Continuous Improvement Contracts in Portsmouth

Continual Improvement
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 45 38
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 6.50% 0.33% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 0.38% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £569 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £589 £525
% change year-on-year -4.50% +12.19% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.50 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% -25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £438 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £574
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 100 22
10th Percentile £40.88 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.88 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.44 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £66.88 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) RF Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (62.50%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) SysML
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
3 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Juniper