Continuous Improvement Contracts in Glasgow

Continual Improvement
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 33 44 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 52 38 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.52% 4.33% 6.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 4.71% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 43
10th Percentile £356 £351 £351
25th Percentile £401 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £497 £538 £586
90th Percentile £553 £698 £617
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Glasgow

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Glasgow

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Glasgow

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Glasgow

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (5.77%) JBoss
1 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
1 3 (5.77%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.85%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) IaaS
2 8 (15.38%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) Azure
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.85%) OCI
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) DHCP
1 5 (9.62%) DNS
2 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.77%) BGP
3 3 (5.77%) Firewall
3 3 (5.77%) LAN
3 3 (5.77%) Network Security
3 3 (5.77%) OSPF
3 3 (5.77%) VPN
3 3 (5.77%) WAN
3 3 (5.77%) Wireless
4 1 (1.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
1 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) DB2
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 25 (48.08%) Finance
2 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 19 (36.54%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (30.77%) Banking
5 9 (17.31%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) Front Office
8 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Marketing
8 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Scrum Master
2 9 (17.31%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Java Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Incident Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Business Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) Spring
2 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.77%) CSS
3 3 (5.77%) React
4 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.85%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (3.85%) JMS
4 2 (3.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) J2EE
5 1 (1.92%) Java EE
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) RAML
5 1 (1.92%) REST
5 1 (1.92%) SOAP
5 1 (1.92%) Web Services
5 1 (1.92%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 7 (13.46%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.62%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.85%) Clustering
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.92%) Equities
6 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Windows
3 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.85%) AIX
4 2 (3.85%) Solaris
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 21 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.00%) Scrum
4 11 (21.15%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (17.31%) Kanban
5 9 (17.31%) Project Management
6 8 (15.38%) Investment Management
6 8 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 8 (15.38%) Wealth Management
7 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
7 7 (13.46%) Conflict Resolution
7 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
7 7 (13.46%) SDLC
8 6 (11.54%) Backlog Management
8 6 (11.54%) DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) Incident Management
8 6 (11.54%) Risk Management
9 5 (9.62%) ITIL
9 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Java
2 5 (9.62%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.77%) Python
5 2 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) CCNP
2 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) CISM
3 1 (1.92%) CISSP
3 1 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) ISACA
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.92%) SSCP
3 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) FortiGate
2 3 (5.77%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) CASB
3 2 (3.85%) Data Guard
3 2 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) ServiceNow
2 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) Dynatrace
4 4 (7.69%) Oracle
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco
5 3 (5.77%) Juniper
5 3 (5.77%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.77%) Splunk
6 2 (3.85%) Dell
6 2 (3.85%) IBM
6 2 (3.85%) Sybase
7 1 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.92%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Spotify
7 1 (1.92%) VMware