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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 77 75
Rank change year-on-year +26 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 1,583 1,796 2,819
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.70% 3.09% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.44% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,203 1,835
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.19%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 44 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £20.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.19 £32.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £53.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +20.62% +61.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile - £83.31 £61.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.23 £50.00 £36.46
% change year-on-year -23.55% +37.16% +32.56%

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 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -6.98%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +28 1,369 £525 -6.67% 2,100
UK excluding London +25 866 £500 -9.09% 1,644
London +10 574 £550 -7.82% 557
Work from Home +33 513 £500 -9.09% 744
South East +29 237 £525 -4.55% 382
North of England +12 176 £517 -6.00% 447
South West +46 165 £500 -13.04% 200
Midlands +44 128 £475 -9.52% 301
North West +30 108 £525 +2.69% 259
Scotland -6 99 £440 -11.11% 116
West Midlands +14 77 £550 +4.76% 191
East of England -6 59 £500 - 167
Yorkshire -6 50 £500 -9.09% 141
East Midlands +47 48 £269 -56.08% 110
North East +2 18 £554 -1.99% 59
Wales +13 5 £513 +5.67% 62
Northern Ireland +7 3 £425 +161.54% 18
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

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 60 (3.79%) Confluence
2 53 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.14%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (0.51%) CMS
4 8 (0.51%) nginx
5 7 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.32%) Apache
7 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.25%) govService
8 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.063%) JBoss
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.063%) SAS
10 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.51%) CATIA
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.38%) CINEMA 4D
6 6 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.25%) 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%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.063%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.95%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.51%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.19%) Primavera
7 3 (0.19%) SAP MII
7 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.13%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 241 (15.22%) Azure
2 133 (8.40%) AWS
3 89 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 70 (4.42%) GCP
5 62 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 38 (2.40%) Serverless
9 30 (1.90%) IaaS
10 28 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 25 (1.58%) PaaS
11 25 (1.58%) SaaS
12 23 (1.45%) Azure Functions
12 23 (1.45%) npm
12 23 (1.45%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.26%) GitHub
15 19 (1.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.53%) Firewall
2 35 (2.21%) Modbus
2 35 (2.21%) RS-422
2 35 (2.21%) RS-485
3 27 (1.71%) DNS
4 22 (1.39%) BGP
5 20 (1.26%) DHCP
6 19 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.01%) LAN
8 11 (0.69%) VPN
9 9 (0.57%) SAN
10 7 (0.44%) Broadband
10 7 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.44%) NAS
10 7 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (0.44%) VLAN
10 7 (0.44%) WAN
11 6 (0.38%) HTTP
11 6 (0.38%) Internet
11 6 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.80%) Power BI
2 52 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 30 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 27 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (1.45%) Metadata
7 22 (1.39%) Tableau
8 21 (1.33%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.01%) MySQL
10 14 (0.88%) Data Mining
11 13 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.76%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.63%) Big Data
13 10 (0.63%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.44%) Power Query
17 6 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
18 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 151 (9.54%) JIRA
2 85 (5.37%) Git
3 63 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.33%) webpack
5 18 (1.14%) TeamCity
6 16 (1.01%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.01%) GitLab
6 16 (1.01%) Selenium
7 15 (0.95%) Postman
8 13 (0.82%) JUnit
9 12 (0.76%) ERwin
9 12 (0.76%) Maven
10 11 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.38%) Burp Suite
14 5 (0.32%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
16 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
16 3 (0.19%) Gradle
General
1 688 (43.46%) Social Skills
2 371 (23.44%) Finance
3 338 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 83 (5.24%) Manufacturing
7 82 (5.18%) Marketing
8 81 (5.12%) Banking
9 74 (4.67%) Legal
10 60 (3.79%) Electronics
11 58 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
12 56 (3.54%) Retail
13 47 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (2.91%) Front Office
14 46 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.26%) Local Government
17 15 (0.95%) Billing
18 14 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 186 (11.75%) Analyst
2 182 (11.50%) Developer
3 169 (10.68%) Lead
4 155 (9.79%) Senior
5 108 (6.82%) Architect
6 80 (5.05%) Project Manager
7 69 (4.36%) Delivery Manager
8 57 (3.60%) Consultant
9 52 (3.28%) Software Engineer
10 46 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
11 43 (2.72%) Business Analyst
12 39 (2.46%) Scrum Master
13 33 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.02%) IT Manager
15 31 (1.96%) Service Manager
16 29 (1.83%) C++ Software Engineer
16 29 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
17 28 (1.77%) Senior Manager
18 26 (1.64%) Java Developer
19 25 (1.58%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.50%) React
2 52 (3.28%) REST
3 48 (3.03%) CSS
4 47 (2.97%) .NET
5 41 (2.59%) HTML
6 38 (2.40%) AngularJS
7 26 (1.64%) Web Services
8 24 (1.52%) Kafka
9 23 (1.45%) Spring
10 22 (1.39%) RESTful
11 21 (1.33%) WebSockets
12 20 (1.26%) Node.js
12 20 (1.26%) RxJS
13 19 (1.20%) JSON
13 19 (1.20%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.14%) J2EE
14 18 (1.14%) XML
15 16 (1.01%) Redux
16 14 (0.88%) LDAP
17 13 (0.82%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 117 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 94 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 81 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (1.96%) CSOC
4 31 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 24 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.26%) CMDB
6 20 (1.26%) Private Cloud
7 19 (1.20%) Wiki
8 18 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.14%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.07%) Life Science
9 17 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.01%) Fixed Income
11 15 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 15 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 12 (0.76%) Robotics
13 11 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.93%) Windows
2 64 (4.04%) Linux
3 13 (0.82%) Unix
4 12 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.63%) Solaris
6 8 (0.51%) Android
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.38%) Kali Linux
8 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.063%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (35.19%) Agile
2 402 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
3 278 (17.56%) Project Management
4 251 (15.86%) DevOps
5 181 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 164 (10.36%) ITIL
7 163 (10.30%) Decision-Making
8 162 (10.23%) Roadmaps
9 152 (9.60%) Project Delivery
10 146 (9.22%) Analytics
11 145 (9.16%) Change Management
12 137 (8.65%) Scrum
13 118 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
13 118 (7.45%) Mentoring
13 118 (7.45%) Service Management
14 113 (7.14%) Software Engineering
15 109 (6.89%) CI/CD
16 105 (6.63%) Coaching
16 105 (6.63%) Computer Science
17 104 (6.57%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (9.29%) Python
2 144 (9.10%) SQL
3 108 (6.82%) C#
4 102 (6.44%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.24%) Java
6 59 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 48 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 47 (2.97%) C++
9 40 (2.53%) C
10 37 (2.34%) Bash
11 22 (1.39%) Perl
12 20 (1.26%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.14%) Go
13 18 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.76%) Scala
15 7 (0.44%) PHP
15 7 (0.44%) Ruby
16 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.38%) Groovy
16 6 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 276 (17.44%) Degree
2 254 (16.05%) Security Cleared
3 153 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 78 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 71 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 32 (2.02%) PMP
9 26 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.39%) CISSP
10 22 (1.39%) SANS
11 19 (1.20%) HNC
12 18 (1.14%) HND
13 16 (1.01%) CISM
14 15 (0.95%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 11 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
18 9 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (8.91%) QA
2 65 (4.11%) GDPR
3 58 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.35%) SLA
5 52 (3.28%) PMO
6 23 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.14%) Government Security Classifications
8 15 (0.95%) NIST
9 14 (0.88%) NCSC
10 11 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.38%) GxP
14 5 (0.32%) GAMP
14 5 (0.32%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (3.66%) Docker
2 51 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.82%) vSphere
6 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.57%) 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 (0.063%) vCloud
9 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.063%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.60%) Terraform
3 40 (2.53%) Ansible
4 12 (0.76%) Grafana
5 10 (0.63%) SCCM
6 9 (0.57%) Kibana
6 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (0.44%) Netcool
7 7 (0.44%) Podman
7 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.44%) SCOM
7 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
7 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.32%) WSUS
10 4 (0.25%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.25%) OPNET
10 4 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 212 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.87%) SAP
3 72 (4.55%) Oracle
4 53 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 44 (2.78%) VMware
6 31 (1.96%) Cisco
7 30 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 24 (1.52%) Google
9 23 (1.45%) Splunk
10 16 (1.01%) Adobe
10 16 (1.01%) BT
10 16 (1.01%) IBM
11 15 (0.95%) Databricks
11 15 (0.95%) Dell
12 14 (0.88%) Cadence
13 12 (0.76%) Sparx
14 11 (0.69%) HP
15 10 (0.63%) Remedy
15 10 (0.63%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.51%) BMC