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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 58 35 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.47% 4.99% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 5.81% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 8
10th Percentile £313 £205 £158
25th Percentile £350 £286 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £355 £394
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -9.84% -12.50%
75th Percentile £450 £437 £495
90th Percentile £488 £636 £497
England median daily rate £500 £529 £553
% change year-on-year -5.44% -4.30% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £14.32 - £31.48
25th Percentile £17.49 £45.00 £37.06
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +4.71% -
75th Percentile £20.89 £55.00 £57.06
90th Percentile £21.14 - £61.83
England median hourly rate £21.30 £33.93 £65.00
% change year-on-year -37.22% -47.80% -4.55%

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 766 602 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.49% 85.75% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 355 463
10th Percentile £190 £263 £213
25th Percentile £350 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £523 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £642 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 29 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.45 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +7.20% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.12 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.00 £64.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

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 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 27 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 +4 30 £358 -13.53% 25
Derbyshire -2 8 £456 -37.29% 20
Nottinghamshire -2 7 £450 +30.91% 39
Leicestershire -8 7 £418 +98.81% 34
Lincolnshire -10 1 - - 14
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 PowerPoint
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
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
9 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
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%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.21%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Marketing
6 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Retail
7 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.72%) Publishing
9 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Analyst
2 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.34%) Lead
4 4 (6.90%) Programme Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Business Analyst
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
6 2 (3.45%) Application Support Team Leader
6 2 (3.45%) Automation Tester
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.45%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Trainer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.45%) Support Team Leader
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
4 2 (3.45%) VML
5 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.72%) ADO
5 1 (1.72%) EDI
5 1 (1.72%) jQuery
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.45%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) VSAM
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) CCTV
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) PMI
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 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 23 (39.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (34.48%) Agile
3 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 12 (20.69%) User Experience
5 11 (18.97%) DevOps
6 10 (17.24%) Scrum
7 9 (15.52%) Project Management
7 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (12.07%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (12.07%) Analytics
8 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.07%) Kanban
8 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
8 7 (12.07%) SDLC
8 7 (12.07%) Test Strategy
8 7 (12.07%) User Stories
9 6 (10.34%) Project Delivery
9 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
3 2 (3.45%) CSPO
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 5 (8.62%) 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%) GRC
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 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.34%) Oracle
4 5 (8.62%) Citrix
4 5 (8.62%) VMware
5 4 (6.90%) Alteryx
5 4 (6.90%) IBM
5 4 (6.90%) Rapid7
5 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.17%) Google
6 3 (5.17%) Ping Identity
7 2 (3.45%) DocuSign
7 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.72%) Ariba
8 1 (1.72%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.72%) Databricks
8 1 (1.72%) SAP