Continuous Improvement Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Continual Improvement
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 11 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.93% 7.14% 10.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 8.47% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 29
10th Percentile £304 £383 £350
25th Percentile £431 £413 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -5.75% +6.60%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £573
90th Percentile £605 £590 £580
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £519 £554 £565
% change year-on-year -6.32% -1.99% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £23.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Newcastle upon Tyne

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (27.27%) OpenEdge
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.09%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Coach
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce