Continuous Improvement Contracts

Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 78 77
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,592 1,819 2,825
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.69% 3.08% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.43% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,220 1,861
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 45 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £20.53 £24.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £34.55
Median hourly rate £38.95 £54.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.87% +21.35% +61.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.31
90th Percentile - £83.31 £61.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.48 £50.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -19.05% +36.05% +33.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +26 1,381 £525 -7.08% 2,151
UK excluding London +26 854 £500 -9.09% 1,694
London +9 595 £550 -7.56% 575
Work from Home +33 522 £500 -9.09% 762
South East +33 233 £513 -6.82% 366
North of England +20 176 £521 -5.27% 483
South West +45 163 £500 -13.04% 202
Midlands +45 126 £460 -12.38% 294
North West +33 107 £525 -1.41% 272
Scotland -14 92 £447 -10.60% 130
West Midlands +14 76 £550 +4.76% 181
East of England +1 60 £500 - 181
Yorkshire 0 51 £500 -7.41% 158
East Midlands +45 47 £269 -56.08% 113
North East +3 18 £554 -1.99% 65
Wales +9 7 £650 +30.00% 71
Northern Ireland +7 3 £425 +161.54% 18
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 62 (3.89%) Confluence
2 54 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (0.50%) CMS
5 7 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (0.44%) nginx
6 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.31%) Apache
7 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.25%) govService
8 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.063%) Appian
11 1 (0.063%) Tornado
Applications
1 68 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.50%) CATIA
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.38%) CINEMA 4D
6 6 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.25%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.063%) Simulink
11 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.50%) DELMIA
5 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.25%) Primavera
8 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
8 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 240 (15.08%) Azure
2 133 (8.35%) AWS
3 92 (5.78%) Power Platform
4 67 (4.21%) GCP
5 64 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 37 (2.32%) Serverless
9 30 (1.88%) IaaS
10 26 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 25 (1.57%) SaaS
12 24 (1.51%) PaaS
13 23 (1.44%) npm
13 23 (1.44%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (1.38%) PowerApps
15 21 (1.32%) Azure Functions
16 20 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (1.19%) GitHub
18 18 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.64%) Firewall
2 36 (2.26%) Modbus
2 36 (2.26%) RS-422
2 36 (2.26%) RS-485
3 27 (1.70%) DNS
4 24 (1.51%) BGP
5 20 (1.26%) DHCP
6 19 (1.19%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.07%) LAN
8 12 (0.75%) VPN
9 9 (0.57%) SAN
9 9 (0.57%) VLAN
9 9 (0.57%) WAN
10 7 (0.44%) Broadband
10 7 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.44%) NAS
10 7 (0.44%) Network Security
11 6 (0.38%) HTTP
11 6 (0.38%) Internet
11 6 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.96%) Power BI
2 52 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 27 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (1.44%) Metadata
7 22 (1.38%) Tableau
8 20 (1.26%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.01%) MySQL
10 14 (0.88%) Data Mining
11 13 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.75%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.63%) Big Data
14 9 (0.57%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.44%) Power Query
17 6 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
18 5 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 154 (9.67%) JIRA
2 82 (5.15%) Git
3 63 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.38%) webpack
5 20 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 17 (1.07%) GitLab
7 16 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.94%) Postman
9 14 (0.88%) Selenium
10 13 (0.82%) JUnit
11 12 (0.75%) ERwin
11 12 (0.75%) Maven
12 11 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.38%) Burp Suite
16 5 (0.31%) IntelliJ
17 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
17 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
18 3 (0.19%) Gradle
General
1 697 (43.78%) Social Skills
2 370 (23.24%) Finance
3 344 (21.61%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.59%) Telecoms
6 85 (5.34%) Banking
7 84 (5.28%) Manufacturing
8 79 (4.96%) Marketing
9 74 (4.65%) Legal
10 62 (3.89%) Electronics
11 56 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (3.45%) Retail
13 50 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
14 49 (3.08%) Front Office
15 44 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.38%) Local Government
17 19 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.94%) Billing
19 13 (0.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 190 (11.93%) Analyst
2 181 (11.37%) Developer
3 171 (10.74%) Lead
4 151 (9.48%) Senior
5 109 (6.85%) Architect
6 77 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 70 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
8 58 (3.64%) Consultant
9 54 (3.39%) Software Engineer
10 44 (2.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 42 (2.64%) Business Analyst
12 38 (2.39%) Scrum Master
13 34 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.01%) IT Manager
14 32 (2.01%) Service Manager
15 31 (1.95%) C++ Software Engineer
16 29 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
17 26 (1.63%) Java Developer
18 25 (1.57%) Programme Manager
19 24 (1.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.46%) React
2 53 (3.33%) REST
3 50 (3.14%) CSS
4 45 (2.83%) .NET
5 41 (2.58%) HTML
6 37 (2.32%) AngularJS
7 25 (1.57%) Web Services
8 23 (1.44%) RESTful
8 23 (1.44%) Spring
9 22 (1.38%) Kafka
9 22 (1.38%) WebSockets
10 21 (1.32%) JSON
10 21 (1.32%) RxJS
11 19 (1.19%) Node.js
11 19 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.19%) XML
12 18 (1.13%) J2EE
12 18 (1.13%) Redux
13 15 (0.94%) Reactive Extensions
14 14 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.84%) Management Information System
3 83 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (1.95%) CSOC
4 31 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 25 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.26%) CMDB
6 20 (1.26%) Private Cloud
7 19 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.19%) Wiki
8 17 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.07%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.01%) Life Science
10 15 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 15 (0.94%) Data Centre
10 15 (0.94%) Fixed Income
10 15 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 14 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.75%) Robotics
13 11 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 79 (4.96%) Windows
2 65 (4.08%) Linux
3 13 (0.82%) Unix
4 12 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.63%) Android
5 10 (0.63%) Solaris
6 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.38%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.31%) CentOS
10 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.063%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.063%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (35.18%) Agile
2 405 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 276 (17.34%) Project Management
4 255 (16.02%) DevOps
5 186 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 171 (10.74%) ITIL
7 169 (10.62%) Decision-Making
8 164 (10.30%) Roadmaps
9 152 (9.55%) Project Delivery
10 144 (9.05%) Analytics
10 144 (9.05%) Scrum
11 140 (8.79%) Change Management
12 128 (8.04%) Service Management
13 122 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
14 120 (7.54%) Mentoring
15 115 (7.22%) Software Engineering
16 108 (6.78%) CI/CD
16 108 (6.78%) Coaching
16 108 (6.78%) User Experience
17 106 (6.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 146 (9.17%) SQL
2 145 (9.11%) Python
3 112 (7.04%) C#
4 103 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 84 (5.28%) Java
6 61 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 49 (3.08%) C++
8 46 (2.89%) PowerShell
9 40 (2.51%) C
10 38 (2.39%) Bash
11 22 (1.38%) Perl
12 21 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.13%) Go
13 18 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.75%) Scala
15 7 (0.44%) PHP
16 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.38%) Groovy
16 6 (0.38%) Ruby
17 5 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 282 (17.71%) Degree
2 250 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 151 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 72 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 40 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.07%) PMP
9 28 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.38%) CISSP
10 22 (1.38%) SANS
11 19 (1.19%) HNC
12 18 (1.13%) HND
13 16 (1.01%) CISM
14 14 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 12 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 9 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.48%) QA
2 66 (4.15%) GDPR
3 58 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 53 (3.33%) SLA
6 51 (3.20%) PMO
7 25 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
9 15 (0.94%) NIST
10 14 (0.88%) NCSC
11 11 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.44%) GRC
13 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 5 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 56 (3.52%) Docker
2 48 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.82%) vSphere
6 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.13%) Ceph
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.063%) vCloud
9 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.063%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.64%) Terraform
3 38 (2.39%) Ansible
4 11 (0.69%) Grafana
5 10 (0.63%) SCCM
6 9 (0.57%) Kibana
6 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (0.44%) Netcool
7 7 (0.44%) Podman
7 7 (0.44%) SCOM
7 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
7 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.31%) WSUS
10 4 (0.25%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.19%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 213 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.78%) SAP
3 72 (4.52%) Oracle
4 54 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.70%) VMware
6 32 (2.01%) Cisco
7 30 (1.88%) Atlassian
8 24 (1.51%) Google
9 23 (1.44%) Splunk
10 17 (1.07%) Adobe
11 16 (1.01%) IBM
12 15 (0.94%) BT
12 15 (0.94%) Databricks
12 15 (0.94%) Dell
13 14 (0.88%) Cadence
14 12 (0.75%) Sparx
15 11 (0.69%) HP
15 11 (0.69%) Salesforce
16 9 (0.57%) Remedy
16 9 (0.57%) Siemens