Hybrid/Remote Continuous Improvement Process Contract Job Trends

Continuous\Continual Improvement Process
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Continuous Improvement Process skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 315 379
Rank change year-on-year +1 +64 +162
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement Process 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.017% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.019% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £298 £312 £424
25th Percentile £369 £315 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £320 £488
Median % change year-on-year +57.03% -34.36% -9.72%
75th Percentile £518 £325 £541
90th Percentile £518 £328 £561
UK median daily rate £490 £428 £538
% change year-on-year +14.62% -20.47% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Continuous Improvement Process falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,307 10,398 15,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.96% 89.03% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,155 6,534 10,383
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 212 370
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.58 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £27.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.84% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Continuous Improvement Process
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Improvement Process and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement Process job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Continuous Improvement Process
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Continuous Improvement Process.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Continuous Improvement Process

Continuous Improvement Process
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Continuous Improvement Process over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Continuous Improvement Process daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Continuous Improvement Process
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Pinecone
1 2 (66.67%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Faiss
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Model Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification