Continuous Improvement Contracts

Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 76 77
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,597 1,841 2,824
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.69% 3.08% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.42% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,238 1,871
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -8.88% +9.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 42 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £20.13 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £28.92 £33.19
Median hourly rate £39.48 £59.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% +32.57% +61.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile - £82.83 £61.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £52.93 £36.46
% change year-on-year -20.64% +45.18% +32.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 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 27 April 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 +28 1,373 £525 -6.67% 1,978
UK excluding London +27 855 £500 -8.88% 1,590
London +12 597 £550 -6.38% 542
Work from Home +31 517 £500 -9.09% 711
South East +31 229 £525 - 337
North of England +22 177 £525 -4.55% 427
South West +40 155 £500 -13.04% 195
Midlands +40 126 £460 -12.38% 272
North West +29 106 £525 -1.41% 243
Scotland -11 103 £450 -10.00% 139
West Midlands +24 76 £550 +4.76% 175
East of England +6 60 £500 - 173
Yorkshire +2 53 £500 -7.41% 145
East Midlands +42 47 £269 -56.08% 97
North East +5 18 £554 -1.99% 51
Wales +10 8 £650 +34.02% 78
Northern Ireland +7 3 £425 +161.54% 26
Isle of Man - 2 - - 2

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 61 (3.82%) Confluence
2 54 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
4 7 (0.44%) CMS
5 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.31%) Apache
6 5 (0.31%) nginx
6 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.25%) govService
7 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.063%) Tornado
Applications
1 68 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.50%) CATIA
6 7 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
6 7 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.38%) CINEMA 4D
7 6 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.25%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.063%) Simulink
11 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.50%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.25%) Primavera
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 250 (15.65%) Azure
2 134 (8.39%) AWS
3 90 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (4.26%) GCP
6 60 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (2.13%) Serverless
9 33 (2.07%) IaaS
10 28 (1.75%) SaaS
11 26 (1.63%) PaaS
12 24 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 23 (1.44%) npm
14 21 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 20 (1.25%) OpenShift
16 19 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (1.19%) Azure Functions
16 19 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.69%) Firewall
2 36 (2.25%) Modbus
2 36 (2.25%) RS-422
2 36 (2.25%) RS-485
3 26 (1.63%) DNS
4 24 (1.50%) BGP
5 19 (1.19%) DHCP
6 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.00%) LAN
8 12 (0.75%) VPN
9 9 (0.56%) SAN
9 9 (0.56%) VLAN
9 9 (0.56%) WAN
10 7 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.44%) NAS
10 7 (0.44%) Network Security
11 6 (0.38%) Broadband
11 6 (0.38%) HTTP
11 6 (0.38%) Internet
11 6 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.88%) Power BI
2 51 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 24 (1.50%) Tableau
7 22 (1.38%) Metadata
8 18 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.00%) MySQL
10 14 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.88%) Data Mining
11 13 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (0.63%) Big Data
13 8 (0.50%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.44%) Power Query
14 7 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 156 (9.77%) JIRA
2 77 (4.82%) Git
3 61 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.44%) TeamCity
4 23 (1.44%) webpack
5 16 (1.00%) GitLab
6 15 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 15 (0.94%) Postman
7 13 (0.81%) Selenium
8 12 (0.75%) JUnit
9 11 (0.69%) ERwin
10 10 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (0.56%) Maven
12 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.38%) Burp Suite
14 5 (0.31%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
16 3 (0.19%) Gradle
General
1 703 (44.02%) Social Skills
2 374 (23.42%) Finance
3 354 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 85 (5.32%) Banking
7 83 (5.20%) Manufacturing
8 73 (4.57%) Legal
8 73 (4.57%) Marketing
9 62 (3.88%) Electronics
10 57 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (3.44%) Retail
12 50 (3.13%) Front Office
13 43 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.38%) Local Government
15 19 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.94%) Billing
17 13 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 192 (12.02%) Analyst
2 182 (11.40%) Developer
3 172 (10.77%) Lead
4 154 (9.64%) Senior
5 111 (6.95%) Architect
6 77 (4.82%) Project Manager
7 70 (4.38%) Delivery Manager
8 57 (3.57%) Consultant
9 52 (3.26%) Software Engineer
10 44 (2.76%) Business Analyst
11 43 (2.69%) Full Stack Developer
12 42 (2.63%) Scrum Master
13 36 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (2.07%) IT Manager
15 32 (2.00%) Service Manager
16 31 (1.94%) C++ Software Engineer
17 29 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
18 26 (1.63%) Java Developer
19 25 (1.57%) Programme Manager
19 25 (1.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.51%) React
2 52 (3.26%) CSS
3 51 (3.19%) REST
4 43 (2.69%) .NET
5 41 (2.57%) HTML
6 36 (2.25%) AngularJS
7 23 (1.44%) WebSockets
8 22 (1.38%) Kafka
8 22 (1.38%) RxJS
8 22 (1.38%) Spring
9 21 (1.31%) RESTful
10 20 (1.25%) Redux
11 19 (1.19%) JSON
11 19 (1.19%) Web Services
11 19 (1.19%) XML
12 18 (1.13%) J2EE
12 18 (1.13%) Node.js
12 18 (1.13%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.06%) Reactive Extensions
14 14 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 94 (5.89%) Management Information System
3 81 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (1.94%) CSOC
4 31 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 24 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.25%) CMDB
6 20 (1.25%) Private Cloud
7 19 (1.19%) Cloud Native
8 18 (1.13%) Wiki
9 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 15 (0.94%) Fixed Income
11 15 (0.94%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (0.88%) Onboarding
13 13 (0.81%) Life Science
14 12 (0.75%) Robotics
15 11 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.01%) Windows
2 65 (4.07%) Linux
3 14 (0.88%) Unix
4 12 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.69%) Android
6 10 (0.63%) Solaris
7 9 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.38%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.31%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.063%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.063%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (35.07%) Agile
2 408 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
3 274 (17.16%) Project Management
4 265 (16.59%) DevOps
5 187 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 182 (11.40%) ITIL
7 177 (11.08%) Decision-Making
8 167 (10.46%) Roadmaps
9 155 (9.71%) Project Delivery
10 152 (9.52%) Scrum
11 143 (8.95%) Analytics
12 139 (8.70%) Service Management
13 134 (8.39%) Change Management
14 124 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
15 120 (7.51%) Mentoring
16 116 (7.26%) User Experience
17 113 (7.08%) CI/CD
17 113 (7.08%) Software Engineering
18 107 (6.70%) Computer Science
19 105 (6.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 145 (9.08%) SQL
2 144 (9.02%) Python
3 113 (7.08%) C#
4 103 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 81 (5.07%) Java
6 63 (3.94%) TypeScript
7 49 (3.07%) C++
8 45 (2.82%) PowerShell
9 40 (2.50%) C
10 38 (2.38%) Bash
11 21 (1.31%) Perl
11 21 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 17 (1.06%) Go
14 12 (0.75%) Scala
15 7 (0.44%) PHP
16 6 (0.38%) Ruby
17 5 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.31%) Groovy
17 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 278 (17.41%) Degree
2 252 (15.78%) Security Cleared
3 155 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 73 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.38%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.88%) PMP
9 29 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.38%) SANS
11 20 (1.25%) CISSP
12 17 (1.06%) HNC
13 16 (1.00%) HND
14 14 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.88%) CISM
15 13 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 11 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 11 (0.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (8.20%) QA
2 63 (3.94%) GDPR
3 58 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.44%) Data Quality
5 52 (3.26%) SLA
6 49 (3.07%) PMO
7 28 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
9 14 (0.88%) NCSC
10 13 (0.81%) NIST
11 11 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
13 9 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.44%) GRC
14 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 5 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 54 (3.38%) Docker
2 48 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.81%) vSphere
6 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.19%) XenApp
9 2 (0.13%) Ceph
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.063%) vCloud
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.94%) Terraform
3 39 (2.44%) Ansible
4 11 (0.69%) Grafana
5 9 (0.56%) Kibana
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
5 9 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (0.44%) Netcool
6 7 (0.44%) SCOM
6 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
6 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.31%) Podman
9 4 (0.25%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.25%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.25%) WSUS
10 3 (0.19%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 214 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.70%) SAP
3 73 (4.57%) Oracle
4 53 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.69%) VMware
6 32 (2.00%) Cisco
7 30 (1.88%) Atlassian
8 28 (1.75%) Google
9 19 (1.19%) Splunk
10 18 (1.13%) Adobe
11 16 (1.00%) BT
12 15 (0.94%) Cadence
12 15 (0.94%) Databricks
12 15 (0.94%) Dell
12 15 (0.94%) IBM
13 11 (0.69%) HP
13 11 (0.69%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.69%) Sparx
14 9 (0.56%) Blue Prism
14 9 (0.56%) Siemens