Continuous Improvement Contracts in Northamptonshire

Continual Improvement
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 11 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 7.53% 7.65% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 8.57% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £348 £409 £433
25th Percentile £356 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £622 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.44% +18.48% +31.25%
75th Percentile £391 - £588
90th Percentile £414 £645 £618
East Midlands median daily rate £382 £269 £613
% change year-on-year +41.91% -56.08% +53.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Northamptonshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Northamptonshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Northamptonshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Northampton -3 11 £358 -42.44% 54
Continuous Improvement
East Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Asana
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (27.27%) Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) Coordinator
2 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) CentOS
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Rocky
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) User Stories
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Business Case
4 3 (27.27%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Product Management
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
4 3 (27.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
1 3 (27.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) COREP
1 2 (18.18%) FINREP
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft