Continuous Improvement Contracts with Work from Home Options

Continual Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 55 88 72
Rank change year-on-year +33 -16 +38
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 501 634 1,407
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.39% 2.58% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 2.87% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 457 935
10th Percentile £365 £382 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 46
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.34 £25.57
25th Percentile £36.56 £22.96 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.60% -29.78% +78.73%
75th Percentile £72.90 £50.84 £49.25
90th Percentile £86.21 £58.21 £49.50
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Continuous Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Improvement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Continuous Improvement daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement.

Continuous Improvement hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Continuous Improvement hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (3.19%) Confluence
2 9 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.80%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.80%) nginx
3 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.80%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.40%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.40%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.20%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 88 (17.56%) Azure
2 50 (9.98%) AWS
3 31 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
4 28 (5.59%) GCP
5 27 (5.39%) Power Platform
6 21 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.99%) IaaS
9 14 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (2.79%) SaaS
10 13 (2.59%) Azure API Management
11 12 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (2.40%) PaaS
11 12 (2.40%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.80%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.20%) Nutanix
14 6 (1.20%) Rubrik
14 6 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.79%) DNS
2 15 (2.99%) Firewall
3 13 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.40%) DHCP
5 6 (1.20%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.20%) NAS
5 6 (1.20%) SAN
5 6 (1.20%) VLAN
6 5 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (1.00%) VPN
7 4 (0.80%) HTTP
7 4 (0.80%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.80%) IPsec
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) Broadband
8 3 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.60%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.60%) Network Security
9 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.59%) Power BI
2 18 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.39%) Metadata
4 16 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.00%) MySQL
7 9 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.60%) Tableau
9 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.00%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.80%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.40%) GIS
12 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.40%) OLAP
12 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (11.18%) JIRA
2 27 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.19%) Git
4 10 (2.00%) ERwin
5 9 (1.80%) GitLab
6 7 (1.40%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.40%) Selenium
6 7 (1.40%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.00%) webpack
9 3 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.60%) Postman
10 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.40%) JUnit
10 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.20%) Gradle
11 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 207 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 129 (25.75%) Finance
3 95 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.98%) Telecoms
6 37 (7.39%) Legal
7 33 (6.59%) Marketing
8 28 (5.59%) Manufacturing
9 20 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.99%) Retail
10 19 (3.79%) Banking
11 15 (2.99%) Electronics
12 14 (2.79%) Front Office
13 11 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.20%) Police
17 5 (1.00%) Law
18 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 65 (12.97%) Lead
2 52 (10.38%) Developer
2 52 (10.38%) Senior
3 37 (7.39%) Architect
4 36 (7.19%) Analyst
5 33 (6.59%) Project Manager
6 27 (5.39%) Consultant
7 22 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
8 16 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.19%) Service Manager
9 15 (2.99%) Full Stack Developer
10 14 (2.79%) Data Architect
10 14 (2.79%) IT Manager
10 14 (2.79%) Senior Manager
11 12 (2.40%) Business Analyst
11 12 (2.40%) Designer
11 12 (2.40%) Enterprise Architect
12 11 (2.20%) Product Owner
12 11 (2.20%) Scrum Master
13 10 (2.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.59%) React
2 17 (3.39%) .NET
3 16 (3.19%) XML
4 15 (2.99%) CSS
4 15 (2.99%) HTML
5 13 (2.59%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.20%) JSON
6 11 (2.20%) LDAP
6 11 (2.20%) REST
6 11 (2.20%) RESTful
7 8 (1.60%) YAML
8 7 (1.40%) Redux
9 5 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (1.00%) OAuth
9 5 (1.00%) OpenID
9 5 (1.00%) Reactive Extensions
9 5 (1.00%) RxJS
9 5 (1.00%) Vue
9 5 (1.00%) Web Services
9 5 (1.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.00%) Virtual Team
4 10 (2.00%) Wiki
5 9 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (1.80%) Clustering
6 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.60%) Replication
7 7 (1.40%) CMDB
8 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.00%) Life Science
9 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.00%) Motion Graphics
9 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.59%) Linux
2 23 (4.59%) Windows
3 10 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.60%) Solaris
4 8 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.00%) CentOS
7 3 (0.60%) Android
7 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (35.13%) Agile
2 123 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (19.56%) Project Management
4 73 (14.57%) DevOps
5 60 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 58 (11.58%) Roadmaps
7 54 (10.78%) ITIL
8 53 (10.58%) Decision-Making
9 50 (9.98%) Project Delivery
10 48 (9.58%) Change Management
11 47 (9.38%) Mentoring
12 42 (8.38%) Scrum
13 40 (7.98%) Risk Management
14 39 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (7.78%) Coaching
14 39 (7.78%) Computer Science
15 37 (7.39%) Analytics
15 37 (7.39%) Service Management
16 36 (7.19%) CI/CD
17 34 (6.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.18%) Python
2 40 (7.98%) SQL
3 39 (7.78%) C#
4 35 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 24 (4.79%) Bash
6 23 (4.59%) Java
7 19 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.40%) Perl
10 8 (1.60%) Go
11 6 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.00%) C++
12 5 (1.00%) PHP
13 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.40%) Groovy
15 2 (0.40%) Ruby
15 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (15.97%) Degree
2 62 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.59%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.79%) PMP
7 12 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.60%) CISSP
10 7 (1.40%) CIPD
10 7 (1.40%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.00%) CISM
13 4 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.40%) CISA
14 2 (0.40%) CRISC
14 2 (0.40%) IIBA
14 2 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.57%) QA
2 39 (7.78%) GDPR
3 26 (5.19%) Data Quality
4 24 (4.79%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.59%) SLA
6 14 (2.79%) PMO
7 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.60%) NIST
9 6 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.60%) GRC
11 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 3 (0.60%) NCSC
12 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.40%) ISO17020
12 2 (0.40%) ITGC
System Software
1 17 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.19%) Docker
2 16 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.60%) vSphere
4 6 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) Ceph
6 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 31 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.39%) Ansible
3 24 (4.79%) Terraform
4 6 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (1.20%) Netcool
4 6 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.20%) Tivoli
4 6 (1.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.80%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.80%) Grafana
6 3 (0.60%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.40%) Pacemaker
7 2 (0.40%) Podman
7 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.40%) WSUS
8 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.99%) SAP
3 25 (4.99%) Oracle
4 22 (4.39%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.79%) VMware
6 14 (2.79%) Cisco
6 14 (2.79%) Splunk
7 13 (2.59%) BT
8 10 (2.00%) Dell
8 10 (2.00%) Google
8 10 (2.00%) IBM
8 10 (2.00%) Sparx
9 8 (1.60%) Adobe
9 8 (1.60%) HP
10 7 (1.40%) Qualys
11 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.20%) EMC
11 6 (1.20%) Isilon
11 6 (1.20%) Serena
12 5 (1.00%) ForgeRock