Continuous Improvement Contracts with Work from Home 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 86 76
Rank change year-on-year +26 -10 +32
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 498 628 1,420
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.38% 2.63% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.93% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 437 957
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% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 44
10th Percentile £34.47 £20.01 £25.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £23.15 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.60% -29.78% +79.47%
75th Percentile £73.73 £52.51 £49.25
90th Percentile £85.15 £58.75 -
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.00% +12.36% +61.82%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 13 (2.61%) Confluence
2 12 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.80%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.80%) nginx
3 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.60%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.40%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.40%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.40%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.20%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 94 (18.88%) Azure
2 50 (10.04%) AWS
3 33 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (5.82%) GCP
5 28 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.41%) Azure API Management
9 16 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (2.81%) SaaS
11 13 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (2.61%) IaaS
11 13 (2.61%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.41%) PaaS
13 9 (1.81%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.41%) DNS
2 12 (2.41%) Firewall
3 11 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.01%) DHCP
5 6 (1.20%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (1.00%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.00%) NAS
6 5 (1.00%) SAN
6 5 (1.00%) VLAN
6 5 (1.00%) VPN
7 4 (0.80%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.80%) IPsec
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) Broadband
8 3 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.60%) HTTP
8 3 (0.60%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.60%) LAN
8 3 (0.60%) Network Security
9 2 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.82%) Power BI
2 19 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.01%) Metadata
5 10 (2.01%) MySQL
6 8 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.61%) Tableau
7 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.00%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.80%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.40%) Big Data
10 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (10.04%) JIRA
2 25 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.82%) Git
4 10 (2.01%) GitLab
5 7 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.41%) Selenium
6 6 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.00%) Postman
7 5 (1.00%) webpack
8 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.80%) ERwin
9 3 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.40%) JMeter
10 2 (0.40%) JUnit
10 2 (0.40%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 209 (41.97%) Social Skills
2 124 (24.90%) Finance
3 94 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 48 (9.64%) Telecoms
6 34 (6.83%) Legal
7 29 (5.82%) Marketing
8 24 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (4.02%) Banking
11 16 (3.21%) Retail
12 14 (2.81%) Front Office
13 12 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (2.21%) Electronics
14 11 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.41%) Local Government
16 7 (1.41%) Police
17 5 (1.00%) Billing
17 5 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (12.85%) Lead
2 55 (11.04%) Senior
3 49 (9.84%) Developer
4 35 (7.03%) Project Manager
5 34 (6.83%) Analyst
6 30 (6.02%) Architect
7 26 (5.22%) Consultant
8 23 (4.62%) Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.01%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
12 13 (2.61%) Designer
12 13 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 13 (2.61%) Service Manager
13 12 (2.41%) Test Manager
14 11 (2.21%) Scrum Master
15 10 (2.01%) C# Developer
15 10 (2.01%) Technical Support
16 9 (1.81%) Full-Stack C# Developer
16 9 (1.81%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.42%) React
2 17 (3.41%) .NET
3 15 (3.01%) XML
4 14 (2.81%) AngularJS
4 14 (2.81%) HTML
5 13 (2.61%) CSS
6 11 (2.21%) JSON
6 11 (2.21%) RESTful
7 10 (2.01%) LDAP
7 10 (2.01%) REST
8 8 (1.61%) YAML
9 7 (1.41%) OAuth
9 7 (1.41%) Redux
9 7 (1.41%) SAML
10 5 (1.00%) ARM Templates
10 5 (1.00%) OpenID
10 5 (1.00%) Reactive Extensions
10 5 (1.00%) RxJS
10 5 (1.00%) Vue
10 5 (1.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.22%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.41%) Virtual Team
4 9 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.61%) Clustering
5 8 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.41%) Replication
6 7 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.00%) Life Science
8 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.80%) CMDB
9 4 (0.80%) Equities
9 4 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.02%) Linux
2 21 (4.22%) Windows
3 9 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.41%) Solaris
5 6 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.00%) CentOS
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.40%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (34.94%) Agile
2 129 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (21.08%) Project Management
4 79 (15.86%) DevOps
5 62 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (11.04%) Decision-Making
7 54 (10.84%) Project Delivery
7 54 (10.84%) Roadmaps
8 52 (10.44%) ITIL
8 52 (10.44%) Mentoring
9 47 (9.44%) Change Management
10 44 (8.84%) Scrum
11 43 (8.63%) Coaching
12 40 (8.03%) Computer Science
12 40 (8.03%) Risk Management
13 38 (7.63%) Analytics
14 37 (7.43%) CI/CD
15 35 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
16 34 (6.83%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (6.83%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.84%) Python
2 41 (8.23%) SQL
3 39 (7.83%) C#
4 32 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.02%) Bash
6 23 (4.62%) Java
7 18 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.41%) Perl
10 7 (1.41%) Go
11 5 (1.00%) C++
11 5 (1.00%) PHP
11 5 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.40%) Ruby
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (16.06%) Degree
2 58 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 45 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.22%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.41%) PMP
7 16 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.81%) CISSP
9 9 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.61%) CIPD
11 7 (1.41%) CISM
11 7 (1.41%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.80%) CPIM
14 4 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 3 (0.60%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.65%) QA
2 33 (6.63%) GDPR
3 26 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 21 (4.22%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.61%) SLA
6 12 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.21%) PMO
8 9 (1.81%) NIST
9 6 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.60%) COBIT
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.60%) GRC
11 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.40%) ITGC
12 2 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (3.82%) Docker
2 16 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.81%) vSphere
5 7 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.40%) Ceph
7 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.20%) vCloud
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 34 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.62%) Ansible
2 28 (5.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (1.00%) Netcool
3 5 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.00%) Tivoli
3 5 (1.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (0.80%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.80%) Grafana
5 3 (0.60%) Kibana
5 3 (0.60%) Puppet
6 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.40%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.40%) Podman
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.40%) WSUS
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 83 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.42%) SAP
3 22 (4.42%) Oracle
4 19 (3.82%) VMware
5 16 (3.21%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.81%) BT
7 13 (2.61%) Cisco
7 13 (2.61%) Splunk
8 10 (2.01%) Google
9 9 (1.81%) Dell
9 9 (1.81%) IBM
10 8 (1.61%) Adobe
11 6 (1.20%) HP
11 6 (1.20%) Qualys
12 5 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.00%) EMC
12 5 (1.00%) ForgeRock
12 5 (1.00%) Isilon
12 5 (1.00%) Pega
12 5 (1.00%) Serena