Continuous Improvement Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 71 27 41
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 7.73% 3.84% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 4.43% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 18 18
10th Percentile £317 £313 £465
25th Percentile £454 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £521
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.23% -3.52%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £678
90th Percentile £584 £600 £708
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £517
% change year-on-year +4.71% -7.64% -6.00%

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 786 610 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.62% 86.77% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 380 667
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £681 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £14.63 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £27.63 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +0.88%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Continuous Improvement job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in West Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Continuous Improvement

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 20 December 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 +12 55 £500 +8.11% 41
Bradford +3 10 £538 -6.52% 6
Halifax - 3 £525 - 1
Wakefield +2 1 £319 +41.65% 2
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 8 (11.27%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.41%) Magento
3 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Serverless
4 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.04%) GCP
5 4 (5.63%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.23%) Smartsheet
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.82%) Asana
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) JIRA
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.63%) GitLab
4 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.82%) Git
6 1 (1.41%) Maven
6 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (57.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Public Sector
3 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.31%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Health Technology
5 4 (5.63%) Legal
5 4 (5.63%) Military
6 3 (4.23%) Digital Health
6 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Retail
7 2 (2.82%) Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Marketing
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (14.08%) Senior
2 7 (9.86%) Scrum Master
3 6 (8.45%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (7.04%) Analyst
4 5 (7.04%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Consultant
5 4 (5.63%) Product Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Delivery Director
6 3 (4.23%) Designer
6 3 (4.23%) Developer
6 3 (4.23%) IT Director
6 3 (4.23%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Service Delivery Director
6 3 (4.23%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) .NET
1 5 (7.04%) RESTful
2 4 (5.63%) .NET Core
2 4 (5.63%) FHIR
2 4 (5.63%) React
3 3 (4.23%) Django
3 3 (4.23%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.23%) Flask
3 3 (4.23%) Node.js
3 3 (4.23%) Playwright
4 2 (2.82%) OAuth
4 2 (2.82%) Vue
5 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.41%) Kafka
5 1 (1.41%) LDAP
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.41%) OpenID
5 1 (1.41%) PySpark
5 1 (1.41%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.68%) NHS
3 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (60.56%) Agile
2 25 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (35.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 23 (32.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 22 (30.99%) Scrum
5 17 (23.94%) Roadmaps
6 14 (19.72%) Coaching
6 14 (19.72%) Kanban
6 14 (19.72%) Test Automation
7 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
7 12 (16.90%) Service Delivery
8 11 (15.49%) Risk Management
9 9 (12.68%) DevOps
9 9 (12.68%) Microservices
9 9 (12.68%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (12.68%) User Stories
10 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
10 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (11.27%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.86%) TypeScript
2 6 (8.45%) Java
2 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
2 6 (8.45%) Python
3 5 (7.04%) C#
4 3 (4.23%) SQL
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) Bicep
5 1 (1.41%) Go
5 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.41%) R
5 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) CSPO
4 2 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) OCP
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.63%) HL7
2 4 (5.63%) QA
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.23%) NIST
4 2 (2.82%) COBIT
4 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.82%) GDPR
4 2 (2.82%) P3O
4 2 (2.82%) WCAG
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.41%) NCSC
5 1 (1.41%) PMO
5 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.63%) Grafana
4 3 (4.23%) Ansible
5 2 (2.82%) vRealize
5 2 (2.82%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.41%) SCCM
6 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Oracle
2 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.63%) Brio
3 4 (5.63%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) VMware
5 2 (2.82%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.82%) Dell
5 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.82%) F5
5 2 (2.82%) HP
5 2 (2.82%) Wrike
6 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) NEC
6 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce