Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North of England

Continual Improvement
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 61 65
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 177 198 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 3.47% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 3.82% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 135 181
10th Percentile £366 £355 £275
25th Percentile £450 £466 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £600
90th Percentile £645 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 8
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.85 £22.38
25th Percentile £24.76 £23.15 £26.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £40.58 £33.37
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +21.58% +92.96%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.35 £35.86
90th Percentile £61.38 £72.68 £44.54
England median hourly rate £37.00 £57.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.65% +29.21% +78.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +32 108 £525 +1.94% 263
Yorkshire +6 51 £500 -7.41% 147
North East +4 18 £554 -1.99% 59
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.52%) CATIA
4 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.52%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.52%) Teamcenter
2 5 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) SAP AFS
4 1 (0.56%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.56%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.30%) Power Platform
2 16 (9.04%) Azure
3 13 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (6.21%) AWS
5 9 (5.08%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.82%) OCI
8 3 (1.69%) GCP
8 3 (1.69%) IaaS
9 2 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.13%) CloudBees
9 2 (1.13%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.56%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.56%) Firebase
10 1 (0.56%) SaaS
10 1 (0.56%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) LTE
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.04%) Power BI
2 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.26%) Metadata
5 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.56%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.08%) JIRA
2 4 (2.26%) ERwin
3 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.69%) Postman
4 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.13%) GitLab
4 2 (1.13%) Hudson
4 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.13%) Selenium
4 2 (1.13%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.56%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.56%) Gatling
5 1 (0.56%) GoCD
5 1 (0.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.56%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 56 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Finance
3 34 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.30%) Manufacturing
5 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.08%) Banking
6 9 (5.08%) Retail
7 8 (4.52%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.39%) Marketing
10 5 (2.82%) Law
10 5 (2.82%) Legal
11 4 (2.26%) Electronics
11 4 (2.26%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Automotive
12 2 (1.13%) Billing
12 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 35 (19.77%) Lead
2 24 (13.56%) Analyst
3 17 (9.60%) Senior
4 15 (8.47%) Test Engineer
5 12 (6.78%) Architect
5 12 (6.78%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (6.21%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.65%) Developer
8 9 (5.08%) IT Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Programme Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Support Team Leader
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.39%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Test Analyst
12 5 (2.82%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.82%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Support Engineer
13 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) .NET
2 2 (1.13%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.13%) Middleware
2 2 (1.13%) React
3 1 (0.56%) Akka
3 1 (0.56%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.56%) CSS
3 1 (0.56%) Dagger
3 1 (0.56%) HTML
3 1 (0.56%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) Shiny
3 1 (0.56%) Web Services
3 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.34%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.82%) Life Science
3 5 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.26%) CMDB
4 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.26%) Wiki
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.69%) NHS
6 2 (1.13%) CCTV
6 2 (1.13%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.13%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.13%) SCADA
6 2 (1.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Blog
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.26%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Linux
3 2 (1.13%) Android
3 2 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.81%) Agile
2 43 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.60%) Project Management
4 23 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (11.30%) Decision-Making
5 20 (11.30%) Project Delivery
6 19 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (10.17%) Service Management
8 17 (9.60%) Change Management
8 17 (9.60%) DevOps
8 17 (9.60%) ITIL
8 17 (9.60%) Scrum
9 16 (9.04%) Mentoring
9 16 (9.04%) Programme Management
10 15 (8.47%) Test Automation
11 14 (7.91%) Configuration Management
11 14 (7.91%) Validation
11 14 (7.91%) Waterfall
12 13 (7.34%) Data Modelling
12 13 (7.34%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.73%) SQL
2 11 (6.21%) Python
3 9 (5.08%) Java
4 7 (3.95%) C#
5 2 (1.13%) Groovy
5 2 (1.13%) Scala
5 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.56%) PHP
6 1 (0.56%) R
6 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (11.86%) Degree
2 14 (7.91%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.26%) PMP
6 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.69%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.69%) OSCP
7 2 (1.13%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) CCNA
8 1 (0.56%) CCNP
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.56%) HNC
8 1 (0.56%) HND
8 1 (0.56%) IRCA
8 1 (0.56%) MCSE
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.04%) QA
2 13 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 11 (6.21%) GDPR
3 11 (6.21%) PMO
4 7 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.82%) GAMP
5 5 (2.82%) GxP
6 4 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.13%) GRC
7 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (1.13%) ISO17020
7 2 (1.13%) SLA
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.39%) Terraform
2 4 (2.26%) Grafana
3 3 (1.69%) Kibana
3 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) SAP
3 8 (4.52%) Siemens
4 6 (3.39%) Oracle
4 6 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.82%) Pega
6 4 (2.26%) Cadence
6 4 (2.26%) Sparx
7 3 (1.69%) Google
8 2 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.13%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) Databricks
9 1 (0.56%) Facebook
9 1 (0.56%) Instagram
9 1 (0.56%) Samsung
9 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.56%) Workday