Continuous Improvement Contracts in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 33 33 73
Rank change year-on-year 0 +40 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 92 161 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.48% 5.03% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 6.06% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 119 89
10th Percentile £152 £160 £391
25th Percentile £413 £438 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £669
90th Percentile £698 £700 £700
England median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £10.42 £58.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £22.72 £71.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.00 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% -69.99% -
75th Percentile £73.13 - -
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +19 32 £455 -4.21% 118
Wiltshire -1 25 £575 +9.52% 37
Gloucestershire +18 13 £575 +9.52% 107
Dorset +5 9 £475 +171.43% 31
Somerset -7 9 £625 +8.70% 45
Devon -1 3 £500 +194.12% 39
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (10.87%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Appian
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.26%) Windchill
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.87%) AWS
1 10 (10.87%) Azure
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.35%) GCP
4 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.26%) SaaS
5 2 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.09%) Serverless
6 1 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DHCP
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
1 1 (1.09%) Network Security
1 1 (1.09%) Skype
1 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.17%) Power BI
1 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.09%) Metadata
2 1 (1.09%) MySQL
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (16.30%) JIRA
2 4 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.17%) GitLab
3 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) Selenium
4 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (55.43%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (22.83%) Finance
4 19 (20.65%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.87%) Telecoms
6 9 (9.78%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (8.70%) Electronics
7 8 (8.70%) Manufacturing
8 7 (7.61%) Marketing
9 5 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (4.35%) Local Government
10 4 (4.35%) Military
11 3 (3.26%) Legal
12 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
12 1 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (1.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (11.96%) Analyst
1 11 (11.96%) Lead
2 9 (9.78%) Project Manager
3 8 (8.70%) Service Manager
4 7 (7.61%) Delivery Manager
4 7 (7.61%) Senior
4 7 (7.61%) Service Analyst
4 7 (7.61%) Service Desk Analyst
5 5 (5.43%) Developer
6 4 (4.35%) Architect
6 4 (4.35%) Configuration Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Product Owner
6 4 (4.35%) Report Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Service Level Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.26%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.26%) Development Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Product Lead
7 3 (3.26%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
1 5 (5.43%) RESTful
2 4 (4.35%) CSS
2 4 (4.35%) HTML
2 4 (4.35%) jQuery
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.35%) React
3 3 (3.26%) Node.js
4 2 (2.17%) .NET
4 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.09%) Angular 2
5 1 (1.09%) HTML5
5 1 (1.09%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.09%) Spring
5 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.09%) Swagger
5 1 (1.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.09%) CMDB
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.09%) PKI
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.09%) CentOS
3 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.22%) Agile
2 36 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (30.43%) Project Management
4 19 (20.65%) ITIL
4 19 (20.65%) Service Management
5 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (18.48%) ITSM
7 13 (14.13%) Project Delivery
7 13 (14.13%) Scrum
8 12 (13.04%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (11.96%) Change Management
9 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 11 (11.96%) Service Delivery
10 10 (10.87%) Coaching
10 10 (10.87%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (10.87%) Configuration Management
10 10 (10.87%) Product Backlog
10 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.78%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.61%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) SQL
4 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Java
6 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (40.22%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.96%) Degree
4 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.43%) A+ Certification
6 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.17%) MBA
7 2 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.09%) ACCA
8 1 (1.09%) CIMA
8 1 (1.09%) HNC
8 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.09%) MCSA
8 1 (1.09%) MCSE
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.09%) PMP
8 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.09%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.17%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Terraform
2 4 (4.35%) Ansible
3 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) SAP
3 7 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.52%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.43%) Oracle
5 5 (5.43%) VMware
6 3 (3.26%) PTC
7 2 (2.17%) Ariba
7 2 (2.17%) Workday
8 1 (1.09%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (1.09%) BMC
8 1 (1.09%) Cisco
8 1 (1.09%) ESRI
8 1 (1.09%) HP
8 1 (1.09%) Juniper
8 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.09%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.09%) Remedy
8 1 (1.09%) Sun