Process Improvement Contracts in the East Midlands

Process Improvement
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 56 72
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 15 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.80% 1.29% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 1.66% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 11
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile £250 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.69% -3.67% +9.95%
75th Percentile £588 £551 £565
90th Percentile £758 £605 -
England median daily rate £524 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.95% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.20 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.15 £25.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year +16.60% -43.09% -2.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the East Midlands

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the East Midlands

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leicestershire +10 5 £250 -44.44% 16
Northamptonshire -5 3 £419 -21.54% 4
Nottinghamshire - 3 £575 - 10
Derbyshire - 2 £813 - 7
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 5
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Fusion 360
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
1 1 (6.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (6.67%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Asana
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (6.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) PyCharm
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Customer Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Smartphone
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Derivative
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) CentOS
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Rocky
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (26.67%) Operations Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Management
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) PLM
5 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CBAP
2 1 (6.67%) IIBA
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Apple
3 2 (13.33%) Siemens
4 1 (6.67%) Autodesk
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) SAP