Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Continual Improvement
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 14.29% 2.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.39% 3.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £510 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £613 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £521
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.23% -3.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 32 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 87.14% 78.05% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 19 58
10th Percentile £274 £360 £347
25th Percentile £422 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £408 £489
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -16.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £612 £438 £575
90th Percentile £681 £473 £633
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £14.16 - £27.10
25th Percentile £17.90 - £27.59
Median hourly rate £20.09 - £28.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.78%
75th Percentile £21.51 - £29.25
90th Percentile £31.25 - £29.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Bradford

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Information Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Power Apps Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Process Mapping Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 6 (60.00%) Burndown Charts
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Kanban
3 6 (60.00%) Planning Poker
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) User Stories
4 4 (40.00%) CRM
5 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (30.00%) ERP
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (30.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft