Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Continual Improvement
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 9 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 3.27% 7.14% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 8.05% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £202 -
25th Percentile £413 £205 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £210 £160
Median % change year-on-year +102.38% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £438 £215 -
90th Percentile - £604 -
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £349 £495
% change year-on-year +17.56% -29.55% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.36 - -
25th Percentile £20.51 - -
Median hourly rate £20.90 - £65.00
75th Percentile £21.16 - -
90th Percentile £21.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.90 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.20% -23.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 117 87 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 76.47% 88.78% 84.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 65 111
10th Percentile £132 £187 £130
25th Percentile £250 £300 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £436 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -3.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £503 £575
90th Percentile £638 £646 £705
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £445 £481
% change year-on-year -5.62% -7.48% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £17.05 - £12.80
25th Percentile £20.51 £23.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.15 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £29.31 £24.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.25 - £57.80
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.39
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.85% +32.20%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Leicester -2 3 £425 +102.38% 13
Loughborough - 1 - - 3
Lutterworth - 1 - - 3
Continuous Improvement
East Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Application Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (20.00%) Infographics
2 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SEO
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) SAP