Continuous Improvement Contracts in South Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 36 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 21 20 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.63% 4.38% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 4.89% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 11
10th Percentile £425 £225 £150
25th Percentile £502 £488 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £568 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -12.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £743
90th Percentile £600 £633 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -2.50% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £10.90 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £10.90 £70.00
% change year-on-year +741.19% -84.43% +159.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in South Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in South Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in South Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in South Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +5 19 £520 -9.61% 39
Continuous Improvement
Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
2 4 (19.05%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Gradle
2 4 (19.05%) HP UFT
2 4 (19.05%) IntelliJ
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JUnit
2 4 (19.05%) Maven
2 4 (19.05%) Selenium
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Chief Operating Officer
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Product Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Product Management Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JPA
1 1 (4.76%) jQuery
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) MyBatis
1 1 (4.76%) React
1 1 (4.76%) Spring
1 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) PMI
2 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Project Management
3 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (28.57%) Portfolio Management
3 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 6 (28.57%) Workflow
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Change Management
4 5 (23.81%) Critical Thinking
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Fintech
4 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Time Management
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Code Quality
5 4 (19.05%) Document Management
5 4 (19.05%) Due Diligence
5 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) JCL
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) PMI Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CBAP
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) PMO
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Control-M
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) RSA Archer
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Centrify
1 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
1 1 (4.76%) F5
1 1 (4.76%) IBM
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk
1 1 (4.76%) Thycotic
1 1 (4.76%) Veritas