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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 21 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +47
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 84 35 36
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.88% 6.25% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.47% 7.23% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 15 29
10th Percentile £213 £205 £166
25th Percentile £331 £313 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £414 £269
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +53.90% -40.22%
75th Percentile £447 £500 £280
90th Percentile £488 £550 £489
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £13.01 - £29.93
25th Percentile £14.90 £45.00 £33.19
Median hourly rate £16.50 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.00% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £18.81 £55.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £25.04 - £56.00
England median hourly rate £28.79 £52.00 £39.82
% change year-on-year -44.63% +30.59% -33.63%

All Process & 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 802 484 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.78% 86.43% 82.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 290 452
10th Percentile £190 £250 £188
25th Percentile £352 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £433 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.75% -1.11%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £613 £623 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 20 61
10th Percentile £14.74 £16.81 £11.21
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +27.05% +5.23%
75th Percentile £24.06 £30.44 £33.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend 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 2 February 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 February 2026. 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 +1 28 £402 -2.90% 11
Derbyshire +1 19 £456 -8.75% 12
Nottinghamshire -3 19 £225 -41.37% 25
Leicestershire -3 9 £418 +98.81% 21
Lincolnshire -6 4 £480 - 11
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (15.48%) Confluence
2 9 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (1.19%) CMS
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
4 1 (1.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.33%) Azure
2 18 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (20.24%) Entra ID
4 15 (17.86%) AWS
5 13 (15.48%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.90%) GCP
7 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 4 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.57%) IaaS
9 3 (3.57%) PaaS
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.19%) GitHub
11 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.19%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) Network Security
1 3 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) Tableau
3 1 (1.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (20.24%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) Postman
3 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (39.29%) Finance
2 30 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Banking
4 9 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 7 (8.33%) Retail
5 7 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 6 (7.14%) Marketing
7 5 (5.95%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (5.95%) Local Government
7 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.95%) Police
8 4 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Automotive
10 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.38%) Legal
11 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Analyst
2 11 (13.10%) Desktop Support
3 10 (11.90%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.33%) Desktop Support Technician
4 7 (8.33%) Desktop Technician
4 7 (8.33%) Senior
4 7 (8.33%) Support Technician
5 6 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) Lead
5 6 (7.14%) Salesforce Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Help Desk Technician
6 5 (5.95%) ICT Technician
6 5 (5.95%) PMO Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Desktop Support
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Support Technician
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Technician
7 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) VML
2 3 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (3.57%) Middleware
2 3 (3.57%) OAuth
2 3 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.57%) OpenID
2 3 (3.57%) SAML
2 3 (3.57%) Visualforce
3 2 (2.38%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.19%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.19%) ADO
4 1 (1.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.52%) PMI
3 7 (8.33%) Smartphone
4 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.76%) e-Learning
5 4 (4.76%) Learning Management System
5 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.19%) CCTV
8 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Windows
2 12 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (8.33%) Mac OS
4 6 (7.14%) Linux
5 4 (4.76%) Windows 7
5 4 (4.76%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (40.48%) Agile
3 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.62%) Project Management
6 17 (20.24%) Data Protection
7 15 (17.86%) Change Management
7 15 (17.86%) DevOps
7 15 (17.86%) Scrum
8 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
9 12 (14.29%) Kanban
10 11 (13.10%) Business Continuity
10 11 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (13.10%) Customer Service
10 11 (13.10%) Process Improvement
10 11 (13.10%) Roadmaps
11 10 (11.90%) Decision-Making
11 10 (11.90%) Project Delivery
11 10 (11.90%) Regulatory Change
11 10 (11.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.52%) Bash
3 3 (3.57%) Apex Code
3 3 (3.57%) Bicep
3 3 (3.57%) SOQL
4 2 (2.38%) Python
5 1 (1.19%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) C++
5 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.52%) PMI Certification
3 8 (9.52%) PMP
4 7 (8.33%) MBA
4 7 (8.33%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.95%) NVQ Level 3
6 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.76%) CSPO
8 2 (2.38%) CISA
8 2 (2.38%) CISM
8 2 (2.38%) CISSP
8 2 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.67%) GDPR
1 14 (16.67%) QA
2 13 (15.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (8.33%) Basel III
3 7 (8.33%) PMO
4 5 (5.95%) GRC
4 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (5.95%) NIST
5 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.57%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.38%) COBIT
6 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.38%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.38%) SLA
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.19%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 12 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.95%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.43%) SCCM
2 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (8.33%) Terraform
4 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.38%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.29%) VMware
3 10 (11.90%) Salesforce
4 7 (8.33%) Citrix
5 6 (7.14%) Google
5 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.76%) HP
7 3 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
7 3 (3.57%) Splunk
8 2 (2.38%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.38%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.38%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.19%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.19%) Planview
9 1 (1.19%) SAP