Continuous Improvement Contracts in Derbyshire

Continual Improvement
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 8 13 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 11 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 11.34% 8.82% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 13.64% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 4
10th Percentile £293 £167 £364
25th Percentile £319 £178 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £254 £530
Median % change year-on-year +57.48% -52.08% -
75th Percentile £494 £268 £624
90th Percentile £528 £273 £752
East Midlands median daily rate £382 £269 £613
% change year-on-year +41.91% -56.08% +53.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 110 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 79.38% 64.71% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 102
10th Percentile £172 £167 £134
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £267 £469
Median % change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £552
90th Percentile £644 £588 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 37
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.30 £22.57 £23.00
90th Percentile £24.81 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Derbyshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Derbyshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Derbyshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Derbyshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Derby +3 8 £400 +57.48% 56
Chesterfield - 2 - - 48
Matlock - 1 - - 1
Continuous Improvement
East Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Category Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
2 1 (9.09%) Technology Director
2 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
1 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Conflict Resolution
2 5 (45.45%) Contract Negotiation
2 5 (45.45%) Proactive Management
2 5 (45.45%) Risk Management
2 5 (45.45%) Supplier Management
2 5 (45.45%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 4 (36.36%) Contract Management
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) SDLC
6 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
6 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Test Planning
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) VMware