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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 76 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,537 1,707 2,853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.55% 3.06% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.42% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 1,126 1,867
10th Percentile £313 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 50 65
10th Percentile £17.00 £22.27 £21.06
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +12.36% +61.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile - £83.31 £63.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.08 £49.00
% change year-on-year -18.62% -5.96% +78.18%

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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 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
England +24 1,350 £525 -6.67% 2,060
UK excluding London +19 856 £500 -7.41% 1,624
London +8 548 £550 -6.78% 506
Work from Home +27 492 £500 -9.09% 677
South East +29 242 £505 -8.18% 337
North of England +5 180 £500 -9.09% 425
South West +45 169 £500 -17.53% 217
Midlands +34 124 £488 -7.14% 331
North West +26 103 £538 +5.81% 242
Scotland -12 78 £440 -7.37% 132
West Midlands +6 70 £550 +4.76% 211
East of England -4 61 £500 - 161
Yorkshire -13 57 £500 -8.26% 133
East Midlands +34 49 £269 -55.52% 120
North East +4 20 £533 -5.75% 61
Wales +10 5 £513 +2.50% 48
Northern Ireland -1 2 £640 +293.85% 22
Isle of Man - 2 - -

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 51 (3.32%) Confluence
2 50 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.59%) nginx
5 8 (0.52%) CMS
6 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.26%) govService
7 4 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
8 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.065%) Apache
10 1 (0.065%) JBoss
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.52%) CATIA
5 8 (0.52%) Trello
6 7 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.33%) SPSS
8 4 (0.26%) Sketch
9 3 (0.20%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.065%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.98%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.52%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.20%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.13%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 234 (15.22%) Azure
2 122 (7.94%) AWS
3 87 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (4.49%) GCP
6 58 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (2.21%) Serverless
9 25 (1.63%) IaaS
9 25 (1.63%) OpenShift
10 24 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (1.56%) PaaS
11 23 (1.50%) SaaS
12 22 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.43%) Azure Functions
12 22 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (1.37%) Entra ID
13 21 (1.37%) GitHub
14 19 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.21%) Modbus
1 34 (2.21%) RS-422
1 34 (2.21%) RS-485
2 31 (2.02%) Firewall
3 24 (1.56%) DNS
4 18 (1.17%) LAN
5 17 (1.11%) BGP
5 17 (1.11%) DHCP
5 17 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.78%) VPN
7 8 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (0.46%) Broadband
8 7 (0.46%) Internet
8 7 (0.46%) SAN
9 6 (0.39%) HTTP
9 6 (0.39%) Intranet
9 6 (0.39%) Network Security
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
10 5 (0.33%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.81%) Power BI
2 49 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 23 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.30%) Tableau
7 18 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.91%) Data Mining
9 13 (0.85%) Metadata
9 13 (0.85%) MySQL
10 11 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.52%) Big Data
13 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.46%) Power Query
15 5 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 132 (8.59%) JIRA
2 81 (5.27%) Git
3 55 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.24%) Selenium
5 18 (1.17%) GitLab
6 17 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.91%) webpack
8 12 (0.78%) Maven
9 11 (0.72%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.65%) Postman
11 9 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.26%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
13 4 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.26%) JUnit
14 3 (0.20%) Gradle
14 3 (0.20%) JMeter
14 3 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 654 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 351 (22.84%) Finance
3 322 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 85 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 78 (5.07%) Banking
7 75 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 69 (4.49%) Legal
9 68 (4.42%) Marketing
10 53 (3.45%) Electronics
10 53 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.99%) Retail
14 37 (2.41%) Front Office
15 23 (1.50%) Local Government
16 22 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.30%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.04%) Billing
19 15 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 185 (12.04%) Analyst
2 168 (10.93%) Developer
3 159 (10.34%) Senior
4 157 (10.21%) Lead
5 98 (6.38%) Architect
6 90 (5.86%) Project Manager
7 70 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
8 55 (3.58%) Consultant
9 50 (3.25%) Software Engineer
10 42 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 38 (2.47%) Business Analyst
13 33 (2.15%) IT Manager
13 33 (2.15%) Senior Manager
14 29 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (1.89%) Service Manager
15 28 (1.82%) C++ Software Engineer
15 28 (1.82%) Scrum Master
16 25 (1.63%) Test Manager
17 24 (1.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.01%) React
2 42 (2.73%) .NET
3 39 (2.54%) CSS
3 39 (2.54%) HTML
4 36 (2.34%) REST
5 34 (2.21%) AngularJS
6 28 (1.82%) Web Services
7 23 (1.50%) RESTful
8 18 (1.17%) JSON
8 18 (1.17%) XML
9 17 (1.11%) Node.js
10 14 (0.91%) Kafka
10 14 (0.91%) OAuth
10 14 (0.91%) Redux
11 13 (0.85%) RxJS
11 13 (0.85%) Spring
11 13 (0.85%) WebSockets
12 12 (0.78%) LDAP
13 11 (0.72%) .NET Framework
13 11 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 86 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 73 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
5 31 (2.02%) CSOC
6 20 (1.30%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.24%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.17%) CMDB
9 17 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.04%) Life Science
10 16 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 15 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 15 (0.98%) Fixed Income
11 15 (0.98%) Private Cloud
12 14 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.78%) Robotics
14 12 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.55%) Windows
2 59 (3.84%) Linux
3 12 (0.78%) Unix
4 11 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.52%) Solaris
7 7 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.33%) CentOS
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.26%) Android
9 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (35.33%) Agile
2 409 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (18.35%) Project Management
4 262 (17.05%) DevOps
5 186 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 161 (10.47%) ITIL
7 154 (10.02%) Roadmaps
8 153 (9.95%) Decision-Making
9 148 (9.63%) Change Management
9 148 (9.63%) Project Delivery
10 145 (9.43%) Analytics
11 129 (8.39%) Scrum
12 122 (7.94%) Mentoring
13 116 (7.55%) CI/CD
14 113 (7.35%) Service Management
15 112 (7.29%) Coaching
16 108 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
16 108 (7.03%) Computer Science
17 102 (6.64%) Software Engineering
18 101 (6.57%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (9.69%) Python
2 128 (8.33%) SQL
3 104 (6.77%) C#
4 89 (5.79%) JavaScript
5 67 (4.36%) Java
6 56 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 46 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.73%) C++
9 38 (2.47%) C
10 37 (2.41%) Bash
11 21 (1.37%) Perl
12 14 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.72%) Go
13 11 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.72%) Scala
13 11 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.59%) Ruby
15 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.39%) Groovy
15 6 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 268 (17.44%) Degree
2 253 (16.46%) Security Cleared
3 157 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (4.75%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.25%) Master's Degree
7 45 (2.93%) PMI Certification
8 39 (2.54%) PMP
9 28 (1.82%) CISSP
10 23 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.43%) CISM
11 22 (1.43%) SANS
12 19 (1.24%) HNC
13 18 (1.17%) HND
14 16 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.04%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 11 (0.72%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.26%) QA
2 57 (3.71%) Accessibility
3 56 (3.64%) GDPR
4 52 (3.38%) SLA
5 46 (2.99%) PMO
6 45 (2.93%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.43%) NIST
8 21 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
10 13 (0.85%) NCSC
11 12 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.46%) GxP
13 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.39%) GRC
14 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.33%) HL7
14 5 (0.33%) NEBOSH
14 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (4.29%) Docker
2 51 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.91%) vSphere
6 9 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.20%) XenApp
9 2 (0.13%) Ceph
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.065%) vCloud
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 62 (4.03%) Terraform
3 48 (3.12%) Ansible
4 13 (0.85%) Grafana
5 9 (0.59%) Puppet
5 9 (0.59%) SCCM
5 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.46%) Podman
8 6 (0.39%) Kibana
8 6 (0.39%) OPNET
9 5 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.33%) Netcool
9 5 (0.33%) PowerCLI
9 5 (0.33%) Tivoli
9 5 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.33%) WSUS
10 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 210 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.34%) SAP
3 52 (3.38%) Oracle
4 46 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.80%) VMware
6 28 (1.82%) Cisco
6 28 (1.82%) Google
7 27 (1.76%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.43%) Splunk
9 17 (1.11%) BT
9 17 (1.11%) Cadence
10 15 (0.98%) Dell
11 13 (0.85%) Adobe
11 13 (0.85%) Databricks
11 13 (0.85%) IBM
12 11 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.65%) Remedy
13 10 (0.65%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.52%) HP
14 8 (0.52%) Siemens