Continuous Improvement Contracts in Wales

Continual Improvement
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 48 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 7 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.79% 2.05% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.35% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 22
10th Percentile £527 £317 £363
25th Percentile £573 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -5.21% +0.96%
75th Percentile - £725 £584
90th Percentile - £730 £599
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £85.56 - -
25th Percentile £86.40 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.80 £19.49 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +350.49% -22.04% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £19.98 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.95 £54.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.87% +21.35% +61.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 553 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.52% 87.22% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 426 605
10th Percentile £165 £184 £200
25th Percentile £359 £331 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -16.38% +15.38%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Wales

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Wales

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Wales over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Wales

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Wales

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
South Wales +12 7 £650 +52.94% 49
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Storybook
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Local Government
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Bid Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Business Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Value Proposition
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Bill of Materials
3 3 (42.86%) Budget Management
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) Psychology
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Line Management
4 2 (28.57%) People Management
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DBS Check
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) PMI Certification
2 3 (42.86%) PMP
3 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft