Continuous Improvement Contracts

Continual Improvement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 63 80
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,405 1,630 2,516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.84% 3.46% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 3.90% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 1,017 1,641
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £522
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.57% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 82 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £20.26
25th Percentile £17.55 £28.13 £30.83
Median hourly rate £33.84 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.94% -7.14% +152.43%
75th Percentile £60.05 - £74.53
90th Percentile £69.75 £73.61 £79.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.38 £65.00 £68.80
% change year-on-year -50.19% -5.52% +148.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,490 41,786 73,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 88.59% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,955 28,261 50,998
10th Percentile £310 £311 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,122 1,595 1,727
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.35
25th Percentile £20.03 £18.93 £17.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
% change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 October 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
England +12 1,241 £525 -6.67% 1,093
UK excluding London +9 681 £500 -4.76% 852
London +5 599 £570 -0.87% 315
Work from Home +12 445 £525 -4.55% 537
South East +36 188 £525 -4.55% 195
North of England -7 140 £485 -9.01% 237
South West +7 111 £535 -17.69% 84
Midlands +13 108 £500 +5.26% 192
West Midlands +5 76 £513 +7.89% 124
North West +16 72 £475 -13.64% 146
Scotland -8 70 £450 -5.91% 46
East of England +5 60 £375 -24.62% 90
Yorkshire -21 50 £485 -9.77% 70
East Midlands +16 29 £349 -29.55% 68
North East +4 21 £568 +14.65% 27
Northern Ireland -7 4 - - 17
Wales -2 3 £575 -4.17% 19

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 54 (3.84%) Confluence
2 46 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 12 (0.85%) CMS
4 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.64%) SAS
6 5 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Apache
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.071%) Moodle
10 1 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.071%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 54 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.07%) Trello
6 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.21%) Sketch
8 3 (0.21%) SPSS
9 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.071%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.071%) Doxygen
9 1 (0.071%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.071%) Revit
9 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.071%) Simulink
9 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.071%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.43%) SAP QM
4 4 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.28%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.21%) Primavera
5 3 (0.21%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (18.08%) Azure
2 138 (9.82%) AWS
3 74 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (4.06%) Power Platform
5 54 (3.84%) GCP
6 42 (2.99%) Serverless
7 40 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (1.85%) Azure Functions
11 21 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 20 (1.42%) GitHub
13 19 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (1.21%) SaaS
15 16 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.14%) WhatsApp
16 15 (1.07%) OpenShift
17 14 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.78%) Network Security
2 23 (1.64%) Firewall
3 20 (1.42%) VPN
4 18 (1.28%) LAN
5 16 (1.14%) 5G
6 15 (1.07%) 4G
6 15 (1.07%) Internet
7 13 (0.93%) WAN
8 12 (0.85%) MPLS
8 12 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.78%) DNS
9 11 (0.78%) Intranet
9 11 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
9 11 (0.78%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.64%) BGP
11 8 (0.57%) Wireless
11 8 (0.57%) WLAN
12 7 (0.50%) DHCP
12 7 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (0.50%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.35%) Power BI
2 30 (2.14%) NoSQL
3 26 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.21%) Tableau
7 16 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.00%) Big Data
9 12 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.64%) MySQL
12 8 (0.57%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.50%) Metadata
13 7 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.28%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 103 (7.33%) JIRA
2 95 (6.76%) Git
3 60 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.71%) GitLab
5 20 (1.42%) Selenium
6 12 (0.85%) Postman
7 11 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.71%) JMeter
9 9 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.57%) Maven
11 7 (0.50%) JUnit
11 7 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.36%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.36%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.28%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.28%) eggPlant
13 4 (0.28%) MSI
13 4 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 543 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 311 (22.14%) Finance
3 309 (21.99%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (14.23%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.19%) Banking
6 63 (4.48%) Marketing
6 63 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.91%) Retail
8 48 (3.42%) Legal
9 43 (3.06%) Manufacturing
10 39 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.21%) Military
14 30 (2.14%) Investment Banking
14 30 (2.14%) Local Government
15 20 (1.42%) Front Office
15 20 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.21%) Electronics
17 14 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 168 (11.96%) Developer
2 156 (11.10%) Senior
3 151 (10.75%) Lead
4 138 (9.82%) Analyst
5 92 (6.55%) Project Manager
6 89 (6.33%) Architect
7 57 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
8 45 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (3.06%) Consultant
10 41 (2.92%) Scrum Master
11 36 (2.56%) Product Manager
12 35 (2.49%) Senior Manager
13 32 (2.28%) Change Manager
13 32 (2.28%) Senior Developer
14 31 (2.21%) IT Manager
15 29 (2.06%) Business Analyst
16 27 (1.92%) Designer
16 27 (1.92%) Service Manager
17 26 (1.85%) Senior DevOps
18 25 (1.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.42%) .NET
2 43 (3.06%) React
3 40 (2.85%) CSS
3 40 (2.85%) RESTful
4 37 (2.63%) HTML
5 31 (2.21%) Kafka
5 31 (2.21%) REST
6 29 (2.06%) Web Services
7 24 (1.71%) AngularJS
7 24 (1.71%) SOAP
8 20 (1.42%) .NET Framework
9 19 (1.35%) Spring
10 18 (1.28%) React Native
11 17 (1.21%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.71%) FastAPI
12 10 (0.71%) Node.js
12 10 (0.71%) Swagger
12 10 (0.71%) XML
12 10 (0.71%) YAML
13 9 (0.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.19%) Product Ownership
2 76 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 35 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.21%) Virtual Team
5 28 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.78%) Security Posture
7 19 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 11 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.71%) NHS
14 10 (0.71%) Social Media
15 9 (0.64%) FMCG
16 8 (0.57%) Blog
16 8 (0.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.05%) Windows
2 45 (3.20%) Linux
3 23 (1.64%) Android
4 18 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.85%) Unix
6 12 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.64%) CentOS
8 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Solaris
11 2 (0.14%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (34.88%) Agile
2 435 (30.96%) Problem-Solving
3 255 (18.15%) Project Management
4 219 (15.59%) DevOps
5 206 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 198 (14.09%) CI/CD
7 151 (10.75%) ITIL
8 144 (10.25%) Scrum
9 137 (9.75%) Change Management
10 126 (8.97%) Project Delivery
11 125 (8.90%) Roadmaps
12 121 (8.61%) Mentoring
12 121 (8.61%) Process Improvement
13 120 (8.54%) Risk Management
14 117 (8.33%) Test Automation
15 112 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
16 105 (7.47%) Decision-Making
17 103 (7.33%) Coaching
18 100 (7.12%) SDLC
19 98 (6.98%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (12.17%) Python
2 145 (10.32%) SQL
3 97 (6.90%) Java
4 59 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.84%) PowerShell
6 36 (2.56%) C#
7 26 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.64%) Bash
9 21 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 17 (1.21%) Go
10 17 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.93%) C++
12 12 (0.85%) C
13 10 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.64%) Ruby
15 6 (0.43%) Objective-C
15 6 (0.43%) Swift
16 5 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.36%) Scala
16 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (15.30%) Degree
2 208 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 167 (11.89%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.92%) CISSP
6 39 (2.78%) PMI Certification
7 38 (2.70%) PMP
8 34 (2.42%) CISM
9 32 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.92%) DV Cleared
11 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.78%) CCNP
16 10 (0.71%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.64%) CCNA
18 8 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.83%) QA
2 48 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.56%) PMO
5 35 (2.49%) GDPR
6 32 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (2.21%) SLA
8 30 (2.14%) NIST
9 13 (0.93%) GRC
10 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.57%) NEBOSH
11 8 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.36%) NCSC
13 5 (0.36%) P3O
13 5 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 85 (6.05%) Docker
2 76 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.50%) Firmware
6 7 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.28%) Ceph
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.21%) vSphere
10 1 (0.071%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.071%) IAG
10 1 (0.071%) LXC
10 1 (0.071%) NFS
10 1 (0.071%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 98 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 66 (4.70%) Terraform
3 51 (3.63%) Ansible
4 20 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.14%) Grafana
6 12 (0.85%) Puppet
7 10 (0.71%) SCCM
8 9 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.43%) logstash
11 5 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 4 (0.28%) NSN NetAct
12 4 (0.28%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.21%) Kibana
13 3 (0.21%) OPNET
14 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 2 (0.14%) Nessus
14 2 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 188 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.91%) SAP
3 53 (3.77%) Oracle
4 51 (3.63%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.63%) Google
6 27 (1.92%) VMware
7 22 (1.57%) Cisco
8 21 (1.49%) Splunk
9 19 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 12 (0.85%) Meraki
10 12 (0.85%) Nokia
11 10 (0.71%) CyberArk
11 10 (0.71%) IFS
11 10 (0.71%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.64%) Cadence
13 8 (0.57%) Apple
13 8 (0.57%) Citrix
13 8 (0.57%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.57%) IBM