Continuous Improvement Contracts in the South West

Continual Improvement
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 65 67
Rank change year-on-year +32 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 164 110 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.97% 3.25% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 3.65% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 82 84
10th Percentile £159 £390 £335
25th Percentile £441 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £614 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% +14.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £613 £689 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £729
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 0
10th Percentile £10.42 £31.93 -
25th Percentile £22.72 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £66.66 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.49% - -
75th Percentile - £83.31 -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +78.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Continuous Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the South West

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Wiltshire +5 59 £500 -18.70% 32
Bristol +11 31 £454 -17.45% 73
Somerset +16 23 £575 +11.27% 28
Devon +4 20 £173 -76.21% 30
Gloucestershire +5 16 £538 +13.16% 31
Dorset +15 9 £175 -68.18% 17
Cornwall - 6 £428 - 4
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (12.80%) Confluence
2 14 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 14 (8.54%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (2.44%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.44%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (4.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.46%) Azure
2 13 (7.93%) Azure Stack
3 10 (6.10%) AWS
3 10 (6.10%) GCP
4 6 (3.66%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.05%) PaaS
5 5 (3.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.22%) GitHub
8 1 (0.61%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.61%) IaaS
8 1 (0.61%) npm
8 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.61%) SaaS
8 1 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.54%) BGP
1 14 (8.54%) Firewall
2 6 (3.66%) DNS
2 6 (3.66%) VPN
3 4 (2.44%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.44%) IPsec
3 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) MySQL
2 4 (2.44%) Couchbase
2 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.44%) Power BI
3 3 (1.83%) Metadata
4 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (13.41%) JIRA
2 7 (4.27%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.44%) Selenium
5 3 (1.83%) JUnit
6 2 (1.22%) Git
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.61%) Babel
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) ESLint
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Vite
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 80 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 23 (14.02%) Finance
4 20 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (10.37%) Telecoms
7 12 (7.32%) Legal
8 11 (6.71%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.27%) Police
10 6 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.83%) Banking
11 3 (1.83%) Electronics
11 3 (1.83%) Marketing
11 3 (1.83%) Retail
11 3 (1.83%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.22%) Aviation
12 2 (1.22%) Local Government
13 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (23.78%) Analyst
2 19 (11.59%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (9.15%) Support Specialist
3 15 (9.15%) Technical Support
4 13 (7.93%) Project Manager
5 10 (6.10%) Architect
6 9 (5.49%) IT Support
6 9 (5.49%) IT Support Specialist
6 9 (5.49%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Technical Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Technical Support Engineer
7 7 (4.27%) IT Manager
7 7 (4.27%) Senior
7 7 (4.27%) Service Analyst
7 7 (4.27%) SOC Engineer
8 6 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (3.66%) Field Engineer
8 6 (3.66%) Field Support Engineer
8 6 (3.66%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (3.66%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.66%) ModSecurity
2 5 (3.05%) .NET
2 5 (3.05%) .NET Framework
2 5 (3.05%) JSON
3 4 (2.44%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.44%) YAML
4 2 (1.22%) React
4 2 (1.22%) Vue
5 1 (0.61%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.61%) Jest
5 1 (0.61%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.61%) Parceljs
5 1 (0.61%) REST
5 1 (0.61%) Spring
5 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.85%) CSOC
2 24 (14.63%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (8.54%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.71%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.49%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.66%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.44%) PKI
9 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.61%) Animation
11 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.59%) Windows
2 9 (5.49%) Linux
3 4 (2.44%) CentOS
4 2 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (31.71%) ITIL
2 50 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (28.66%) Agile
4 36 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (19.51%) Use Case
6 31 (18.90%) Analytics
7 29 (17.68%) Project Management
8 28 (17.07%) Security Operations
9 27 (16.46%) Incident Response
10 24 (14.63%) Service Management
11 22 (13.41%) SIEM
12 21 (12.80%) ITSM
13 20 (12.20%) Time Management
14 16 (9.76%) Project Delivery
15 14 (8.54%) Capacity Management
16 13 (7.93%) CI/CD
16 13 (7.93%) Coaching
16 13 (7.93%) Network Management
16 13 (7.93%) Security Monitoring
16 13 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.54%) Python
2 8 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.05%) SQL
5 4 (2.44%) PHP
6 3 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.83%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (1.22%) Bash
7 2 (1.22%) Perl
8 1 (0.61%) C
8 1 (0.61%) Java
8 1 (0.61%) Julia
8 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (49.39%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.44%) DV Cleared
3 43 (26.22%) Degree
4 37 (22.56%) SC Cleared
5 22 (13.41%) SANS
6 13 (7.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (5.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (4.27%) Master's Degree
9 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (1.83%) AAT
11 3 (1.83%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.22%) CISM
12 2 (1.22%) CISSP
12 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.22%) PMP
12 2 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.54%) Government Security Classifications
2 12 (7.32%) SLA
3 11 (6.71%) GDPR
4 10 (6.10%) QA
5 7 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.66%) NCSC
6 6 (3.66%) NIST
7 4 (2.44%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.44%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.83%) PMO
9 2 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.61%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.61%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.66%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (6.10%) Ansible
1 10 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Terraform
3 6 (3.66%) OPNET
4 5 (3.05%) PowerCLI
5 3 (1.83%) SCCM
5 3 (1.83%) SCOM
6 2 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 36 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.85%) Atlassian
3 10 (6.10%) Google
4 8 (4.88%) Remedy
5 7 (4.27%) BT
5 7 (4.27%) VMware
6 6 (3.66%) BMC
7 4 (2.44%) Cisco
8 3 (1.83%) Cadence
8 3 (1.83%) Civica
8 3 (1.83%) SAP
8 3 (1.83%) Splunk
9 2 (1.22%) Dell
9 2 (1.22%) Oracle
10 1 (0.61%) Progress