Continuous Improvement Process Contract Job Trends in England

Continuous\Continual Improvement Process
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Continuous Improvement Process skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 512 559
Rank change year-on-year -29 +47 +171
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process 5 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% 0.013% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.015% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £470 £350 £443
25th Percentile £477 £409 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £485 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -9.81% -2.27%
75th Percentile £518 £625 £556
90th Percentile £518 £783 £568
UK median daily rate £496 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +2.37% -7.67% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Continuous Improvement Process 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,298 27,047 35,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.35% 86.76% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,334 16,519 24,217
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,792 976 1,481
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.98 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

Continuous Improvement Process
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement Process relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Continuous Improvement Process job vacancy trend in England

Continuous Improvement Process
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Improvement Process.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Improvement Process

Continuous Improvement Process
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Improvement Process.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Improvement Process

Continuous Improvement Process
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London - 2 - - 5
South East - 2 £508 - 10
Continuous Improvement Process
UK

Continuous Improvement Process
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Pinecone
1 4 (80.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Faiss
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Model Validation
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Conversational UI
3 3 (60.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared