Continuous Improvement Contracts in Sheffield

Continual Improvement
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 31 36 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 19 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.96% 5.01% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 5.41% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £421 £450 £304
25th Percentile £500 £527 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £743
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -22.61% +23.83%
75th Percentile £600 £588 -
90th Percentile - £638 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £568 £650
% change year-on-year -8.41% -12.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £10.90 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £10.90 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Sheffield

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Sheffield

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Sheffield

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Sheffield

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 4 (21.05%) Cucumber
2 4 (21.05%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Gradle
2 4 (21.05%) HP UFT
2 4 (21.05%) IntelliJ
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) JUnit
2 4 (21.05%) Maven
2 4 (21.05%) Selenium
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Lead
1 3 (15.79%) Test Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Chief Operating Officer
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Product Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Product Management Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Products Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JPA
1 1 (5.26%) jQuery
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) MyBatis
1 1 (5.26%) React
1 1 (5.26%) Spring
1 1 (5.26%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (15.79%) PMI
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (31.58%) Project Management
2 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) Workflow
3 5 (26.32%) Analytics
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Portfolio Management
3 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) BDD
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) Code Coverage
4 4 (21.05%) Data Privacy
4 4 (21.05%) Document Management
4 4 (21.05%) Due Diligence
4 4 (21.05%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) JCL
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) REXX
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CISM
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) PMO
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Control-M
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) RSA Archer
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Centrify
1 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
1 1 (5.26%) F5
1 1 (5.26%) IBM
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk
1 1 (5.26%) Thycotic
1 1 (5.26%) Veritas