Process Improvement Contracts in the City of London

Process Improvement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Process Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Process Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 101 133
Rank change year-on-year +26 +32 +12
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 48 24 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.73% 1.10% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 1.22% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 25
10th Percentile £338 £406 £258
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £606 £758
90th Percentile £783 £775 £950
Central London median daily rate £565 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.62% -4.55% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.25
Median hourly rate - - £51.50
75th Percentile - - £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £51.50
% change year-on-year - - +32.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the City of London

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the City of London

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the City of London

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the City of London

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.08%) SAP Retail
3 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) AWS
2 3 (6.25%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.17%) Asana
3 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.17%) OCI
4 1 (2.08%) Google Docs
4 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) BIG-IP
1 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (2.08%) DHCP
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.08%) Wireless
1 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.08%) Impala
3 1 (2.08%) MS Access
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) Power Query
3 1 (2.08%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Sqoop
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.08%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (60.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (35.42%) Finance
3 16 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (18.75%) Banking
5 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 5 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Legal
8 2 (4.17%) Military
8 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Analyst
2 15 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 11 (22.92%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Workday Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Process Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Process Improvement Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) .NET
1 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
1 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
1 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (4.17%) CSS
1 2 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.08%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) REST
2 1 (2.08%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.17%) Derivative
2 2 (4.17%) Equities
2 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) FMCG
3 1 (2.08%) IVR
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Data Analysis
1 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (22.92%) Project Management
3 9 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (16.67%) Agile
4 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 5 (10.42%) Business Analysis
6 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.42%) Data Management
6 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Lean Six Sigma
6 5 (10.42%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (10.42%) Six Sigma
7 4 (8.33%) Change Management
7 4 (8.33%) ERP
7 4 (8.33%) ITIL
7 4 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) C#
3 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.08%) PHP
4 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Degree
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 6 (12.50%) PMP
4 3 (6.25%) CBAP
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CFA
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) MiFID
2 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) EMIR
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (4.17%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) PMO
4 1 (2.08%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) OPNET
3 1 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Workday
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.17%) SAP
3 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) Advent
4 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco
4 1 (2.08%) Concur
4 1 (2.08%) F5
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.08%) Marketo
4 1 (2.08%) Meraki
4 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.08%) SimCorp