Continuous Improvement Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Continual Improvement
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 12 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.92% 6.58% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 7.69% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 29
10th Percentile £317 £385 £350
25th Percentile £408 £416 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £554 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -1.99% +6.60%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £573
90th Percentile £598 £590 £580
North East median daily rate £538 £554 £565
% change year-on-year -2.93% -1.99% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £23.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Tyne and Wear

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -12 11 £525 -1.41% 68
Sunderland - 1 £450 - 7
Continuous Improvement
North East

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (25.00%) OpenEdge
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Coach
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Workday Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Workday