Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Continual Improvement
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 5.75% 6.25% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.35% 6.56% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £378 £229 -
25th Percentile £392 £268 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £467 £428 -
90th Percentile £479 £464 -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £475 £530
% change year-on-year - -10.38% -11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 61 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 78.16% 95.31% 84.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 32 40
10th Percentile £163 £250 £299
25th Percentile £291 £344 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £478 £520 £513
90th Percentile £519 £575 £541
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -6.90% -4.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile - - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.71 £17.50 £20.33
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% -13.92% +99.31%
75th Percentile £24.37 £18.75 £40.42
90th Percentile £67.25 - £60.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
% change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +52.32%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in Warrington

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Continuous Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Military
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) SOAR
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint