Continuous Improvement Contracts in Edinburgh

Continual Improvement
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 40 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 30 86 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.74% 6.70% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 7.05% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 70 70
10th Percentile £300 £269 £397
25th Percentile £408 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £529 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% -1.67% +19.44%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £600
90th Percentile £609 £650 £775
Scotland median daily rate £447 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.60% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 711 1,219 1,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.65% 94.94% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 867 1,262
10th Percentile £228 £250 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £674 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 16
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -

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 4 May 2024.

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 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) IaaS
2 3 (10.00%) iPaaS
2 3 (10.00%) OCI
2 3 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) LAN
1 3 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) Postman
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (46.67%) Finance
3 13 (43.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Retail
6 3 (10.00%) Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Billing
7 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Avionics
8 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Designer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Content Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (6.67%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) J2EE
1 4 (13.33%) Web Services
2 3 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.67%) React
3 2 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Camel
4 1 (3.33%) Java EE
4 1 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) Node.js
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (16.67%) ERP
4 5 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Backlog Management
5 4 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (13.33%) Change Management
5 4 (13.33%) Coaching
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.33%) Project Management
5 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Innovative Thinking
6 3 (10.00%) SDLC
6 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.33%) Groovy
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Ruby
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) CISA
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) IIBA
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.67%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) Kibana
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Oracle
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) Dell
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow