Continuous Improvement Contracts in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 77 74
Rank change year-on-year +45 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 163 111 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.11% 3.08% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 3.43% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 88 79
10th Percentile £160 £391 £323
25th Percentile £450 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% +4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £640
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 0
10th Percentile £10.42 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £22.72 £58.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £83.31 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.99% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £57.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.06% +29.76% +78.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,234 3,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.16% 89.63% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,378 2,346
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.05 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.10 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% +25.36% +12.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.39 £69.93
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Wiltshire +5 66 £525 -14.63% 15
Bristol +16 32 £500 -9.09% 68
Somerset +19 22 £575 +11.27% 35
Devon +13 18 £170 - 34
Gloucestershire +3 12 £525 +54.41% 28
Dorset +13 8 £175 -68.18% 10
Cornwall - 5 £428 - 2
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (14.11%) Confluence
2 19 (11.66%) SharePoint
3 18 (11.04%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.79%) Azure
2 17 (10.43%) Azure Stack
3 10 (6.13%) AWS
4 7 (4.29%) GCP
5 6 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.84%) IaaS
7 3 (1.84%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.84%) PaaS
8 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.23%) GitHub
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.61%) npm
9 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.61%) SaaS
9 1 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.04%) BGP
1 18 (11.04%) Firewall
2 6 (3.68%) DNS
3 4 (2.45%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.45%) IPsec
3 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.84%) VPN
5 2 (1.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.29%) MySQL
2 4 (2.45%) Couchbase
2 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.84%) Metadata
3 3 (1.84%) Power BI
3 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (15.95%) JIRA
2 6 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.07%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.45%) Selenium
5 3 (1.84%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.84%) JUnit
6 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.23%) Git
7 1 (0.61%) Babel
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) ESLint
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Vite
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 82 (50.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (13.50%) Organisational Skills
3 20 (12.27%) Finance
4 17 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.43%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.98%) Legal
6 11 (6.75%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.68%) Police
8 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.84%) Electronics
8 3 (1.84%) Marketing
8 3 (1.84%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Aviation
9 2 (1.23%) Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (25.77%) Analyst
2 23 (14.11%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (9.20%) Support Specialist
3 15 (9.20%) Technical Support
4 10 (6.13%) Project Manager
5 9 (5.52%) IT Support
5 9 (5.52%) IT Support Specialist
5 9 (5.52%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.52%) Technical Engineer
5 9 (5.52%) Technical Support Engineer
6 7 (4.29%) IT Manager
6 7 (4.29%) Service Analyst
6 7 (4.29%) SOC Engineer
7 6 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (3.68%) Field Engineer
7 6 (3.68%) Field Support Engineer
7 6 (3.68%) Technical Specialist
7 6 (3.68%) Technical Support Specialist
8 5 (3.07%) Security Project Manager
8 5 (3.07%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.07%) JSON
2 4 (2.45%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.45%) YAML
3 3 (1.84%) .NET
3 3 (1.84%) ModSecurity
4 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.23%) React
4 2 (1.23%) Vue
5 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.61%) HTML
5 1 (0.61%) Jest
5 1 (0.61%) Laravel
5 1 (0.61%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.61%) Parceljs
5 1 (0.61%) REST
5 1 (0.61%) RESTful
5 1 (0.61%) Spring
5 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.02%) CSOC
2 29 (17.79%) Security Operations Centre
3 19 (11.66%) Private Cloud
4 16 (9.82%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.07%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.61%) Animation
10 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.61%) PKI
10 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.11%) Windows
2 10 (6.13%) Linux
3 4 (2.45%) CentOS
4 3 (1.84%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.97%) ITIL
2 48 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (26.38%) Agile
4 40 (24.54%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (20.86%) Use Case
6 32 (19.63%) Incident Response
7 31 (19.02%) Analytics
7 31 (19.02%) Security Operations
8 27 (16.56%) Service Management
9 23 (14.11%) Project Management
10 22 (13.50%) SIEM
11 21 (12.88%) Time Management
12 20 (12.27%) ITSM
13 18 (11.04%) Capacity Management
14 17 (10.43%) Network Management
14 17 (10.43%) Security Monitoring
15 16 (9.82%) Information Security
16 14 (8.59%) Coaching
16 14 (8.59%) Project Delivery
17 12 (7.36%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.82%) Python
2 7 (4.29%) JavaScript
2 7 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.07%) PHP
4 4 (2.45%) SQL
5 3 (1.84%) Bash
5 3 (1.84%) Perl
6 2 (1.23%) Julia
6 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.61%) C
7 1 (0.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 84 (51.53%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.29%) DV Cleared
3 41 (25.15%) Degree
4 33 (20.25%) SC Cleared
5 22 (13.50%) SANS
6 11 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (5.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (2.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 3 (1.84%) AAT
9 3 (1.84%) CISM
9 3 (1.84%) CISSP
9 3 (1.84%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.84%) OSCP
10 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.04%) Government Security Classifications
2 16 (9.82%) GDPR
3 12 (7.36%) SLA
4 11 (6.75%) NCSC
5 10 (6.13%) QA
6 7 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (3.68%) NIST
8 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.45%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.84%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.84%) PMO
10 2 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.61%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.61%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.68%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.45%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.84%) Docker
4 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (6.75%) Terraform
2 8 (4.91%) Ansible
3 7 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.29%) SCOM
4 3 (1.84%) OPNET
4 3 (1.84%) PowerCLI
4 3 (1.84%) SCCM
5 2 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.79%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.29%) BT
3 7 (4.29%) Google
3 7 (4.29%) Remedy
4 6 (3.68%) BMC
4 6 (3.68%) VMware
5 3 (1.84%) Civica
5 3 (1.84%) Dell
5 3 (1.84%) SAP
6 2 (1.23%) Splunk
7 1 (0.61%) Cadence
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco
7 1 (0.61%) HP
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) Progress