Continuous Improvement Contracts in the East Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 21 25 67
Rank change year-on-year +4 +42 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 38 47 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.09% 6.08% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 7.79% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 14
10th Percentile £313 £168 £439
25th Percentile £356 £254 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £269 £613
Median % change year-on-year +41.91% -56.08% +53.13%
75th Percentile £475 £460 £743
90th Percentile £550 £631 -
England median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%

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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands

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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 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
Derbyshire +5 11 £400 +57.48% 110
Northamptonshire -5 11 £358 -42.44% 58
Nottinghamshire +17 10 £450 - 83
Leicestershire -4 2 £373 +38.48% 79
Lincolnshire 0 1 - - 62
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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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) SaaS
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.63%) Asana
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DHCP
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.63%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 3 (7.89%) Law
6 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Local Government
8 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Lead
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Digital Product Owner
4 3 (7.89%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Linux Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Service Desk Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Administrator
6 1 (2.63%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Server Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) .NET
1 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) CentOS
3 1 (2.63%) Rocky
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.68%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Service Delivery
3 7 (18.42%) Decision-Making
3 7 (18.42%) ITIL
3 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.79%) Data Analysis
5 5 (13.16%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (13.16%) Contract Management
5 5 (13.16%) Contract Negotiation
5 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.16%) Proactive Management
5 5 (13.16%) Risk Management
5 5 (13.16%) Supplier Management
5 5 (13.16%) Supplier Relationship Management
5 5 (13.16%) User Stories
6 4 (10.53%) Data Management
6 4 (10.53%) Product Management
6 4 (10.53%) Project Management
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) C#
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
1 3 (7.89%) PMI Certification
1 3 (7.89%) PMP
2 1 (2.63%) SAP Certification
2 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) SLA
2 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.53%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) COREP
3 2 (5.26%) FINREP
3 2 (5.26%) PMO
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) Firmware
1 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.63%) Podman
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco
3 1 (2.63%) Databricks
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) JD Edwards
3 1 (2.63%) VMware