Continuous Improvement Contracts in South Wales

Continual Improvement
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 34 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 2 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.83% 2.39% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.99% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £318 £542 £292
25th Percentile £340 £612 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -41.85% +52.94% -19.05%
75th Percentile £415 - £578
90th Percentile £436 - £674
Wales median daily rate £378 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -41.85% +30.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £85.56 -
25th Percentile - £86.40 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £87.80 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year - +350.49% -22.04%
75th Percentile - - £19.98
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate - £87.80 £19.49
% change year-on-year - +350.49% -22.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 268 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 80.00% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 189 353
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cardiff +6 2 £378 -41.85% 45
Continuous Improvement
Wales

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft