Continuous Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 43 67
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 649 868 801
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.07% 4.18% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 4.94% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 521 538
10th Percentile £313 £269 £319
25th Percentile £402 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 124 32
10th Percentile £20.47 £16.00 £19.10
25th Percentile £26.88 £25.00 £23.15
Median hourly rate £59.50 £40.48 £52.93
Median % change year-on-year +47.00% -23.52% +45.18%
75th Percentile £72.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.18 - £81.98
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £38.23 £57.99
% change year-on-year +30.80% -34.08% +30.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +4 163 £475 -9.52% 894
South East +1 147 £525 - 960
Midlands +5 113 £450 -5.26% 635
North West 0 92 £475 -9.52% 512
South West 0 92 £500 - 486
Scotland 0 83 £450 - 237
West Midlands +10 73 £525 -4.55% 364
Yorkshire +11 57 £500 - 305
East of England +14 43 £540 +8.00% 410
East Midlands +8 40 £403 +49.63% 230
North East -6 14 £538 -2.93% 90
Northern Ireland +1 12 £625 +47.06% 41
Channel Islands - 3 £425 -
Wales -2 2 £378 -41.85% 122
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 36 (5.55%) Confluence
2 21 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.92%) JBoss
4 6 (0.92%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.62%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.46%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.31%) Appian
9 1 (0.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.15%) TPMS
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 28 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.77%) Windchill
5 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.46%) Trello
7 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.31%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.46%) SAP LE
3 3 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.46%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.31%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.15%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (12.33%) Azure
2 58 (8.94%) AWS
3 27 (4.16%) Power Platform
4 26 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (3.85%) GCP
6 18 (2.77%) SaaS
7 16 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.00%) IaaS
9 10 (1.54%) GitHub
10 9 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.39%) Serverless
11 7 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.08%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (0.92%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.92%) OCI
12 6 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.54%) Firewall
2 15 (2.31%) LAN
3 11 (1.69%) DNS
3 11 (1.69%) Network Security
4 10 (1.54%) DHCP
4 10 (1.54%) VPN
5 8 (1.23%) WAN
6 6 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.77%) 5G
7 5 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (0.77%) Intranet
8 4 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.62%) Wireless
8 4 (0.62%) WLAN
9 3 (0.46%) 4G
9 3 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.46%) Junos
9 3 (0.46%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.24%) Power BI
2 20 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.23%) Tableau
5 7 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.92%) DB2
6 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.92%) Metadata
6 6 (0.92%) MySQL
6 6 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.46%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 66 (10.17%) JIRA
2 31 (4.78%) Git
3 21 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.47%) GitLab
4 16 (2.47%) Selenium
5 12 (1.85%) JUnit
6 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.77%) Gradle
8 5 (0.77%) JMeter
8 5 (0.77%) Maven
8 5 (0.77%) Postman
9 4 (0.62%) HP UFT
9 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.62%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.46%) TestNG
10 3 (0.46%) Travis CI
11 2 (0.31%) Snyk
11 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.31%) UI Automator
General
1 290 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 160 (24.65%) Finance
3 156 (24.04%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.47%) Banking
6 32 (4.93%) Telecoms
7 30 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.62%) Marketing
12 15 (2.31%) Legal
13 14 (2.16%) Law
14 13 (2.00%) Automotive
15 11 (1.69%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.54%) Electronics
16 10 (1.54%) Local Government
17 7 (1.08%) Military
18 6 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (12.79%) Analyst
2 62 (9.55%) Lead
3 48 (7.40%) Developer
4 46 (7.09%) Senior
5 40 (6.16%) Architect
6 36 (5.55%) Business Analyst
7 33 (5.08%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (4.93%) Service Manager
9 31 (4.78%) Project Manager
10 22 (3.39%) Scrum Master
11 21 (3.24%) Consultant
12 19 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (2.62%) Network Engineer
14 16 (2.47%) Administrator
15 15 (2.31%) IT Manager
16 13 (2.00%) Product Owner
17 12 (1.85%) Full-Stack Developer
17 12 (1.85%) Service Analyst
18 10 (1.54%) Java Developer
18 10 (1.54%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.08%) React
2 18 (2.77%) AngularJS
2 18 (2.77%) Spring
3 14 (2.16%) .NET
3 14 (2.16%) CSS
4 11 (1.69%) HTML
5 10 (1.54%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.39%) RESTful
7 8 (1.23%) Middleware
7 8 (1.23%) REST
8 7 (1.08%) Kafka
8 7 (1.08%) SOAP
9 6 (0.92%) Node.js
9 6 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.92%) Web Services
10 5 (0.77%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.77%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.77%) jQuery
10 5 (0.77%) XML
11 4 (0.62%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.79%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 18 (2.77%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.16%) Security Posture
6 12 (1.85%) CMDB
6 12 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (1.39%) PMI
9 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.08%) IoT
11 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.55%) Linux
2 32 (4.93%) Windows
3 9 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.77%) Solaris
5 5 (0.77%) Unix
6 3 (0.46%) AIX
7 2 (0.31%) CentOS
7 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Rocky
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (38.67%) Agile
2 225 (34.67%) Problem-Solving
3 136 (20.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (17.87%) Project Management
5 90 (13.87%) ITIL
6 80 (12.33%) Scrum
7 78 (12.02%) CI/CD
7 78 (12.02%) Risk Management
7 78 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 76 (11.71%) Change Management
9 74 (11.40%) Roadmaps
10 73 (11.25%) DevOps
11 70 (10.79%) Service Management
12 65 (10.02%) Decision-Making
13 60 (9.24%) Service Delivery
14 54 (8.32%) Process Improvement
15 52 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (7.70%) ITSM
17 44 (6.78%) Project Delivery
17 44 (6.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 60 (9.24%) Python
2 52 (8.01%) SQL
3 43 (6.63%) Java
4 28 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.93%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.47%) Bash
7 14 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.23%) C#
9 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.62%) Go
11 3 (0.46%) Bicep
11 3 (0.46%) VB
12 2 (0.31%) Perl
12 2 (0.31%) R
13 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.15%) C++
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) JCL
13 1 (0.15%) REXX
13 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (14.48%) Degree
2 85 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 70 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.47%) CISSP
5 23 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.54%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.93%) PMP
7 14 (2.16%) CISM
7 14 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.39%) CEH
12 8 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.77%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.77%) CCNP
15 5 (0.77%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.32%) QA
2 28 (4.31%) GDPR
3 22 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.39%) SLA
4 21 (3.24%) PMO
5 18 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.85%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) Def Stans
8 5 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.77%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.77%) HL7
8 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.62%) AUTOSAR
9 4 (0.62%) NCSC
10 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.46%) GRC
10 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.31%) COBIT
11 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (3.24%) Docker
2 20 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (4.47%) Ansible
1 29 (4.47%) Kubernetes
1 29 (4.47%) Terraform
2 14 (2.16%) FortiGate
3 9 (1.39%) Grafana
4 7 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.62%) Kibana
6 4 (0.62%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.46%) logstash
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (0.31%) CASB
8 2 (0.31%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) SELinux
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 98 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.63%) ServiceNow
3 39 (6.01%) SAP
4 29 (4.47%) Oracle
5 18 (2.77%) Cisco
6 15 (2.31%) VMware
7 12 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.54%) Google
10 9 (1.39%) Splunk
11 8 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.08%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.08%) Juniper
13 6 (0.92%) BMC
13 6 (0.92%) Remedy
13 6 (0.92%) Workday
14 5 (0.77%) Dell
14 5 (0.77%) IBM
14 5 (0.77%) Veritas