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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 30 56
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 56 42 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.89% 4.83% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 6.15% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 31 19
10th Percentile £299 £167 £345
25th Percentile £340 £254 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £270 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.59% -55.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £430 £622 £743
90th Percentile £475 £645 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £20.36 - -
25th Percentile £20.51 - -
Median hourly rate £20.90 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.29% - -
75th Percentile £21.16 £42.86 -
90th Percentile £21.25 £47.57 -
England median hourly rate £30.81 £35.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -13.83% -27.04% +10.11%

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 623 683 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 87.75% 78.60% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 445 667
10th Percentile £224 £206 £213
25th Percentile £333 £322 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £591 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 61 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £12.94
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -35.80% +23.16%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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
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

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands

Continuous Improvement
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

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 2 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
Northamptonshire 0 28 £357 -34.91% 83
Nottinghamshire +18 13 £450 - 122
Derbyshire -2 6 £300 +18.11% 88
Leicestershire -1 3 £373 +40.70% 94
Lincolnshire +3 2 - - 64
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 (5.36%) CICS
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) JBoss
2 1 (1.79%) Mule
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.79%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.79%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (1.79%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) AWS
2 8 (14.29%) GCP
3 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.79%) Asana
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
1 2 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) DHCP
2 1 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) DB2
2 4 (7.14%) Tableau
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.57%) Power BI
3 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) Looker
4 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Cucumber
2 5 (8.93%) Selenium
3 4 (7.14%) REST Assured
4 3 (5.36%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.36%) IntelliJ
4 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) Maven
5 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.79%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Local Government
6 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Publishing
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Analyst
2 7 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 7 (12.50%) Tester
3 5 (8.93%) Automation Tester
4 4 (7.14%) Digital Product Owner
4 4 (7.14%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.36%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Identity Management Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Linux Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) QA Tester
6 2 (3.57%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.57%) Security Specialist
6 2 (3.57%) Senior
6 2 (3.57%) Senior QA Tester
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Tester
7 1 (1.79%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) LDAP
1 7 (12.50%) Spring
2 6 (10.71%) Hibernate
2 6 (10.71%) OAuth
2 6 (10.71%) OpenID
2 6 (10.71%) SAML
3 4 (7.14%) REST
4 3 (5.36%) .NET
4 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 2 (3.57%) HTML
5 2 (3.57%) jQuery
5 2 (3.57%) RAML
5 2 (3.57%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.79%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.79%) Swagger
6 1 (1.79%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.36%) VSAM
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.79%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.79%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) PMI
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) CentOS
3 1 (1.79%) Rocky
3 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.00%) Agile
3 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
4 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (16.07%) Scrum
6 8 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 7 (12.50%) Project Management
7 7 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 7 (12.50%) User Experience
8 6 (10.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.71%) DevOps
8 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
8 6 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (10.71%) RBAC
8 6 (10.71%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Java
2 10 (17.86%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) COBOL
3 3 (5.36%) JCL
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.57%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.79%) ABAP
5 1 (1.79%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.57%) CISA
2 2 (3.57%) CISM
2 2 (3.57%) CISSP
2 2 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) CCNA
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.79%) PMP
3 1 (1.79%) SAP Certification
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) GDPR
1 6 (10.71%) HIPAA
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) COBIT
3 2 (3.57%) COREP
3 2 (3.57%) FINREP
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (3.57%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (3.57%) RSA Archer
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.79%) Podman
4 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Oracle
3 6 (10.71%) IBM
4 5 (8.93%) Ping Identity
5 4 (7.14%) SAP
6 2 (3.57%) Alteryx
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco
6 2 (3.57%) Databricks
6 2 (3.57%) Google
6 2 (3.57%) Rapid7
6 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.79%) Ariba
7 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.79%) VMware