Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Process Improvement
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 43 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +54
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 5 9 27
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.44% 2.26% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.70% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile £381 £310 £383
25th Percentile £409 £403 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £465
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -9.14% +11.04%
75th Percentile £516 £437 £523
90th Percentile £566 £438 £550
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -16.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £13.16
South East median hourly rate £17.00 £32.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year -47.69% +0.62% +59.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Process 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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 312 333 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 89.91% 83.46% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 233 466
10th Percentile £230 £239 £275
25th Percentile £350 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £613
90th Percentile £635 £648 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.12% -2.70% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 15
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.70 £14.79
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +71.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.75 £23.38
90th Percentile £29.61 £41.15 £24.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Process Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Buckinghamshire

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Process Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Milton Keynes -2 3 £475 +11.76% 10
Aylesbury - 1 £375 -
Marlow - 1 - -
Process Improvement
South East

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AS400
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce