Continuous Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 39 66 69
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 862 806 1,055
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.20% 3.43% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 3.83% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 539 741
10th Percentile £269 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 37 26
10th Percentile £15.93 £19.60 £17.38
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £38.23 £50.00 £36.46
Median % change year-on-year -23.55% +37.16% +32.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile - £83.31 £63.24
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £54.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.56% +21.35% +61.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +30 239 £525 -4.55% 349
North of England +17 177 £517 -6.00% 464
South West +43 165 £500 -13.04% 198
Midlands +43 126 £468 -10.95% 297
North West +32 108 £525 +1.94% 266
Scotland -10 94 £440 -12.00% 117
West Midlands +18 75 £550 +4.76% 193
East of England -5 59 £500 - 179
Yorkshire +6 51 £500 -7.41% 148
East Midlands +46 48 £269 -56.08% 104
North East +4 18 £554 -1.99% 61
Wales +11 5 £513 +2.50% 64
Northern Ireland +7 3 £425 +161.54% 18
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 39 (4.52%) Confluence
2 36 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.09%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (0.46%) Apache
4 4 (0.46%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.46%) nginx
5 3 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 54 (6.26%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.93%) CATIA
6 6 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.70%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.35%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
8 2 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (1.74%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.93%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.35%) Primavera
6 3 (0.35%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 101 (11.72%) Azure
2 48 (5.57%) Power Platform
3 35 (4.06%) AWS
4 22 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (2.09%) Serverless
7 17 (1.97%) Azure Stack
8 16 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 16 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (1.74%) GCP
9 15 (1.74%) IaaS
10 14 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
11 13 (1.51%) Entra ID
12 12 (1.39%) Azure Functions
13 11 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.16%) PaaS
15 9 (1.04%) OpenShift
16 8 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.06%) Modbus
1 35 (4.06%) RS-422
1 35 (4.06%) RS-485
2 30 (3.48%) Firewall
3 22 (2.55%) BGP
4 13 (1.51%) DNS
5 11 (1.28%) LAN
6 9 (1.04%) VPN
7 8 (0.93%) DHCP
8 7 (0.81%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.58%) 5G
9 5 (0.58%) Broadband
9 5 (0.58%) Intranet
9 5 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (0.58%) WAN
10 4 (0.46%) HTTP
10 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.46%) IPsec
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.87%) Power BI
2 21 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 21 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.16%) Data Mining
5 9 (1.04%) Metadata
6 8 (0.93%) MySQL
6 8 (0.93%) Tableau
7 6 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.46%) Couchbase
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.46%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.35%) OLAP
10 3 (0.35%) Power Query
11 2 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.23%) GIS
11 2 (0.23%) OLTP
11 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 69 (8.00%) JIRA
2 36 (4.18%) Git
3 25 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.51%) JUnit
4 13 (1.51%) Postman
5 11 (1.28%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.04%) Selenium
7 7 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.70%) Maven
9 5 (0.58%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.46%) ERwin
10 4 (0.46%) GitLab
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.23%) Gradle
12 2 (0.23%) Hudson
12 2 (0.23%) kappa
12 2 (0.23%) TestCafe
General
1 386 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 164 (19.03%) Finance
3 161 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.19%) Manufacturing
6 61 (7.08%) Telecoms
7 52 (6.03%) Legal
8 49 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
9 44 (5.10%) Electronics
10 42 (4.87%) Marketing
11 30 (3.48%) Retail
12 25 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (2.55%) Banking
14 17 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.51%) Law
17 12 (1.39%) Aerospace
18 11 (1.28%) Local Government
19 10 (1.16%) Billing
20 9 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (14.04%) Analyst
2 94 (10.90%) Lead
3 88 (10.21%) Senior
4 74 (8.58%) Developer
5 53 (6.15%) Architect
6 52 (6.03%) Project Manager
7 45 (5.22%) Software Engineer
8 29 (3.36%) C++ Software Engineer
9 26 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
10 24 (2.78%) IT Manager
11 23 (2.67%) Consultant
11 23 (2.67%) SOC Analyst
12 20 (2.32%) Business Analyst
12 20 (2.32%) Designer
13 19 (2.20%) Service Manager
13 19 (2.20%) Technical Support
14 18 (2.09%) Support Engineer
15 17 (1.97%) Senior Manager
15 17 (1.97%) Service Analyst
15 17 (1.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.48%) React
2 22 (2.55%) REST
3 18 (2.09%) .NET
4 17 (1.97%) J2EE
5 16 (1.86%) Spring
5 16 (1.86%) Web Services
6 14 (1.62%) Spring Boot
7 13 (1.51%) Kafka
8 11 (1.28%) JSON
9 10 (1.16%) Apache Camel
10 9 (1.04%) Node.js
11 7 (0.81%) LDAP
11 7 (0.81%) OAuth
11 7 (0.81%) OpenID
11 7 (0.81%) RESTful
11 7 (0.81%) SAML
11 7 (0.81%) YAML
12 6 (0.70%) CSS
12 6 (0.70%) HTML
12 6 (0.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.66%) Self-Motivation
2 63 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 52 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.60%) CSOC
4 31 (3.60%) Security Operations Centre
5 20 (2.32%) Private Cloud
6 13 (1.51%) Life Science
7 12 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.39%) Robotics
8 11 (1.28%) CMDB
8 11 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (0.93%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.93%) NHS
9 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.93%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.81%) IoT
10 7 (0.81%) Motion Graphics
11 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.03%) Windows
2 39 (4.52%) Linux
3 8 (0.93%) Ubuntu
3 8 (0.93%) Unix
4 6 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.46%) Android
6 4 (0.46%) CentOS
6 4 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (32.48%) Agile
2 223 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (17.40%) Project Management
4 114 (13.23%) ITIL
5 111 (12.88%) DevOps
6 91 (10.56%) Decision-Making
7 90 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 84 (9.74%) Project Delivery
8 84 (9.74%) Roadmaps
9 73 (8.47%) Service Management
10 72 (8.35%) Change Management
11 70 (8.12%) Analytics
12 68 (7.89%) Coaching
12 68 (7.89%) Service Delivery
13 65 (7.54%) Scrum
14 63 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
15 60 (6.96%) Unit Testing
16 59 (6.84%) Software Engineering
17 58 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
18 56 (6.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (7.31%) Python
2 53 (6.15%) SQL
3 50 (5.80%) C#
4 40 (4.64%) C++
5 39 (4.52%) C
6 38 (4.41%) Java
7 26 (3.02%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 16 (1.86%) Bash
10 10 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.93%) Perl
12 6 (0.70%) PHP
12 6 (0.70%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.35%) Groovy
14 3 (0.35%) Scala
14 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.23%) Julia
Qualifications
1 165 (19.14%) Degree
2 144 (16.71%) Security Cleared
3 70 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.54%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.55%) SANS
7 19 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 18 (2.09%) HNC
8 18 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.97%) HND
10 15 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.62%) PMP
12 13 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 12 (1.39%) CISSP
14 10 (1.16%) CISM
14 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.93%) NVQ Level 3
16 7 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.77%) QA
2 38 (4.41%) SLA
3 37 (4.29%) GDPR
4 32 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.02%) PMO
6 18 (2.09%) Government Security Classifications
7 17 (1.97%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (1.28%) NCSC
10 9 (1.04%) NIST
11 7 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.58%) GAMP
12 5 (0.58%) GxP
12 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.46%) HL7
13 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 4 (0.46%) ISO17020
System Software
1 31 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.32%) Docker
4 13 (1.51%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.16%) vSphere
6 8 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.35%) XenApp
9 2 (0.23%) Ceph
9 2 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (2.55%) Ansible
2 20 (2.32%) Terraform
3 18 (2.09%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.93%) Kibana
5 7 (0.81%) SCCM
5 7 (0.81%) SCOM
5 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.58%) Grafana
7 4 (0.46%) OPNET
7 4 (0.46%) PowerCLI
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.35%) WSUS
9 2 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.23%) Pacemaker
9 2 (0.23%) Podman
9 2 (0.23%) vRealize
9 2 (0.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 120 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.34%) SAP
3 34 (3.94%) Oracle
4 29 (3.36%) Atlassian
5 28 (3.25%) VMware
6 21 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.74%) Cisco
8 14 (1.62%) BT
8 14 (1.62%) Google
9 12 (1.39%) Adobe
10 10 (1.16%) Remedy
11 8 (0.93%) Siemens
11 8 (0.93%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.81%) Cadence
12 7 (0.81%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.70%) BMC
13 6 (0.70%) IBM
13 6 (0.70%) Pega
13 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.70%) Sun