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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 78 77
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,550 1,752 2,815
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.64% 3.08% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 3.43% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,162 1,829
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.19%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 49 63
10th Percentile £16.25 £21.06 £22.50
25th Percentile £24.75 £26.25 £31.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +12.36% +61.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile - £83.31 £59.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.16 £49.00
% change year-on-year -11.04% -13.97% +78.18%

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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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
England +25 1,353 £525 -7.08% 2,046
UK excluding London +27 857 £500 -9.09% 1,588
London +11 556 £550 -8.33% 545
Work from Home +33 501 £500 -9.09% 694
South East +29 240 £508 -7.64% 379
North of England +15 177 £500 -9.09% 422
South West +32 163 £500 -17.53% 188
Midlands +44 128 £475 -9.52% 297
North West +25 104 £525 +1.94% 238
Scotland -3 89 £439 -11.31% 110
West Midlands +18 75 £550 +0.46% 187
East of England -4 59 £500 - 165
Yorkshire -10 55 £500 -9.09% 141
East Midlands +41 50 £269 -56.08% 110
North East +5 18 £554 -1.99% 52
Wales +13 5 £513 +5.67% 65
Northern Ireland +3 2 £640 +293.85% 15
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

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 55 (3.55%) Confluence
2 52 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.16%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (0.52%) CMS
4 8 (0.52%) nginx
5 7 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Apache
7 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.26%) govService
7 4 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.065%) JBoss
9 1 (0.065%) SAS
9 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 65 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.52%) CATIA
6 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
7 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.26%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.065%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.52%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.19%) Primavera
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
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
1 235 (15.16%) Azure
2 131 (8.45%) AWS
3 88 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 67 (4.32%) GCP
5 62 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (2.52%) Serverless
9 28 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (1.74%) IaaS
11 24 (1.55%) Azure Functions
11 24 (1.55%) SaaS
12 23 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (1.48%) OpenShift
12 23 (1.48%) PaaS
13 22 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (1.35%) npm
15 20 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (1.29%) GitHub
16 18 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.39%) Firewall
2 35 (2.26%) Modbus
2 35 (2.26%) RS-422
2 35 (2.26%) RS-485
3 26 (1.68%) DNS
4 21 (1.35%) BGP
5 19 (1.23%) DHCP
6 18 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.97%) LAN
8 10 (0.65%) VPN
9 8 (0.52%) SAN
10 7 (0.45%) Broadband
10 7 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.39%) HTTP
11 6 (0.39%) Internet
11 6 (0.39%) Intranet
11 6 (0.39%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.39%) NAS
11 6 (0.39%) VLAN
11 6 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.84%) Power BI
2 52 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.81%) NoSQL
5 27 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.35%) Metadata
6 21 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 21 (1.35%) Tableau
7 16 (1.03%) MySQL
8 14 (0.90%) Data Mining
9 13 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (0.77%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.65%) Big Data
11 10 (0.65%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.45%) Power Query
15 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 143 (9.23%) JIRA
2 84 (5.42%) Git
3 62 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.23%) webpack
5 17 (1.10%) GitLab
5 17 (1.10%) Selenium
6 16 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.03%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.77%) Maven
8 10 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (0.65%) ERwin
8 10 (0.65%) Postman
9 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.45%) JUnit
11 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.19%) Gradle
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 659 (42.52%) Social Skills
2 357 (23.03%) Finance
3 326 (21.03%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 82 (5.29%) Banking
7 81 (5.23%) Manufacturing
8 76 (4.90%) Marketing
9 72 (4.65%) Legal
10 58 (3.74%) Electronics
11 55 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (3.42%) Retail
13 47 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
15 43 (2.77%) Front Office
16 21 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.23%) Local Government
19 15 (0.97%) Billing
20 14 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 182 (11.74%) Analyst
2 175 (11.29%) Developer
3 165 (10.65%) Lead
4 149 (9.61%) Senior
5 102 (6.58%) Architect
6 78 (5.03%) Project Manager
7 68 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
8 56 (3.61%) Consultant
9 52 (3.35%) Software Engineer
10 47 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
11 40 (2.58%) Business Analyst
12 39 (2.52%) Scrum Master
13 34 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (2.00%) Service Manager
15 30 (1.94%) IT Manager
16 29 (1.87%) C++ Software Engineer
16 29 (1.87%) Senior Manager
17 28 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
18 23 (1.48%) Test Engineer
18 23 (1.48%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.48%) React
2 46 (2.97%) .NET
3 45 (2.90%) CSS
4 43 (2.77%) REST
5 41 (2.65%) HTML
6 36 (2.32%) AngularJS
7 27 (1.74%) Web Services
8 23 (1.48%) RESTful
9 20 (1.29%) Node.js
10 19 (1.23%) JSON
10 19 (1.23%) WebSockets
11 18 (1.16%) RxJS
11 18 (1.16%) XML
12 16 (1.03%) Kafka
12 16 (1.03%) Spring
13 15 (0.97%) Redux
14 14 (0.90%) .NET Core
14 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
15 13 (0.84%) LDAP
16 12 (0.77%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 117 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 94 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 79 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.00%) CSOC
4 31 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 21 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.29%) CMDB
6 20 (1.29%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.23%) Private Cloud
8 17 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.10%) Life Science
8 17 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 15 (0.97%) Fixed Income
10 15 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (0.97%) Wiki
11 12 (0.77%) Robotics
12 11 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (4.90%) Windows
2 62 (4.00%) Linux
3 13 (0.84%) Unix
4 11 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
6 7 (0.45%) Android
6 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.39%) Kali Linux
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.32%) CentOS
8 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (35.29%) Agile
2 397 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (17.74%) Project Management
4 254 (16.39%) DevOps
5 176 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 160 (10.32%) Roadmaps
7 159 (10.26%) ITIL
8 158 (10.19%) Decision-Making
9 148 (9.55%) Project Delivery
10 146 (9.42%) Analytics
10 146 (9.42%) Change Management
11 135 (8.71%) Scrum
12 119 (7.68%) Mentoring
13 116 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
14 115 (7.42%) Service Management
15 114 (7.35%) CI/CD
16 111 (7.16%) Software Engineering
17 103 (6.65%) Coaching
17 103 (6.65%) Computer Science
18 98 (6.32%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (9.61%) Python
2 137 (8.84%) SQL
3 108 (6.97%) C#
4 101 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 76 (4.90%) Java
6 57 (3.68%) TypeScript
7 50 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 47 (3.03%) C++
9 40 (2.58%) C
10 35 (2.26%) Bash
11 21 (1.35%) Perl
12 18 (1.16%) Go
12 18 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 16 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.77%) Scala
15 10 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.45%) PHP
16 7 (0.45%) Ruby
17 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 266 (17.16%) Degree
2 247 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 147 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 71 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 32 (2.06%) PMP
9 24 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.42%) SANS
11 21 (1.35%) CISSP
12 19 (1.23%) HNC
13 18 (1.16%) HND
14 16 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 15 (0.97%) CISM
16 13 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 12 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 10 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
19 9 (0.58%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.90%) QA
2 61 (3.94%) GDPR
3 56 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 51 (3.29%) PMO
4 51 (3.29%) SLA
5 50 (3.23%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 15 (0.97%) NIST
9 14 (0.90%) NCSC
10 11 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 6 (0.39%) GxP
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 59 (3.81%) Docker
2 48 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.84%) vSphere
6 9 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.13%) Ceph
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.065%) vCloud
9 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 75 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.61%) Terraform
3 44 (2.84%) Ansible
4 11 (0.71%) Grafana
5 9 (0.58%) Puppet
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
5 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.45%) Kibana
6 7 (0.45%) Podman
6 7 (0.45%) SCOM
7 6 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.39%) Netcool
7 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.39%) Tivoli
7 6 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.32%) WSUS
9 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.26%) OPNET
9 4 (0.26%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 211 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.68%) SAP
3 64 (4.13%) Oracle
4 50 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.65%) VMware
6 30 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 27 (1.74%) Cisco
8 23 (1.48%) Google
9 22 (1.42%) Splunk
10 16 (1.03%) BT
11 15 (0.97%) Adobe
11 15 (0.97%) Databricks
12 14 (0.90%) Cadence
12 14 (0.90%) Dell
13 13 (0.84%) IBM
14 10 (0.65%) HP
14 10 (0.65%) Remedy
14 10 (0.65%) Salesforce
14 10 (0.65%) Sparx
15 8 (0.52%) MuleSoft