Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Continual Improvement
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 6 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 +42
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 52 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 25.37% 1.98% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.37% 2.53% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 2 0
10th Percentile £230 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £484 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £552 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -1.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 79 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.68% 78.22% 82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 67 29
10th Percentile £325 £243 £313
25th Percentile £405 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £435 £480
Median % change year-on-year +16.32% -9.38% -8.92%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £540
90th Percentile £541 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Shropshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Shropshire

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Telford +18 49 £517 +6.77% 6
Continuous Improvement
West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 17 (32.69%) Apache
1 17 (32.69%) WebLogic
2 15 (28.85%) SAS
3 4 (7.69%) JBoss
3 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 13 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Pentaho
2 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Git
2 15 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 15 (28.85%) JIRA
3 5 (9.62%) Selenium
4 4 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 4 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 4 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 27 (51.92%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (13.46%) Delivery Manager
1 7 (13.46%) Monitoring Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (5.77%) Report Manager
5 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) SAS Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) Engagement Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) Java Developer
6 1 (1.92%) Project Leader
6 1 (1.92%) SAP Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Service Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Software Developer
6 1 (1.92%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) EJB
1 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
1 4 (7.69%) HTML
1 4 (7.69%) HTML5
1 4 (7.69%) J2EE
1 4 (7.69%) J2SE
1 4 (7.69%) JSON
1 4 (7.69%) Play Framework
1 4 (7.69%) REST
1 4 (7.69%) SOAP
1 4 (7.69%) Spring
1 4 (7.69%) XML
2 2 (3.85%) Playwright
3 1 (1.92%) CSS
3 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.92%) Jest
3 1 (1.92%) Material-UI
3 1 (1.92%) Next.js
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.69%) Unix
2 13 (25.00%) Linux
2 13 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Agile
2 28 (53.85%) Analytics
2 28 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (44.23%) DevOps
3 23 (44.23%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (40.38%) CI/CD
5 20 (38.46%) Scrum
6 19 (36.54%) Deployment Automation
7 18 (34.62%) Visualisation
8 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
9 15 (28.85%) Business Analytics
9 15 (28.85%) Data Analytics
9 15 (28.85%) Data Integration
9 15 (28.85%) Data Modelling
9 15 (28.85%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (28.85%) Data Virtualisation
9 15 (28.85%) ETL
10 14 (26.92%) Service Management
10 14 (26.92%) Test Strategy
11 13 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (61.54%) SQL
2 4 (7.69%) Java
2 4 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 27 (51.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) Oracle
2 15 (28.85%) Denodo
2 15 (28.85%) Talend
3 13 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 13 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 13 (25.00%) Splunk
4 12 (23.08%) Cisco
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.69%) webMethods
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow