Continuous Improvement Contracts in Leeds

Continual Improvement
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 31 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 29 26 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.24% 3.25% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 3.76% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 37
10th Percentile £314 £435 £501
25th Percentile £389 - £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +13.58%
75th Percentile £491 £578 £743
90th Percentile £584 £599 £750
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -17.79% -6.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £70.00
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Leeds

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Leeds

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (13.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.45%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.45%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.45%) Asana
3 1 (3.45%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.45%) Figma
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Tableau
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (13.79%) Finance
6 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Service Manager
2 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Contracts Manager
4 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Agile Coach
6 2 (6.90%) Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Information Assurance Leader
6 2 (6.90%) PMO Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Operations Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Designer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) UI Designer
7 1 (3.45%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) D3.js
1 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.45%) React
1 1 (3.45%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) NHS
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.45%) PMI
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
2 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) ITIL
5 7 (24.14%) Change Management
5 7 (24.14%) Service Management
5 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (24.14%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.69%) Scrum
6 6 (20.69%) SIAM
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
7 5 (17.24%) Kanban
7 5 (17.24%) Project Management
7 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
7 5 (17.24%) User Experience
8 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 4 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (13.79%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (13.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
1 1 (3.45%) C#
1 1 (3.45%) Python
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.90%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) CBAP
4 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) MBA
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) PMO
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.90%) Dell
2 2 (6.90%) Veritas
3 1 (3.45%) Ariba
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) BMC
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) SAP