Continuous Improvement Contracts in Dorset

Continual Improvement
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 8 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 4.73% 0.47% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 0.56% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -68.18% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £291 £575 £525
90th Percentile £499 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 178 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 86.98% 82.79% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 105 91
10th Percentile £172 £160 £275
25th Percentile £175 £248 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +1.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £575
90th Percentile £825 £625 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 36 35
10th Percentile £11.87 £17.50 £20.50
25th Percentile £13.69 £48.86 £44.34
Median hourly rate £15.47 £56.29 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -72.53% +10.87% +12.82%
75th Percentile £54.33 £62.72 £57.63
90th Percentile £59.37 £70.77 £70.58
South West median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £48.27
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.41% +9.70%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Dorset over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Dorset

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Bournemouth +1 5 £625 +13.64% 5
Shaftesbury - 2 £175 -
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (50.00%) IPsec
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (87.50%) Legal
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Support
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) CentOS
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Information Security
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (50.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Antivirus Management
4 3 (37.50%) Case Management
4 3 (37.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google