Continuous Improvement Contracts in England

Continual Improvement
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 79 80
Rank change year-on-year +28 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,373 1,553 2,246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.71% 3.08% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.41% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 1,038 1,464
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £663
90th Percentile £753 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 39 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £22.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £24.75 £38.46 £34.55
Median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +74.51%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.31
90th Percentile - £83.31 £61.87
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £57.99 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.93% +30.31% +61.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +11 597 £550 -6.38% 582
South East +29 229 £525 - 353
North of England +21 177 £525 -4.55% 434
South West +36 155 £500 -13.04% 197
Midlands +44 126 £460 -12.38% 280
North West +33 106 £525 -1.41% 253
West Midlands +24 76 £550 +4.76% 178
East of England -1 60 £500 - 183
Yorkshire +4 53 £500 -7.41% 141
East Midlands +44 47 £269 -56.08% 102
North East +5 18 £554 -1.99% 52
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 47 (3.42%) Confluence
2 44 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.31%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 6 (0.44%) CMS
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.36%) nginx
7 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.29%) govService
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Apache
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) SAS
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 63 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.58%) CATIA
6 6 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.44%) CINEMA 4D
6 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) SPSS
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.073%) Simulink
10 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 16 (1.17%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.58%) DELMIA
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.29%) Primavera
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.15%) Unica
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.073%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 206 (15.00%) Azure
2 104 (7.57%) AWS
3 83 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 55 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (3.79%) GCP
6 49 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (2.26%) Serverless
9 26 (1.89%) IaaS
10 23 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 23 (1.68%) npm
11 21 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (1.46%) PaaS
12 20 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.38%) Azure Functions
14 18 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (1.31%) SaaS
15 17 (1.24%) Azure Stack
16 16 (1.17%) GitHub
17 15 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.84%) Firewall
2 36 (2.62%) Modbus
2 36 (2.62%) RS-422
2 36 (2.62%) RS-485
3 24 (1.75%) BGP
3 24 (1.75%) DNS
4 18 (1.31%) DHCP
5 17 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.87%) LAN
6 12 (0.87%) VPN
7 9 (0.66%) SAN
7 9 (0.66%) VLAN
8 7 (0.51%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.51%) NAS
9 6 (0.44%) Broadband
9 6 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (0.36%) Internet
10 5 (0.36%) WAN
10 5 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.29%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.17%) Power BI
2 43 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 33 (2.40%) Relational Database
4 26 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.38%) Tableau
7 18 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.24%) Metadata
9 12 (0.87%) Data Mining
10 11 (0.80%) MySQL
11 10 (0.73%) Big Data
12 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.44%) Power Query
15 5 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
16 4 (0.29%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 139 (10.12%) JIRA
2 56 (4.08%) Git
3 43 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.68%) TeamCity
4 23 (1.68%) webpack
5 13 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.87%) Selenium
7 11 (0.80%) ERwin
8 8 (0.58%) GitLab
9 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.44%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.36%) Postman
12 4 (0.29%) Maven
13 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.22%) Subversion
14 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.15%) Gradle
14 2 (0.15%) Hudson
14 2 (0.15%) JUnit
14 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 590 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 319 (23.23%) Finance
3 313 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.61%) Manufacturing
6 76 (5.54%) Telecoms
7 70 (5.10%) Banking
8 64 (4.66%) Marketing
9 63 (4.59%) Legal
10 55 (4.01%) Electronics
11 51 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (3.64%) Front Office
13 49 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (3.20%) Retail
15 38 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.46%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.31%) Local Government
18 13 (0.95%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.95%) Billing
Job Titles
1 167 (12.16%) Analyst
2 154 (11.22%) Lead
3 147 (10.71%) Developer
4 122 (8.89%) Senior
5 84 (6.12%) Architect
6 72 (5.24%) Project Manager
7 63 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (3.79%) Software Engineer
9 44 (3.20%) Consultant
10 40 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
11 36 (2.62%) Business Analyst
12 34 (2.48%) Scrum Master
13 31 (2.26%) C++ Software Engineer
13 31 (2.26%) IT Manager
13 31 (2.26%) Service Manager
14 27 (1.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 26 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (1.68%) Programme Manager
16 23 (1.68%) SOC Analyst
17 22 (1.60%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.46%) React
2 42 (3.06%) CSS
3 34 (2.48%) REST
4 33 (2.40%) .NET
5 31 (2.26%) HTML
6 30 (2.18%) AngularJS
7 23 (1.68%) WebSockets
8 22 (1.60%) RxJS
9 20 (1.46%) Redux
10 18 (1.31%) JSON
10 18 (1.31%) XML
11 17 (1.24%) Reactive Extensions
12 15 (1.09%) Node.js
13 14 (1.02%) LDAP
14 13 (0.95%) .NET Core
14 13 (0.95%) RESTful
15 12 (0.87%) WPF
16 11 (0.80%) Kafka
16 11 (0.80%) Web Services
17 10 (0.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 89 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 86 (6.26%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.26%) CSOC
4 31 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 20 (1.46%) Private Cloud
6 19 (1.38%) CMDB
7 18 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.31%) Wiki
8 16 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.95%) Life Science
11 13 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 12 (0.87%) Robotics
13 11 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.17%) Windows
2 57 (4.15%) Linux
3 12 (0.87%) Unix
4 10 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (0.73%) Solaris
4 10 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.51%) Android
5 7 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.44%) Kali Linux
6 6 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.29%) CentOS
7 4 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.073%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (34.60%) Agile
2 350 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
3 242 (17.63%) Project Management
4 231 (16.82%) DevOps
5 171 (12.45%) ITIL
6 160 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 158 (11.51%) Decision-Making
8 143 (10.42%) Roadmaps
9 128 (9.32%) Project Delivery
10 127 (9.25%) Analytics
11 126 (9.18%) Scrum
11 126 (9.18%) Service Management
12 114 (8.30%) Change Management
13 111 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
14 109 (7.94%) Software Engineering
15 106 (7.72%) Mentoring
16 99 (7.21%) User Experience
17 91 (6.63%) CI/CD
18 90 (6.55%) Coaching
19 85 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.61%) Python
2 115 (8.38%) SQL
3 111 (8.08%) C#
4 91 (6.63%) JavaScript
5 60 (4.37%) TypeScript
6 57 (4.15%) Java
7 49 (3.57%) C++
8 42 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 40 (2.91%) C
10 28 (2.04%) Bash
11 18 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.09%) Perl
13 12 (0.87%) Scala
14 11 (0.80%) Go
15 9 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.51%) PHP
17 5 (0.36%) Ruby
18 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.29%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 228 (16.61%) Degree
2 224 (16.31%) Security Cleared
3 137 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 75 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.60%) SANS
10 20 (1.46%) PMP
11 17 (1.24%) CISSP
11 17 (1.24%) HNC
12 16 (1.17%) HND
13 13 (0.95%) CISM
13 13 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 9 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.66%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 8 (0.58%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.87%) QA
2 54 (3.93%) GDPR
3 51 (3.71%) SLA
4 45 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 44 (3.20%) PMO
6 21 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
8 11 (0.80%) NCSC
8 11 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.66%) NIST
9 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.36%) GAMP
11 5 (0.36%) GxP
11 5 (0.36%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 4 (0.29%) ISO17020
System Software
1 47 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.84%) Docker
3 29 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.66%) vSphere
6 8 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) Ceph
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (3.86%) Terraform
2 52 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.48%) Ansible
4 10 (0.73%) Grafana
5 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.58%) SCCM
7 7 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (0.51%) Netcool
7 7 (0.51%) SCOM
7 7 (0.51%) Tivoli
7 7 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.36%) Podman
10 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.29%) Kibana
10 4 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.29%) WSUS
11 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.22%) OPNET
11 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 180 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 68 (4.95%) SAP
3 48 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.35%) Oracle
5 35 (2.55%) VMware
6 30 (2.18%) Atlassian
7 25 (1.82%) Cisco
8 19 (1.38%) Google
9 18 (1.31%) Splunk
10 16 (1.17%) BT
11 15 (1.09%) Cadence
12 13 (0.95%) Adobe
12 13 (0.95%) Dell
13 11 (0.80%) Databricks
13 11 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.80%) Sparx
14 9 (0.66%) HP
14 9 (0.66%) IBM
14 9 (0.66%) Siemens
15 8 (0.58%) Sun