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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 23 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 32 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.49% 5.73% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 6.44% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 3
10th Percentile £305 £371 £388
25th Percentile £340 £395 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £622 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +18.48% +39.07%
75th Percentile £360 - £588
90th Percentile £429 £645 £618
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £622 £605
% change year-on-year -42.44% +2.85% +54.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.48 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.90 £48.48 -
% change year-on-year -56.88% - -

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 292 233 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.74% 88.93% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 180 138
10th Percentile £268 £355 £213
25th Percentile £346 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -1.11% -3.33%
75th Percentile £447 £550 £559
90th Percentile £525 £613 £606
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile £17.57 £27.73 £32.41
25th Percentile - £34.67 £50.50
Median hourly rate £21.39 £48.48 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.87% -4.95% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £55.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £58.14 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £18.16 £44.75
% change year-on-year +3.91% -59.42% +108.14%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 August 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 31 £356 -42.77% 15
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 3 (9.38%) CICS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) JBoss
2 1 (3.13%) Mule
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.13%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DHCP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DB2
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Looker
3 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 6 (18.75%) Selenium
2 5 (15.63%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) REST Assured
3 3 (9.38%) Eclipse
3 3 (9.38%) IntelliJ
3 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Maven
4 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Automation Tester
2 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Product Owner
2 5 (15.63%) Tester
3 4 (12.50%) Digital Product Owner
4 3 (9.38%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Identity Management Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Scrum Master
5 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Change Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) LDAP
1 7 (21.88%) Spring
2 6 (18.75%) Hibernate
2 6 (18.75%) OAuth
2 6 (18.75%) OpenID
2 6 (18.75%) SAML
3 5 (15.63%) REST
4 3 (9.38%) jQuery
5 2 (6.25%) .NET
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.25%) CSS
5 2 (6.25%) HTML
5 2 (6.25%) RAML
6 1 (3.13%) J2EE
6 1 (3.13%) SOAP
6 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Swagger
6 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
3 3 (9.38%) VSAM
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) PMI
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) CentOS
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Rocky
1 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (31.25%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
4 9 (28.13%) Scrum
5 8 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (21.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 7 (21.88%) User Experience
6 7 (21.88%) User Stories
7 6 (18.75%) Business Analysis
7 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
7 6 (18.75%) DevSecOps
7 6 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (18.75%) RBAC
7 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.75%) Test Strategy
8 5 (15.63%) Business Process Modelling
8 5 (15.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (15.63%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) COBOL
3 3 (9.38%) JCL
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) BC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.13%) PMP
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) GDPR
1 6 (18.75%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.25%) COREP
2 2 (6.25%) FINREP
2 2 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) IBM
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco