Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Continual Improvement
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 2.78% - 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% - 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £306 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £550
75th Percentile £319 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £316 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -45.00% +24.32% -11.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 13 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 61.11% 76.47% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 19
10th Percentile £183 £323 £300
25th Percentile £289 £394 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -32.69%
75th Percentile £419 £423 £416
90th Percentile £469 £483 £485
Staffordshire median daily rate £400 £375 £372
% change year-on-year +6.67% +0.83% -21.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.10 £13.14 £10.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +20.22% -
75th Percentile £20.93 £16.39 -
90th Percentile £25.62 £21.09 -
Staffordshire median hourly rate £27.50 £13.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year +99.56% -65.55% +45.45%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker