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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 75 77
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,556 1,751 2,818
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.64% 3.09% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.44% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,162 1,833
10th Percentile £323 £363 £356
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 63
10th Percentile £16.55 £22.27 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £31.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +12.36% +61.82%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.31 £61.50
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 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +27 1,358 £525 -7.08% 2,567
UK excluding London +24 862 £500 -7.41% 2,043
London +7 556 £550 -8.33% 807
Work from Home +31 508 £509 -7.50% 897
South East +28 243 £525 -4.55% 582
North of England +16 179 £500 -9.09% 463
South West +34 161 £500 -18.37% 219
Midlands +41 131 £475 -10.38% 357
North West +37 107 £513 +0.99% 258
Scotland -5 87 £440 -7.37% 150
West Midlands +13 77 £550 +0.46% 221
East of England -5 60 £500 - 234
Yorkshire -12 54 £500 -9.09% 143
East Midlands +41 50 £269 -55.87% 129
North East +4 18 £554 -1.99% 71
Wales +7 5 £513 -6.82% 70
Northern Ireland +2 2 £640 +293.85% 25
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 49 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.96%) 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 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
9 1 (0.064%) JBoss
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.064%) SAS
9 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.96%) 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%) Sketch
9 3 (0.19%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.96%) 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%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 234 (15.04%) Azure
2 121 (7.78%) AWS
3 88 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 65 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (4.18%) GCP
5 57 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
7 39 (2.51%) Serverless
8 29 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (1.74%) IaaS
10 26 (1.67%) Azure Functions
11 24 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (1.54%) OpenShift
11 24 (1.54%) PaaS
11 24 (1.54%) SaaS
12 23 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (1.41%) Entra ID
14 21 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.29%) GitHub
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 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 17 (1.09%) LAN
6 11 (0.71%) 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 (4.82%) Power BI
2 50 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.99%) NoSQL
3 31 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.29%) Tableau
6 19 (1.22%) MongoDB
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 Reports
Development Applications
1 140 (9.00%) JIRA
2 87 (5.59%) Git
3 59 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.22%) Selenium
5 18 (1.16%) webpack
6 16 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.03%) GitLab
7 14 (0.90%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.77%) Maven
9 10 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (0.64%) Postman
10 9 (0.58%) 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
1 665 (42.74%) Social Skills
2 358 (23.01%) Finance
3 331 (21.27%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 82 (5.27%) Banking
7 79 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 72 (4.63%) Legal
9 71 (4.56%) Marketing
10 54 (3.47%) Electronics
10 54 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (3.08%) Retail
13 47 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.70%) Front Office
15 22 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.35%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.22%) Local Government
18 16 (1.03%) Billing
18 16 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 186 (11.95%) Analyst
2 175 (11.25%) Developer
3 158 (10.15%) Lead
4 153 (9.83%) Senior
5 98 (6.30%) Architect
6 82 (5.27%) Project Manager
7 67 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
8 57 (3.66%) Consultant
9 49 (3.15%) Software Engineer
10 46 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
11 39 (2.51%) Business Analyst
12 38 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (2.25%) Scrum Master
14 32 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 30 (1.93%) Service Manager
16 29 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
16 29 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 28 (1.80%) C++ Software Engineer
18 24 (1.54%) Designer
18 24 (1.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.33%) React
2 45 (2.89%) .NET
3 42 (2.70%) REST
4 41 (2.63%) CSS
5 39 (2.51%) 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%) RxJS
10 17 (1.09%) WebSockets
11 16 (1.03%) Kafka
11 16 (1.03%) Node.js
11 16 (1.03%) Spring
12 14 (0.90%) Redux
12 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.84%) LDAP
14 12 (0.77%) .NET Core
14 12 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.03%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.98%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
5 31 (1.99%) CSOC
6 21 (1.35%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.29%) CMDB
8 18 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.03%) Fixed Income
10 16 (1.03%) Life Science
10 16 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.03%) Private Cloud
11 14 (0.90%) Cloud Native
12 13 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.77%) Robotics
13 12 (0.77%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.69%) Windows
2 62 (3.98%) Linux
3 12 (0.77%) Unix
3 12 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
6 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.39%) Android
7 6 (0.39%) Kali Linux
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.32%) CentOS
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.064%) VMS
11 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (35.41%) Agile
2 403 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
3 279 (17.93%) Project Management
4 256 (16.45%) DevOps
5 180 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 163 (10.48%) ITIL
7 160 (10.28%) Roadmaps
8 157 (10.09%) Decision-Making
9 149 (9.58%) Analytics
9 149 (9.58%) Change Management
10 146 (9.38%) Project Delivery
11 133 (8.55%) Scrum
12 119 (7.65%) Mentoring
13 115 (7.39%) CI/CD
14 114 (7.33%) Service Management
15 112 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
16 111 (7.13%) Coaching
17 105 (6.75%) Software Engineering
18 102 (6.56%) Computer Science
19 100 (6.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (9.83%) Python
2 135 (8.68%) SQL
3 105 (6.75%) C#
4 95 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 71 (4.56%) Java
6 53 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 48 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.83%) C++
9 38 (2.44%) C
10 36 (2.31%) 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 8 (0.51%) Ruby
17 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.39%) Groovy
17 6 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 263 (16.90%) Degree
2 252 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 153 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 71 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.12%) PMP
9 27 (1.74%) CISSP
10 25 (1.61%) 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 13 (0.84%) Azure Certification
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.87%) QA
2 60 (3.86%) GDPR
3 54 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.34%) SLA
5 48 (3.08%) PMO
6 47 (3.02%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.35%) NIST
8 15 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
9 14 (0.90%) NCSC
10 13 (0.84%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.45%) GxP
11 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.32%) GAMP
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 63 (4.05%) Docker
2 53 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.16%) 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 76 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.66%) Terraform
3 48 (3.08%) 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%) OPNET
9 5 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 5 (0.32%) WSUS
10 4 (0.26%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 209 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.59%) SAP
3 57 (3.66%) Oracle
4 50 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 42 (2.70%) VMware
6 28 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 27 (1.74%) Cisco
8 25 (1.61%) Google
9 23 (1.48%) Splunk
10 17 (1.09%) BT
10 17 (1.09%) Dell
11 15 (0.96%) Adobe
12 14 (0.90%) Cadence
12 14 (0.90%) Databricks
13 13 (0.84%) IBM
14 10 (0.64%) HP
14 10 (0.64%) Remedy
14 10 (0.64%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.51%) BMC
15 8 (0.51%) Siemens