Continuous Improvement Contracts in England

Continual Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 48 51 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,109 1,387 1,552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.55% 3.73% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 4.31% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 877 1,037
10th Percentile £325 £325 £375
25th Percentile £414 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £813 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.88% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 132 39
10th Percentile £19.95 £16.25 £22.16
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.75 £38.46
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%
75th Percentile £68.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.02 - £83.31
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £39.48 £57.99
% change year-on-year +2.82% -31.93% +30.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
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 within the 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
London +8 520 £550 - 1,577
North of England +4 162 £486 -7.43% 706
South East -3 145 £525 - 743
Midlands +6 109 £450 -5.26% 446
North West +4 92 £475 -9.52% 433
South West 0 92 £500 - 367
West Midlands +8 71 £525 -4.55% 263
Yorkshire +11 56 £488 -2.50% 221
East of England +15 43 £540 +5.37% 262
East Midlands +4 38 £382 +41.91% 151
North East -4 14 £538 -2.93% 65
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 62 (5.59%) Confluence
2 33 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.08%) CMS
4 10 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.90%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.27%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 50 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (1.35%) Trello
7 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.45%) Windchill
9 3 (0.27%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.18%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.18%) Open Workbench
10 2 (0.18%) Revit
11 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.090%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.090%) CATIA
11 1 (0.090%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.090%) Sketch
11 1 (0.090%) SketchUp
11 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (0.45%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.27%) iTrent
4 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.27%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP LE
4 3 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.27%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.18%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP SCM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 152 (13.71%) Azure
2 119 (10.73%) AWS
3 67 (6.04%) Power Platform
4 44 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (3.43%) SaaS
6 37 (3.34%) GCP
7 30 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (2.25%) GitHub
8 25 (2.25%) Serverless
9 16 (1.44%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.44%) Power Automate
10 13 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.08%) OneDrive
11 12 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.90%) Azure Functions
13 10 (0.90%) dbt
13 10 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.61%) Firewall
2 19 (1.71%) Network Security
3 18 (1.62%) DNS
4 16 (1.44%) Radio Access Network
5 15 (1.35%) 5G
5 15 (1.35%) LAN
6 13 (1.17%) 4G
7 12 (1.08%) VPN
8 11 (0.99%) 5G NR
8 11 (0.99%) LTE
9 10 (0.90%) DHCP
9 10 (0.90%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.72%) WAN
11 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.45%) Wireless
13 4 (0.36%) BGP
13 4 (0.36%) Intranet
13 4 (0.36%) OSPF
13 4 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.69%) Power BI
2 27 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.80%) Tableau
5 15 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.26%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.81%) Data Mining
9 9 (0.81%) Metadata
9 9 (0.81%) MySQL
10 8 (0.72%) DB2
10 8 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.63%) Big Data
11 7 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.63%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 123 (11.09%) JIRA
2 56 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 55 (4.96%) Git
4 22 (1.98%) Selenium
5 20 (1.80%) GitLab
6 12 (1.08%) JUnit
7 11 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.90%) JMeter
8 10 (0.90%) Subversion
9 8 (0.72%) Maven
9 8 (0.72%) Postman
10 7 (0.63%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.45%) Gradle
11 5 (0.45%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.36%) HP UFT
12 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.36%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 496 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 300 (27.05%) Analytical Skills
3 270 (24.35%) Finance
4 107 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 80 (7.21%) Banking
6 59 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (5.32%) Telecoms
7 57 (5.14%) Marketing
8 45 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (3.34%) Legal
10 35 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (2.80%) Investment Banking
13 25 (2.25%) Law
14 24 (2.16%) Front Office
15 23 (2.07%) Retail
16 17 (1.53%) Automotive
17 16 (1.44%) Local Government
18 15 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 127 (11.45%) Analyst
2 122 (11.00%) Lead
3 107 (9.65%) Developer
4 93 (8.39%) Senior
5 73 (6.58%) Project Manager
6 64 (5.77%) Architect
7 50 (4.51%) Delivery Manager
8 49 (4.42%) Business Analyst
9 41 (3.70%) Service Manager
10 39 (3.52%) Consultant
11 30 (2.71%) Python Developer
12 27 (2.43%) IT Manager
13 22 (1.98%) Gen AI Developer
13 22 (1.98%) Product Manager
13 22 (1.98%) Software Engineer
14 21 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
15 20 (1.80%) Administrator
15 20 (1.80%) Senior Manager
16 19 (1.71%) Data Engineer
16 19 (1.71%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.49%) .NET
2 53 (4.78%) React
3 48 (4.33%) AngularJS
4 34 (3.07%) CSS
5 33 (2.98%) HTML
6 26 (2.34%) FastAPI
7 25 (2.25%) Django
8 22 (1.98%) REST
9 15 (1.35%) Reactive Extensions
9 15 (1.35%) RESTful
10 13 (1.17%) Vue
11 12 (1.08%) .NET Core
11 12 (1.08%) Spring
12 11 (0.99%) Next.js
13 10 (0.90%) HTML5
13 10 (0.90%) Kafka
13 10 (0.90%) PySpark
13 10 (0.90%) SOAP
13 10 (0.90%) Spring Boot
14 9 (0.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 65 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 38 (3.43%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 21 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 20 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.26%) PMI
11 13 (1.17%) CMDB
11 13 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 12 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.15%) Windows
2 40 (3.61%) Linux
3 15 (1.35%) Unix
4 10 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.54%) Solaris
6 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.27%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.18%) CentOS
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.090%) Android
9 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.090%) Rocky
9 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (40.58%) Agile
2 366 (33.00%) Problem-Solving
3 209 (18.85%) Project Management
4 205 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 164 (14.79%) CI/CD
6 163 (14.70%) DevOps
7 150 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 136 (12.26%) ITIL
9 129 (11.63%) Risk Management
10 123 (11.09%) Decision-Making
11 119 (10.73%) Change Management
12 112 (10.10%) Scrum
13 103 (9.29%) Roadmaps
14 99 (8.93%) Analytics
15 94 (8.48%) Project Delivery
16 90 (8.12%) Service Management
17 87 (7.84%) Process Improvement
18 85 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
18 85 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
19 78 (7.03%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 169 (15.24%) Python
2 149 (13.44%) SQL
3 94 (8.48%) Java
4 64 (5.77%) C#
4 64 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.87%) TypeScript
6 42 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.52%) Bash
8 11 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.81%) Go
9 9 (0.81%) R
10 8 (0.72%) PHP
11 7 (0.63%) Perl
11 7 (0.63%) Ruby
12 6 (0.54%) Groovy
13 5 (0.45%) C++
14 4 (0.36%) Scala
15 3 (0.27%) Bicep
15 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 168 (15.15%) Degree
2 148 (13.35%) Security Cleared
3 124 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 52 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 43 (3.88%) PMP
6 42 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.34%) CISSP
8 26 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.62%) CISM
10 17 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.26%) CEH
12 14 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.17%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.99%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.72%) GIAC
16 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.63%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.29%) QA
2 52 (4.69%) GDPR
3 35 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.61%) PMO
5 28 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.43%) SLA
7 18 (1.62%) NIST
8 10 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.81%) GRC
9 9 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.72%) NCSC
11 7 (0.63%) HL7
12 5 (0.45%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.36%) AUTOSAR
14 3 (0.27%) COBIT
14 3 (0.27%) GxP
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 65 (5.86%) Docker
2 35 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.27%) vSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.18%) IAG
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.090%) Firmware
9 1 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 75 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 74 (6.67%) Ansible
3 52 (4.69%) Terraform
4 11 (0.99%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.72%) Grafana
5 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.72%) SCCM
6 7 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.54%) NSN NetAct
7 6 (0.54%) QRadar
7 6 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
8 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.36%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Tivoli
9 4 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (0.27%) logstash
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 159 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.94%) SAP
3 72 (6.49%) ServiceNow
4 63 (5.68%) Oracle
5 26 (2.34%) Google
6 23 (2.07%) Cisco
7 18 (1.62%) VMware
8 17 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.53%) Splunk
9 15 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.26%) Databricks
11 13 (1.17%) CyberArk
11 13 (1.17%) Workday
12 11 (0.99%) IBM
13 10 (0.90%) Ericsson
14 9 (0.81%) Adobe
14 9 (0.81%) Veritas
15 8 (0.72%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.72%) Red Hat
16 7 (0.63%) Nokia