Continuous Improvement Contracts in Cheshire

Continual Improvement
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 31 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 28 24 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.15% 4.72% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 5.21% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 16
10th Percentile £367 £445 £330
25th Percentile £420 £463 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +23.60% +22.76%
75th Percentile £610 £680 £627
90th Percentile £629 £684 £631
North West median daily rate £538 £508 £475
% change year-on-year +5.81% +6.95% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.75 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.59% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £31.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.39% -8.96% -18.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 453 461 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.27% 90.75% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 297 268
10th Percentile £311 £295 £204
25th Percentile £392 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +15.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £543
90th Percentile £638 £675 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 30 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.98 £9.99
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.44 £13.38
Median hourly rate £36.50 £29.26 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% +34.34% +2.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £53.88
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Cheshire

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 2024. 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
Crewe - 12 £590 - 2
Chester +11 7 £725 - 14
Knutsford -6 4 £381 -44.10% 1
Warrington -2 2 £375 -31.82% 17
Macclesfield -7 1 - -
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 8 (28.57%) CATIA
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (28.57%) DELMIA
1 8 (28.57%) Teamcenter
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) PowerPivot
3 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Automotive
6 1 (3.57%) Billing
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Lead
2 8 (28.57%) Support Team Leader
3 7 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 7 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Agile Coach
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) IT Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) IT Support
5 3 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Life Science
2 4 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 8 (28.57%) PLM
2 8 (28.57%) Workflow
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (21.43%) Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Data Extraction
5 5 (17.86%) FMEA
5 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Project Management
5 5 (17.86%) Smart Manufacturing
5 5 (17.86%) Test Scripting
5 5 (17.86%) Validation
5 5 (17.86%) Waterfall
6 4 (14.29%) Agile Coaching
6 4 (14.29%) Time Management
7 3 (10.71%) Coaching
7 3 (10.71%) Culture Change
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) GAMP
1 5 (17.86%) GxP
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 8 (28.57%) Siemens
2 2 (7.14%) SAP