Continuous Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continual Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 68 71
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 854 813 1,083
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.11% 3.34% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 3.72% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 546 768
10th Percentile £269 £319 £301
25th Percentile £413 £444 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +9.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £682
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 33 30
10th Percentile £15.51 £19.20 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £38.23 £53.35 £42.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.35% +24.43% +54.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £81.40 £64.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +34.83% +60.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,670 21,826 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.98% 89.54% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,665 15,130 19,465
10th Percentile £248 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 1,339 1,382
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.20 £13.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.80 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +25 225 £525 +0.96% 335
North of England +23 179 £525 -4.55% 420
South West +42 158 £500 -13.04% 188
Midlands +46 123 £460 -12.38% 282
North West +40 110 £550 +3.29% 225
Scotland -7 103 £450 -10.00% 147
West Midlands +21 76 £550 +4.76% 184
East of England +5 61 £543 +8.50% 166
Yorkshire +4 50 £500 -7.41% 151
East Midlands +38 44 £269 -56.08% 98
North East +5 19 £554 -1.99% 59
Wales +11 9 £650 +38.30% 72
Northern Ireland 0 3 £425 +51.11% 25
Isle of Man - 2 - - 2
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 37 (4.33%) Confluence
2 35 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.11%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (0.47%) Apache
4 4 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.47%) nginx
5 3 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.94%) Adobe Premiere
6 8 (0.94%) CATIA
7 7 (0.82%) CINEMA 4D
8 3 (0.35%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.23%) Trello
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Simulink
10 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.64%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.94%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.35%) Primavera
6 3 (0.35%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (12.41%) Azure
2 42 (4.92%) Power Platform
3 37 (4.33%) AWS
4 28 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (1.99%) Azure Stack
6 17 (1.99%) IaaS
7 14 (1.64%) GCP
8 13 (1.52%) Serverless
9 12 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.29%) PaaS
11 10 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.17%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.05%) OpenShift
12 9 (1.05%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.05%) SaaS
13 8 (0.94%) OCI
14 7 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.33%) Modbus
1 37 (4.33%) RS-422
1 37 (4.33%) RS-485
2 28 (3.28%) Firewall
3 22 (2.58%) BGP
4 12 (1.41%) DNS
5 9 (1.05%) LAN
6 8 (0.94%) DHCP
7 7 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) VPN
8 5 (0.59%) 5G
8 5 (0.59%) WAN
9 4 (0.47%) Broadband
9 4 (0.47%) HTTP
9 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.47%) Intranet
9 4 (0.47%) IPsec
9 4 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.33%) Power BI
2 20 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.05%) Metadata
6 8 (0.94%) MySQL
7 7 (0.82%) Tableau
8 6 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.47%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.47%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.35%) Power Query
12 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.23%) OLAP
12 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (7.73%) JIRA
2 29 (3.40%) Git
3 25 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.41%) JUnit
4 12 (1.41%) Postman
5 10 (1.17%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.59%) GitLab
7 5 (0.59%) IntelliJ
7 5 (0.59%) Maven
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.47%) ERwin
9 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.35%) Subversion
10 2 (0.23%) Gradle
10 2 (0.23%) kappa
10 2 (0.23%) TestCafe
General
1 385 (45.08%) Social Skills
2 166 (19.44%) Finance
3 156 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.26%) Manufacturing
6 61 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 50 (5.85%) Legal
8 47 (5.50%) Electronics
9 46 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (5.04%) Marketing
11 35 (4.10%) Retail
12 22 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.99%) Banking
15 16 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 12 (1.41%) Local Government
18 11 (1.29%) Law
19 9 (1.05%) Billing
19 9 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (14.52%) Analyst
2 97 (11.36%) Lead
3 94 (11.01%) Senior
4 67 (7.85%) Developer
5 53 (6.21%) Architect
6 51 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 46 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 32 (3.75%) C++ Software Engineer
9 27 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
10 23 (2.69%) IT Manager
10 23 (2.69%) SOC Analyst
11 22 (2.58%) Designer
12 20 (2.34%) Consultant
12 20 (2.34%) Technical Support
13 19 (2.22%) Business Analyst
13 19 (2.22%) Service Manager
14 18 (2.11%) Service Analyst
14 18 (2.11%) Support Engineer
15 17 (1.99%) Test Engineer
16 16 (1.87%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.81%) React
2 22 (2.58%) REST
3 17 (1.99%) .NET
3 17 (1.99%) J2EE
4 15 (1.76%) Spring
5 13 (1.52%) Kafka
5 13 (1.52%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.17%) Apache Camel
6 10 (1.17%) Web Services
7 9 (1.05%) JSON
7 9 (1.05%) Node.js
8 8 (0.94%) LDAP
8 8 (0.94%) OAuth
8 8 (0.94%) OpenID
8 8 (0.94%) SAML
9 7 (0.82%) RESTful
10 6 (0.70%) ADO
10 6 (0.70%) CSS
10 6 (0.70%) HTML
10 6 (0.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.73%) Management Information System
1 66 (7.73%) Self-Motivation
2 44 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.63%) CSOC
3 31 (3.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 20 (2.34%) Private Cloud
5 14 (1.64%) CMDB
6 12 (1.41%) Robotics
7 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.17%) Life Science
9 8 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 8 (0.94%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.94%) Motion Graphics
10 7 (0.82%) IoT
10 7 (0.82%) PMI
10 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.97%) Windows
2 37 (4.33%) Linux
3 9 (1.05%) Unix
4 8 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.59%) Android
5 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.47%) CentOS
6 4 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (31.85%) Agile
2 224 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (17.56%) Project Management
4 117 (13.70%) DevOps
5 114 (13.35%) ITIL
6 90 (10.54%) Decision-Making
6 90 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 87 (10.19%) Project Delivery
8 86 (10.07%) Roadmaps
9 72 (8.43%) Coaching
9 72 (8.43%) Scrum
9 72 (8.43%) Service Management
10 70 (8.20%) Analytics
11 62 (7.26%) Change Management
12 61 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
13 60 (7.03%) Service Delivery
13 60 (7.03%) Software Engineering
14 59 (6.91%) Continuous Integration
15 58 (6.79%) Time Management
16 56 (6.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (6.32%) Python
2 52 (6.09%) C#
3 51 (5.97%) SQL
4 42 (4.92%) C++
5 40 (4.68%) C
6 34 (3.98%) Java
7 26 (3.04%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 16 (1.87%) Bash
10 11 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.94%) Perl
12 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.70%) PHP
14 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.35%) Groovy
15 3 (0.35%) Scala
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 163 (19.09%) Degree
2 143 (16.74%) Security Cleared
3 70 (8.20%) DV Cleared
4 67 (7.85%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.58%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.58%) SANS
7 18 (2.11%) HNC
7 18 (2.11%) HND
8 17 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.87%) PMP
10 13 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 11 (1.29%) CISSP
12 10 (1.17%) ISTQB
13 9 (1.05%) CISM
14 8 (0.94%) NVQ Level 3
15 7 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.59%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.31%) QA
2 38 (4.45%) SLA
3 35 (4.10%) GDPR
4 33 (3.86%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.04%) PMO
6 20 (2.34%) Data Quality
7 18 (2.11%) Government Security Classifications
8 16 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (1.29%) NCSC
10 10 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.94%) NIST
12 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.59%) GAMP
13 5 (0.59%) GxP
13 5 (0.59%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 4 (0.47%) ISO17020
System Software
1 27 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.11%) Docker
4 11 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.05%) vSphere
6 8 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.35%) XenApp
9 1 (0.12%) Ceph
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 22 (2.58%) Terraform
2 20 (2.34%) Ansible
3 17 (1.99%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.94%) Kibana
5 7 (0.82%) SCCM
5 7 (0.82%) SCOM
5 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.59%) Grafana
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.35%) OPNET
7 3 (0.35%) PowerCLI
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (0.35%) WSUS
8 2 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.23%) vRealize
8 2 (0.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.12%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.12%) Pacemaker
9 1 (0.12%) SELinux
Vendors
1 121 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.39%) SAP
3 37 (4.33%) Oracle
4 29 (3.40%) Atlassian
5 26 (3.04%) VMware
6 18 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.64%) Cisco
7 14 (1.64%) Google
8 13 (1.52%) Adobe
8 13 (1.52%) BT
9 11 (1.29%) Remedy
10 8 (0.94%) Siemens
10 8 (0.94%) SolarWinds
11 7 (0.82%) Cadence
11 7 (0.82%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.70%) BMC
12 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.70%) Sun
13 5 (0.59%) Dell
13 5 (0.59%) IBM