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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 32 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 58 27 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.54% 3.79% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 4.49% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 11
10th Percentile £313 - £160
25th Percentile £350 £205 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £338 £495
Median % change year-on-year +21.48% -31.82% +13.14%
75th Percentile £447 £470 £519
90th Percentile £475 £699 £610
England median daily rate £500 £526 £563
% change year-on-year -4.99% -6.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £14.32 - -
25th Percentile £17.49 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £20.89 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £21.14 - -
England median hourly rate £20.66 £33.93 £65.00
% change year-on-year -39.11% -47.80% -5.52%

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 765 601 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.25% 84.29% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 361 487
10th Percentile £205 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £522 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 53
10th Percentile £16.16 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

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 17 November 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 November 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 +9 30 £358 -13.73% 36
Nottinghamshire +3 8 £410 +21.48% 37
Derbyshire +2 8 £456 -37.29% 25
Leicestershire -7 7 £418 +98.81% 36
Lincolnshire -10 1 - - 24
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 6 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CICS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) IIS
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.17%) SaaS
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.45%) IaaS
9 2 (3.45%) PaaS
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.72%) GitHub
10 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Tableau
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.45%) DB2
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.45%) IntelliJ
4 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.45%) Maven
4 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.72%) Postman
5 1 (1.72%) Ranorex
5 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Finance
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Legal
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Publishing
7 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (12.07%) Analyst
2 6 (10.34%) Lead
3 5 (8.62%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Programme Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Security Specialist
5 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Identity Management Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Tester
6 2 (3.45%) Application Support Team Leader
6 2 (3.45%) Applications Support
6 2 (3.45%) Automation Tester
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.45%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) LDAP
2 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
2 4 (6.90%) OAuth
2 4 (6.90%) OpenID
2 4 (6.90%) SailPoint
2 4 (6.90%) SAML
2 4 (6.90%) Spring
3 3 (5.17%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.45%) CSS
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
4 2 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) ADO
5 1 (1.72%) EDI
5 1 (1.72%) jQuery
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) Prophet
5 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.72%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) VSAM
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) CCTV
4 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.72%) PMI
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.72%) Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (31.03%) Agile
3 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 12 (20.69%) User Experience
5 11 (18.97%) DevOps
6 8 (13.79%) Project Management
6 8 (13.79%) Scrum
7 7 (12.07%) Analytics
7 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.07%) Kanban
7 7 (12.07%) Project Delivery
7 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
7 7 (12.07%) SDLC
7 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (12.07%) Test Strategy
8 6 (10.34%) Backlog Management
8 6 (10.34%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.34%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.07%) Java
3 6 (10.34%) Bash
3 6 (10.34%) SQL
4 3 (5.17%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) COBOL
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) JCL
5 2 (3.45%) Python
5 2 (3.45%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) CISA
2 4 (6.90%) CISM
2 4 (6.90%) CISSP
2 4 (6.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) MBA
4 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.72%) PMP
4 1 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) GDPR
2 10 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.34%) QA
4 4 (6.90%) COBIT
4 4 (6.90%) HIPAA
4 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (6.90%) NIST
4 4 (6.90%) NIST 800
4 4 (6.90%) PMO
5 2 (3.45%) SLA
6 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.72%) Basel III
6 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.72%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.62%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (8.62%) SCCM
2 4 (6.90%) RSA Archer
2 4 (6.90%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (5.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
2 7 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.62%) Citrix
3 5 (8.62%) VMware
4 4 (6.90%) Alteryx
4 4 (6.90%) IBM
4 4 (6.90%) Rapid7
5 3 (5.17%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.45%) DocuSign
6 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Ariba
7 1 (1.72%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) SAP