Continuous Improvement Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continual Improvement
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 41 32 53
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 64 150 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.24% 5.58% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 6.41% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 72 62
10th Percentile £393 £400 £366
25th Percentile £416 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +4.80% -2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £575
90th Percentile £645 £688 £671
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £35.55 £16.25 £20.60
25th Percentile £59.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +111.96% -54.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.67 £24.50
90th Percentile £79.23 £64.20 £25.40
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.33% -6.25% -32.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -20 49 £500 -4.76% 187
Buckinghamshire +16 13 £550 +18.28% 137
Oxfordshire -5 2 £250 -48.72% 95
Continuous Improvement
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Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (1.56%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.56%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.13%) Windchill
2 1 (1.56%) CATIA
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (7.81%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.13%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 2 (3.13%) SonarCloud
7 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.56%) Figma
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) OCI
7 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) 5G
3 1 (1.56%) Broadband
3 1 (1.56%) DMS-100
3 1 (1.56%) FTP
3 1 (1.56%) GPON
3 1 (1.56%) ISUP
3 1 (1.56%) SSL
3 1 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Git
1 3 (4.69%) Selenium
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Snyk
2 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.56%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Postman
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 11 (17.19%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Agriculture
7 2 (3.13%) Electronics
7 2 (3.13%) Marketing
8 1 (1.56%) Automotive
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Analyst
2 5 (7.81%) Architect
2 5 (7.81%) Consultant
2 5 (7.81%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 4 (6.25%) Developer
3 4 (6.25%) Lead
3 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 4 (6.25%) Senior
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Developer
4 3 (4.69%) Change Analyst
4 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 3 (4.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (3.13%) Automation Tester
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Data Compliance Manager
5 2 (3.13%) ITSM Consultant
5 2 (3.13%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) React
2 2 (3.13%) .NET
2 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (3.13%) Gherkin
2 2 (3.13%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.69%) Life Science
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.13%) CMDB
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.56%) PMI
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) Project Management
5 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 9 (14.06%) ITIL
6 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (12.50%) Change Management
7 8 (12.50%) ITSM
7 8 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 7 (10.94%) Configuration Management
8 7 (10.94%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (10.94%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (7.81%) Data Management
10 5 (7.81%) Scrum
10 5 (7.81%) Service Delivery
10 5 (7.81%) Service Management
10 5 (7.81%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (7.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) SQL
3 5 (7.81%) Java
4 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (3.13%) Bicep
5 2 (3.13%) C#
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) DataWeave
6 1 (1.56%) Magik
6 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 4 (6.25%) PMP
4 3 (4.69%) CISSP
4 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) CEH
5 2 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.56%) APMP
6 1 (1.56%) CISA
6 1 (1.56%) CISM
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) NIST
4 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.56%) COBIT
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) P3O
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.13%) Puppet
4 2 (3.13%) QRadar
5 1 (1.56%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) SCCM
5 1 (1.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) SAP
3 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.13%) BMC
4 2 (3.13%) BT
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) PTC
4 2 (3.13%) Remedy
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) IFS
5 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.56%) Sparx
5 1 (1.56%) VMware