Continuous Improvement Contracts in Essex

Continual Improvement
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 15 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.25% 0.45% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 0.56% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £390 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.83% - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
East of England median daily rate £540 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% +2.50% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Essex

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Essex

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Essex

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Essex

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon - 2 £403 - 47
Brentwood - 1 £468 - 1
Thurrock - 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
East of England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Looker
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Local Government
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Category Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) CRM Manager
1 1 (20.00%) CRM Programme Manager
1 1 (20.00%) DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Programmer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Procurement Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Programmer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Programmer
1 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Google