Continuous Improvement Contracts in Preston

Continual Improvement
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 10 10 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 8 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 11.59% 10.91% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 12.00% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £406 -
25th Percentile £390 £486 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £593 £481
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% +23.26% -1.02%
75th Percentile £410 £703 -
90th Percentile - £745 -
Lancashire median daily rate £400 £624 £466
% change year-on-year -35.89% +34.03% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.99
25th Percentile £26.88 - £38.46
Median hourly rate £28.75 - £42.16
75th Percentile £30.63 - £49.20
90th Percentile £37.01 - £51.69
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -17.86% -16.97% +18.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 50 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 92.75% 90.91% 98.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 28
10th Percentile £350 £356 £303
25th Percentile £447 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £571 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +30.62% +4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £743 £532
90th Percentile £630 £981 £771
Lancashire median daily rate £533 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 39
10th Percentile £24.76 £12.20 £23.60
25th Percentile £26.88 - £29.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -62.21% +6.99%
75th Percentile £31.07 £19.05 £49.52
90th Percentile £43.39 £46.18 £54.03
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Preston

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Preston

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Preston

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Preston

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Preston over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Budget Management
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Prism
2 1 (12.50%) Nintex