Continuous Improvement Contracts in West Lothian

Continual Improvement
Scotland > West Lothian

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 16 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 32.00% - 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.04% - 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £252 - £425
25th Percentile £438 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £582 - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 51 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 94.00% 92.73% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 26
10th Percentile £96 £125 £225
25th Percentile £380 £285 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £564 £609 £486
90th Percentile £589 £650 £500
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.90 -
25th Percentile - £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +233.33% -
75th Percentile - £70.50 £21.75
90th Percentile - £79.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in West Lothian

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in West Lothian

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in West Lothian

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in West Lothian over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in West Lothian

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

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 West Lothian region over the 6 months to 25 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
Livingston - 16 £520 - 3
Continuous Improvement
Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 8 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Cucumber
1 9 (56.25%) JUnit
2 8 (50.00%) Git
2 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (50.00%) JIRA
2 8 (50.00%) Postman
3 4 (25.00%) IntelliJ
4 3 (18.75%) Maven
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 8 (50.00%) Senior
4 7 (43.75%) Senior Developer
5 6 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum Master
7 1 (6.25%) Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) REST
1 13 (81.25%) Spring
2 11 (68.75%) Spring Boot
3 10 (62.50%) J2EE
3 10 (62.50%) Kafka
4 9 (56.25%) Apache Camel
5 3 (18.75%) React
5 3 (18.75%) Spring Batch
5 3 (18.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (62.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 9 (56.25%) Coaching
4 7 (43.75%) Component Testing
4 7 (43.75%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (37.50%) TDD
6 5 (31.25%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) CRM
7 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
7 3 (18.75%) MVC
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 2 (12.50%) Product Backlog
8 2 (12.50%) Sprint Backlog
8 2 (12.50%) Storytelling
8 2 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle