Continuous Improvement Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 57 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 -6
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 449 524 657
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.54% 3.43% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 3.91% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 349 473
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £850 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 11
10th Percentile £21.33 £33.03 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.38 £35.99 £22.76
Median hourly rate £62.50 £43.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% +12.36%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.30 £59.38
90th Percentile £85.85 £84.09 £69.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £38.95 £57.99
% change year-on-year +28.37% -32.83% +30.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 34 (7.57%) Confluence
2 11 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.34%) CMS
5 4 (0.89%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.67%) Apache
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.67%) nginx
6 3 (0.67%) SAS
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.22%) JBoss
8 1 (0.22%) TPMS
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.23%) Trello
4 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.89%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.45%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.22%) iTrent
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.22%) SessionCam
5 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (14.92%) Azure
2 51 (11.36%) AWS
3 21 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.01%) GCP
5 18 (4.01%) SaaS
6 13 (2.90%) GitHub
7 7 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (1.56%) dbt
7 7 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.34%) Datadog
8 6 (1.34%) Miro
8 6 (1.34%) Serverless
9 5 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.11%) IaaS
9 5 (1.11%) OCI
10 4 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.89%) PaaS
10 4 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.90%) Firewall
2 12 (2.67%) Network Security
3 8 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.34%) VPN
5 4 (0.89%) BGP
5 4 (0.89%) DNS
5 4 (0.89%) LAN
5 4 (0.89%) OSPF
5 4 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (0.89%) SSL
5 4 (0.89%) WAN
5 4 (0.89%) Wireless
6 3 (0.67%) 5G
7 2 (0.45%) 4G
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) HTTP
7 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.56%) Power BI
2 14 (3.12%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.78%) Data Mining
6 6 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.34%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.89%) MySQL
8 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.67%) Big Data
9 3 (0.67%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.67%) Redis
9 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.67%) Tableau
10 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.45%) Looker
10 2 (0.45%) Power Query
10 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 64 (14.25%) JIRA
2 45 (10.02%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.68%) Git
4 13 (2.90%) GitLab
5 6 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.11%) JMeter
7 4 (0.89%) JUnit
7 4 (0.89%) Maven
7 4 (0.89%) Postman
8 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.67%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.67%) Subversion
8 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.45%) Snyk
9 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 191 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 130 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (21.83%) Finance
4 53 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 44 (9.80%) Banking
6 30 (6.68%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (5.79%) Investment Banking
8 19 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.01%) Front Office
10 17 (3.79%) Legal
10 17 (3.79%) Marketing
11 16 (3.56%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (2.90%) Law
15 10 (2.23%) Automotive
16 9 (2.00%) Manufacturing
16 9 (2.00%) Retail
17 6 (1.34%) Local Government
18 5 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 70 (15.59%) Developer
2 41 (9.13%) Analyst
2 41 (9.13%) Lead
3 33 (7.35%) Senior
4 29 (6.46%) Delivery Manager
5 27 (6.01%) Project Manager
6 24 (5.35%) Python Developer
7 22 (4.90%) Consultant
8 20 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 20 (4.45%) Gen AI Developer
9 19 (4.23%) Business Analyst
10 18 (4.01%) .NET Developer
11 16 (3.56%) Architect
12 15 (3.34%) C# Developer
12 15 (3.34%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
12 15 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.34%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 15 (3.34%) Real Time Developer
13 13 (2.90%) C# .NET Developer
14 12 (2.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.58%) .NET
2 33 (7.35%) React
3 28 (6.24%) AngularJS
4 24 (5.35%) Django
4 24 (5.35%) FastAPI
5 15 (3.34%) Reactive Extensions
6 9 (2.00%) CSS
6 9 (2.00%) Spring
7 8 (1.78%) HTML
8 6 (1.34%) REST
8 6 (1.34%) YAML
9 5 (1.11%) Next.js
9 5 (1.11%) RESTful
9 5 (1.11%) Vue
9 5 (1.11%) Web Services
10 4 (0.89%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.89%) ADO
10 4 (0.89%) Hibernate
10 4 (0.89%) SOAP
10 4 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.91%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 18 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.23%) PMI
7 9 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.34%) IoT
9 6 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.11%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (1.11%) Life Science
11 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.89%) Market Risk
11 4 (0.89%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.90%) Linux
2 15 (3.34%) Windows
3 7 (1.56%) Unix
4 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) AIX
5 1 (0.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (43.88%) Agile
2 131 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (18.26%) DevOps
4 78 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (16.93%) CI/CD
6 66 (14.70%) Project Management
7 60 (13.36%) Scrum
8 48 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (9.35%) Decision-Making
9 42 (9.35%) Project Delivery
10 40 (8.91%) Risk Management
10 40 (8.91%) SDLC
11 37 (8.24%) Analytics
11 37 (8.24%) Machine Learning
12 36 (8.02%) Change Management
13 35 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence
14 34 (7.57%) ITIL
15 33 (7.35%) Roadmaps
16 29 (6.46%) Kanban
16 29 (6.46%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 81 (18.04%) SQL
2 70 (15.59%) Python
3 56 (12.47%) Java
4 46 (10.24%) C#
5 40 (8.91%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.79%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.34%) Bash
9 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.11%) Groovy
11 3 (0.67%) C++
11 3 (0.67%) R
11 3 (0.67%) Ruby
11 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.22%) Bicep
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) JCL
13 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (13.36%) Degree
2 50 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 45 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.34%) CISSP
5 15 (3.34%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.12%) PMP
7 7 (1.56%) CEH
7 7 (1.56%) CISM
8 6 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.67%) CCNP
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.68%) QA
2 14 (3.12%) NIST
2 14 (3.12%) PMO
3 13 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.90%) GDPR
3 13 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.23%) SLA
6 7 (1.56%) HL7
7 5 (1.11%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.11%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.67%) Basel II
10 2 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.45%) COREP
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.45%) P3O
System Software
1 48 (10.69%) Docker
2 9 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.02%) Ansible
3 26 (5.79%) Terraform
4 7 (1.56%) Grafana
4 7 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.11%) Puppet
7 4 (0.89%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.67%) QRadar
9 2 (0.45%) Consul
9 2 (0.45%) Kibana
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.45%) Packer
9 2 (0.45%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.45%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.22%) NSN NetAct
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 51 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.80%) Oracle
3 29 (6.46%) SAP
4 23 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.45%) Google
6 9 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.78%) Cisco
7 8 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.78%) Splunk
8 7 (1.56%) Databricks
9 6 (1.34%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.11%) PTC
10 5 (1.11%) Workday
11 4 (0.89%) Ariba
11 4 (0.89%) IBM
11 4 (0.89%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.89%) VMware
12 3 (0.67%) Informatica
12 3 (0.67%) Juniper