Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Poole

Continual Improvement
Dorset > Poole

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Poole requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Poole 8.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
Dorset median daily rate £409 £475 £175
% change year-on-year -13.89% +171.43% -68.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Poole

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 Poole.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Poole 97.14% 92.86% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £289 £442 £558
25th Percentile £328 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -21.43% +20.43%
75th Percentile £488 - £730
90th Percentile £510 £603 £742
Dorset median daily rate £526 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +10.79% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.50 -
Dorset median hourly rate £61.73 £15.50 £25.18
% change year-on-year +298.27% -38.44% -55.27%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Poole

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Poole

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Poole

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Poole citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Poole citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Poole 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Appium
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Coordinator
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Coordinator
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Budgeting
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft