Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North West

Continual Improvement
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 39 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 -5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 94 108 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.80% 4.03% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 4.69% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 69 58
10th Percentile £312 £375 £414
25th Percentile £363 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £581 £610 £588
90th Percentile £703 £703 £681
England median daily rate £513 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -2.38% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 8
10th Percentile £20.00 £35.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £26.88 £35.75 £21.58
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £31.86
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +33.39% -8.14%
75th Percentile £43.39 £43.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £55.25 £62.00 £62.37
England median hourly rate £52.63 £36.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +44.18% -36.52% +29.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,767 2,301 2,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.25% 85.89% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,463 1,981
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £391 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 250 137
10th Percentile £16.04 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.92 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.80 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.55% -33.89% +53.99%
75th Percentile £60.75 £46.11 £49.52
90th Percentile £84.73 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -0.85% +50.00%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cheshire +12 47 £469 -20.51% 75
Manchester -22 29 £475 -5.00% 277
Lancashire -2 9 £400 -32.53% 159
Cumbria +7 4 - - 5
Merseyside +1 4 £475 +13.43% 38
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
3 3 (3.19%) JBoss
3 3 (3.19%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.19%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.19%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.13%) CICS
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.06%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (7.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.06%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.38%) AWS
3 5 (5.32%) Azure
4 3 (3.19%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.13%) Figma
5 2 (2.13%) SaaS
5 2 (2.13%) ShareGate
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) Ethernet
1 3 (3.19%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.13%) Firewall
2 2 (2.13%) HTTP
3 1 (1.06%) FlexRay
3 1 (1.06%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) DB2
2 3 (3.19%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.06%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.06%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) JIRA
2 6 (6.38%) Git
3 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.19%) GitLab
5 2 (2.13%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.13%) UI Automator
6 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.06%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.06%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.06%) Maven
6 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.06%) Selenium
6 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Finance
4 9 (9.57%) Banking
5 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.38%) Automotive
6 6 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.38%) Law
7 4 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Legal
9 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.13%) Military
10 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Italian Language
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Analyst
2 16 (17.02%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.70%) Developer
3 11 (11.70%) Senior
4 8 (8.51%) Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Scrum Master
5 7 (7.45%) Administrator
5 7 (7.45%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (7.45%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 6 (6.38%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) Lead
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
7 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Integration Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.19%) SAP Architect
9 3 (3.19%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) Middleware
2 4 (4.26%) J2EE
2 4 (4.26%) RAML
2 4 (4.26%) Spring
2 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.19%) EJB
3 3 (3.19%) JSP
3 3 (3.19%) REST
3 3 (3.19%) Servlets
3 3 (3.19%) SOAP
3 3 (3.19%) Web Services
3 3 (3.19%) WSDL
4 2 (2.13%) Ajax
4 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.13%) CSS
4 2 (2.13%) HTML
4 2 (2.13%) JSON
4 2 (2.13%) Kafka
4 2 (2.13%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.51%) CMDB
2 8 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.32%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (38.30%) Agile
3 24 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (17.02%) Decision-Making
5 16 (17.02%) Scrum
6 14 (14.89%) Process Improvement
6 14 (14.89%) Risk Management
7 13 (13.83%) Service Management
8 12 (12.77%) Project Management
8 12 (12.77%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (11.70%) SDLC
9 11 (11.70%) Test Strategy
10 10 (10.64%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 10 (10.64%) DevOps
10 10 (10.64%) ITIL
11 9 (9.57%) Business Analysis
11 9 (9.57%) Change Management
11 9 (9.57%) ITSM
11 9 (9.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.70%) Java
1 11 (11.70%) SQL
2 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.26%) Python
4 2 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) C++
5 1 (1.06%) COBOL
5 1 (1.06%) JCL
5 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Degree
2 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.26%) PMP
5 3 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.13%) CIMA
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CBAP
7 1 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.06%) CISM
7 1 (1.06%) CISSP
7 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.06%) ISEB
7 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
3 5 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) HL7
4 4 (4.26%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.13%) COREP
5 2 (2.13%) FINREP
5 2 (2.13%) NCSC
5 2 (2.13%) WCAG
6 1 (1.06%) COBIT
6 1 (1.06%) GRC
6 1 (1.06%) IEC 61508
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.06%) NIST
6 1 (1.06%) PSD2
6 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.89%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.38%) SAP
4 5 (5.32%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle
6 3 (3.19%) Concur
6 3 (3.19%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.13%) Blue Prism
7 2 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.13%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.13%) Nintex
7 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) BMC
8 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.06%) Remedy