Continuous Improvement Contracts in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 29 55
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 102 193 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.56% 6.74% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 7.28% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 145 135
10th Percentile £322 £269 £306
25th Percentile £406 £400 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £584
90th Percentile £619 £625 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -34.21% +34.83% +61.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +2 38 £430 -18.10% 26
Glasgow -8 38 £453 -17.64% 48
West Lothian - 16 £520 - 6
Aberdeen - 4 £600 - 21
Lanarkshire +1 1 £500 -16.67% 15
Fife -1 1 £310 +58.97% 8
South Lanarkshire -22 1 £450 +3.75% 2
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 10 (9.80%) Confluence
2 6 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.94%) Apache
3 3 (2.94%) IBM HTTP Server
3 3 (2.94%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (2.94%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.98%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.96%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.98%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.73%) Azure
2 10 (9.80%) AWS
2 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.86%) IaaS
4 6 (5.88%) PaaS
5 5 (4.90%) Canva
6 4 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.92%) SaaS
6 4 (3.92%) Slack
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.94%) iPaaS
7 3 (2.94%) OCI
7 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.94%) Serverless
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) 5G
1 3 (2.94%) HTTP
1 3 (2.94%) LAN
1 3 (2.94%) WAN
2 2 (1.96%) Firewall
2 2 (1.96%) Intranet
3 1 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.98%) Network Security
3 1 (0.98%) SNMP
3 1 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.96%) Power BI
2 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.98%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) JIRA
2 11 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.80%) Cucumber
3 10 (9.80%) Git
3 10 (9.80%) JUnit
3 10 (9.80%) Postman
4 5 (4.90%) IntelliJ
4 5 (4.90%) Maven
4 5 (4.90%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (2.94%) Burp Suite
5 3 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.98%) GitLab
6 1 (0.98%) Gradle
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.98%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.98%) Zephyr
General
1 60 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 30 (29.41%) Finance
3 29 (28.43%) Public Sector
4 22 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Banking
6 7 (6.86%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.90%) Retail
8 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.96%) Billing
10 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (21.57%) Senior
2 21 (20.59%) Developer
3 19 (18.63%) Analyst
4 12 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.84%) Lead
6 8 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Architect
7 6 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Content Manager
9 4 (3.92%) Designer
9 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Data Quality Analyst
10 3 (2.94%) Middleware Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.67%) J2EE
2 15 (14.71%) REST
2 15 (14.71%) Spring
3 13 (12.75%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.78%) Kafka
5 10 (9.80%) Apache Camel
6 7 (6.86%) Web Services
7 6 (5.88%) React
8 4 (3.92%) Spring Batch
9 3 (2.94%) .NET
9 3 (2.94%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.94%) Middleware
10 2 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.98%) CSS
11 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.98%) HTML
11 1 (0.98%) Java EE
11 1 (0.98%) JSON
11 1 (0.98%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.90%) Video Editing
3 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.96%) FMCG
5 2 (1.96%) iPhone
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.98%) iPad
6 1 (0.98%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 6 (5.88%) Windows
3 3 (2.94%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) Android
5 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.18%) Agile
2 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (14.71%) Coaching
4 13 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 12 (11.76%) Scrum
6 11 (10.78%) End-to-End Testing
6 11 (10.78%) Project Management
7 9 (8.82%) Decision-Making
7 9 (8.82%) Project Delivery
7 9 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.84%) Change Management
8 8 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (7.84%) DevOps
8 8 (7.84%) ITIL
8 8 (7.84%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.84%) Scenario Testing
8 8 (7.84%) Service Delivery
8 8 (7.84%) TDD
8 8 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.63%) SQL
2 18 (17.65%) Java
3 11 (10.78%) PL/SQL
4 7 (6.86%) Python
5 3 (2.94%) Bash
6 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.98%) Groovy
7 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.98%) Ruby
7 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Degree
2 7 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.94%) OSCP
4 3 (2.94%) PMP
4 3 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.96%) CISA
5 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.98%) CISM
6 1 (0.98%) CISSP
6 1 (0.98%) CRISC
6 1 (0.98%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (4.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.90%) QA
3 4 (3.92%) PMO
4 3 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.96%) SLA
6 1 (0.98%) COBIT
6 1 (0.98%) GDPR
6 1 (0.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
2 5 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.96%) vSphere
5 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.88%) Terraform
2 5 (4.90%) Kibana
3 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.94%) Ansible
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.98%) Grafana
6 1 (0.98%) Nagios
6 1 (0.98%) OpenView
6 1 (0.98%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 15 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) IBM
3 5 (4.90%) VMware
4 4 (3.92%) Cisco
5 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.96%) Apple
6 2 (1.96%) Dell
6 2 (1.96%) Google
6 2 (1.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.98%) Adobe
7 1 (0.98%) AlienVault
7 1 (0.98%) Ariba
7 1 (0.98%) Facebook
7 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.98%) Mitel
7 1 (0.98%) Progress
7 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.98%) Twitter