Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Continual Improvement
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 31 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 15 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.02% 4.56% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 5.31% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £410 £460 £400
25th Percentile £475 £488 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £462
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +29.90% -7.62%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £499
90th Percentile £820 £665 £800
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £531 £600 £478
% change year-on-year -11.46% +25.40% -13.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 245 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 92.37% 85.96% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 180 479
10th Percentile £228 £250 £318
25th Percentile £329 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% -6.38% +0.05%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £600
90th Percentile £629 £625 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £430 £463 £510
% change year-on-year -7.03% -9.31% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £14.71 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £19.98 £13.17
Median hourly rate £23.81 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +121.08% +10.24%
75th Percentile £29.61 £36.37 £20.25
90th Percentile - £37.25 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.94 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -40.22% +82.93% +19.27%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Milton Keynes

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Milton Keynes

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Figma
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) UI Automator
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Service Transition Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Service Design Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Service Transition Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Transition Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Director
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (13.33%) UI Developer
3 2 (13.33%) UI/UX Developer
3 2 (13.33%) UX Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Ajax
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (13.33%) Vue
1 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (20.00%) ITSM
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (20.00%) Service Design
4 3 (20.00%) UX Design
5 2 (13.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CEH
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) JDA
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk