Continuous Improvement Contracts in Edinburgh

Continual Improvement
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 44 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 23 39 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.68% 4.79% 6.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 5.42% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 71
10th Percentile £399 £300 £269
25th Percentile £414 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -18.10% -2.33%
75th Percentile £597 £498 £613
90th Percentile £663 £604 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £61.50 -
% change year-on-year -65.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Edinburgh

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Edinburgh

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Edinburgh

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Edinburgh

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) IaaS
2 4 (17.39%) PaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.35%) Figma
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power Query
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) MSTest
2 1 (4.35%) NUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
2 1 (4.35%) Ranorex
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Banking
4 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Retail Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Business Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Security Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Information Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) AIX
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Solaris
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.04%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.04%) SDLC
6 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CEH
1 2 (8.70%) CISSP
1 2 (8.70%) GCIH
1 2 (8.70%) IIBA
1 2 (8.70%) OSCP
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) GCFA
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Fiserv
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk