Continuous Improvement Contracts in Yorkshire

Continual Improvement
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 48 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 56 52 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.51% 3.08% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 3.56% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 54
10th Percentile £328 £365 £307
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £520 £586 £650
90th Percentile £600 £634 £743
England median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £10.90 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +741.19% -84.43% +159.26%
75th Percentile £98.56 £11.39 -
90th Percentile - £12.28 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +14 30 £425 -17.79% 95
South Yorkshire +8 21 £520 -8.41% 54
North Yorkshire +12 3 £400 - 29
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 8 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.57%) Trello
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.79%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.79%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.79%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.14%) GitHub
1 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.36%) AWS
2 3 (5.36%) Azure
3 2 (3.57%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.79%) Asana
4 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.79%) Figma
4 1 (1.79%) GCP
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) DNS
1 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Tableau
3 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.79%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) JIRA
2 5 (8.93%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) Selenium
3 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 4 (7.14%) Gradle
3 4 (7.14%) HP UFT
3 4 (7.14%) IntelliJ
3 4 (7.14%) JUnit
3 4 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (1.79%) Bugzilla
4 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Finance
3 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (19.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.93%) Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Analyst
1 10 (17.86%) Lead
2 8 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Contracts Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Test Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Agile Coach
6 3 (5.36%) Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Designer
6 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) Information Assurance Leader
7 2 (3.57%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) PMO Lead
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (1.79%) Lead Architect
8 1 (1.79%) Product Analyst
8 1 (1.79%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) React
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) D3.js
2 1 (1.79%) JPA
2 1 (1.79%) jQuery
2 1 (1.79%) LDAP
2 1 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.79%) MyBatis
2 1 (1.79%) React Native
2 1 (1.79%) Spring
2 1 (1.79%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) PMI
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) NHS
4 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (44.64%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (41.07%) Agile
4 14 (25.00%) Change Management
4 14 (25.00%) Project Management
5 9 (16.07%) Portfolio Management
5 9 (16.07%) Scrum
5 9 (16.07%) Workflow
6 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.29%) DevOps
6 8 (14.29%) ITIL
6 8 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (14.29%) Time Management
7 7 (12.50%) Analytics
7 7 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 7 (12.50%) Service Management
7 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) Java
2 3 (5.36%) Python
2 3 (5.36%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) C#
4 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.79%) JCL
4 1 (1.79%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.36%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) CBAP
4 2 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.57%) PMP
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CISM
5 1 (1.79%) CISSP
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) PMO
2 8 (14.29%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.79%) GDPR
5 1 (1.79%) NIST
5 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Ansible
1 2 (3.57%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (3.57%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.79%) Control-M
2 1 (1.79%) Grafana
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.79%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.36%) Veritas
3 2 (3.57%) Dell
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Ariba
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.79%) BMC
4 1 (1.79%) Centrify
4 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.79%) F5
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk
4 1 (1.79%) Thycotic
4 1 (1.79%) Workday