Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 35 22 28
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 5.69% 4.85% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 5.46% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 24
10th Percentile £298 £460 £379
25th Percentile £388 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £520 £580 £595
90th Percentile £590 £594 £608
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £509 £539
% change year-on-year -1.67% -5.61% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 - -

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 589 403 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.77% 88.77% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 208 262
10th Percentile £295 £250 £375
25th Percentile £380 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -11.06% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +14.69%
75th Percentile £20.44 £18.81 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year +29.00% -13.58% +6.58%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in South Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

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 30 September 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 +1 33 £495 -5.26% 11
Barnsley - 1 £550 - 6
Rotherham - 1 - -
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 8 (22.86%) Confluence
2 5 (14.29%) CICS
2 5 (14.29%) CMS
3 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) GCP
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) JIRA
2 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) Git
4 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.57%) Gradle
4 3 (8.57%) HP UFT
4 3 (8.57%) IntelliJ
4 3 (8.57%) JUnit
4 3 (8.57%) Maven
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Legal
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Incident Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Major Incident Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (8.57%) PMO Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Test Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Chief Operating Officer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Risk Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Strategy Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Supply Chain Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Data Modeller
6 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Security Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) VSAM
2 3 (8.57%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) IVR
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (34.29%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (25.71%) Validation
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
6 7 (20.00%) Business Case
6 7 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
6 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (20.00%) SDLC
6 7 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
7 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
7 6 (17.14%) Project Management
8 5 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
9 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.43%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) COBOL
1 5 (14.29%) JCL
2 4 (11.43%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) VCAP
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) PMO
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Control-M
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) IBM Guardium
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) Nessus
2 1 (2.86%) PowerCLI
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.86%) SCOM
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Sage
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) Xero
3 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.86%) Broadcom
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix
3 1 (2.86%) Dell
3 1 (2.86%) F5
3 1 (2.86%) Genesys
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) HP
3 1 (2.86%) IBM
3 1 (2.86%) Tenable
3 1 (2.86%) VMware