Continuous Improvement Contracts in Devon

Continual Improvement
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 11 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 7.28% 7.59% 12.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 9.68% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 16
10th Percentile £470 - £572
25th Percentile £519 £158 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £700
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -39.29% +20.17%
75th Percentile £588 £503 £725
90th Percentile £593 £639 -
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £10.42 -
South West median hourly rate £6.00 £25.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -76.00% -56.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 186 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 86.09% 78.48% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 121 116
10th Percentile - £143 £263
25th Percentile £145 £213 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £458 £465
Median % change year-on-year -28.96% -1.61% +3.33%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £651
90th Percentile £588 £664 £722
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 6
10th Percentile - £13.86 £24.53
25th Percentile - £23.63 £34.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -15.79% +13.10%
75th Percentile £48.50 £72.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +30.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Devon

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Devon

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Devon over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Devon

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Devon

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Exeter 0 8 £575 +91.67% 14
Plymouth -3 2 £488 - 9
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) Administrator
1 1 (9.09%) Analyst
1 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Analyst
1 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Governance Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Head of Data Management
1 1 (9.09%) Head of Implementation
1 1 (9.09%) Head of Risk Management
1 1 (9.09%) Head of Strategy
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
1 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
1 8 (72.73%) Risk Management
2 7 (63.64%) Data Strategy
3 6 (54.55%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (54.55%) Data Management
3 6 (54.55%) Data Security
3 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
7 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
7 1 (9.09%) Risk Register
7 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) ESRI
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) VMware