Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 59 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.52% 4.46% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 5.40% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 19 15
10th Percentile £291 £205 £160
25th Percentile £340 £364 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £622 £500
Median % change year-on-year -42.44% +24.40% +14.29%
75th Percentile £447 £645 £610
90th Percentile £475 £758 £701
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £20.36 - -
25th Percentile £20.51 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £20.90 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.20% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £21.16 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £21.25 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -26.36% +0.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Northamptonshire +5 35 £358 -42.44% 27
Nottinghamshire +4 10 £430 -0.86% 42
Derbyshire -1 6 £450 -39.09% 29
Lincolnshire +3 2 - - 17
Leicestershire -6 2 - - 28
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (5.08%) CICS
1 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) JBoss
2 1 (1.69%) Mule
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.69%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) GCP
3 11 (18.64%) Azure
4 6 (10.17%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.47%) SaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) SMTP
1 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.78%) DB2
2 4 (6.78%) Tableau
3 2 (3.39%) MySQL
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Cucumber
1 6 (10.17%) Selenium
2 5 (8.47%) Git
2 5 (8.47%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) REST Assured
3 3 (5.08%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.08%) IntelliJ
3 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.08%) Maven
4 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) Ranorex
5 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.47%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Local Government
7 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Publishing
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Analyst
2 8 (13.56%) Business Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) Tester
4 5 (8.47%) Automation Tester
5 3 (5.08%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Identity Management Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Lead
5 3 (5.08%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.08%) Programme Manager
5 3 (5.08%) Senior
6 2 (3.39%) Consultant
6 2 (3.39%) Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (3.39%) QA Tester
6 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.39%) Security Specialist
6 2 (3.39%) Senior QA Tester
6 2 (3.39%) Senior Tester
6 2 (3.39%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) LDAP
1 7 (11.86%) Spring
2 6 (10.17%) Hibernate
2 6 (10.17%) OAuth
2 6 (10.17%) OpenID
2 6 (10.17%) SAML
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 3 (5.08%) .NET
4 3 (5.08%) jQuery
5 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.39%) CSS
5 2 (3.39%) HTML
5 2 (3.39%) RAML
5 2 (3.39%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.69%) Kafka
6 1 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.69%) Swagger
6 1 (1.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.08%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.08%) VSAM
4 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.69%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Windows
2 5 (8.47%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.08%) Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (28.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (25.42%) Agile
4 13 (22.03%) User Experience
5 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
6 9 (15.25%) Decision-Making
6 9 (15.25%) Project Management
6 9 (15.25%) Scrum
6 9 (15.25%) Test Strategy
7 8 (13.56%) Data Analysis
7 8 (13.56%) DevOps
7 8 (13.56%) SDLC
7 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.86%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (11.86%) User Stories
9 6 (10.17%) Data Protection
9 6 (10.17%) DevSecOps
9 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.17%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.17%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Java
2 8 (13.56%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.17%) Bash
5 3 (5.08%) C#
5 3 (5.08%) COBOL
5 3 (5.08%) JCL
6 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.39%) Python
6 2 (3.39%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.69%) ABAP
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.39%) CISA
4 2 (3.39%) CISM
4 2 (3.39%) CISSP
4 2 (3.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) CCNA
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) GDPR
2 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.17%) HIPAA
4 5 (8.47%) QA
5 2 (3.39%) COBIT
5 2 (3.39%) COREP
5 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.39%) FINREP
5 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.39%) NIST
5 2 (3.39%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.39%) PMO
6 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Active Directory
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 5 (8.47%) SCCM
4 2 (3.39%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) IBM
3 6 (10.17%) VMware
4 5 (8.47%) Citrix
4 5 (8.47%) Ping Identity
5 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.39%) Alteryx
6 2 (3.39%) DocuSign
6 2 (3.39%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Rapid7
6 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.69%) Ariba
7 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) Databricks