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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 14 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.57% 7.61% 13.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 8.82% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 25
10th Percentile £338 £384 £350
25th Percentile £506 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.40% +2.73%
75th Percentile £569 £567 £578
90th Percentile £573 £590 £580
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £533 £565
% change year-on-year -1.41% -5.75% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £17.30
25th Percentile £13.37 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £13.49 £23.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £13.61 - £20.06
90th Percentile - - £20.18
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.49 £23.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -41.35% +21.05% +8.57%

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 178 170 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.57% 86.29% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 85 163
10th Percentile £219 £335 £350
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -15.93% +7.62%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £650
90th Percentile £625 £635 £750
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £560
% change year-on-year -5.26% -15.18% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £18.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £19.13 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £47.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -63.58% +140.51% +24.53%
75th Percentile £20.30 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £33.18 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.82% -1.27% +24.53%

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 30 June 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 (21.43%) OpenEdge
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Coach
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service Representative
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
4 2 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) CAFM
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Facilities Management
4 2 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery Management
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce