Continuous Improvement Contracts in Manchester

Continual Improvement
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 68 87
Rank change year-on-year +31 +19 -20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 61 41 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.23% 2.31% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 2.55% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 49
10th Percentile £399 £346 £396
25th Percentile £444 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -2.31% +15.56%
75th Percentile £598 £597 £763
90th Percentile £650 £743 -
North West median daily rate £525 £509 £484
% change year-on-year +3.24% +5.17% +7.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £29.21 - £26.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £16.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +256.08% -43.83% -55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £32.50
90th Percentile £74.50 - £34.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £31.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.39% -8.96% +90.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,245 1,609 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.34% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,180 1,822
10th Percentile £325 £317 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 56 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.74 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.49 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +34.21% +17.07%
75th Percentile £61.25 £40.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Manchester

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wigan - 2 £450 - 1
Salford +2 1 - - 8
Bolton -1 1 - - 4
Oldham - 1 £450 - 1
Stockport - 1 £550 - 3
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) AWS
2 6 (9.84%) Azure
3 5 (8.20%) OCI
3 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.92%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.64%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.64%) Firebase
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.64%) PaaS
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
6 1 (1.64%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) LAN
1 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.64%) Metadata
2 1 (1.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Burp Suite
2 2 (3.28%) Hudson
2 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) TestCafe
3 1 (1.64%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.64%) ERwin
3 1 (1.64%) Gatling
3 1 (1.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) GoCD
3 1 (1.64%) Gradle
3 1 (1.64%) Pa11y
3 1 (1.64%) Postman
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Retail Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Law
5 3 (4.92%) Legal
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Aviation
7 1 (1.64%) Electronics
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Senior
2 10 (16.39%) Lead
3 7 (11.48%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Test Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Systems Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Agile Coach
7 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Business Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Ethical Hacker
8 2 (3.28%) Configuration Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.64%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.64%) Dagger
2 1 (1.64%) HTML
2 1 (1.64%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (1.64%) React
2 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) CMDB
2 3 (4.92%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) CCTV
4 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) PMI
4 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Kali Linux
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) Agile
2 9 (14.75%) Project Delivery
3 8 (13.11%) Change Management
3 8 (13.11%) Project Management
3 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
3 8 (13.11%) Waterfall
4 7 (11.48%) Decision-Making
4 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.84%) Business Analysis
5 6 (9.84%) Programme Management
5 6 (9.84%) Scrum
6 5 (8.20%) Coaching
6 5 (8.20%) Design Patterns
6 5 (8.20%) DevOps
6 5 (8.20%) Information Security
6 5 (8.20%) ITIL
6 5 (8.20%) Mentoring
6 5 (8.20%) Security Testing
6 5 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.56%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) Java
1 6 (9.84%) Python
2 4 (6.56%) C#
3 3 (4.92%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.64%) PHP
4 1 (1.64%) Scala
4 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (4.92%) OSCP
4 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) HNC
5 1 (1.64%) HND
5 1 (1.64%) MCSE
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.84%) QA
3 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.28%) GRC
6 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.64%) ISO17020
6 1 (1.64%) NIST
6 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Grafana
1 3 (4.92%) Kibana
1 3 (4.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.20%) Oracle
1 5 (8.20%) Pega
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) SAP
3 2 (3.28%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco
4 1 (1.64%) Facebook
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Instagram
4 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.64%) Sophos
4 1 (1.64%) Sparx