Continuous Improvement Contracts in Knutsford

Continual Improvement
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 11 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 21 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 14.38% - 9.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.69% - 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 9
10th Percentile £335 - £439
25th Percentile £358 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.60%
75th Percentile £508 - £680
90th Percentile £559 - £691
Cheshire median daily rate £497 £590 £515
% change year-on-year -15.76% +14.56% +31.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 98 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.95% 90.74% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 90 115
10th Percentile £341 £362 £342
25th Percentile £358 £401 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -7.95% +19.05%
75th Percentile £492 £598 £621
90th Percentile £537 £627 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) CICS
2 1 (4.76%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (19.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Analyst
1 9 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Scrum Master
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Business Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) CyberArk Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Java Scrum Master
5 1 (4.76%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) EJB
2 1 (4.76%) J2EE
2 1 (4.76%) JSP
2 1 (4.76%) RAML
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) Servlets
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (28.57%) CMDB
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 6 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 6 (28.57%) Focus Group
5 6 (28.57%) ITSM
5 6 (28.57%) Service Management
5 6 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
6 5 (23.81%) SDLC
6 5 (23.81%) Servant Leadership
6 5 (23.81%) Service Catalogue
6 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Identification
7 4 (19.05%) Budget Control
7 4 (19.05%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CBAP
3 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) COREP
1 2 (9.52%) FINREP
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle