Continuous Improvement Contracts in West Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 30 30 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.47% 3.00% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 3.43% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 46
10th Percentile £314 £467 £469
25th Percentile £400 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £665
90th Percentile £571 £625 £747
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -2.50% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £70.00
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £10.90 £70.00
% change year-on-year +741.19% -84.43% +159.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +6 29 £425 -15.00% 64
Continuous Improvement
Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.33%) Asana
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Figma
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) Tableau
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Service Manager
2 6 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Agile Coach
6 2 (6.67%) Designer
6 2 (6.67%) Information Assurance Leader
6 2 (6.67%) PMO Lead
7 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Operations Manager
7 1 (3.33%) PMO Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) UI Designer
7 1 (3.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) .NET
1 1 (3.33%) D3.js
1 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.33%) React
1 1 (3.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) NHS
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) PMI
2 1 (3.33%) Replication
2 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (53.33%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (26.67%) ITIL
5 7 (23.33%) Change Management
5 7 (23.33%) Service Management
5 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (23.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.00%) Scrum
6 6 (20.00%) SIAM
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 5 (16.67%) Kanban
7 5 (16.67%) Project Management
7 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 5 (16.67%) User Experience
8 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
1 1 (3.33%) C#
1 1 (3.33%) Python
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CBAP
4 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) MBA
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (6.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.67%) Dell
2 2 (6.67%) Veritas
3 1 (3.33%) Ariba
3 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.33%) BMC
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) SAP