Continuous Improvement Contracts in Oxfordshire

Continual Improvement
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 2 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.89% 5.29% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 6.52% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £360 £265
25th Percentile - £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% -11.36% -19.12%
75th Percentile - £516 £606
90th Percentile - £530 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.69% -
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.33% -6.25% -32.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 92 184 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.79% 81.06% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 146
10th Percentile £250 £150 £263
25th Percentile £355 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £561
90th Percentile £695 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.12 £25.95
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.38 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £58.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Oxfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Oxfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Oxfordshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Kidlington +6 1 £250 -47.37%
Oxford -2 1 - - 56
Continuous Improvement
South East

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (50.00%) CATIA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) CAD Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) CAD Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) CATIA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
1 1 (50.00%) CAD
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) PLM
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds