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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 93 56 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.10% 7.53% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 8.76% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 21
10th Percentile £201 £279 £188
25th Percentile £297 £340 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £358 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.16% -15.76% -29.17%
75th Percentile £519 £430 £645
90th Percentile £598 £475 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile - £20.36 £36.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.51 £37.81
Median hourly rate £17.92 £20.90 £41.74
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -49.93% -
75th Percentile £20.23 £21.16 £46.78
90th Percentile £77.63 £21.25 £49.14
England median hourly rate £53.50 £32.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +67.19% -24.71% -23.32%

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 873 639 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.05% 85.89% 78.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 440 436
10th Percentile £213 £225 £230
25th Percentile £400 £334 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £600 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 56 48
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.22 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.49 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.31 £20.67 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +19.80% -55.19%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.83 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +7 24 £403 +13.06% 33
Leicestershire +10 20 £450 - 30
Derbyshire +8 19 £488 +62.50% 16
Lincolnshire +2 16 £403 - 25
Nottinghamshire -18 14 £425 -5.56% 35
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 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) iTrent
2 2 (2.15%) SAP HCM
2 2 (2.15%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.08%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.58%) Azure
2 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.60%) AWS
4 8 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.15%) GCP
7 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.08%) SaaS
8 1 (1.08%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) LAN
1 2 (2.15%) Network Security
1 2 (2.15%) WAN
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.08%) SAN
2 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.13%) Power BI
2 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.15%) Metadata
3 2 (2.15%) Power Query
3 2 (2.15%) PowerPivot
3 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.15%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) Big Data
4 1 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) Hudson
General
1 41 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Finance
4 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.83%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.45%) Local Government
6 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Banking
7 5 (5.38%) Police
7 5 (5.38%) Retail
8 3 (3.23%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.15%) Automotive
9 2 (2.15%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.15%) Law
9 2 (2.15%) Legal
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Military
10 1 (1.08%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 17 (18.28%) Analyst
2 8 (8.60%) Developer
3 7 (7.53%) Head of Digital
4 6 (6.45%) Administrator
4 6 (6.45%) Consultant
4 6 (6.45%) Lead
4 6 (6.45%) Senior
5 5 (5.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (4.30%) Agile Coach
6 4 (4.30%) Architect
7 3 (3.23%) Desktop Support
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.15%) Change Manager
8 2 (2.15%) Data Architect
8 2 (2.15%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.15%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.15%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.08%) JSON
2 1 (1.08%) OAuth
2 1 (1.08%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.08%) OpenID
2 1 (1.08%) REST
2 1 (1.08%) SAML
2 1 (1.08%) SOAP
2 1 (1.08%) Web Services
2 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Management Information System
1 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.38%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.15%) EPoS
4 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.15%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.08%) CMDB
5 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Windows
2 5 (5.38%) Linux
3 3 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.08%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (24.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (19.35%) Agile
4 18 (19.35%) Project Management
5 17 (18.28%) DevOps
6 16 (17.20%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (15.05%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.98%) Coaching
9 12 (12.90%) Process Improvement
10 11 (11.83%) User Experience
11 10 (10.75%) Change Management
11 10 (10.75%) ERP
11 10 (10.75%) Logistics
11 10 (10.75%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (10.75%) Visualisation
12 9 (9.68%) Project Delivery
12 9 (9.68%) Roadmaps
12 9 (9.68%) Service Delivery
12 9 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.60%) SQL
2 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.15%) ABAP
3 2 (2.15%) Python
3 2 (2.15%) VBA
4 1 (1.08%) Bicep
4 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) APMG
4 2 (2.15%) CISM
4 2 (2.15%) CISSP
4 2 (2.15%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.08%) CEH
5 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
1 8 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.53%) GDPR
3 4 (4.30%) PMO
3 4 (4.30%) QA
4 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.15%) GRC
6 1 (1.08%) COBIT
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.08%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) SCCM
2 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.15%) Terraform
4 1 (1.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.08%) RSA Archer
4 1 (1.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) SAP
3 10 (10.75%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.30%) Workday
6 3 (3.23%) VMware
7 2 (2.15%) NEC
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.15%) Spotify
8 1 (1.08%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.08%) Databricks
8 1 (1.08%) HP
8 1 (1.08%) IFS
8 1 (1.08%) NetApp
8 1 (1.08%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.08%) Sybase