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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 9 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.83% 8.53% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 10.19% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile - £274 -
25th Percentile £225 £291 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -22.22% -1.50%
75th Percentile £476 £438 -
90th Percentile £488 £505 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 108 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 91.30% 83.72% 82.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 50 137
10th Percentile £199 £183 £210
25th Percentile £309 £263 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £497 £575
90th Percentile £529 £575 £647
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 17
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.60 £21.77
25th Percentile - £29.17 £24.62
Median hourly rate £18.87 £75.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -74.84% +71.90% +9.08%
75th Percentile £42.46 £80.00 £76.00
90th Percentile £75.00 - £79.70
East of England median hourly rate £31.20 £43.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -27.44% +117.06% -3.37%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Essex over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Essex

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chelmsford - 3 £225 - 4
Witham - 3 £460 - 1
Basildon -2 1 £485 - 4
Brentwood - 1 £468 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
1 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 3 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Review
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
5 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
5 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Progress
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Google