Continuous Improvement Contracts in Manchester

Continual Improvement
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 77 84
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 65 40 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.35% 2.14% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 2.34% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 53
10th Percentile £378 £409 £395
25th Percentile £438 £448 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +19.32%
75th Percentile £593 £634 £763
90th Percentile £648 £743 -
North West median daily rate £525 £533 £487
% change year-on-year -1.41% +9.34% +8.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £42.13 - £26.00
25th Percentile £52.81 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £16.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +263.50% -43.83% -
75th Percentile £67.50 - £32.50
90th Percentile £76.50 - £34.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £31.86 £34.69
% change year-on-year +33.39% -8.14% +153.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,304 1,712 2,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.22% 91.75% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,258 1,814
10th Percentile £318 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year - +0.76% +10.28%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £580
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 57 49
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -38.58% +71.43% +15.93%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wigan - 2 £450 -
Stockport +2 1 £550 -21.43% 7
Bolton 0 1 - - 6
Oldham - 1 £450 - 2
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) AWS
2 7 (10.77%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.69%) OCI
5 3 (4.62%) IaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.54%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.54%) Firebase
6 1 (1.54%) GCP
6 1 (1.54%) Google Play
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.54%) PaaS
6 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.54%) SaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
6 1 (1.54%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Metadata
2 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.08%) Power BI
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) ERwin
2 3 (4.62%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.08%) Hudson
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) TestCafe
4 1 (1.54%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.54%) Gatling
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) GoCD
4 1 (1.54%) Gradle
4 1 (1.54%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.54%) Postman
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.54%) Finance
4 12 (18.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.23%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.15%) Electronics
6 4 (6.15%) Law
6 4 (6.15%) Legal
6 4 (6.15%) Marketing
6 4 (6.15%) Retail
6 4 (6.15%) Retail Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.62%) Banking
8 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Senior
2 11 (16.92%) Lead
3 9 (13.85%) Architect
4 8 (12.31%) Test Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (10.77%) Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Systems Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Business Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Ethical Hacker
9 2 (3.08%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Project Officer
9 2 (3.08%) Project Support Officer
9 2 (3.08%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.54%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.54%) Dagger
3 1 (1.54%) HTML
3 1 (1.54%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (1.54%) Material Design
3 1 (1.54%) React
3 1 (1.54%) RESTful
3 1 (1.54%) Shiny
3 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) CMDB
1 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
1 4 (6.15%) Wiki
2 3 (4.62%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) PMI
4 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Kali Linux
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Android
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Agile
2 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 9 (13.85%) Change Management
3 9 (13.85%) Programme Management
3 9 (13.85%) Project Delivery
4 8 (12.31%) Data Protection
4 8 (12.31%) Scrum
5 7 (10.77%) Business Analysis
5 7 (10.77%) Decision-Making
5 7 (10.77%) Information Security
5 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.77%) Security Testing
6 6 (9.23%) Customer Experience
6 6 (9.23%) Data Modelling
6 6 (9.23%) DevOps
6 6 (9.23%) Exploratory Testing
6 6 (9.23%) Load Testing
6 6 (9.23%) Project Management
6 6 (9.23%) Waterfall
7 5 (7.69%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) Java
1 7 (10.77%) Python
2 4 (6.15%) C#
3 2 (3.08%) Kotlin
3 2 (3.08%) SQL
4 1 (1.54%) PHP
4 1 (1.54%) R
4 1 (1.54%) Scala
4 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) OSCP
4 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) HNC
5 1 (1.54%) HND
5 1 (1.54%) ISEB
5 1 (1.54%) MCSE
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) Accessibility
2 8 (12.31%) GDPR
3 7 (10.77%) QA
4 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
5 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.08%) GRC
7 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.54%) ISO17020
7 1 (1.54%) NIST
7 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Grafana
1 3 (4.62%) Kibana
1 3 (4.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.69%) Oracle
1 5 (7.69%) Pega
1 5 (7.69%) SAP
2 4 (6.15%) Sparx
3 2 (3.08%) Google
3 2 (3.08%) VMware
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco
4 1 (1.54%) Facebook
4 1 (1.54%) Instagram
4 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.54%) Sophos
4 1 (1.54%) Workday