Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Continual Improvement
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 35 30
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.09% 2.71% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.24% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £613 £451
25th Percentile £525 £669 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £825 £506
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +62.96% -3.57%
75th Percentile £575 £926 £536
90th Percentile - £949 £537
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -25.00% +23.08% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.73
25th Percentile - - £23.06
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
75th Percentile - - £28.06
90th Percentile - - £28.18
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.09 - £25.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 185 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 78.35% 83.71% 79.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 95 106
10th Percentile £421 £465 £359
25th Percentile £509 £528 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £695 £695 £697
90th Percentile £778 £968 £744
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £41.28 £56.63 £24.08
25th Percentile £49.19 £68.81 £28.69
Median hourly rate £64.25 £71.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +49.48% +236.84%
75th Percentile £81.19 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £90.23 - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.76 £35.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.64% -36.31% +24.96%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) npm
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle