Continuous Improvement Contracts in Northern Ireland

Continual Improvement
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 20 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 12 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.55% 2.01% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 2.65% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £528 £253 -
25th Percentile £582 £316 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £163
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +161.54% -67.50%
75th Percentile £659 £536 £284
90th Percentile £699 £602 £354
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.88% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 113 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 80
10th Percentile £154 £212 £165
25th Percentile £295 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £660 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Northern Ireland

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim 0 12 £625 +197.62% 29
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (8.33%) GIS
1 1 (8.33%) UniData
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Legal
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 4 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Information Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) GIS Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) GIS Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Line Management
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (8.33%) Culture Change
3 1 (8.33%) Data Collection
3 1 (8.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (8.33%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CISM
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
1 2 (16.67%) CRISC
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) GRC
1 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) QA
1 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft