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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 49 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 180 215 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.80% 3.94% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.38% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 136 182
10th Percentile £372 £353 £275
25th Percentile £450 £477 £402
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 £650 £725 £736
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 5
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.85 £19.75
25th Percentile £24.76 £23.15 £25.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £40.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +50.28% +66.15%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.35 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.38 £72.68 £51.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £51.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.78% +15.17% +87.37%

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 4,001 4,914 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.36% 90.10% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,402 3,369 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +2.56% +10.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 203 257
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.77 £26.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +39.47% +6.26%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.09
90th Percentile £63.75 £62.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year +2.63% +46.16% +11.11%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 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
North West +21 105 £550 +8.16% 222
Yorkshire -11 55 £500 -8.26% 130
North East +1 20 £533 -5.75% 60
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 2 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.44%) CATIA
4 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.67%) Trello
7 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.44%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.44%) Teamcenter
2 4 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP AFS
3 1 (0.56%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.56%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.56%) Power Platform
2 15 (8.33%) Azure
3 12 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (6.11%) AWS
5 9 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.78%) OCI
8 4 (2.22%) GCP
9 3 (1.67%) IaaS
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.11%) CloudBees
10 2 (1.11%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.56%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.56%) Firebase
11 1 (0.56%) SaaS
11 1 (0.56%) Serverless
11 1 (0.56%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) LTE
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) LAN
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.33%) Power BI
2 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.56%) Metadata
6 1 (0.56%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.67%) JIRA
2 6 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.22%) Git
4 3 (1.67%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.67%) Postman
4 3 (1.67%) Selenium
5 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.11%) Hudson
5 2 (1.11%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.56%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.56%) ERwin
6 1 (0.56%) Gatling
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) GoCD
6 1 (0.56%) Gradle
6 1 (0.56%) Pa11y
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.33%) Finance
4 17 (9.44%) Manufacturing
5 16 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.56%) Banking
7 7 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.78%) Retail
9 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.22%) Law
10 4 (2.22%) Legal
10 4 (2.22%) Marketing
10 4 (2.22%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.67%) Billing
12 2 (1.11%) Automotive
12 2 (1.11%) Aviation
12 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (19.44%) Lead
2 21 (11.67%) Analyst
3 16 (8.89%) Senior
4 13 (7.22%) Delivery Manager
4 13 (7.22%) Test Engineer
5 12 (6.67%) Architect
6 11 (6.11%) Developer
6 11 (6.11%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.00%) IT Manager
7 9 (5.00%) Programme Manager
8 8 (4.44%) Support Team Leader
9 7 (3.89%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.89%) Team Leader
9 7 (3.89%) Test Analyst
10 6 (3.33%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Agile Coach
11 5 (2.78%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.22%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.78%) .NET
2 4 (2.22%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.56%) Akka
4 1 (0.56%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.56%) Dagger
4 1 (0.56%) HTML
4 1 (0.56%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (0.56%) Kafka
4 1 (0.56%) React
4 1 (0.56%) REST
4 1 (0.56%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.56%) Web Services
4 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.78%) Life Science
3 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.22%) CMDB
5 3 (1.67%) CCTV
5 3 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.67%) NHS
6 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.11%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.11%) SCADA
6 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.67%) Kali Linux
1 3 (1.67%) Linux
1 3 (1.67%) Windows
2 2 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.56%) Agile
2 52 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (25.00%) Project Management
4 25 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (12.22%) Decision-Making
6 21 (11.67%) DevOps
6 21 (11.67%) Service Management
7 20 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 18 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (10.00%) Change Management
8 18 (10.00%) ITIL
8 18 (10.00%) Process Improvement
8 18 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 17 (9.44%) Scrum
9 17 (9.44%) Waterfall
10 15 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 14 (7.78%) Configuration Management
11 14 (7.78%) ERP
12 13 (7.22%) Programme Management
13 11 (6.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.56%) SQL
2 16 (8.89%) Python
3 8 (4.44%) C#
3 8 (4.44%) Java
4 5 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.11%) Groovy
6 2 (1.11%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.56%) PHP
7 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (13.33%) Degree
2 13 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.78%) PMP
7 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.67%) CISSP
8 3 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.67%) OSCP
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) HNC
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.22%) QA
2 11 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.56%) PMO
4 7 (3.89%) GDPR
5 5 (2.78%) GAMP
5 5 (2.78%) GxP
6 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.22%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.11%) GRC
7 2 (1.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (3.89%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.33%) Ansible
2 6 (3.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.22%) Grafana
3 4 (2.22%) Puppet
4 3 (1.67%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.56%) SAP
3 8 (4.44%) Siemens
4 6 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.78%) Oracle
5 5 (2.78%) Pega
6 4 (2.22%) Cadence
7 3 (1.67%) Google
8 2 (1.11%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
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%) Sparx
9 1 (0.56%) Splunk