 (1.22%) HNC
14 18 (1.16%) HND
15 16 (1.03%) ISTQB
16 14 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.83%) Azure Certification
17 13 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
19 10 (0.64%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (8.73%) QA
2 59 (3.79%) GDPR
3 54 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.34%) SLA
5 47 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 47 (3.02%) PMO
6 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.35%) NIST
7 15 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
8 14 (0.90%) NCSC
9 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.45%) GxP
10 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.39%) GRC
11 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.32%) GAMP
12 5 (0.32%) HL7
12 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 65 (4.17%) Docker
2 54 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.83%) vSphere
6 9 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.13%) Ceph
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.064%) vCloud
9 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 78 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.72%) Terraform
3 48 (3.08%) Ansible
4 12 (0.77%) Grafana
5 10 (0.64%) Puppet
6 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.45%) Kibana
7 7 (0.45%) Podman
7 7 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.39%) Netcool
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.32%) OPNET
9 5 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 5 (0.32%) WSUS
10 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 208 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.52%) SAP
3 57 (3.66%) Oracle
4 50 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 42 (2.70%) VMware
6 28 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 27 (1.73%) Cisco
8 25 (1.60%) Google
9 23 (1.48%) Splunk
10 17 (1.09%) BT
10 17 (1.09%) Dell
11 15 (0.96%) Adobe
12 14 (0.90%) Cadence
12 14 (0.90%) Databricks
13 13 (0.83%) IBM
14 10 (0.64%) HP
14 10 (0.64%) Remedy
14 10 (0.64%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.51%) BMC
15 8 (0.51%) Siemens