Continuous Improvement Contracts in the Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 77 67
Rank change year-on-year +42 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 125 93 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.56% 2.69% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 3.04% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 53 129
10th Percentile £254 £310 £255
25th Percentile £269 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +13.51% +15.63%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £743 £703
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 2
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.78
25th Percentile £20.53 - £14.56
Median hourly rate £28.46 £22.41 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% +33.79% -34.31%
75th Percentile £36.88 - £19.56
90th Percentile £72.90 - £20.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +67.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,057 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.38% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,131 3,302
10th Percentile £236 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 120 155
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +21 75 £550 +4.76% 181
East Midlands +44 47 £269 -56.08% 95
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (1.60%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.40%) SAP MII
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.60%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.60%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.60%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.60%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.60%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.80%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.00%) Azure
2 9 (7.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.40%) AWS
4 3 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (2.40%) dbt
5 2 (1.60%) GCP
5 2 (1.60%) Serverless
5 2 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.80%) IaaS
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.80%) PaaS
6 1 (0.80%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.80%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) Intranet
1 3 (2.40%) VPN
2 2 (1.60%) Broadband
2 2 (1.60%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.40%) Power BI
2 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.20%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.40%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.40%) OLAP
5 2 (1.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.60%) Metadata
5 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.60%) OLTP
5 2 (1.60%) Power Query
5 2 (1.60%) Tableau
6 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.80%) Big Data
6 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.80%) MySQL
6 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) kappa
General
1 69 (55.20%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (23.20%) Finance
3 15 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.20%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.60%) Legal
6 5 (4.00%) Automotive
6 5 (4.00%) German Language
7 4 (3.20%) Banking
7 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.40%) Marketing
8 3 (2.40%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Electronics
9 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Local Government
9 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 21 (16.80%) Analyst
2 17 (13.60%) Architect
3 16 (12.80%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Lead
5 7 (5.60%) ForgeRock Architect
5 7 (5.60%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (5.60%) Team Leader
5 7 (5.60%) Test Manager
6 6 (4.80%) Consultant
7 5 (4.00%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.00%) Production Manager
7 5 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (4.00%) Service Manager
8 4 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.20%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.20%) Technical Manager
9 3 (2.40%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (2.40%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) LDAP
1 7 (5.60%) OAuth
1 7 (5.60%) OpenID
1 7 (5.60%) SAML
2 6 (4.80%) ADO
3 3 (2.40%) Flask
3 3 (2.40%) Pandas
4 2 (1.60%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.80%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (0.80%) gRPC
5 1 (0.80%) Jest
5 1 (0.80%) JMS
5 1 (0.80%) NestJS
5 1 (0.80%) Next.js
5 1 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.80%) RAML
5 1 (0.80%) React
5 1 (0.80%) Redux
5 1 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.00%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (4.00%) IoT
3 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.40%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.60%) NHS
5 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.60%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.80%) CMDB
6 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.80%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Linux
1 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.20%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (27.20%) Agile
3 31 (24.80%) Decision-Making
4 23 (18.40%) Conflict Management
4 23 (18.40%) Time Management
5 22 (17.60%) Project Management
6 21 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (14.40%) Asset Management
8 17 (13.60%) Roadmaps
9 15 (12.00%) Critical Thinking
9 15 (12.00%) People Management
10 13 (10.40%) Business Case
10 13 (10.40%) Project Delivery
11 12 (9.60%) Change Management
12 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.80%) Business Transformation
13 9 (7.20%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (7.20%) Migration
13 9 (7.20%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (6.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.80%) SQL
2 5 (4.00%) Python
3 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.60%) Java
4 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.80%) Scala
4 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Degree
2 16 (12.80%) HNC
2 16 (12.80%) HND
3 8 (6.40%) NVQ Level 3
4 6 (4.80%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (2.40%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.80%) APMP
7 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.80%) CBAP
7 1 (0.80%) CIPD
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) IIBA
7 1 (0.80%) ISEB
7 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 3 (2.40%) ISO17020
2 3 (2.40%) PMO
3 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.60%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (12.00%) SAP
2 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.60%) ForgeRock
4 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.80%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.80%) Cadence
6 1 (0.80%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.80%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.80%) UiPath