Continuous Improvement Contracts in Reading

Continual Improvement
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 36 42 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 24 50 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.02% 4.19% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.65% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 16
10th Percentile £381 £460 £362
25th Percentile £416 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £659 £688 £644
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.14 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.00 £60.14 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.90% +200.70% -60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Reading

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Reading

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Reading

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Reading

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (4.17%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) SonarCloud
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) DMS-100
2 1 (4.17%) FTP
2 1 (4.17%) ISUP
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (8.33%) Snyk
2 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.33%) Electronics
6 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (12.50%) Azure Developer
1 3 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (12.50%) Developer
1 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
1 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
2 2 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Data Compliance Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (8.33%) Security Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Senior Tester
2 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) React
2 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (8.33%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Product Backlog
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.50%) Microservices
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 3 (12.50%) SDLC
5 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Data Integration
6 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.33%) Data Validation
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.33%) OWASP
6 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 2 (8.33%) Release Management
6 2 (8.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) APMP
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) P3O
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) BT
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Remedy
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) BMC
3 1 (4.17%) IFS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) VMware