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 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 52 74 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 +16
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,556 1,734 2,814
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.61% 3.09% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.45% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,146 1,837
10th Percentile £314 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £460 £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 135 50 62
10th Percentile £17.00 £22.27 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £29.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +61.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile - £83.31 £61.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.08 £42.58
% change year-on-year -18.62% +8.21% +68.63%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 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
England +23 1,363 £525 -6.67% 2,168
UK excluding London +23 856 £500 -7.41% 1,590
London +15 567 £550 -6.78% 674
Work from Home +28 502 £500 -9.09% 742
South East +26 244 £507 -7.91% 360
North of England +3 177 £500 -9.09% 398
South West +38 164 £500 -16.67% 192
Midlands +36 127 £500 -4.76% 331
North West +24 104 £525 +3.24% 226
Scotland -9 85 £438 -7.79% 115
West Midlands +11 73 £550 +4.76% 211
East of England -14 58 £500 - 159
Yorkshire -11 56 £500 -9.09% 124
East Midlands +34 50 £269 -55.52% 120
North East +1 17 £554 -1.99% 55
Wales +12 5 £513 -6.82% 52
Northern Ireland +1 2 £640 +293.85% 24
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 52 (3.34%) Confluence
2 50 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.58%) CMS
4 9 (0.58%) nginx
5 5 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.26%) govService
6 4 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
7 3 (0.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 2 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.064%) JBoss
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.51%) CATIA
6 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.32%) SPSS
7 4 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Sketch
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.96%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.51%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
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
1 240 (15.42%) Azure
2 126 (8.10%) AWS
3 88 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (4.37%) GCP
6 57 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
8 38 (2.44%) Serverless
9 27 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (1.74%) IaaS
10 25 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 24 (1.54%) Azure Functions
11 24 (1.54%) PaaS
12 23 (1.48%) SaaS
13 22 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (1.41%) GitHub
14 21 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.29%) Entra ID
15 20 (1.29%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.19%) Modbus
1 34 (2.19%) RS-422
1 34 (2.19%) RS-485
2 32 (2.06%) Firewall
3 24 (1.54%) DNS
4 18 (1.16%) BGP
4 18 (1.16%) LAN
5 17 (1.09%) DHCP
5 17 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.77%) VPN
7 8 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (0.45%) Broadband
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
8 7 (0.45%) SAN
9 6 (0.39%) HTTP
9 6 (0.39%) Intranet
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
10 5 (0.32%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.32%) NAS
10 5 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.82%) Power BI
2 50 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.29%) MongoDB
6 20 (1.29%) Tableau
7 17 (1.09%) Metadata
8 14 (0.90%) Data Mining
9 13 (0.84%) MySQL
10 11 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.64%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.51%) Big Data
13 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.45%) Power Query
15 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 139 (8.93%) JIRA
2 84 (5.40%) Git
3 60 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.22%) Selenium
5 18 (1.16%) GitLab
6 17 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 17 (1.09%) webpack
7 13 (0.84%) Postman
7 13 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.77%) Maven
9 10 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.45%) JUnit
11 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.39%) ERwin
12 5 (0.32%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.19%) Gradle
14 3 (0.19%) Mocha
General
1 663 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 356 (22.88%) Finance
3 325 (20.89%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.72%) Telecoms
6 80 (5.14%) Banking
7 77 (4.95%) Manufacturing
8 71 (4.56%) Legal
9 70 (4.50%) Marketing
10 55 (3.53%) Electronics
11 52 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (3.21%) Retail
13 49 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.63%) Front Office
15 23 (1.48%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.29%) Local Government
18 16 (1.03%) Billing
19 15 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 181 (11.63%) Analyst
2 173 (11.12%) Developer
3 161 (10.35%) Senior
4 158 (10.15%) Lead
5 101 (6.49%) Architect
6 86 (5.53%) Project Manager
7 66 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
8 57 (3.66%) Consultant
9 49 (3.15%) Software Engineer
10 44 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 43 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 38 (2.44%) Business Analyst
13 33 (2.12%) Scrum Master
14 32 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 31 (1.99%) Senior Manager
16 30 (1.93%) Service Manager
17 29 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
18 28 (1.80%) C++ Software Engineer
19 25 (1.61%) Test Manager
20 24 (1.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.14%) React
2 46 (2.96%) .NET
3 42 (2.70%) REST
4 39 (2.51%) CSS
5 38 (2.44%) HTML
6 36 (2.31%) AngularJS
7 27 (1.74%) Web Services
8 23 (1.48%) RESTful
9 18 (1.16%) JSON
9 18 (1.16%) XML
10 17 (1.09%) Kafka
10 17 (1.09%) Node.js
11 16 (1.03%) RxJS
11 16 (1.03%) Spring
11 16 (1.03%) WebSockets
12 14 (0.90%) Redux
12 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.84%) OAuth
14 12 (0.77%) .NET Core
14 12 (0.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 89 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 75 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
5 31 (1.99%) CSOC
6 20 (1.29%) CMDB
6 20 (1.29%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 16 (1.03%) Life Science
9 16 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 14 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 14 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.77%) Robotics
12 12 (0.77%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.69%) Windows
2 62 (3.98%) Linux
3 12 (0.77%) Unix
4 11 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.51%) Solaris
7 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.39%) Android
8 6 (0.39%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.32%) CentOS
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (35.15%) Agile
2 408 (26.22%) Problem-Solving
3 283 (18.19%) Project Management
4 263 (16.90%) DevOps
5 182 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 164 (10.54%) ITIL
7 160 (10.28%) Decision-Making
7 160 (10.28%) Roadmaps
8 150 (9.64%) Analytics
9 147 (9.45%) Project Delivery
10 146 (9.38%) Change Management
11 130 (8.35%) Scrum
12 122 (7.84%) Mentoring
13 118 (7.58%) CI/CD
14 117 (7.52%) Service Management
15 114 (7.33%) Coaching
16 113 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
17 105 (6.75%) Software Engineering
18 103 (6.62%) Computer Science
19 100 (6.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.90%) Python
2 134 (8.61%) SQL
3 105 (6.75%) C#
4 94 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 72 (4.63%) Java
6 56 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 49 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.83%) C++
9 38 (2.44%) C
10 37 (2.38%) Bash
11 21 (1.35%) Perl
12 16 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.84%) Go
15 11 (0.71%) Scala
15 11 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.58%) Ruby
17 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.39%) Groovy
17 6 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 264 (16.97%) Degree
2 255 (16.39%) Security Cleared
3 156 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 71 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 41 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.25%) PMP
9 28 (1.80%) CISSP
10 24 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.41%) CISM
11 22 (1.41%) SANS
12 19 (1.22%) HNC
13 18 (1.16%) HND
14 16 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 15 (0.96%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
19 11 (0.71%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.55%) QA
2 58 (3.73%) GDPR
3 56 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.41%) SLA
5 47 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 47 (3.02%) PMO
6 22 (1.41%) NIST
7 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
9 14 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.84%) NCSC
11 7 (0.45%) GxP
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) GRC
13 5 (0.32%) GAMP
13 5 (0.32%) HL7
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (4.37%) Docker
2 50 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.90%) vSphere
6 9 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.58%) 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 (0.064%) vCloud
9 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 64 (4.11%) Terraform
3 49 (3.15%) Ansible
4 13 (0.84%) Grafana
5 10 (0.64%) Puppet
6 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.45%) Kibana
8 7 (0.45%) Podman
9 6 (0.39%) OPNET
9 6 (0.39%) PowerCLI
10 5 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.32%) Netcool
10 5 (0.32%) Tivoli
10 5 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (0.32%) WSUS
11 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 211 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.40%) SAP
3 55 (3.53%) Oracle
4 48 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.76%) VMware
6 29 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 27 (1.74%) Cisco
7 27 (1.74%) Google
8 23 (1.48%) Splunk
9 17 (1.09%) BT
10 16 (1.03%) Dell
11 14 (0.90%) Adobe
11 14 (0.90%) Cadence
12 13 (0.84%) Databricks
13 12 (0.77%) IBM
14 10 (0.64%) Remedy
14 10 (0.64%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.58%) HP
15 9 (0.58%) SolarWinds
16 8 (0.51%) BMC