Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North West

Continual Improvement
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 67 68
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 104 97 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.89% 3.15% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.49% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 59 98
10th Percentile £378 £415 £348
25th Percentile £450 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £581 £647
90th Percentile £674 £681 £763
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile £35.00 £16.85 £27.00
25th Percentile £35.75 £21.58 £30.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.86 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.39% -8.96% +90.84%
75th Percentile £43.75 £47.13 £48.86
90th Percentile £62.00 £62.37 £57.18
England median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +79.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,778 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.98% 90.31% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,599
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 168
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +54.23% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.24 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North West

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Manchester +34 63 £500 -2.20% 117
Cheshire -10 25 £590 +10.80% 50
Lancashire +10 12 £593 +24.04% 43
Merseyside +12 4 £419 -23.86% 23
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) CATIA
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.69%) DELMIA
1 8 (7.69%) Teamcenter
2 5 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.58%) Azure
2 10 (9.62%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.65%) AWS
4 5 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.81%) OCI
5 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.88%) IaaS
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.96%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.96%) Firebase
8 1 (0.96%) GCP
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.96%) PaaS
8 1 (0.96%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.96%) SaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Serverless
8 1 (0.96%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.88%) Metadata
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.96%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.96%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) JIRA
2 3 (2.88%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.88%) ERwin
3 2 (1.92%) Hudson
3 2 (1.92%) TestCafe
4 1 (0.96%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.96%) Gatling
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) GoCD
4 1 (0.96%) Gradle
4 1 (0.96%) Pa11y
4 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Finance
3 11 (10.58%) Manufacturing
3 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.81%) Banking
4 5 (4.81%) Law
4 5 (4.81%) Legal
5 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Electronics
6 3 (2.88%) Marketing
6 3 (2.88%) Retail
6 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.92%) Automotive
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.96%) Aviation
8 1 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 19 (18.27%) Lead
2 15 (14.42%) Test Engineer
3 14 (13.46%) Senior
4 11 (10.58%) Architect
4 11 (10.58%) Delivery Manager
5 10 (9.62%) Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Support Team Leader
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Test Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Team Leader
8 6 (5.77%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Systems Developer
11 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) .NET
2 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.92%) Middleware
3 1 (0.96%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.96%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.96%) Dagger
3 1 (0.96%) HTML
3 1 (0.96%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (0.96%) React
3 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.81%) Life Science
3 4 (3.85%) CMDB
3 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.88%) Wiki
5 2 (1.92%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.96%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.96%) IoT
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.96%) PMI
6 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Kali Linux
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.96%) Android
3 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.85%) Agile
2 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.27%) Project Management
3 13 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 12 (11.54%) Change Management
4 12 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 12 (11.54%) Programme Management
4 12 (11.54%) Test Automation
4 12 (11.54%) Waterfall
5 11 (10.58%) DevOps
5 11 (10.58%) Service Management
6 10 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (8.65%) Analytics
7 9 (8.65%) PLM
7 9 (8.65%) Scrum
7 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (8.65%) Validation
8 8 (7.69%) ITSM
8 8 (7.69%) Process Improvement
8 8 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.35%) SQL
2 7 (6.73%) Python
3 6 (5.77%) Java
4 4 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.96%) PHP
5 1 (0.96%) Scala
5 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Degree
2 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.88%) OSCP
5 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.96%) CISSP
6 1 (0.96%) HNC
6 1 (0.96%) HND
6 1 (0.96%) ISEB
6 1 (0.96%) MCSE
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.69%) GDPR
2 8 (7.69%) QA
3 6 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.81%) GAMP
4 5 (4.81%) GxP
5 4 (3.85%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.92%) GRC
6 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 2 (1.92%) ISO17020
6 2 (1.92%) PMO
6 2 (1.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.88%) Grafana
1 3 (2.88%) Kibana
1 3 (2.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.69%) Siemens
3 7 (6.73%) SAP
4 5 (4.81%) Oracle
4 5 (4.81%) Pega
5 4 (3.85%) Cadence
6 3 (2.88%) Sparx
7 2 (1.92%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.92%) VMware
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco
8 1 (0.96%) Facebook
8 1 (0.96%) Google
8 1 (0.96%) Instagram
8 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.96%) Sophos