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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 35 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 62 29 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.29% 3.90% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 4.63% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 14 12
10th Percentile £313 £205 £160
25th Percentile £350 £232 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £349 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.40% -29.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £444 £459 £509
90th Percentile £475 £678 £602
England median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £20.36 - -
25th Percentile £20.51 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £20.90 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.20% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £21.16 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £21.25 - -
England median hourly rate £20.04 £33.93 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.94% -47.80% -5.87%

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 737 626 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.71% 84.25% 84.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 385 500
10th Percentile £213 £266 £205
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -9.00% +2.95%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £603
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £19.69 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +4.38% +31.53%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.83 £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +15 36 £358 -9.94% 28
Derbyshire +3 8 £456 -37.29% 33
Nottinghamshire -4 8 £410 +21.48% 36
Leicestershire -9 5 £425 +102.38% 29
Lincolnshire -8 1 - - 19
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 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) CICS
3 2 (3.23%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (1.61%) IIS
4 1 (1.61%) JBoss
4 1 (1.61%) Mule
4 1 (1.61%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) AWS
2 13 (20.97%) Azure
3 12 (19.35%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.84%) SaaS
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.61%) GitHub
9 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.61%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) SMTP
1 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) DB2
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
1 4 (6.45%) Tableau
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) JIRA
2 6 (9.68%) Cucumber
2 6 (9.68%) Selenium
3 5 (8.06%) Git
3 5 (8.06%) REST Assured
4 3 (4.84%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.84%) IntelliJ
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.84%) Maven
5 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.61%) Postman
6 1 (1.61%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.61%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Banking
5 5 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.06%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (14.52%) Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Business Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Tester
3 6 (9.68%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) Automation Tester
5 4 (6.45%) Programme Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Security Specialist
6 3 (4.84%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Identity Management Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) Application Support Team Leader
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.23%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) QA Tester
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Business Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Scrum Master
7 2 (3.23%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) LDAP
1 7 (11.29%) Spring
2 6 (9.68%) Hibernate
2 6 (9.68%) OAuth
2 6 (9.68%) OpenID
2 6 (9.68%) SAML
3 5 (8.06%) REST
4 4 (6.45%) SailPoint
5 3 (4.84%) .NET
5 3 (4.84%) jQuery
6 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.23%) CSS
6 2 (3.23%) HTML
6 2 (3.23%) RAML
7 1 (1.61%) JSON
7 1 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.84%) VSAM
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (27.42%) Agile
3 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.97%) User Experience
5 10 (16.13%) DevOps
5 10 (16.13%) Project Management
5 10 (16.13%) Test Strategy
6 9 (14.52%) Scrum
7 8 (12.90%) SDLC
7 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (11.29%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (11.29%) User Stories
9 6 (9.68%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
9 6 (9.68%) DevSecOps
9 6 (9.68%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.68%) RBAC
9 6 (9.68%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) Java
2 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.90%) SQL
3 6 (9.68%) Bash
4 3 (4.84%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) COBOL
4 3 (4.84%) JCL
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) Python
5 2 (3.23%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.61%) ABAP
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) CISA
2 4 (6.45%) CISM
2 4 (6.45%) CISSP
2 4 (6.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) CCNA
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.97%) GDPR
2 10 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.68%) HIPAA
4 5 (8.06%) QA
5 4 (6.45%) COBIT
5 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (6.45%) NIST
5 4 (6.45%) NIST 800
6 2 (3.23%) COREP
6 2 (3.23%) FINREP
6 2 (3.23%) PMO
6 2 (3.23%) SLA
7 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.68%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.06%) SCCM
4 4 (6.45%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle
3 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
4 6 (9.68%) IBM
5 5 (8.06%) Citrix
5 5 (8.06%) Ping Identity
5 5 (8.06%) VMware
6 4 (6.45%) Alteryx
6 4 (6.45%) Rapid7
7 2 (3.23%) DocuSign
7 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.23%) SAP
8 1 (1.61%) Ariba
8 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.61%) Cisco
8 1 (1.61%) Databricks
8 1 (1.61%) Google