Continuous Improvement Contracts with Work from Home Options

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 89 79
Rank change year-on-year +36 -10 +31
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 521 651 1,409
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.44% 2.55% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 2.84% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 470 949
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £443 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 47
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.34 £25.58
25th Percentile £38.95 £22.96 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -4.49% +78.73%
75th Percentile £72.90 £59.06 £49.25
90th Percentile £84.62 £68.10 £49.50
UK median hourly rate £38.95 £54.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.87% +21.35% +61.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Continuous Improvement daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Continuous Improvement hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (3.26%) Confluence
2 10 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.77%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.77%) nginx
3 4 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.58%) CMS
4 3 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 23 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (0.96%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.96%) CINEMA 4D
6 4 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.38%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.58%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.19%) Magento
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.19%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 94 (18.04%) Azure
2 52 (9.98%) AWS
3 33 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 29 (5.57%) GCP
6 23 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.26%) IaaS
7 17 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.88%) SaaS
9 14 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (2.69%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.50%) Azure API Management
10 13 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (2.50%) PaaS
11 10 (1.92%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.34%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.34%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.34%) Rubrik
12 7 (1.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.84%) DNS
2 16 (3.07%) Firewall
3 14 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.50%) DHCP
5 7 (1.34%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.34%) NAS
5 7 (1.34%) SAN
5 7 (1.34%) VLAN
6 5 (0.96%) VPN
7 4 (0.77%) HTTP
7 4 (0.77%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.77%) IPsec
7 4 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.58%) BGP
8 3 (0.58%) Broadband
8 3 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.58%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.58%) Network Security
9 2 (0.38%) Internet
9 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.18%) Power BI
2 19 (3.65%) Metadata
3 18 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.92%) MySQL
6 10 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.73%) Tableau
8 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.96%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.77%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.38%) GIS
11 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.38%) OLAP
11 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (10.94%) JIRA
2 26 (4.99%) Git
2 26 (4.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.30%) ERwin
4 8 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.54%) GitLab
4 8 (1.54%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.34%) Selenium
6 6 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.96%) webpack
8 4 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.58%) Postman
10 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.38%) JUnit
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.19%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 220 (42.23%) Social Skills
2 139 (26.68%) Finance
3 100 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.60%) Telecoms
6 38 (7.29%) Legal
7 36 (6.91%) Marketing
8 30 (5.76%) Manufacturing
9 23 (4.41%) Retail
10 19 (3.65%) Banking
11 18 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (3.26%) Electronics
13 14 (2.69%) Front Office
14 12 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (1.15%) Police
18 5 (0.96%) Law
18 5 (0.96%) Local Government
19 4 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 68 (13.05%) Lead
2 53 (10.17%) Senior
3 49 (9.40%) Developer
4 44 (8.45%) Analyst
5 43 (8.25%) Architect
6 33 (6.33%) Project Manager
7 29 (5.57%) Consultant
8 21 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.07%) Data Architect
10 16 (3.07%) Service Manager
11 15 (2.88%) Enterprise Architect
11 15 (2.88%) Full Stack Developer
12 14 (2.69%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.69%) Designer
12 14 (2.69%) IT Manager
13 12 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Architect
14 11 (2.11%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.11%) Scrum Master
14 11 (2.11%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.41%) React
2 18 (3.45%) .NET
3 17 (3.26%) CSS
3 17 (3.26%) XML
4 16 (3.07%) HTML
5 13 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 12 (2.30%) JSON
6 12 (2.30%) LDAP
6 12 (2.30%) REST
7 11 (2.11%) RESTful
8 8 (1.54%) YAML
9 7 (1.34%) Redux
10 6 (1.15%) Web Services
11 5 (0.96%) OAuth
11 5 (0.96%) OpenID
11 5 (0.96%) Reactive Extensions
11 5 (0.96%) RxJS
11 5 (0.96%) SAML
11 5 (0.96%) Vue
11 5 (0.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (2.30%) Wiki
4 10 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (1.92%) Clustering
5 9 (1.73%) Replication
5 9 (1.73%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.34%) CMDB
8 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.96%) Life Science
9 5 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.96%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.96%) Motion Graphics
10 4 (0.77%) Animation
10 4 (0.77%) Equities
10 4 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.72%) Linux
2 27 (5.18%) Windows
3 11 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.73%) Solaris
4 9 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.96%) CentOS
6 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.77%) Android
8 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (34.17%) Agile
2 126 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (18.81%) Project Management
4 73 (14.01%) DevOps
5 63 (12.09%) Roadmaps
6 59 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (10.56%) Decision-Making
8 54 (10.36%) ITIL
9 53 (10.17%) Project Delivery
10 50 (9.60%) Change Management
11 47 (9.02%) Mentoring
12 46 (8.83%) Scrum
13 44 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (8.06%) Service Management
15 41 (7.87%) Risk Management
16 40 (7.68%) Coaching
16 40 (7.68%) Computer Science
17 39 (7.49%) Analytics
18 35 (6.72%) CI/CD
18 35 (6.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.02%) Python
2 42 (8.06%) SQL
3 40 (7.68%) C#
4 36 (6.91%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.80%) Bash
6 24 (4.61%) Java
7 18 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.30%) Perl
9 8 (1.54%) Go
10 7 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.15%) C++
12 5 (0.96%) PHP
13 4 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.38%) Groovy
14 2 (0.38%) R
14 2 (0.38%) Ruby
14 2 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (17.27%) Degree
2 66 (12.67%) Security Cleared
3 49 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.07%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.07%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.30%) PMP
8 10 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.73%) CISSP
10 7 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 7 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.15%) CISM
12 5 (0.96%) CIPD
13 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.58%) MBA
14 3 (0.58%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 2 (0.38%) CISA
15 2 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.48%) QA
2 42 (8.06%) GDPR
3 29 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 26 (4.99%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.45%) SLA
6 15 (2.88%) PMO
7 14 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.54%) NIST
9 7 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.96%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.58%) GRC
12 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 3 (0.58%) NCSC
13 2 (0.38%) ITGC
13 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.69%) Docker
4 8 (1.54%) vSphere
5 6 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.38%) Ceph
7 2 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.19%) vCloud
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 29 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.99%) Ansible
2 26 (4.99%) Terraform
3 7 (1.34%) EMC NetWorker
3 7 (1.34%) Netcool
3 7 (1.34%) Tivoli
3 7 (1.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.77%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.77%) Grafana
6 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.38%) Pacemaker
7 2 (0.38%) Podman
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.38%) SCCM
7 2 (0.38%) WSUS
8 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 81 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.68%) SAP
3 29 (5.57%) Oracle
4 23 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.03%) VMware
6 16 (3.07%) Cisco
7 14 (2.69%) Splunk
8 13 (2.50%) IBM
9 12 (2.30%) BT
9 12 (2.30%) Sparx
10 11 (2.11%) Dell
10 11 (2.11%) Google
11 9 (1.73%) HP
12 8 (1.54%) Qualys
13 7 (1.34%) Adobe
13 7 (1.34%) CyberArk
13 7 (1.34%) EMC
13 7 (1.34%) Isilon
13 7 (1.34%) Serena
14 5 (0.96%) ForgeRock