Continuous Improvement Contracts in Northampton

Continual Improvement
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 19 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 15 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 8.77% 6.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 7.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 0
10th Percentile £291 £386 -
25th Percentile £340 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £622 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.60% - -
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile £425 £645 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £357 £622 £575
% change year-on-year -42.60% +8.17% +57.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 155 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.15% 95.09% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 124 89
10th Percentile £260 £355 £163
25th Percentile £326 £370 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £464 £575 £500
90th Percentile £525 £620 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.13% +11.25% -12.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £16.04 - -
25th Percentile £19.48 - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +73.59%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Northampton

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Northampton

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northampton over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Northampton

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (6.67%) CICS
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Mule
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Asana
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Looker
2 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
2 3 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 3 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) REST
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) jQuery
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
2 2 (13.33%) OAuth
2 2 (13.33%) OpenID
2 2 (13.33%) RAML
2 2 (13.33%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) J2EE
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Swagger
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) PMI
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Rocky
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) User Stories
3 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) User Experience
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Business Case
4 3 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Coaching
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) COBOL
3 1 (6.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) COREP
1 2 (13.33%) FINREP
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco