Continuous Improvement Contracts in the East of England

Continual Improvement
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 43 59 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.58% 3.09% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 3.59% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 38
10th Percentile £458 £374 £278
25th Percentile £486 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £628 £619 £620
90th Percentile £800 £695 £743
England median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 44 8
10th Percentile £61.50 £21.25 £54.00
25th Percentile £68.13 £61.25 £59.06
Median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% - +32.65%
75th Percentile £74.69 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - £66.13
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the East of England

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +9 21 £550 +10.00% 203
Cambridgeshire +10 7 £543 -22.50% 149
Suffolk - 6 £519 - 59
Essex +16 5 £468 +55.83% 153
Bedfordshire 0 4 £800 - 107
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) SAP LE
1 3 (6.98%) SAP WM
2 2 (4.65%) Workday HCM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) GCP
2 5 (11.63%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.33%) dbt
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub
6 1 (2.33%) OCI
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
1 4 (9.30%) LAN
1 4 (9.30%) VPN
1 4 (9.30%) WAN
1 4 (9.30%) WLAN
2 2 (4.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.33%) Looker
3 1 (2.33%) Metadata
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.33%) Hudson
1 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.33%) JMeter
1 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.33%) TestDirector
General
1 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.65%) Back Office
5 2 (4.65%) Billing
5 2 (4.65%) Local Government
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (13.95%) Architect
2 5 (11.63%) Analyst
2 5 (11.63%) Network Architect
2 5 (11.63%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (9.30%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Logistics Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Sales Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) SAP Logistics Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Service Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Service Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Services Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) SAP PI
2 3 (6.98%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) NumPy
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.33%) Pandas
3 1 (2.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) Spring
3 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.33%) Web Services
3 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Centre
1 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.65%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (18.60%) Contract Management
5 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.95%) Service Management
5 6 (13.95%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.63%) Business Transformation
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) Incident Management
6 5 (11.63%) Microservices
6 5 (11.63%) Problem Management
6 5 (11.63%) Project Management
6 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (9.30%) Customer Experience
7 4 (9.30%) Logistics
7 4 (9.30%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) Java
2 3 (6.98%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Go
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) CISSP
4 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) GCIA
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CISM
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) MCSA
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) ITGC
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) VMware NSX
2 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) logstash
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) SAP
2 4 (9.30%) Cisco
2 4 (9.30%) VMware
3 3 (6.98%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Workday
5 1 (2.33%) Anaplan
5 1 (2.33%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) IFS
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Spotify
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase
5 1 (2.33%) Tagetik