Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Continual Improvement
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 37 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 34 20 27
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 5.98% 4.83% 6.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 5.39% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 23
10th Percentile £298 £460 £378
25th Percentile £388 £462 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -8.64%
75th Percentile £520 £571 £592
90th Percentile £680 £587 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.72% -0.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 - -

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 545 371 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.78% 89.61% 96.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 193 246
10th Percentile £304 £314 £394
25th Percentile £388 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £679
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.05 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.80 £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +14.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Sheffield

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Continuous Improvement

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 9 (26.47%) Confluence
2 5 (14.71%) CICS
2 5 (14.71%) CMS
3 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.94%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) GitHub
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) GCP
2 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) Git
4 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.82%) Gradle
4 3 (8.82%) HP UFT
4 3 (8.82%) IntelliJ
4 3 (8.82%) JUnit
4 3 (8.82%) Maven
4 3 (8.82%) Selenium
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Legal
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Incident Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Major Incident Manager
3 3 (8.82%) PMO Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Test Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Chief Operating Officer
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Risk Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Strategy Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Supply Chain Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) C# Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Data Modeller
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) VSAM
2 3 (8.82%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) IVR
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (26.47%) Agile
4 9 (26.47%) Validation
5 8 (23.53%) SDLC
6 7 (20.59%) Architecture Roadmap
6 7 (20.59%) Business Case
6 7 (20.59%) Portfolio Management
6 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
6 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
6 7 (20.59%) Strategic Planning
7 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
7 6 (17.65%) Project Management
8 5 (14.71%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
9 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.76%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) COBOL
1 5 (14.71%) JCL
2 4 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
1 1 (2.94%) VCAP
1 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) PMO
2 3 (8.82%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Control-M
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) IBM Guardium
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.94%) Nessus
2 1 (2.94%) PowerCLI
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.94%) SCOM
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Sage
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Xero
3 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.94%) Broadcom
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco
3 1 (2.94%) Citrix
3 1 (2.94%) Dell
3 1 (2.94%) F5
3 1 (2.94%) Genesys
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) HP
3 1 (2.94%) IBM
3 1 (2.94%) Tenable
3 1 (2.94%) VMware