Continuous Improvement Process Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Continuous\Continual Improvement Process
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Improvement Process skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 360 394
Rank change year-on-year -32 +34 +108
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process 4 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.024% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.029% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £298 £350 £453
25th Percentile £369 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -7.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £518 £625 £550
90th Percentile £518 £783 £565
UK median daily rate £496 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +2.37% -7.67% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement Process 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,344 14,035 18,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.17% 84.15% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,332 8,028 12,040
10th Percentile £219 £249 £250
25th Percentile £368 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,739 892 1,288
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.27 £18.68 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.27 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% -23.59% +47.59%
75th Percentile £43.43 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

Continuous Improvement Process
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement Process relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Continuous Improvement Process job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement Process
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Improvement Process.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Improvement Process

Continuous Improvement Process
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement Process in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement Process
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Improvement Process.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Improvement Process

Continuous Improvement Process
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
South East - 2 £508 - 10
Wales - 1 £250 -
Scotland - 1 - - 2
Continuous Improvement Process
UK

Continuous Improvement Process
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (50.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Faiss
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) HND
1 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification