Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North of England

Continual Improvement
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 55 67
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 177 207 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.83% 3.68% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.06% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 134 177
10th Percentile £372 £365 £275
25th Percentile £460 £476 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £740
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 5
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.85 £19.75
25th Percentile £24.76 £23.15 £25.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £40.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +50.28% +56.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.35 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.38 £72.68 £51.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +79.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,945 5,094 6,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.39% 90.48% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,502 4,614
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 264
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £37.07
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North of England

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
North West +24 104 £525 +1.94% 245
Yorkshire -8 55 £500 -9.09% 144
North East +4 18 £554 -1.99% 52
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.52%) CATIA
4 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.52%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.52%) Teamcenter
2 5 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) SAP AFS
4 1 (0.56%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.56%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.73%) Power Platform
2 15 (8.47%) Azure
3 13 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (5.65%) AWS
5 9 (5.08%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.82%) OCI
8 3 (1.69%) GCP
8 3 (1.69%) IaaS
9 2 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.13%) CloudBees
9 2 (1.13%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.56%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.56%) PaaS
10 1 (0.56%) SaaS
10 1 (0.56%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) LTE
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) Power BI
2 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.69%) Metadata
5 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.56%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.08%) JIRA
2 6 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.26%) Git
4 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.69%) ERwin
4 3 (1.69%) Postman
4 3 (1.69%) Selenium
5 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) Hudson
5 2 (1.13%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.56%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.56%) Gatling
6 1 (0.56%) GoCD
6 1 (0.56%) Gradle
6 1 (0.56%) Pa11y
6 1 (0.56%) Subversion
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Finance
3 19 (10.73%) Manufacturing
4 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.65%) Banking
6 9 (5.08%) Retail
7 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.39%) Marketing
9 5 (2.82%) Law
9 5 (2.82%) Legal
10 4 (2.26%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.69%) Billing
11 3 (1.69%) Electronics
12 2 (1.13%) Automotive
12 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.21%) Lead
2 23 (12.99%) Analyst
3 17 (9.60%) Senior
4 15 (8.47%) Test Engineer
5 12 (6.78%) Architect
5 12 (6.78%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (6.21%) Developer
6 11 (6.21%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.08%) IT Manager
8 8 (4.52%) Programme Manager
8 8 (4.52%) Support Team Leader
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Team Leader
9 7 (3.95%) Test Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.26%) Coordinator
12 4 (2.26%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) .NET
2 4 (2.26%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.13%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.13%) Middleware
3 2 (1.13%) React
4 1 (0.56%) Akka
4 1 (0.56%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.56%) CSS
4 1 (0.56%) Dagger
4 1 (0.56%) HTML
4 1 (0.56%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (0.56%) Kafka
4 1 (0.56%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) Web Services
4 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.78%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.82%) Life Science
3 5 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.26%) CMDB
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.69%) NHS
5 3 (1.69%) Wiki
6 2 (1.13%) CCTV
6 2 (1.13%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.13%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.13%) SCADA
6 2 (1.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Blog
7 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
1 3 (1.69%) Linux
1 3 (1.69%) Windows
2 2 (1.13%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.25%) Agile
2 48 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.60%) Project Management
4 21 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (11.86%) Decision-Making
4 21 (11.86%) DevOps
5 20 (11.30%) Project Delivery
5 20 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (11.30%) Test Automation
6 18 (10.17%) Change Management
6 18 (10.17%) Service Management
7 17 (9.60%) ITIL
7 17 (9.60%) Process Improvement
7 17 (9.60%) Scrum
8 16 (9.04%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.47%) Programme Management
10 14 (7.91%) Configuration Management
10 14 (7.91%) Validation
10 14 (7.91%) Waterfall
11 13 (7.34%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.73%) SQL
2 15 (8.47%) Python
3 9 (5.08%) Java
4 8 (4.52%) C#
5 4 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.13%) Groovy
6 2 (1.13%) Scala
6 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.56%) PHP
7 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (11.86%) Degree
2 13 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.26%) PMP
6 3 (1.69%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.69%) OSCP
7 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.13%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) CCNA
8 1 (0.56%) CCNP
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.56%) HNC
8 1 (0.56%) HND
8 1 (0.56%) ISEB
8 1 (0.56%) MCSE
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.47%) QA
2 13 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 11 (6.21%) PMO
4 10 (5.65%) GDPR
5 6 (3.39%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.82%) GAMP
6 5 (2.82%) GxP
7 4 (2.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.13%) GRC
8 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (1.13%) ISO17020
8 2 (1.13%) SLA
9 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (3.95%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.39%) Ansible
2 6 (3.39%) Terraform
3 4 (2.26%) Grafana
3 4 (2.26%) Puppet
4 3 (1.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.65%) SAP
3 8 (4.52%) Siemens
4 6 (3.39%) Oracle
4 6 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.82%) Pega
6 4 (2.26%) Cadence
7 3 (1.69%) Google
7 3 (1.69%) Sparx
8 2 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.13%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) Ariba
9 1 (0.56%) Brio
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco
9 1 (0.56%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.56%) Sophos