Process Improvement Contracts in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 44 38
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 30 118 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 4.96% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 5.60% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 92 134
10th Percentile - £365 £363
25th Percentile £358 £456 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £540 £519
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +4.15% +28.02%
75th Percentile £569 - £540
90th Percentile £672 £588 £598
England median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +16.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.13
25th Percentile - - £18.06
Median hourly rate - - £20.25
75th Percentile - - £22.56
90th Percentile - - £23.58
England median hourly rate £25.00 £43.93 £45.00
% change year-on-year -43.09% -2.38% +80.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Process 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham -10 8 £438 -2.78% 18
Shropshire -12 8 £358 -33.70% 9
Warwickshire +7 6 £525 +10.53% 10
Worcestershire +10 2 £590 +177.65% 2
Staffordshire +8 2 £588 +17.50% 11
Wolverhampton +5 1 £475 -20.83% 1
Solihull -16 1 - - 4
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP BPC
1 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
1 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
1 2 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (26.67%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) German Language
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Vendor Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Business Finance Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (3.33%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Research Scientist
4 1 (3.33%) SAP GRC Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Service Security Manager
4 1 (3.33%) SOX Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (3.33%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) FMCG
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Analytics
1 10 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 9 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (26.67%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Configuration Management
3 8 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (26.67%) Dashboard Development
3 8 (26.67%) Data Extraction
3 8 (26.67%) ETL
3 8 (26.67%) Scrum
3 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Test Strategy
4 7 (23.33%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.67%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Dell Certification
3 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 1 (3.33%) ACCA
4 1 (3.33%) CIMA
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) GRC
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Denodo
1 8 (26.67%) Talend
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Dell
3 2 (6.67%) Fujitsu
3 2 (6.67%) HP
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Sun
4 1 (3.33%) Concur
4 1 (3.33%) Sage
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow