Continuous Improvement Contracts

Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 75 77
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,556 1,736 2,796
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.65% 3.08% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.43% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,150 1,819
10th Percentile £313 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 50 62
10th Percentile £16.48 £22.27 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £29.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +61.82%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.31 £60.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.08 £42.58
% change year-on-year -18.62% +8.21% +54.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 May 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
England +25 1,356 £525 -7.08% 2,446
UK excluding London +25 859 £500 -7.41% 1,987
London +8 557 £550 -8.33% 736
Work from Home +34 510 £505 -8.18% 847
South East +29 242 £513 -6.82% 549
North of England +15 180 £500 -9.09% 456
South West +37 161 £500 -18.37% 215
Midlands +43 129 £488 -8.88% 345
North West +30 107 £513 +0.79% 261
Scotland -4 87 £440 -7.37% 154
West Midlands +4 75 £550 +0.46% 213
East of England -8 59 £500 - 235
Yorkshire -13 55 £500 -9.09% 134
East Midlands +38 50 £269 -55.87% 125
North East +3 18 £554 -1.99% 71
Wales +10 5 £513 -6.82% 70
Northern Ireland +1 2 £640 +293.85% 23
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 51 (3.28%) Confluence
2 49 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (0.51%) CMS
4 8 (0.51%) nginx
5 5 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.26%) Apache
6 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.26%) govService
6 4 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.064%) JBoss
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.064%) SAS
8 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.51%) CATIA
6 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
7 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.26%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.96%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.51%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.19%) Primavera
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 232 (14.91%) Azure
2 124 (7.97%) AWS
3 88 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 65 (4.18%) GCP
5 63 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
8 36 (2.31%) Serverless
9 27 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (1.74%) IaaS
10 24 (1.54%) SaaS
11 23 (1.48%) Azure Functions
11 23 (1.48%) OpenShift
11 23 (1.48%) PaaS
12 22 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.29%) npm
15 19 (1.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.19%) Modbus
1 34 (2.19%) RS-422
1 34 (2.19%) RS-485
2 33 (2.12%) Firewall
3 25 (1.61%) DNS
4 18 (1.16%) BGP
4 18 (1.16%) DHCP
4 18 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.09%) LAN
6 10 (0.64%) VPN
7 8 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (0.51%) SAN
8 7 (0.45%) Broadband
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
9 6 (0.39%) HTTP
9 6 (0.39%) Intranet
9 6 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.39%) NAS
9 6 (0.39%) VLAN
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.82%) Power BI
2 51 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 33 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 26 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.35%) Tableau
7 19 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.09%) Metadata
9 15 (0.96%) MySQL
10 14 (0.90%) Data Mining
11 11 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (0.58%) Big Data
13 9 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.45%) Power Query
16 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
17 5 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 138 (8.87%) JIRA
2 84 (5.40%) Git
3 60 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.16%) webpack
5 17 (1.09%) GitLab
5 17 (1.09%) Selenium
6 16 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.96%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.77%) Maven
9 10 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (0.64%) Postman
10 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.45%) JUnit
12 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.39%) ERwin
13 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
15 3 (0.19%) Gradle
15 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
General
1 670 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 358 (23.01%) Finance
3 330 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 82 (5.27%) Banking
7 79 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 73 (4.69%) Marketing
9 72 (4.63%) Legal
10 54 (3.47%) Electronics
10 54 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (3.08%) Retail
13 47 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.70%) Front Office
15 22 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.35%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.16%) Local Government
18 16 (1.03%) Billing
18 16 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 185 (11.89%) Analyst
2 171 (10.99%) Developer
3 162 (10.41%) Lead
4 152 (9.77%) Senior
5 97 (6.23%) Architect
6 81 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 68 (4.37%) Delivery Manager
8 59 (3.79%) Consultant
9 50 (3.21%) Software Engineer
10 44 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 39 (2.51%) Business Analyst
12 38 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (2.31%) Scrum Master
14 32 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 30 (1.93%) Service Manager
16 29 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
16 29 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 28 (1.80%) C++ Software Engineer
18 24 (1.54%) Designer
18 24 (1.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.14%) React
2 44 (2.83%) .NET
3 42 (2.70%) CSS
3 42 (2.70%) REST
4 39 (2.51%) HTML
5 35 (2.25%) AngularJS
6 27 (1.74%) Web Services
7 22 (1.41%) RESTful
8 19 (1.22%) JSON
9 18 (1.16%) XML
10 17 (1.09%) RxJS
10 17 (1.09%) WebSockets
11 16 (1.03%) Node.js
11 16 (1.03%) Spring
12 15 (0.96%) Kafka
13 14 (0.90%) Redux
13 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
14 13 (0.84%) LDAP
15 12 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 12 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 92 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
5 31 (1.99%) CSOC
6 22 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.29%) CMDB
8 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 16 (1.03%) Life Science
9 16 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 14 (0.90%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.77%) Robotics
13 11 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.69%) Windows
2 61 (3.92%) Linux
3 13 (0.84%) Unix
4 12 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.58%) Solaris
7 7 (0.45%) Android
7 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.39%) Kali Linux
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.32%) CentOS
10 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.064%) VMS
12 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (35.03%) Agile
2 405 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 278 (17.87%) Project Management
4 254 (16.32%) DevOps
5 180 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 163 (10.48%) ITIL
7 158 (10.15%) Roadmaps
8 157 (10.09%) Decision-Making
9 147 (9.45%) Analytics
9 147 (9.45%) Project Delivery
10 146 (9.38%) Change Management
11 134 (8.61%) Scrum
12 120 (7.71%) Mentoring
13 115 (7.39%) Service Management
14 113 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
15 112 (7.20%) CI/CD
16 109 (7.01%) Coaching
17 105 (6.75%) Computer Science
17 105 (6.75%) Software Engineering
18 99 (6.36%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.64%) Python
2 134 (8.61%) SQL
3 106 (6.81%) C#
4 94 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 74 (4.76%) Java
6 50 (3.21%) PowerShell
6 50 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 44 (2.83%) C++
8 39 (2.51%) C
9 37 (2.38%) Bash
10 21 (1.35%) Perl
11 16 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.90%) Go
12 14 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.77%) Scala
14 11 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.45%) PHP
15 7 (0.45%) Ruby
16 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 264 (16.97%) Degree
2 248 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 147 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 73 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.12%) PMP
9 26 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.61%) CISSP
11 22 (1.41%) SANS
12 20 (1.29%) CISM
13 19 (1.22%) HNC
14 18 (1.16%) HND
15 16 (1.03%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 12 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.87%) QA
2 57 (3.66%) GDPR
3 54 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.34%) SLA
5 51 (3.28%) PMO
6 47 (3.02%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.22%) NIST
9 15 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
10 14 (0.90%) NCSC
11 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.45%) GxP
12 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.39%) GRC
13 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.32%) HL7
14 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 61 (3.92%) Docker
2 50 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.84%) vSphere
6 9 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.13%) Ceph
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.064%) vCloud
9 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.66%) Terraform
3 47 (3.02%) Ansible
4 11 (0.71%) Grafana
5 10 (0.64%) Puppet
6 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.45%) Kibana
7 7 (0.45%) Podman
8 6 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.39%) Netcool
8 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.32%) WSUS
10 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.26%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.26%) PowerCLI
10 4 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 208 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.59%) SAP
3 58 (3.73%) Oracle
4 50 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.63%) VMware
6 27 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 27 (1.74%) Cisco
7 23 (1.48%) Google
7 23 (1.48%) Splunk
8 17 (1.09%) BT
8 17 (1.09%) Dell
9 15 (0.96%) Adobe
10 14 (0.90%) Cadence
10 14 (0.90%) Databricks
11 13 (0.84%) IBM
12 10 (0.64%) HP
12 10 (0.64%) Remedy
12 10 (0.64%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.51%) BMC
13 8 (0.51%) Siemens