Continuous Improvement Contracts in Hertfordshire

Continual Improvement
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 36
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 23 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.82% 5.06% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 5.74% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £460 £450 £341
25th Percentile £488 £488 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £550
90th Percentile £703 £590 £583
East of England median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 34 10
10th Percentile £61.50 - £55.50
25th Percentile £68.13 £61.25 £57.19
Median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% - +32.65%
75th Percentile £74.69 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - £65.38
East of England median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.62% - +32.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 732 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.10% 88.19% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 255 345
10th Percentile £383 £231 £244
25th Percentile £450 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £701 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 316 148
10th Percentile £17.61 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.00 £53.42
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -20.32% +25.50%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.66 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -3.35% +81.82% +41.94%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Hertfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Stevenage -2 12 £500 - 13
Hatfield +12 6 £550 +4.76% 9
Welwyn Garden City - 2 - - 15
Watford +10 1 - - 16
Continuous Improvement
East of England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (4.35%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP LE
1 2 (8.70%) SAP WM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP MM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
2 1 (4.35%) OCI
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Back Office
4 2 (8.70%) Billing
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Network Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Service Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) IT Manager
4 3 (13.04%) IT Services Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Junior
5 2 (8.70%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Logistics Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Service Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) SAP PI
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
1 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
1 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (26.09%) Contract Management
3 5 (21.74%) Business Transformation
3 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
3 5 (21.74%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Service Management
5 3 (13.04%) Change Management
5 3 (13.04%) Cross-Platform Development
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.04%) ERP
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) Logistics
5 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Python
1 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) GCIA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.35%) MCSA
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ITGC
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Anaplan
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Spotify
3 1 (4.35%) Tagetik