Continuous Improvement Contracts in Birmingham

Continual Improvement
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 24 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.60% 4.01% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 4.81% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 19
10th Percentile £368 £368 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +0.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £872 £709
90th Percentile £546 £933 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.88 £26.54 £22.41
% change year-on-year +38.99% +18.41% +66.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Birmingham

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Birmingham

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Birmingham

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Birmingham

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Akamai
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) JMeter
1 2 (8.33%) Postman
1 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) TestNG
1 2 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Service Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Automation Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Digital User Researcher
3 2 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 2 (8.33%) PMO Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
3 2 (8.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Tester
3 2 (8.33%) User Researcher
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Engagement Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Next.js
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) CCTV
2 2 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PMI
3 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (16.67%) Change Management
4 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 4 (16.67%) Scrum
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (12.50%) Release Management
5 3 (12.50%) Security Management
5 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (12.50%) User Stories
6 2 (8.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Rust
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CEH
1 3 (12.50%) CISSP
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) GIAC
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (8.33%) PMO
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kibana
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Blue Prism
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) F5
2 1 (4.17%) Imperva
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.17%) SendGrid
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow