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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 25 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 14.04% - 9.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% - 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 9
10th Percentile £338 - £439
25th Percentile £358 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.38%
75th Percentile £508 - £680
90th Percentile £530 - £691
Cheshire median daily rate £469 £590 £515
% change year-on-year -20.51% +14.56% +30.38%

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 175 103 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 98.31% 91.15% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 95 107
10th Percentile £338 £353 £407
25th Percentile £358 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.92%
75th Percentile £492 £606 £606
90th Percentile £537 £669 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £492 £494
% change year-on-year -9.10% -0.41% +9.72%

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 20 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) CICS
3 1 (4.00%) JBoss
3 1 (4.00%) Mule
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (28.00%) Banking
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
1 10 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Scrum Master
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Payments Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) J2EE
1 2 (8.00%) RAML
1 2 (8.00%) Spring
1 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) EJB
2 1 (4.00%) JSP
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) Servlets
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Swagger
2 1 (4.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) CMDB
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) Scrum
3 9 (36.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (32.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (32.00%) Test Strategy
5 7 (28.00%) Business Analysis
5 7 (28.00%) Focus Group
5 7 (28.00%) ITSM
5 7 (28.00%) Service Management
5 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (24.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (24.00%) Service Catalogue
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Identification
7 5 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (20.00%) SDLC
7 5 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
8 4 (16.00%) Budget Control
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) COBOL
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CBAP
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) COREP
1 2 (8.00%) FINREP
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) PSD2
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx