Continuous Improvement Contracts in Suffolk

Continual Improvement
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 15 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 8.11% - 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% - 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £672
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £743
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.02%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £540 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% +2.50% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 49 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 77.03% 80.33% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 108
10th Percentile £200 £105 £400
25th Percentile £208 £199 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £465 £650
Median % change year-on-year -46.24% -28.46% +33.68%
75th Percentile £459 £569 £700
90th Percentile £600 £650 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile £53.33 £11.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £64.05 £12.69 £13.78
Median hourly rate £70.00 £29.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +139.32% +88.71% -3.13%
75th Percentile - £53.69 £17.33
90th Percentile - £68.34 £19.27
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Suffolk

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Suffolk

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Suffolk

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk 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
Ipswich - 6 £519 - 50
Continuous Improvement
East of England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Lean Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Insurtech
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) logstash
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft