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

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 56 32 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.10% 4.60% 6.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 5.12% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 45
10th Percentile £310 £358 £385
25th Percentile £368 £377 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £548
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -19.11% +18.41%
75th Percentile £553 £500 £590
90th Percentile £585 £526 £688
Scotland median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -

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 719 625 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.13% 89.80% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 440 534
10th Percentile £300 £259 £339
25th Percentile £370 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £638 £668
Scotland median daily rate £468 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 30
10th Percentile £15.82 £15.13 £12.04
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £13.13
Median hourly rate £19.59 £40.94 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +154.13% -56.96%
75th Percentile £25.68 £42.49 £44.55
90th Percentile £32.47 £61.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%

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 6 August 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 5 (8.93%) JBoss
1 5 (8.93%) WebLogic
2 4 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.36%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) AWS
2 12 (21.43%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
4 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.36%) Datadog
5 3 (5.36%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
6 2 (3.57%) OCI
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) BGP
2 3 (5.36%) LAN
2 3 (5.36%) OSPF
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.36%) VPN
2 3 (5.36%) WAN
2 3 (5.36%) Wireless
3 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) DNS
4 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) MongoDB
1 11 (19.64%) NoSQL
2 9 (16.07%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.36%) DB2
4 3 (5.36%) MySQL
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) JUnit
2 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.93%) Git
3 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) Maven
5 2 (3.57%) GitLab
5 2 (3.57%) Gradle
5 2 (3.57%) Mockito
6 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.79%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (42.86%) Finance
2 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.07%) Banking
5 8 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Senior
3 9 (16.07%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Scrum Master
5 5 (8.93%) Incident Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Agile Product Owner
8 2 (3.57%) Business Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Database Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.57%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) Spring
2 11 (19.64%) React
3 9 (16.07%) AngularJS
3 9 (16.07%) CSS
4 5 (8.93%) Kafka
5 4 (7.14%) REST
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.36%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.36%) JPA
6 3 (5.36%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.36%) OAuth
6 3 (5.36%) OAuth2
6 3 (5.36%) OpenID
6 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.36%) RAML
6 3 (5.36%) SAML
6 3 (5.36%) SOAP
6 3 (5.36%) Web Services
6 3 (5.36%) WSDL
7 2 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Clustering
4 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) CMDB
5 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Windows
3 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.57%) AIX
4 2 (3.57%) Solaris
4 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) Agile
2 19 (33.93%) SDLC
3 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 16 (28.57%) Microservices
5 14 (25.00%) Scrum
6 13 (23.21%) DevOps
6 13 (23.21%) Software Engineering
7 10 (17.86%) Front End Development
7 10 (17.86%) Unit Testing
7 10 (17.86%) Visualisation
8 9 (16.07%) Operational Stability
9 8 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (14.29%) Community of Practice
9 8 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 8 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
9 8 (14.29%) Performance Testing
10 7 (12.50%) Incident Management
10 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) Java
2 11 (19.64%) SQL
3 9 (16.07%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.07%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.14%) Python
5 3 (5.36%) C#
5 3 (5.36%) Go
6 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.79%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) CCNP
2 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) ISACA
3 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (3.57%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Grafana
2 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Terraform
4 3 (5.36%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.57%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.79%) Ansible
6 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle
3 9 (16.07%) ServiceNow
3 9 (16.07%) Splunk
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.36%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.36%) Cisco
5 3 (5.36%) IBM
5 3 (5.36%) Juniper
5 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.36%) Spotify
6 2 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.79%) Genesys
7 1 (1.79%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.79%) SAP
7 1 (1.79%) Workday