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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 26 26 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.00% 3.41% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 4.28% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 19
10th Percentile £363 £413 £450
25th Percentile £383 £472 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +1.90% -3.00%
75th Percentile £484 £925 £743
90th Percentile £538 £943 £744
West Midlands median daily rate £433 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -21.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - £22.33 -
25th Percentile - £25.29 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.64% -
75th Percentile - £72.90 £30.00
90th Percentile - £79.74 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £28.42 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.26% +3.35% +103.70%

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 453 608 772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.12% 79.69% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 405 521
10th Percentile £163 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £638
90th Percentile £689 £688 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 40 30
10th Percentile - £13.93 £12.45
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.80
Median hourly rate £17.44 £27.25 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +21.19% +34.24%
75th Percentile £26.51 £48.75 £29.69
90th Percentile £28.40 £57.91 £58.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%

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 24 June 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) JMeter
1 2 (7.69%) Postman
1 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
1 2 (7.69%) TestNG
1 2 (7.69%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (15.38%) Developer
1 4 (15.38%) Lead
2 3 (11.54%) Automation Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Service Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Tester
3 2 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 2 (7.69%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 2 (7.69%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Operations Manager
3 2 (7.69%) PMO Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Product Owner
3 2 (7.69%) Risk Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Chief Operating Officer
4 1 (3.85%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (3.85%) PMO Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Next.js
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) CCTV
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) PMI
3 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 6 (23.08%) Scrum
4 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Project Management
5 5 (19.23%) Service Management
5 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) ITIL
6 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery Management
6 4 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.54%) Robotic Process Automation
7 3 (11.54%) SDLC
7 3 (11.54%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) CEH
1 2 (7.69%) CISSP
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 2 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kibana
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Blue Prism
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) SendGrid
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow