Continuous Improvement Contracts in Merseyside

Continual Improvement
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 24 27 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.13% 1.89% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 2.52% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £388 £510
25th Percentile - £398 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -23.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £436 -
90th Percentile - £444 -
North West median daily rate £467 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -11.05% +3.45% +2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
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
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 159 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 78.13% 75.00% 86.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 197
10th Percentile £147 £144 £300
25th Percentile £208 £230 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -18.37% +12.97%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £538
90th Percentile £654 £615 £628
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 24 6
10th Percentile £15.35 - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.11 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +14.91% +45.83%
75th Percentile £18.72 £34.80 £25.16
90th Percentile £25.64 £37.18 £28.65
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Merseyside

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Merseyside

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Merseyside

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +3 5 £475 - 117
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) FlexRay
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (40.00%) UI Automator
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (40.00%) UI Developer
1 2 (40.00%) UI/UX Developer
1 2 (40.00%) UX Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Vue
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
2 1 (20.00%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce