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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 32 29 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.14% 3.55% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 4.10% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 55
10th Percentile £407 £262 £269
25th Percentile £423 £409 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £437 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% -8.11% -12.04%
75th Percentile £593 £509 £590
90th Percentile £648 £618 £645
Scotland median daily rate £465 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +5.68% -7.37% -3.26%
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 597 707 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.83% 86.43% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 418 792
10th Percentile £243 £217 £236
25th Percentile £406 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £568 £538
90th Percentile £601 £663 £613
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -34.95%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £50.06 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.41% +21.95% -57.28%

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 23 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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) IaaS
2 4 (12.50%) PaaS
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.13%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
5 1 (3.13%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
1 1 (3.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power Query
2 1 (3.13%) Redis
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) JUnit
3 1 (3.13%) MSTest
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) Ranorex
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.88%) Banking
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 5 (15.63%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Migration Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 1 (3.13%) Service Designer
5 1 (3.13%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) JSON
1 2 (6.25%) YAML
2 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Playwright
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
2 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) AIX
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Solaris
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 5 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 4 (12.50%) Coaching
6 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.50%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.50%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.50%) Time Management
7 3 (9.38%) Architecture Roadmap
7 3 (9.38%) Design Patterns
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) CEH
1 2 (6.25%) CISSP
1 2 (6.25%) GCIH
1 2 (6.25%) IIBA
1 2 (6.25%) OSCP
1 2 (6.25%) PMP
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) GCFA
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Ansible
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Dell
4 1 (3.13%) Fiserv
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Qualys
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) StreamSets