Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North West

Continual Improvement
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 75 61
Rank change year-on-year +34 -14 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 110 90 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.95% 2.79% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 3.07% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 53 100
10th Percentile £380 £413 £326
25th Percentile £450 £445 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +13.52% +4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £633
90th Percentile £728 £683 £763
England median daily rate £525 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -6.12% +1.68% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 7
10th Percentile £31.06 £16.85 £28.11
25th Percentile £35.75 £20.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.59% -33.86% +155.80%
75th Percentile £43.75 £44.27 £49.74
90th Percentile £62.00 £48.37 £64.84
England median hourly rate £37.50 £61.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.78% +37.64% +67.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,404 2,934 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.35% 91.06% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 2,091 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.27 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.75 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
Manchester +41 64 £500 -9.09% 129
Cheshire +4 25 £590 +8.26% 38
Lancashire +10 12 £624 +34.03% 42
Merseyside +18 7 £419 -23.86% 25
Cumbria -25 2 £513 - 11
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 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) CATIA
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) DELMIA
1 8 (7.27%) Teamcenter
2 5 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.00%) Azure
1 11 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (8.18%) AWS
3 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (4.55%) OCI
4 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.73%) IaaS
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.91%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.91%) Firebase
6 1 (0.91%) GCP
6 1 (0.91%) Google Play
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.91%) PaaS
6 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.91%) SaaS
6 1 (0.91%) Serverless
6 1 (0.91%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.36%) Power BI
3 4 (3.64%) Metadata
4 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.45%) JIRA
2 4 (3.64%) ERwin
3 3 (2.73%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.82%) Hudson
4 2 (1.82%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.91%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.91%) Gatling
5 1 (0.91%) Git
5 1 (0.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.91%) GoCD
5 1 (0.91%) Gradle
5 1 (0.91%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.91%) Postman
General
1 25 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (20.91%) Finance
4 12 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.55%) Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Electronics
7 4 (3.64%) Law
7 4 (3.64%) Legal
7 4 (3.64%) Marketing
7 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Retail
7 4 (3.64%) Retail Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.91%) Aviation
9 1 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.18%) Lead
2 15 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 14 (12.73%) Senior
4 11 (10.00%) Architect
4 11 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 10 (9.09%) Analyst
6 9 (8.18%) Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Support Team Leader
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Test Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Team Leader
9 5 (4.55%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.55%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 4 (3.64%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) .NET
2 2 (1.82%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.82%) Middleware
3 1 (0.91%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.91%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.91%) Dagger
3 1 (0.91%) HTML
3 1 (0.91%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (0.91%) Material Design
3 1 (0.91%) React
3 1 (0.91%) RESTful
3 1 (0.91%) Shiny
3 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.55%) Life Science
2 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.64%) CMDB
3 4 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.64%) Wiki
4 3 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.82%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.91%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) IoT
6 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.91%) PMI
6 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Kali Linux
1 3 (2.73%) Linux
2 2 (1.82%) Android
2 2 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.27%) Agile
2 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (17.27%) Project Management
3 14 (12.73%) Project Delivery
4 13 (11.82%) Configuration Management
4 13 (11.82%) Programme Management
5 12 (10.91%) Analytics
5 12 (10.91%) DevOps
5 12 (10.91%) Test Automation
5 12 (10.91%) Waterfall
6 11 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (10.00%) Change Management
6 11 (10.00%) Service Management
7 9 (8.18%) Decision-Making
7 9 (8.18%) PLM
7 9 (8.18%) Scrum
7 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.27%) ITSM
8 8 (7.27%) Validation
8 8 (7.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.64%) SQL
2 8 (7.27%) Python
3 7 (6.36%) Java
4 4 (3.64%) C#
5 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.91%) PHP
6 1 (0.91%) R
6 1 (0.91%) Scala
6 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.73%) Degree
2 9 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.73%) OSCP
5 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) CISSP
6 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.91%) HND
6 1 (0.91%) IRCA
6 1 (0.91%) ISEB
6 1 (0.91%) MCSE
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.00%) QA
3 8 (7.27%) GDPR
4 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
5 5 (4.55%) GAMP
5 5 (4.55%) GxP
6 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
6 4 (3.64%) SLA
7 2 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.82%) GRC
7 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (1.82%) ISO17020
7 2 (1.82%) PMO
8 1 (0.91%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.91%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Grafana
1 3 (2.73%) Kibana
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.18%) SAP
3 8 (7.27%) Siemens
4 5 (4.55%) Oracle
4 5 (4.55%) Pega
5 4 (3.64%) Cadence
5 4 (3.64%) Sparx
6 2 (1.82%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.82%) Google
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.82%) VMware
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) Facebook
7 1 (0.91%) Instagram
7 1 (0.91%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.91%) Sophos
7 1 (0.91%) Workday