Continuous Improvement Contracts in Cheshire

Continual Improvement
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 30 34
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 54 29 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.96% 5.26% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.59% 6.20% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 14 11
10th Percentile £340 £367 £445
25th Percentile £363 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £680
90th Percentile £660 £629 £684
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £20.10 - -
25th Percentile £21.75 £35.75 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% +70.63% -
75th Percentile £30.75 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £32.70 - -
North West median hourly rate £36.30 £39.50 £31.86
% change year-on-year -8.11% +23.97% -33.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 510 468 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 94.10% 84.94% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 314 290
10th Percentile £315 £310 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £454 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.28% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 31 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +19.52% +40.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £27.75 £30.54
% change year-on-year +14.88% -9.14% +29.71%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 June 2025. 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
Knutsford +8 27 £402 +5.44% 5
Crewe -2 5 £575 -2.54% 5
Chester -8 5 £650 -10.34% 15
Macclesfield +9 4 £475 - 2
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (7.41%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) CICS
3 2 (3.70%) JBoss
3 2 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.70%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.85%) Mule
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.26%) AWS
2 2 (3.70%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 3 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) DB2
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
1 5 (9.26%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.70%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.70%) IntelliJ
3 2 (3.70%) Maven
3 2 (3.70%) REST Assured
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
4 11 (20.37%) Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Automotive
6 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Analyst
2 14 (25.93%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Scrum Master
3 7 (12.96%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.70%) Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Payments Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Tester
8 1 (1.85%) Business Process Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) J2EE
1 3 (5.56%) RAML
1 3 (5.56%) Spring
1 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.70%) EJB
2 2 (3.70%) JSP
2 2 (3.70%) Middleware
2 2 (3.70%) REST
2 2 (3.70%) Servlets
2 2 (3.70%) SOAP
2 2 (3.70%) Web Services
2 2 (3.70%) WSDL
2 2 (3.70%) XML
3 1 (1.85%) .NET
3 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.85%) Kafka
3 1 (1.85%) RESTful
3 1 (1.85%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.85%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.11%) CMDB
3 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) VSAM
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Agile
2 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.63%) Scrum
4 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (24.07%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (20.37%) Decision-Making
6 9 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 9 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 8 (14.81%) ITSM
7 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 8 (14.81%) SDLC
7 8 (14.81%) Service Management
7 8 (14.81%) Test Strategy
8 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
9 6 (11.11%) Business Strategy
9 6 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (11.11%) Risk Management
9 6 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) Java
2 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
3 2 (3.70%) COBOL
3 2 (3.70%) JCL
3 2 (3.70%) Python
4 1 (1.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CBAP
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.85%) PMP
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) GDPR
2 4 (7.41%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) COREP
4 2 (3.70%) FINREP
4 2 (3.70%) QA
5 1 (1.85%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) ServiceNow
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 3 (5.56%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.70%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.85%) SAP