Continuous Improvement Contracts in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 44 40 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 83 104 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.11% 4.69% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 5.30% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 65 147
10th Percentile £350 £326 £269
25th Percentile £406 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £544 £538 £590
90th Percentile £589 £618 £634
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.88% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £20.94 £61.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.95% - -
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £39.48 £57.99
% change year-on-year +2.82% -31.93% +30.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 52 £441 -2.65% 70
Edinburgh -10 23 £525 +22.09% 61
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 - - 1
West Lothian -1 1 - - 3
Stirling - 1 £463 - 1
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (3.61%) JBoss
1 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
1 3 (3.61%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.20%) TPMS
3 1 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) Azure
2 13 (15.66%) IaaS
3 10 (12.05%) AWS
4 5 (6.02%) Azure AKS
4 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.82%) PaaS
6 3 (3.61%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.61%) OCI
6 3 (3.61%) SaaS
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.41%) GCP
7 2 (2.41%) GitHub
7 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.20%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.20%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) DHCP
1 5 (6.02%) DNS
1 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.82%) Network Security
3 3 (3.61%) BGP
3 3 (3.61%) Firewall
3 3 (3.61%) LAN
3 3 (3.61%) OSPF
3 3 (3.61%) VPN
3 3 (3.61%) WAN
3 3 (3.61%) Wireless
4 1 (1.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.41%) DB2
6 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Essbase
6 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.20%) Power Query
6 1 (1.20%) Redis
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) JUnit
3 3 (3.61%) Git
4 2 (2.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.20%) MSTest
5 1 (1.20%) NUnit
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.20%) Postman
5 1 (1.20%) Ranorex
5 1 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 39 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.94%) Finance
3 25 (30.12%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (26.51%) Banking
5 10 (12.05%) Investment Banking
5 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.20%) Front Office
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Analyst
2 10 (12.05%) Developer
2 10 (12.05%) Scrum Master
3 9 (10.84%) Senior
4 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Incident Manager
6 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.61%) Administrator
7 3 (3.61%) Database Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Designer
7 3 (3.61%) Lead
7 3 (3.61%) Network Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) Business Manager
8 2 (2.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (2.41%) Security Specialist
8 2 (2.41%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) Spring
2 4 (4.82%) React
2 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.61%) .NET
3 3 (3.61%) CSS
3 3 (3.61%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.41%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (2.41%) JMS
4 2 (2.41%) JSON
4 2 (2.41%) REST
4 2 (2.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.41%) YAML
5 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.20%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.20%) Kafka
5 1 (1.20%) Node.js
5 1 (1.20%) Playwright
5 1 (1.20%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.43%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (7.23%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.61%) Clustering
5 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Replication
6 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.87%) Linux
2 10 (12.05%) Windows
3 7 (8.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.61%) AIX
4 3 (3.61%) Solaris
4 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) Agile
2 30 (36.14%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.48%) Scrum
4 14 (16.87%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
5 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
6 11 (13.25%) Kanban
6 11 (13.25%) Project Management
6 11 (13.25%) SDLC
6 11 (13.25%) Service Delivery
7 10 (12.05%) Risk Management
8 9 (10.84%) DevOps
8 9 (10.84%) Incident Management
8 9 (10.84%) ITIL
8 9 (10.84%) Wealth Management
9 8 (9.64%) Data Protection
9 8 (9.64%) Investment Management
9 8 (9.64%) Problem Management
10 7 (8.43%) High Availability
10 7 (8.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.66%) Java
2 12 (14.46%) SQL
3 8 (9.64%) Python
4 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.61%) C#
8 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) CCNP
2 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (3.61%) CISSP
3 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.41%) CEH
3 2 (2.41%) GCIH
3 2 (2.41%) IIBA
3 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.41%) NVQ Level 3
3 2 (2.41%) OSCP
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) ISACA
4 1 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) QA
2 5 (6.02%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Grafana
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Data Guard
3 3 (3.61%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.61%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (2.41%) CASB
4 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.41%) Terraform
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.48%) ServiceNow
3 9 (10.84%) Dynatrace
3 9 (10.84%) Oracle
4 5 (6.02%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.82%) Splunk
6 3 (3.61%) Cisco
6 3 (3.61%) Dell
6 3 (3.61%) Juniper
6 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.41%) Google
7 2 (2.41%) IBM
7 2 (2.41%) Sybase
7 2 (2.41%) VMware
8 1 (1.20%) Databricks
8 1 (1.20%) Fiserv
8 1 (1.20%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.20%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.20%) Qualys
8 1 (1.20%) Salesforce