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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 75 77
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,554 1,744 2,797
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.65% 3.08% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.44% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,151 1,813
10th Percentile £313 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £461 £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 £759 £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 134 50 62
10th Percentile £16.48 £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 £64.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.31 £60.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.08 £42.58
% change year-on-year -18.62% +8.21% +54.84%

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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +25 1,355 £525 -7.08% 2,134
UK excluding London +24 861 £500 -7.41% 1,632
London +10 553 £550 -8.33% 572
Work from Home +31 510 £503 -8.64% 716
South East +26 241 £510 -7.23% 367
North of England +12 183 £500 -9.09% 423
South West +36 161 £500 -18.37% 192
Midlands +42 129 £488 -9.93% 324
North West +31 109 £500 -2.91% 243
Scotland -4 87 £440 -7.37% 127
West Midlands +10 75 £550 +0.23% 201
East of England -6 59 £500 - 162
Yorkshire -2 56 £500 -9.09% 136
East Midlands +40 50 £269 -55.87% 123
North East +2 18 £554 -1.99% 54
Wales +14 5 £513 +2.50% 67
Northern Ireland 0 2 £640 +293.85% 18
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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 49 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (0.51%) CMS
4 8 (0.51%) nginx
5 5 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.26%) Apache
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 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.064%) JBoss
8 1 (0.064%) SAS
8 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.51%) CATIA
6 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
7 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.26%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.71%) 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%) Primavera
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
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/CO
7 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 230 (14.80%) Azure
2 125 (8.04%) AWS
3 88 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 65 (4.18%) GCP
5 61 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
8 37 (2.38%) Serverless
9 27 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (1.74%) IaaS
10 24 (1.54%) SaaS
11 23 (1.48%) Azure Functions
11 23 (1.48%) OpenShift
11 23 (1.48%) PaaS
12 22 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.29%) GitHub
14 20 (1.29%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.19%) Modbus
1 34 (2.19%) RS-422
1 34 (2.19%) RS-485
2 33 (2.12%) Firewall
3 25 (1.61%) DNS
4 18 (1.16%) BGP
4 18 (1.16%) DHCP
4 18 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.03%) LAN
6 10 (0.64%) VPN
7 8 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (0.51%) SAN
8 7 (0.45%) Broadband
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
9 6 (0.39%) HTTP
9 6 (0.39%) Intranet
9 6 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.39%) NAS
9 6 (0.39%) VLAN
9 6 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.83%) Power BI
2 51 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 33 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 26 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (1.42%) Tableau
7 19 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.09%) Metadata
9 16 (1.03%) MySQL
10 14 (0.90%) Data Mining
11 11 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (0.58%) Big Data
13 9 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.45%) Power Query
16 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
17 5 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 138 (8.88%) JIRA
2 84 (5.41%) Git
3 61 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.16%) webpack
5 17 (1.09%) GitLab
5 17 (1.09%) Selenium
6 16 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.97%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.77%) Maven
9 10 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (0.64%) Postman
10 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.45%) JUnit
12 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.39%) ERwin
13 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
15 3 (0.19%) Gradle
15 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
General
1 667 (42.92%) Social Skills
2 358 (23.04%) Finance
3 330 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 85 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 82 (5.28%) Banking
7 78 (5.02%) Manufacturing
8 72 (4.63%) Legal
8 72 (4.63%) Marketing
9 54 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (3.41%) Electronics
11 49 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (3.15%) Retail
12 47 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (2.64%) Front Office
14 22 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.22%) Local Government
17 16 (1.03%) Billing
17 16 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 185 (11.90%) Analyst
2 171 (11.00%) Developer
3 162 (10.42%) Lead
4 153 (9.85%) Senior
5 98 (6.31%) Architect
6 81 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 69 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
8 57 (3.67%) Consultant
9 50 (3.22%) Software Engineer
10 44 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 39 (2.51%) Business Analyst
12 36 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (2.32%) Scrum Master
13 32 (2.06%) IT Manager
14 31 (1.99%) Service Manager
15 30 (1.93%) Senior Manager
16 29 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
17 28 (1.80%) C++ Software Engineer
18 24 (1.54%) Designer
18 24 (1.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.15%) React
2 44 (2.83%) .NET
3 42 (2.70%) CSS
3 42 (2.70%) REST
4 39 (2.51%) HTML
5 35 (2.25%) AngularJS
6 27 (1.74%) Web Services
7 22 (1.42%) RESTful
8 19 (1.22%) JSON
9 18 (1.16%) XML
10 17 (1.09%) RxJS
10 17 (1.09%) WebSockets
11 16 (1.03%) Node.js
11 16 (1.03%) Spring
12 15 (0.97%) Kafka
13 14 (0.90%) Redux
13 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
14 13 (0.84%) LDAP
15 12 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 12 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 92 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 31 (1.99%) CSOC
6 22 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.29%) CMDB
8 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.09%) Public Cloud
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
11 13 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.77%) Robotics
13 11 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 74 (4.76%) Windows
2 62 (3.99%) Linux
3 13 (0.84%) Unix
4 12 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.58%) Solaris
7 7 (0.45%) Android
7 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.39%) Kali Linux
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.32%) CentOS
10 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
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
12 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (34.94%) Agile
2 401 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (17.82%) Project Management
4 254 (16.34%) DevOps
5 181 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 161 (10.36%) ITIL
7 159 (10.23%) Roadmaps
8 158 (10.17%) Decision-Making
9 147 (9.46%) Analytics
9 147 (9.46%) Change Management
9 147 (9.46%) Project Delivery
10 135 (8.69%) Scrum
11 120 (7.72%) Mentoring
12 115 (7.40%) Service Management
13 112 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
14 111 (7.14%) CI/CD
15 108 (6.95%) Coaching
16 105 (6.76%) Software Engineering
17 104 (6.69%) Computer Science
18 98 (6.31%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.65%) Python
2 132 (8.49%) SQL
3 106 (6.82%) C#
4 95 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 75 (4.83%) Java
6 51 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 50 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 44 (2.83%) C++
9 39 (2.51%) C
10 37 (2.38%) Bash
11 21 (1.35%) Perl
12 16 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.97%) Go
14 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.77%) Scala
16 11 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.45%) PHP
17 7 (0.45%) Ruby
18 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 264 (16.99%) Degree
2 244 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 144 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 73 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.12%) PMP
9 26 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.48%) CISSP
11 22 (1.42%) SANS
12 19 (1.22%) HNC
13 18 (1.16%) CISM
13 18 (1.16%) HND
14 16 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 10 (0.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
18 9 (0.58%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.88%) QA
2 58 (3.73%) GDPR
3 56 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 51 (3.28%) PMO
4 51 (3.28%) SLA
5 47 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.09%) NIST
8 15 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
9 14 (0.90%) NCSC
10 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 6 (0.39%) GxP
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.32%) GAMP
13 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.32%) HL7
13 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 59 (3.80%) Docker
2 50 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.84%) 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 72 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.60%) Terraform
3 47 (3.02%) Ansible
4 11 (0.71%) Grafana
5 10 (0.64%) Puppet
6 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.45%) Kibana
7 7 (0.45%) Podman
8 6 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.39%) Netcool
8 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli
8 6 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.32%) WSUS
10 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.26%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.26%) PowerCLI
10 4 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 208 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.47%) SAP
3 57 (3.67%) Oracle
4 50 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.64%) VMware
6 27 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 27 (1.74%) Cisco
7 23 (1.48%) Google
7 23 (1.48%) Splunk
8 17 (1.09%) BT
8 17 (1.09%) Dell
9 15 (0.97%) Adobe
10 14 (0.90%) Cadence
10 14 (0.90%) Databricks
11 13 (0.84%) IBM
12 10 (0.64%) HP
12 10 (0.64%) Remedy
12 10 (0.64%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.51%) BMC
13 8 (0.51%) Siemens