Continuous Improvement Contracts in England

Continual Improvement
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 77 79
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,360 1,502 2,242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.74% 3.12% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.46% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 998 1,433
10th Percentile £314 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £667 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 46 67
10th Percentile £16.21 £22.39 £22.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £26.25 £34.09
Median hourly rate £36.50 £51.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% +15.17% +78.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.31 £61.99
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
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in England

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +10 562 £550 -7.82% 545
South East +27 237 £508 -3.24% 376
North of England +12 179 £500 -9.09% 455
South West +40 165 £513 -14.58% 192
Midlands +39 127 £468 -10.95% 300
North West +26 106 £525 +1.94% 263
West Midlands +19 74 £550 +2.56% 186
East of England -6 59 £500 - 163
Yorkshire -6 55 £500 -9.09% 143
East Midlands +40 50 £269 -56.08% 114
North East +1 18 £554 -1.99% 57
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 46 (3.38%) Confluence
2 43 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (0.59%) nginx
5 7 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.29%) govService
9 2 (0.15%) Apache
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.074%) Appian
10 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.074%) Tornado
10 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.074%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 61 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.59%) CATIA
6 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.37%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.29%) SPSS
9 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.15%) Sketch
11 1 (0.074%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.03%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.59%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Primavera
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.15%) Unica
8 1 (0.074%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 204 (15.00%) Azure
2 104 (7.65%) AWS
3 83 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 51 (3.75%) GCP
4 51 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
7 37 (2.72%) Serverless
8 27 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (1.76%) Azure Functions
10 23 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (1.69%) IaaS
11 21 (1.54%) npm
12 20 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (1.47%) PaaS
13 18 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.32%) Entra ID
13 18 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.25%) Azure Stack
14 17 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.57%) Modbus
1 35 (2.57%) RS-422
1 35 (2.57%) RS-485
2 33 (2.43%) Firewall
3 24 (1.76%) DNS
4 21 (1.54%) BGP
5 18 (1.32%) DHCP
6 17 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.81%) LAN
8 10 (0.74%) VPN
9 8 (0.59%) SAN
10 7 (0.51%) Broadband
10 7 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.44%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.44%) NAS
11 6 (0.44%) VLAN
12 5 (0.37%) Internet
13 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.29%) IPsec
13 4 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.15%) Power BI
2 44 (3.24%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.35%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.32%) Metadata
8 16 (1.18%) Tableau
9 12 (0.88%) Data Mining
10 11 (0.81%) MySQL
11 10 (0.74%) Big Data
12 9 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.44%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.44%) Power Query
15 5 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 130 (9.56%) JIRA
2 68 (5.00%) Git
3 48 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.40%) webpack
5 16 (1.18%) Selenium
5 16 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 15 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.88%) ERwin
8 8 (0.59%) GitLab
9 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.51%) Maven
10 6 (0.44%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.37%) Postman
12 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.22%) JUnit
14 2 (0.15%) Gradle
14 2 (0.15%) kappa
14 2 (0.15%) Subversion
14 2 (0.15%) TestCafe
14 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 566 (41.62%) Social Skills
2 318 (23.38%) Finance
3 295 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.74%) Telecoms
6 77 (5.66%) Manufacturing
7 72 (5.29%) Banking
8 68 (5.00%) Marketing
9 63 (4.63%) Legal
10 53 (3.90%) Electronics
11 50 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (3.46%) Retail
13 43 (3.16%) Front Office
14 42 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.40%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.18%) Local Government
19 14 (1.03%) Law
20 13 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 166 (12.21%) Analyst
2 145 (10.66%) Developer
3 144 (10.59%) Lead
4 125 (9.19%) Senior
5 86 (6.32%) Architect
6 74 (5.44%) Project Manager
7 63 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (3.82%) Software Engineer
9 44 (3.24%) Full Stack Developer
10 43 (3.16%) Consultant
11 34 (2.50%) Business Analyst
12 30 (2.21%) Scrum Master
13 29 (2.13%) C++ Software Engineer
13 29 (2.13%) Service Manager
14 28 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 25 (1.84%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (1.69%) Senior Manager
16 23 (1.69%) SOC Analyst
16 23 (1.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.37%) React
2 38 (2.79%) .NET
2 38 (2.79%) CSS
3 33 (2.43%) REST
4 32 (2.35%) HTML
5 30 (2.21%) AngularJS
6 19 (1.40%) WebSockets
7 18 (1.32%) JSON
7 18 (1.32%) RxJS
7 18 (1.32%) Web Services
8 17 (1.25%) Node.js
8 17 (1.25%) XML
9 15 (1.10%) Redux
10 14 (1.03%) .NET Core
10 14 (1.03%) RESTful
11 13 (0.96%) LDAP
12 12 (0.88%) Kafka
12 12 (0.88%) OAuth
12 12 (0.88%) Reactive Extensions
13 11 (0.81%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 87 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 75 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.28%) CSOC
4 31 (2.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (1.40%) CMDB
5 19 (1.40%) Private Cloud
6 18 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.25%) Life Science
7 17 (1.25%) Wiki
8 16 (1.18%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 15 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 12 (0.88%) Robotics
11 11 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (5.00%) Windows
2 54 (3.97%) Linux
3 11 (0.81%) Unix
4 9 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.66%) Solaris
4 9 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.44%) Kali Linux
5 6 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.29%) Android
7 4 (0.29%) CentOS
8 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (35.15%) Agile
2 346 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 244 (17.94%) Project Management
4 224 (16.47%) DevOps
5 154 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 149 (10.96%) ITIL
7 148 (10.88%) Decision-Making
8 142 (10.44%) Roadmaps
9 132 (9.71%) Analytics
10 126 (9.26%) Change Management
11 125 (9.19%) Project Delivery
12 115 (8.46%) Scrum
13 108 (7.94%) Mentoring
14 107 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
14 107 (7.87%) Software Engineering
15 106 (7.79%) Service Management
16 96 (7.06%) CI/CD
17 94 (6.91%) Coaching
18 82 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
19 80 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 136 (10.00%) Python
2 118 (8.68%) SQL
3 106 (7.79%) C#
4 90 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 59 (4.34%) Java
6 55 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 48 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 47 (3.46%) C++
9 40 (2.94%) C
10 25 (1.84%) Bash
11 18 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.10%) Perl
13 12 (0.88%) Go
13 12 (0.88%) Scala
14 10 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.51%) PHP
17 6 (0.44%) Ruby
18 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 224 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 223 (16.40%) Degree
3 133 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 77 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 53 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.62%) PMP
8 22 (1.62%) SANS
9 20 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.40%) HNC
11 18 (1.32%) CISSP
11 18 (1.32%) HND
12 15 (1.10%) CISM
13 13 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.74%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 8 (0.59%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (8.01%) QA
2 55 (4.04%) GDPR
3 50 (3.68%) SLA
4 47 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 47 (3.46%) PMO
5 46 (3.38%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
6 18 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.88%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) NCSC
8 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.37%) GAMP
11 5 (0.37%) GxP
11 5 (0.37%) HL7
11 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 4 (0.29%) ISO17020
System Software
1 48 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.38%) Docker
3 27 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.66%) vSphere
6 8 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) Ceph
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 58 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 50 (3.68%) Terraform
3 39 (2.87%) Ansible
4 10 (0.74%) Grafana
5 9 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.59%) Puppet
7 7 (0.51%) Podman
7 7 (0.51%) SCOM
8 6 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.44%) Netcool
8 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.44%) Tivoli
8 6 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.37%) WSUS
10 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.29%) OPNET
10 4 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.29%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 184 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.78%) SAP
3 45 (3.31%) Oracle
4 44 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 33 (2.43%) VMware
6 30 (2.21%) Atlassian
7 22 (1.62%) Splunk
8 21 (1.54%) Cisco
9 16 (1.18%) BT
10 14 (1.03%) Cadence
10 14 (1.03%) Google
11 12 (0.88%) Dell
11 12 (0.88%) Sparx
12 11 (0.81%) Databricks
13 10 (0.74%) Adobe
13 10 (0.74%) Remedy
14 9 (0.66%) IBM
14 9 (0.66%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.59%) HP
15 8 (0.59%) Siemens