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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 75
Rank change year-on-year -6 +46 -6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 88 165 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.29% 5.20% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 6.26% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 122 87
10th Percentile £155 £160 £391
25th Percentile £413 £452 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -13.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £609 £613 £675
90th Percentile £703 £700 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -2.54% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 6
10th Percentile £61.00 £10.42 £42.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £22.72 £58.33
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.00 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% -69.99% -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £72.00 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £36.50 £55.75
% change year-on-year +30.14% -34.53% +25.28%

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 1,506 2,635 3,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.56% 83.10% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 1,680 2,333
10th Percentile £230 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 341 324
10th Percentile £18.26 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.36
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.07
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +17 32 £462 -7.60% 152
Wiltshire -1 20 £575 +9.52% 35
Gloucestershire +16 13 £575 +6.98% 121
Dorset +8 9 £475 +171.43% 33
Somerset -8 9 £625 +8.70% 54
Devon 0 3 £500 +194.12% 44
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 9 (10.23%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Appian
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Windchill
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) AWS
1 9 (10.23%) Azure
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.55%) GCP
4 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.41%) SaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.14%) Serverless
6 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DHCP
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) Network Security
1 1 (1.14%) Skype
1 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.27%) Power BI
2 1 (1.14%) Metadata
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) JIRA
2 4 (4.55%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.27%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 50 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (21.59%) Finance
3 19 (21.59%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.36%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.09%) Electronics
5 8 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 8 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.95%) Marketing
7 5 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.55%) Local Government
8 4 (4.55%) Military
9 2 (2.27%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (11.36%) Analyst
1 10 (11.36%) Lead
2 8 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 7 (7.95%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (7.95%) Service Analyst
3 7 (7.95%) Service Desk Analyst
3 7 (7.95%) Service Manager
4 6 (6.82%) Architect
4 6 (6.82%) Senior
5 5 (5.68%) Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Configuration Manager
6 4 (4.55%) Product Owner
6 4 (4.55%) Report Manager
6 4 (4.55%) Service Level Manager
7 3 (3.41%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.41%) Product Lead
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
1 5 (5.68%) RESTful
2 4 (4.55%) CSS
2 4 (4.55%) HTML
2 4 (4.55%) jQuery
3 3 (3.41%) Node.js
3 3 (3.41%) React
4 1 (1.14%) .NET
4 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.14%) Angular 2
4 1 (1.14%) HTML5
4 1 (1.14%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.14%) Spring
4 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.14%) CMDB
5 1 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.14%) PKI
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.14%) CentOS
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (37.50%) Agile
3 25 (28.41%) Project Management
4 17 (19.32%) ITIL
5 16 (18.18%) Service Management
5 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (17.05%) ITSM
7 13 (14.77%) Project Delivery
8 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 11 (12.50%) Scrum
9 11 (12.50%) Service Delivery
10 10 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (11.36%) Product Backlog
10 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.23%) Coaching
11 9 (10.23%) Customer Service
12 8 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 8 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
2 6 (6.82%) Python
3 4 (4.55%) SQL
4 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.27%) Go
5 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.14%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) Java
6 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (44.32%) Security Cleared
2 34 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 8 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.27%) MBA
5 2 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.14%) ACCA
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CIMA
6 1 (1.14%) HNC
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) MCSA
6 1 (1.14%) MCSE
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) Def Stans
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Ansible
3 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.14%) Grafana
4 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) SAP
3 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.68%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.55%) VMware
6 3 (3.41%) PTC
7 2 (2.27%) Ariba
7 2 (2.27%) Workday
8 1 (1.14%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (1.14%) BMC
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco
8 1 (1.14%) ESRI
8 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) Juniper
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle
8 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) Remedy
8 1 (1.14%) Sun