Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Northumberland

Continual Improvement
North East > Northumberland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northumberland requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northumberland 40.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North East median daily rate £475 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -20.83% +12.15% -5.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5 21 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northumberland 100.00% 100.00% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
North East median daily rate £450 £498 £450
% change year-on-year -9.55% +10.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -
North East median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +159.46% -59.94% +29.17%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Northumberland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northumberland.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Northumberland

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northumberland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) VMware