Process Improvement Contracts in Edinburgh

Process Improvement
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 62 92
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 +22
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 5 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.79% 1.71% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.97% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £341 £223 £348
25th Percentile £403 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £438 £418
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% +4.91% -23.39%
75th Percentile £528 £471 £473
90th Percentile £534 £530 £498
Scotland median daily rate £441 £513 £478
% change year-on-year -13.95% +7.33% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 709 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.87% 86.67% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 419 799
10th Percentile £240 £218 £242
25th Percentile £406 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £572 £540
90th Percentile £609 £663 £618
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -27.24%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £50.06 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in Edinburgh

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in Edinburgh

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Edinburgh

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in Edinburgh

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SNA
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) MSTest
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Change Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) SOX Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) SOX Test Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Testing Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) JCL
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) REXX
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ACCA
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft