Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Process Improvement
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 34 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.01% 0.44% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.58% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £320 - £555
25th Percentile £344 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £200 £575
Median % change year-on-year +98.38% -65.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £457 - £588
90th Percentile £487 - £595
South Wales median daily rate £413 £200 £550
% change year-on-year +106.25% -63.64% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 179 171 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.95% 75.33% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 117 154
10th Percentile £226 £140 £204
25th Percentile £303 £209 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% - -6.15%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £551
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.13
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -17.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.04 £25.79 £34.50
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -42.39% -4.60% +32.91%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in Cardiff

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Cardiff over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Cardiff

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Asana
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) PMO