Continuous Improvement Contracts in the West Midlands

Continual Improvement
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 41 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 71 76 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.28% 3.90% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 4.65% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 45 45
10th Percentile £350 £305 £314
25th Percentile £402 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £675
90th Percentile £644 £855 £743
England median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 1
10th Percentile £20.26 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £26.26 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £36.88 £26.54 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% +18.41% +66.00%
75th Percentile £48.13 £32.19 -
90th Percentile £54.50 £72.90 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Birmingham +10 24 £463 -12.53% 94
Warwickshire -9 10 £575 -4.17% 55
Shropshire - 10 £525 - 20
Coventry +10 7 £400 -30.43% 28
Staffordshire -1 4 £574 +14.85% 73
Herefordshire +13 2 £700 - 3
Worcestershire +1 2 £700 +27.27% 12
Walsall 0 2 £350 - 5
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (8.45%) Confluence
2 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Open Workbench
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (1.41%) Primavera
1 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.45%) AWS
2 6 (8.45%) Azure
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.63%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.41%) Akamai
7 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.41%) OCI
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Firewall
1 4 (5.63%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (2.82%) Intranet
3 1 (1.41%) 5G
3 1 (1.41%) Internet
3 1 (1.41%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) Power BI
2 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 7 (9.86%) Git
3 3 (4.23%) GitLab
3 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) JMeter
3 3 (4.23%) Postman
3 3 (4.23%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.23%) Selenium
3 3 (4.23%) TestNG
3 3 (4.23%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 15 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.04%) Automotive
5 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Billing
8 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Legal
8 1 (1.41%) Local Government
8 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (12.68%) Lead
2 7 (9.86%) Senior
3 6 (8.45%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (8.45%) Developer
4 5 (7.04%) Service Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Engagement Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Customer Support Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.23%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Support Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Test Manager
7 2 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (2.82%) ICT Officer
7 2 (2.82%) ICT Support Officer
7 2 (2.82%) PMO Lead
7 2 (2.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) .NET
1 2 (2.82%) Node.js
1 2 (2.82%) React
1 2 (2.82%) RESTful
2 1 (1.41%) ADO
2 1 (1.41%) Next.js
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.45%) IoT
2 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Industry 4.0
4 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.23%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.82%) Blog
5 2 (2.82%) CCTV
5 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Social Media
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.41%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) PMI
6 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Agile
2 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (28.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (22.54%) Project Management
4 15 (21.13%) Change Management
5 13 (18.31%) Computer Science
6 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (14.08%) ITIL
6 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
7 9 (12.68%) DevOps
7 9 (12.68%) Service Delivery
8 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.27%) Risk Management
8 8 (11.27%) Scrum
9 7 (9.86%) Process Management
9 7 (9.86%) Service Management
10 6 (8.45%) Analytical Thinking
10 6 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (8.45%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.45%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) Python
2 4 (5.63%) SQL
3 3 (4.23%) Bash
3 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) Go
4 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Degree
2 11 (15.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.86%) CISSP
4 4 (5.63%) CEH
4 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) GIAC
5 3 (4.23%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.82%) APMP
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.82%) CISA
6 2 (2.82%) CISM
6 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) ISACA
6 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.82%) SANS
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) GDPR
2 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.23%) PMO
4 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.82%) SLA
5 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) NCSC
5 1 (1.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Kibana
3 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.86%) SAP
3 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle
4 3 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.82%) Cisco
5 2 (2.82%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) Ariba
6 1 (1.41%) Concur
6 1 (1.41%) F5
6 1 (1.41%) Imperva
6 1 (1.41%) Remedy
6 1 (1.41%) SendGrid