Continuous Improvement Contracts in Scotland

Continual Improvement
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 50 36
Rank change year-on-year +23 -14 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 116 76 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.09% 3.60% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 4.17% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 54 126
10th Percentile £339 £303 £269
25th Percentile £406 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £561
90th Percentile £591 £594 £624
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £37.00 £41.04
% change year-on-year +9.70% -9.84% -7.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,519 1,824 2,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.91% 86.40% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 1,132 1,718
10th Percentile £256 £219 £260
25th Percentile £367 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 90 57
10th Percentile £16.22 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.02 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +18.18% -55.92%
75th Percentile £25.68 £46.24 £43.75
90th Percentile £61.00 £60.93 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £37.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.41% +6.23% +34.62%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 June 2025. 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
Glasgow +17 60 £450 +2.74% 380
Edinburgh +27 49 £525 +19.86% 349
West Lothian -3 1 - - 28
Perthshire - 1 £575 -
Continuous Improvement
UK

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (4.31%) JBoss
1 5 (4.31%) WebLogic
2 4 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.59%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.86%) TPMS
5 1 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.55%) Azure
2 22 (18.97%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) IaaS
4 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.03%) BlazeMeter
6 4 (3.45%) GCP
6 4 (3.45%) GitHub
6 4 (3.45%) OCI
6 4 (3.45%) PaaS
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.59%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.59%) SaaS
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.72%) Datadog
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.72%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) Firewall
2 5 (4.31%) DHCP
2 5 (4.31%) DNS
2 5 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.59%) BGP
3 3 (2.59%) LAN
3 3 (2.59%) Network Security
3 3 (2.59%) OSPF
3 3 (2.59%) VPN
3 3 (2.59%) WAN
3 3 (2.59%) Wireless
4 1 (0.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.86%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.21%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.45%) DB2
7 3 (2.59%) MySQL
7 3 (2.59%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.86%) Metadata
9 1 (0.86%) Power Query
9 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) JUnit
2 11 (9.48%) JIRA
3 8 (6.90%) Git
4 5 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.45%) GitLab
6 3 (2.59%) Maven
6 3 (2.59%) Postman
6 3 (2.59%) Selenium
7 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.72%) Gradle
7 2 (1.72%) Mockito
7 2 (1.72%) MSTest
7 2 (1.72%) Newman
7 2 (1.72%) NUnit
7 2 (1.72%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.86%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 46 (39.66%) Finance
2 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
3 31 (26.72%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (24.14%) Banking
5 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.31%) Retail Banking
9 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Retail
11 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.86%) Front Office
11 1 (0.86%) Legal
11 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.52%) Analyst
1 18 (15.52%) Developer
2 13 (11.21%) Scrum Master
2 13 (11.21%) Senior
3 11 (9.48%) Java Developer
4 7 (6.03%) Architect
5 6 (5.17%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Incident Manager
6 5 (4.31%) Lead
6 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.31%) Test Manager
7 4 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) Fraud Analyst
7 4 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (2.59%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Database Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Designer
8 3 (2.59%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) Spring
2 10 (8.62%) React
3 8 (6.90%) CSS
4 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.17%) .NET
5 6 (5.17%) Kafka
6 5 (4.31%) REST
6 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.45%) SOAP
8 3 (2.59%) HTML
8 3 (2.59%) JSON
8 3 (2.59%) Node.js
8 3 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.59%) RAML
8 3 (2.59%) Web Services
8 3 (2.59%) WSDL
8 3 (2.59%) YAML
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth
9 2 (1.72%) OpenID
9 2 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 7 (6.03%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.03%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Clustering
5 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.59%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Replication
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.93%) Linux
2 9 (7.76%) Windows
3 7 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.59%) AIX
5 3 (2.59%) Solaris
6 2 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.00%) Agile
2 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (24.14%) Scrum
4 26 (22.41%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.97%) DevOps
6 20 (17.24%) SDLC
7 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
8 14 (12.07%) Microservices
8 14 (12.07%) Risk Management
9 13 (11.21%) Kanban
9 13 (11.21%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.21%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.34%) Migration
10 12 (10.34%) Software Engineering
10 12 (10.34%) Unit Testing
11 11 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (8.62%) Case Management
12 10 (8.62%) Conflict Resolution
12 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.38%) Java
1 19 (16.38%) SQL
2 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
4 9 (7.76%) Python
5 5 (4.31%) C#
6 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (0.86%) Bash
9 1 (0.86%) Bicep
9 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (6.03%) Degree
2 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.59%) CCNP
2 3 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.72%) CEH
3 2 (1.72%) CISSP
3 2 (1.72%) GCIH
3 2 (1.72%) HND
3 2 (1.72%) IIBA
3 2 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.72%) OSCP
3 2 (1.72%) PMP
4 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.86%) GCFA
4 1 (0.86%) ISACA
4 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (6.03%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.03%) Virtual Servers
2 6 (5.17%) Docker
3 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.76%) Grafana
3 7 (6.03%) Terraform
4 3 (2.59%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.59%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle Flashback
5 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.86%) Puppet
6 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.07%) Oracle
3 13 (11.21%) Dynatrace
3 13 (11.21%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.76%) Splunk
5 5 (4.31%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.45%) IBM
7 3 (2.59%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.59%) Cisco
7 3 (2.59%) Dell
7 3 (2.59%) Juniper
7 3 (2.59%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.59%) Spotify
8 2 (1.72%) Google
8 2 (1.72%) Qualys
8 2 (1.72%) Sybase
8 2 (1.72%) VMware
9 1 (0.86%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
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