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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 79 78
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,374 1,562 2,246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.69% 3.08% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.41% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,042 1,465
10th Percentile £325 £376 £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 £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 41 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £22.38 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £39.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +67.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.00 £49.50
90th Percentile - £83.31 £62.93
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -34.21% +34.83% +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 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 596 £550 -5.17% 696
South East +27 230 £525 - 388
North of England +23 176 £525 -4.55% 433
South West +41 155 £500 -13.04% 188
Midlands +42 125 £455 -13.33% 279
North West +34 108 £538 -2.27% 249
West Midlands +21 75 £550 +4.76% 183
East of England +9 63 £513 +2.50% 182
Yorkshire +7 50 £500 -7.41% 146
East Midlands +44 47 £269 -56.08% 96
North East +3 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 48 (3.49%) Confluence
2 45 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.31%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.44%) nginx
6 5 (0.36%) CMS
7 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.29%) govService
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.073%) SAS
10 1 (0.073%) Tornado
10 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 65 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.58%) CATIA
6 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 6 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.44%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.29%) SPSS
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.073%) Simulink
11 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.16%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.58%) DELMIA
4 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
6 4 (0.29%) Primavera
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.22%) SAP MII
7 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.15%) Unica
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.073%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 205 (14.92%) Azure
2 104 (7.57%) AWS
3 83 (6.04%) Power Platform
4 55 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (3.78%) GCP
6 49 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (2.18%) Serverless
9 26 (1.89%) IaaS
10 24 (1.75%) npm
11 22 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 21 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (1.46%) PaaS
13 20 (1.46%) PowerApps
14 18 (1.31%) Azure Functions
14 18 (1.31%) SaaS
15 17 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (1.24%) Azure Stack
16 15 (1.09%) GitHub
16 15 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.84%) Firewall
2 38 (2.77%) Modbus
2 38 (2.77%) RS-422
2 38 (2.77%) 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%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (0.36%) Broadband
10 5 (0.36%) Internet
10 5 (0.36%) WAN
10 5 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.17%) Power BI
2 43 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.38%) Tableau
7 18 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.24%) Metadata
9 10 (0.73%) Big Data
9 10 (0.73%) MySQL
10 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.58%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.51%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.44%) Power Query
13 5 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (0.29%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 141 (10.26%) JIRA
2 56 (4.08%) Git
3 43 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.75%) webpack
5 23 (1.67%) TeamCity
6 13 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.87%) Selenium
8 11 (0.80%) ERwin
9 8 (0.58%) GitLab
10 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.44%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.29%) Maven
12 4 (0.29%) Postman
13 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.22%) Subversion
14 2 (0.15%) Hudson
14 2 (0.15%) JUnit
14 2 (0.15%) kappa
14 2 (0.15%) TestCafe
14 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 589 (42.87%) Social Skills
2 320 (23.29%) Finance
3 315 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.60%) Manufacturing
5 77 (5.60%) Telecoms
6 69 (5.02%) Banking
7 64 (4.66%) Marketing
8 63 (4.59%) Legal
9 57 (4.15%) Electronics
10 51 (3.71%) Front Office
10 51 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
12 44 (3.20%) Retail
13 39 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.46%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.38%) Local Government
16 18 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.95%) Billing
Job Titles
1 169 (12.30%) Analyst
2 154 (11.21%) Lead
3 148 (10.77%) Developer
4 122 (8.88%) Senior
5 84 (6.11%) Architect
6 72 (5.24%) Project Manager
7 63 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
8 54 (3.93%) Software Engineer
9 45 (3.28%) Consultant
10 39 (2.84%) Full Stack Developer
11 36 (2.62%) Business Analyst
12 34 (2.47%) Scrum Master
13 33 (2.40%) C++ Software Engineer
14 31 (2.26%) IT Manager
15 30 (2.18%) Service Manager
16 27 (1.97%) DevOps Engineer
17 26 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
18 24 (1.75%) Programme Manager
19 23 (1.67%) Angular Developer
19 23 (1.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.46%) React
2 42 (3.06%) CSS
3 35 (2.55%) REST
4 33 (2.40%) .NET
5 31 (2.26%) AngularJS
5 31 (2.26%) HTML
6 24 (1.75%) WebSockets
7 23 (1.67%) RxJS
8 20 (1.46%) Redux
9 18 (1.31%) JSON
9 18 (1.31%) XML
10 17 (1.24%) Reactive Extensions
11 15 (1.09%) Node.js
12 14 (1.02%) LDAP
12 14 (1.02%) RESTful
13 13 (0.95%) .NET Core
14 12 (0.87%) WPF
15 11 (0.80%) Kafka
15 11 (0.80%) Web Services
16 10 (0.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 86 (6.26%) Management Information System
3 79 (5.75%) 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
6 19 (1.38%) Wiki
7 18 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 15 (1.09%) Data Centre
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 58 (4.22%) 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%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.44%) Android
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
1 476 (34.64%) Agile
2 350 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
3 241 (17.54%) Project Management
4 232 (16.89%) DevOps
5 167 (12.15%) ITIL
6 162 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 155 (11.28%) Decision-Making
8 142 (10.33%) Roadmaps
9 128 (9.32%) Analytics
9 128 (9.32%) Project Delivery
10 126 (9.17%) Scrum
11 121 (8.81%) Service Management
12 115 (8.37%) Change Management
13 112 (8.15%) Software Engineering
14 111 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
15 101 (7.35%) Mentoring
16 99 (7.21%) User Experience
17 90 (6.55%) CI/CD
17 90 (6.55%) Coaching
18 86 (6.26%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.61%) Python
2 115 (8.37%) SQL
3 113 (8.22%) C#
4 92 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 60 (4.37%) TypeScript
6 57 (4.15%) Java
7 51 (3.71%) C++
8 42 (3.06%) C
8 42 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 28 (2.04%) Bash
10 18 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.09%) Perl
12 12 (0.87%) Scala
13 11 (0.80%) Go
14 9 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.51%) PHP
16 5 (0.36%) Ruby
17 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.29%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 230 (16.74%) Degree
2 226 (16.45%) Security Cleared
3 139 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.53%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.18%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.60%) SANS
10 20 (1.46%) PMP
11 17 (1.24%) CISSP
11 17 (1.24%) HNC
12 16 (1.16%) 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
1 111 (8.08%) QA
2 54 (3.93%) GDPR
3 51 (3.71%) SLA
4 46 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.35%) PMO
5 45 (3.28%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.46%) 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 46 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.91%) 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%) Kubernetes
1 53 (3.86%) Terraform
2 34 (2.47%) Ansible
3 10 (0.73%) Grafana
4 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.58%) SCCM
6 7 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (0.51%) Netcool
6 7 (0.51%) SCOM
6 7 (0.51%) Tivoli
6 7 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.36%) Podman
9 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.29%) Kibana
9 4 (0.29%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.29%) WSUS
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.22%) OPNET
10 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 180 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.02%) SAP
3 46 (3.35%) Oracle
4 44 (3.20%) ServiceNow
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 (1.16%) 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