Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in England

Process Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 99 173
Rank change year-on-year -29 +74 +5
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 884 673 529
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.63% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.88% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 409 350
10th Percentile £300 £297 £280
25th Percentile £400 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £617
90th Percentile £675 £758 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £487 £511
% change year-on-year +2.74% -4.81% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 36
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.65 £14.18
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £22.17
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +35.32% -31.36%
75th Percentile £49.69 £36.48 £35.25
90th Percentile £75.40 £72.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.50 £24.63
% change year-on-year -16.39% +23.85% -23.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in England

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. 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
London -24 384 £501 -4.67% 298
South East -18 141 £500 - 150
North of England -69 124 £443 -6.68% 136
Midlands -30 109 £413 -8.33% 100
West Midlands -41 68 £500 +0.40% 55
Yorkshire -23 61 £513 +3.80% 50
North West -69 55 £430 -4.44% 72
South West +7 54 £438 - 63
East of England +10 49 £450 +2.86% 47
East Midlands +3 41 £402 +27.62% 45
North East -26 9 £363 -31.60% 15
Process Improvement
UK

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 48 (5.43%) Confluence
2 14 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.24%) CMS
4 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.02%) CICS
6 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 97 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.34%) Simulink
8 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.81%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.02%) iTrent
4 8 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.68%) Magento
5 6 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.45%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.45%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 87 (9.84%) Power Platform
2 69 (7.81%) Azure
3 34 (3.85%) AWS
4 29 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (2.60%) SaaS
6 21 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.38%) GitHub
7 20 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 16 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.58%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.13%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.02%) GCP
12 8 (0.90%) Lucidchart
13 7 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (0.57%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.57%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.04%) Firewall
2 9 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.79%) WAN
4 6 (0.68%) DNS
4 6 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.57%) FTP
6 4 (0.45%) Internet
6 4 (0.45%) LAN
6 4 (0.45%) MPLS
6 4 (0.45%) Network Security
6 4 (0.45%) SSL
6 4 (0.45%) VPN
6 4 (0.45%) Wireless
7 3 (0.34%) BGP
7 3 (0.34%) DHCP
7 3 (0.34%) DMZ
7 3 (0.34%) IPsec
7 3 (0.34%) VSAN
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (8.14%) Power BI
2 12 (1.36%) Relational Database
2 12 (1.36%) Tableau
3 11 (1.24%) Metadata
4 9 (1.02%) DataStage
5 7 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.79%) MySQL
5 7 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.23%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.23%) Big Data
8 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.23%) GIS
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.11%) Power Query
9 1 (0.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 97 (10.97%) JIRA
2 19 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.58%) Git
4 8 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.57%) MLflow
6 4 (0.45%) GitLab
7 3 (0.34%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.34%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.34%) JUnit
7 3 (0.34%) Postman
7 3 (0.34%) Selenium
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Gatling
8 2 (0.23%) JMeter
8 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.23%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 361 (40.84%) Finance
2 344 (38.91%) Social Skills
3 279 (31.56%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.03%) Banking
6 44 (4.98%) Legal
7 41 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (4.07%) Retail
9 34 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.62%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.04%) Local Government
14 16 (1.81%) Billing
15 15 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.58%) Marketing
17 13 (1.47%) Back Office
17 13 (1.47%) Front Office
18 12 (1.36%) General Ledger
19 11 (1.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 277 (31.33%) Analyst
2 159 (17.99%) Business Analyst
3 85 (9.62%) Senior
4 80 (9.05%) Lead
5 68 (7.69%) Consultant
6 37 (4.19%) Project Manager
7 35 (3.96%) Accountant
7 35 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
8 30 (3.39%) Data Analyst
9 24 (2.71%) Architect
10 21 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
11 19 (2.15%) Management Accountant
11 19 (2.15%) Process Analyst
12 18 (2.04%) Developer
12 18 (2.04%) Project Officer
13 17 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (1.81%) Administrator
14 16 (1.81%) Designer
14 16 (1.81%) Security Analyst
14 16 (1.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.58%) Middleware
2 13 (1.47%) REST
3 10 (1.13%) .NET
4 9 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.68%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.57%) HTML
7 5 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.45%) Flash
8 4 (0.45%) JSON
8 4 (0.45%) Kafka
8 4 (0.45%) Node.js
8 4 (0.45%) Playwright
8 4 (0.45%) SOAP
8 4 (0.45%) STL
8 4 (0.45%) YAML
9 3 (0.34%) NumPy
9 3 (0.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.33%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.04%) CMDB
7 14 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.24%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.13%) Derivative
10 10 (1.13%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.02%) BYOD
11 9 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.02%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.02%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.20%) Windows
2 34 (3.85%) Linux
3 21 (2.38%) Unix
4 11 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.02%) AIX
5 9 (1.02%) Solaris
5 9 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.45%) Android
7 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 226 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
3 193 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 158 (17.87%) Agile
5 145 (16.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 136 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 105 (11.88%) Change Management
8 100 (11.31%) Validation
9 99 (11.20%) ERP
10 98 (11.09%) Workshop Facilitation
11 93 (10.52%) User Acceptance Testing
12 88 (9.95%) Business Analysis
12 88 (9.95%) Migration
13 85 (9.62%) Requirements Gathering
14 84 (9.50%) DevOps
15 83 (9.39%) AI
16 82 (9.28%) Project Management
17 77 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
18 70 (7.92%) Data Analysis
19 65 (7.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 98 (11.09%) SQL
2 58 (6.56%) Python
3 29 (3.28%) Java
4 20 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.47%) VBA
6 11 (1.24%) Perl
7 10 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.02%) COBOL
9 6 (0.68%) Bash
10 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.45%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.45%) R
11 3 (0.34%) ABAP
11 3 (0.34%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.34%) C#
11 3 (0.34%) Go
11 3 (0.34%) Korn
11 3 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 120 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 91 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 90 (10.18%) Degree
4 64 (7.24%) ACCA
5 60 (6.79%) CIMA
6 18 (2.04%) PMP
7 17 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (1.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 7 (0.79%) CBAP
13 6 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.57%) CISSP
14 5 (0.57%) IIBA
15 4 (0.45%) CCNP
15 4 (0.45%) ISEB
15 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.88%) QA
3 45 (5.09%) GDPR
4 36 (4.07%) PMO
5 30 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.81%) IFRS
6 16 (1.81%) SLA
7 15 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (1.47%) NIST
9 10 (1.13%) GAAP
10 9 (1.02%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.45%) COBIT
11 4 (0.45%) GRC
12 3 (0.34%) Basel III
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 27 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.24%) Docker
3 8 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) IAG
4 6 (0.68%) vSphere
5 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.45%) GPFS
6 4 (0.45%) NFS
6 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (2.38%) Ansible
2 18 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.36%) Terraform
5 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.57%) Grafana
6 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.34%) Kiali
7 3 (0.34%) WSUS
8 2 (0.23%) Control-M
8 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.23%) vRealize
9 1 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.11%) Argo
9 1 (0.11%) Autotask
9 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 92 (10.41%) SAP
2 84 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 67 (7.58%) Oracle
4 58 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.49%) Workday
7 18 (2.04%) IFS
8 17 (1.92%) VMware
9 15 (1.70%) Splunk
10 14 (1.58%) IBM
11 13 (1.47%) Google
12 10 (1.13%) Cisco
13 9 (1.02%) Apple
13 9 (1.02%) Okta
14 8 (0.90%) Sonatype
15 7 (0.79%) Databricks
16 6 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 6 (0.68%) ForgeRock
16 6 (0.68%) NEC
16 6 (0.68%) Sage