Continuous Improvement Contracts in the Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 32 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 116 128 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.86% 4.76% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 5.81% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 85 53
10th Percentile £292 £254 £331
25th Percentile £350 £269 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £548
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -13.24% +13.77%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £638
90th Percentile £590 £725 £743
England median daily rate £510 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.08% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 8
10th Percentile - £13.50 £25.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £20.53 £26.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.46 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.04% +3.49% +64.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £36.88 £29.06
90th Percentile - £72.90 £30.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £36.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.99% -27.00% +12.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,203 2,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 81.87% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,485 2,002
10th Percentile £200 £233 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £595 £597
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 170 101
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.68% +28.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.53 £40.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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

Continuous Improvement
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 23 May 2025.

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
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 23 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
West Midlands +7 74 £475 -13.64% 1,025
East Midlands +3 42 £358 +33.09% 723
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 8 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) CICS
4 1 (0.86%) JBoss
4 1 (0.86%) Mule
4 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.72%) Open Workbench
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.86%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.86%) Primavera
3 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.34%) AWS
2 11 (9.48%) Azure
3 8 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.17%) GCP
4 6 (5.17%) SaaS
5 5 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.72%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.72%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.86%) Asana
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.86%) OCI
7 1 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) Firewall
2 3 (2.59%) VPN
2 3 (2.59%) WAN
3 2 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (1.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.86%) 5G
4 1 (0.86%) DHCP
4 1 (0.86%) DKIM
4 1 (0.86%) DMARC
4 1 (0.86%) DNS
4 1 (0.86%) Internet
4 1 (0.86%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.86%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) Power BI
2 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.72%) DB2
4 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.72%) Tableau
5 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.86%) Looker
5 1 (0.86%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) JIRA
2 10 (8.62%) Git
3 6 (5.17%) REST Assured
3 6 (5.17%) Selenium
4 5 (4.31%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.59%) JMeter
5 3 (2.59%) Postman
5 3 (2.59%) TestNG
5 3 (2.59%) Travis CI
6 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.86%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.86%) Maven
7 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.41%) Finance
3 21 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.17%) Automotive
6 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Banking
7 4 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.72%) Billing
8 2 (1.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (12.07%) Lead
2 11 (9.48%) Analyst
3 10 (8.62%) Senior
4 9 (7.76%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (7.76%) Developer
5 6 (5.17%) Tester
6 5 (4.31%) Product Owner
6 5 (4.31%) Service Manager
7 4 (3.45%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.45%) Consultant
7 4 (3.45%) Engagement Manager
7 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.45%) Service Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Customer Support Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Data Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.59%) Support Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) .NET
1 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
2 3 (2.59%) REST
2 3 (2.59%) Spring
3 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.72%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.72%) jQuery
3 2 (1.72%) LDAP
3 2 (1.72%) Node.js
3 2 (1.72%) OAuth
3 2 (1.72%) OpenID
3 2 (1.72%) RAML
3 2 (1.72%) React
3 2 (1.72%) RESTful
3 2 (1.72%) SAML
4 1 (0.86%) ADO
4 1 (0.86%) J2EE
4 1 (0.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.21%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.17%) IoT
4 5 (4.31%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.45%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.72%) CCTV
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) PMI
8 1 (0.86%) CMDB
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) SCADA
8 1 (0.86%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.45%) Linux
1 4 (3.45%) Windows
2 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.86%) CentOS
3 1 (0.86%) Rocky
3 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.07%) Agile
2 32 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (17.24%) Project Management
5 16 (13.79%) Service Delivery
6 15 (12.93%) DevOps
7 14 (12.07%) Change Management
7 14 (12.07%) ITIL
8 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
8 13 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (11.21%) Risk Management
9 12 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (10.34%) Decision-Making
9 12 (10.34%) Scrum
10 11 (9.48%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.48%) Roadmaps
11 10 (8.62%) Coaching
11 10 (8.62%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.76%) Data Analysis
12 9 (7.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.48%) SQL
2 9 (7.76%) Python
3 6 (5.17%) Java
4 5 (4.31%) Bash
5 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.72%) Go
6 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.86%) ABAP
7 1 (0.86%) C#
7 1 (0.86%) COBOL
7 1 (0.86%) JCL
7 1 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Degree
2 11 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.76%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) CISSP
4 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.59%) CEH
5 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.72%) APMP
6 2 (1.72%) CISA
6 2 (1.72%) CISM
6 2 (1.72%) GIAC
6 2 (1.72%) ISACA
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.72%) PMP
6 2 (1.72%) SANS
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.03%) SLA
3 6 (5.17%) GDPR
4 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.45%) PMO
5 2 (1.72%) COREP
5 2 (1.72%) FINREP
5 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.86%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) Firmware
3 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Terraform
3 3 (2.59%) Ansible
3 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.59%) Kibana
4 2 (1.72%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.86%) Grafana
5 1 (0.86%) Podman
5 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Puppet
5 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) SAP
3 7 (6.03%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) Cisco
5 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.59%) Blue Prism
6 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.72%) HP
7 2 (1.72%) IBM
7 2 (1.72%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.72%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.72%) Progress
7 2 (1.72%) Tenable
8 1 (0.86%) Ariba
8 1 (0.86%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.86%) Concur
8 1 (0.86%) Databricks
8 1 (0.86%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.86%) SendGrid