Continuous Improvement Contracts in Manchester

Continual Improvement
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 35 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 36 63 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.03% 4.40% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 5.09% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 30
10th Percentile £311 £391 £346
25th Percentile £375 £431 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -1.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £543 £595 £597
90th Percentile £783 £649 £743
North West median daily rate £467 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -11.05% +3.45% +2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - +256.08% -43.83%
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £31.86
% change year-on-year -32.35% +33.39% -8.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 795 1,238 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.51% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 845 1,196
10th Percentile £313 £313 £315
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +52.36%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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
Salford -4 3 £800 - 14
Stockport -4 1 £501 -8.91% 11
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) AWS
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
2 2 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) EDRMS
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Law
5 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Legal
7 2 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Military
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Lead
1 5 (13.89%) Test Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Developer
2 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Product Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Programme Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) SAP Architect
4 2 (5.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Data Scientist
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Head of Business Change
5 1 (2.78%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.78%) Records Management Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) NestJS
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (30.56%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) Change Management
3 10 (27.78%) Project Management
4 9 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 8 (22.22%) ITIL
5 8 (22.22%) PRINCE2
5 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (19.44%) Service Management
6 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 6 (16.67%) DevOps
7 6 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (13.89%) Data Transformation
8 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
8 5 (13.89%) Test Strategy
9 4 (11.11%) Customer Experience
9 4 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
9 4 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) R
2 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.11%) PMP
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CIMA
5 1 (2.78%) CISM
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) CRISC
5 1 (2.78%) ISEB
5 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (13.89%) HL7
3 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.56%) GDPR
5 1 (2.78%) COBIT
5 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.78%) NIST
5 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.78%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) Concur
3 2 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.78%) BMC
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.78%) Remedy
4 1 (2.78%) StreamSets