Continuous Improvement Contracts in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 76 72
Rank change year-on-year +43 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 155 113 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.86% 3.09% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 3.45% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 89 78
10th Percentile £158 £391 £323
25th Percentile £434 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £661
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 0
10th Percentile £10.42 £61.90 -
25th Percentile £22.72 £67.19 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £77.91 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.91% - -
75th Percentile - £83.31 -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +67.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 3,273 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.88% 89.57% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 2,404 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 343 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.38 £69.92
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
Wiltshire 0 63 £525 -14.63% 16
Bristol +16 31 £475 -13.64% 58
Somerset +19 19 £575 +86.39% 39
Devon +15 18 £170 -67.62% 34
Gloucestershire +5 12 £525 +54.41% 27
Dorset +15 8 £175 -68.18% 11
Cornwall - 4 £230 - 1
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 23 (14.84%) Confluence
2 19 (12.26%) SharePoint
3 18 (11.61%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (2.58%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.65%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.42%) Azure
2 17 (10.97%) Azure Stack
3 10 (6.45%) AWS
4 7 (4.52%) GCP
5 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.94%) IaaS
6 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.94%) PaaS
7 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.29%) GitHub
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.65%) npm
8 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
8 1 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.61%) BGP
1 18 (11.61%) Firewall
2 6 (3.87%) DNS
3 4 (2.58%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.58%) IPsec
3 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.94%) VPN
5 2 (1.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.52%) MySQL
2 4 (2.58%) Couchbase
2 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.94%) Metadata
4 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (16.77%) JIRA
2 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 5 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.94%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.94%) Selenium
4 2 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Babel
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) ESLint
5 1 (0.65%) Git
5 1 (0.65%) Vite
5 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 79 (50.97%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.19%) Organisational Skills
3 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.55%) Finance
4 18 (11.61%) Telecoms
5 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.39%) Legal
7 12 (7.74%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.87%) Police
9 4 (2.58%) Electronics
9 4 (2.58%) Marketing
10 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.94%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.29%) Aviation
11 2 (1.29%) Military
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (27.10%) Analyst
2 23 (14.84%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (9.68%) Support Specialist
3 15 (9.68%) Technical Support
4 10 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 9 (5.81%) IT Support
5 9 (5.81%) IT Support Specialist
5 9 (5.81%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.81%) Technical Engineer
5 9 (5.81%) Technical Support Engineer
6 7 (4.52%) IT Manager
6 7 (4.52%) Service Analyst
6 7 (4.52%) SOC Engineer
7 6 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (3.87%) Field Engineer
7 6 (3.87%) Field Support Engineer
7 6 (3.87%) Technical Specialist
7 6 (3.87%) Technical Support Specialist
8 5 (3.23%) Security Manager
8 5 (3.23%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.23%) JSON
2 4 (2.58%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.58%) YAML
3 3 (1.94%) .NET
3 3 (1.94%) ModSecurity
4 2 (1.29%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.29%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.29%) React
4 2 (1.29%) Vue
5 1 (0.65%) CSS
5 1 (0.65%) HTML
5 1 (0.65%) Jest
5 1 (0.65%) Laravel
5 1 (0.65%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.65%) Parceljs
5 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.00%) CSOC
2 29 (18.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 19 (12.26%) Private Cloud
4 17 (10.97%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.29%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.65%) Animation
10 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.84%) Windows
2 10 (6.45%) Linux
3 4 (2.58%) CentOS
4 3 (1.94%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.13%) ITIL
2 47 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (25.16%) Agile
3 39 (25.16%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (20.65%) Incident Response
4 32 (20.65%) Use Case
5 31 (20.00%) Analytics
5 31 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 26 (16.77%) Service Management
7 22 (14.19%) Project Management
7 22 (14.19%) SIEM
8 21 (13.55%) Time Management
9 19 (12.26%) ITSM
10 18 (11.61%) Capacity Management
11 17 (10.97%) Network Management
11 17 (10.97%) Security Monitoring
12 16 (10.32%) Information Security
13 14 (9.03%) Coaching
13 14 (9.03%) Project Delivery
14 12 (7.74%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.32%) Python
2 7 (4.52%) JavaScript
2 7 (4.52%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.23%) PHP
4 4 (2.58%) SQL
5 3 (1.94%) Bash
5 3 (1.94%) Perl
6 2 (1.29%) Julia
6 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (54.19%) Security Cleared
2 51 (32.90%) DV Cleared
3 40 (25.81%) Degree
4 33 (21.29%) SC Cleared
5 22 (14.19%) SANS
6 11 (7.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (5.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.94%) AAT
8 3 (1.94%) CISM
8 3 (1.94%) CISSP
8 3 (1.94%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.94%) OSCP
8 3 (1.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.61%) Government Security Classifications
2 16 (10.32%) GDPR
3 12 (7.74%) SLA
4 11 (7.10%) NCSC
5 9 (5.81%) QA
6 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (3.87%) NIST
8 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.58%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
10 2 (1.29%) PMO
10 2 (1.29%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.65%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.65%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.87%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.58%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.94%) Docker
4 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (7.10%) Terraform
2 8 (5.16%) Ansible
3 7 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.52%) SCOM
4 3 (1.94%) OPNET
4 3 (1.94%) PowerCLI
4 3 (1.94%) SCCM
5 2 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.71%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.52%) BT
3 7 (4.52%) Google
4 6 (3.87%) BMC
4 6 (3.87%) Remedy
4 6 (3.87%) VMware
5 4 (2.58%) SAP
6 3 (1.94%) Civica
6 3 (1.94%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) Cadence
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) HP
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.65%) Progress