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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 102 170
Rank change year-on-year -20 +68 -6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 970 705 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 2.57% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.83% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 430 341
10th Percentile £313 £285 £275
25th Percentile £405 £364 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +1.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £621
90th Percentile £680 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 44 30
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £14.44
25th Percentile £14.22 £25.67 £15.92
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.75 £35.75
90th Percentile £75.07 £68.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £24.63
% change year-on-year -15.00% +21.82% -17.91%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -16 425 £513 +2.50% 244
South East -11 159 £500 +2.56% 146
North of England -55 138 £472 -3.28% 106
Midlands -27 119 £450 +0.67% 86
West Midlands -38 75 £500 +0.40% 54
North West -61 74 £465 +0.54% 58
South West +6 59 £456 +7.18% 55
Yorkshire -21 56 £525 +2.44% 40
East of England +8 52 £450 -10.00% 53
East Midlands +1 44 £408 +63.00% 32
North East -35 9 £375 -29.25% 9
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 46 (4.74%) Confluence
2 21 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.24%) CMS
4 10 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.93%) CICS
6 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.31%) Moodle
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.31%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 94 (9.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.20%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.31%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.10%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.10%) Revit
9 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.86%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.13%) iTrent
5 10 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.62%) Magento
8 6 (0.62%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.52%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.52%) SAP PSCD
10 4 (0.41%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.41%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.31%) BusinessWorks
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 101 (10.41%) Power Platform
2 85 (8.76%) Azure
3 40 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.71%) AWS
5 27 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (2.68%) SaaS
7 23 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (2.37%) Entra ID
8 20 (2.06%) PowerApps
9 19 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (1.75%) GitHub
11 15 (1.55%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.93%) Lucidchart
13 8 (0.82%) GCP
13 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (0.62%) Intacct
15 6 (0.62%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.75%) Firewall
2 10 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.93%) WAN
4 6 (0.62%) LAN
4 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.52%) DNS
5 5 (0.52%) Network Security
5 5 (0.52%) VPN
6 4 (0.41%) MPLS
6 4 (0.41%) SSL
6 4 (0.41%) Wireless
7 3 (0.31%) BGP
7 3 (0.31%) DMZ
7 3 (0.31%) FTP
7 3 (0.31%) Internet
7 3 (0.31%) IPsec
7 3 (0.31%) VSAN
8 2 (0.21%) L2TP
8 2 (0.21%) Multicast
8 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.35%) Power BI
2 14 (1.44%) Tableau
3 11 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.03%) Metadata
5 9 (0.93%) DataStage
6 8 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.52%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.41%) Power Query
11 3 (0.31%) MySQL
11 3 (0.31%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.21%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.21%) Big Data
12 2 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.21%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 92 (9.48%) JIRA
2 12 (1.24%) Git
2 12 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.41%) JUnit
3 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.31%) IntelliJ
4 3 (0.31%) MLflow
4 3 (0.31%) Selenium
4 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.21%) GitLab
5 2 (0.21%) Postman
5 2 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.21%) TestRail
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.10%) Gradle
6 1 (0.10%) Hudson
6 1 (0.10%) JDeveloper
General
1 399 (41.13%) Finance
2 382 (39.38%) Social Skills
3 288 (29.69%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 81 (8.35%) Banking
6 49 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (4.64%) Legal
8 43 (4.43%) Retail
9 42 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (4.33%) Manufacturing
10 35 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.16%) Local Government
12 17 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.65%) Marketing
14 15 (1.55%) General Ledger
15 14 (1.44%) Front Office
15 14 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.34%) Back Office
16 13 (1.34%) Billing
17 12 (1.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 312 (32.16%) Analyst
2 185 (19.07%) Business Analyst
3 100 (10.31%) Senior
4 87 (8.97%) Consultant
4 87 (8.97%) Lead
5 44 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
6 41 (4.23%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.02%) Accountant
8 33 (3.40%) Data Analyst
9 26 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
10 25 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
11 24 (2.47%) Developer
11 24 (2.47%) Process Analyst
12 22 (2.27%) Architect
13 20 (2.06%) Administrator
14 19 (1.96%) Designer
14 19 (1.96%) Management Accountant
15 18 (1.86%) IT Manager
15 18 (1.86%) Systems Analyst
16 17 (1.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.96%) REST
2 18 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (1.44%) Middleware
4 12 (1.24%) .NET
5 9 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.93%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.93%) SOAP
6 6 (0.62%) IDoc
6 6 (0.62%) JSON
7 5 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.52%) HTML
7 5 (0.52%) JDBC
7 5 (0.52%) React
7 5 (0.52%) STL
8 4 (0.41%) Node.js
8 4 (0.41%) Playwright
8 4 (0.41%) RESTful
8 4 (0.41%) YAML
9 3 (0.31%) OAuth
9 3 (0.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 49 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.58%) CMDB
5 25 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.24%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.93%) BYOD
13 9 (0.93%) FMCG
13 9 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.23%) Windows
2 26 (2.68%) Linux
3 22 (2.27%) Unix
4 12 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.93%) AIX
6 9 (0.93%) Solaris
7 6 (0.62%) Android
7 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (30.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 244 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
3 208 (21.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 192 (19.79%) Agile
5 176 (18.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 144 (14.85%) Decision-Making
7 132 (13.61%) User Acceptance Testing
7 132 (13.61%) Workshop Facilitation
8 125 (12.89%) ERP
9 123 (12.68%) Change Management
9 123 (12.68%) Validation
10 118 (12.16%) Migration
11 117 (12.06%) Business Analysis
11 117 (12.06%) Requirements Gathering
12 101 (10.41%) AI
13 90 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
14 88 (9.07%) Project Management
15 85 (8.76%) User Stories
16 84 (8.66%) DevOps
17 80 (8.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 98 (10.10%) SQL
2 57 (5.88%) Python
3 29 (2.99%) Java
4 17 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.55%) VBA
6 13 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.93%) ABAP
7 9 (0.93%) COBOL
8 7 (0.72%) Bash
8 7 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.72%) Perl
9 5 (0.52%) C#
9 5 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.41%) Korn
10 4 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.41%) R
11 3 (0.31%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.31%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.31%) Go
12 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 108 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.87%) Degree
4 61 (6.29%) ACCA
5 58 (5.98%) CIMA
6 20 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.06%) PMP
7 18 (1.86%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 13 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.03%) CBAP
11 10 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.72%) ISEB
13 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.62%) IIBA
13 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.41%) CCNP
14 4 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.19%) QA
3 43 (4.43%) GDPR
4 39 (4.02%) PMO
5 28 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.44%) IFRS
7 13 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.34%) SLA
8 12 (1.24%) NIST
9 10 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.93%) GAAP
10 9 (0.93%) GRC
11 3 (0.31%) Basel III
11 3 (0.31%) COBIT
11 3 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.24%) IAG
3 9 (0.93%) Docker
4 8 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.62%) vSphere
6 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) GPFS
8 3 (0.31%) NFS
8 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.75%) Ansible
3 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.24%) Terraform
5 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) SCCM
7 3 (0.31%) WSUS
8 2 (0.21%) Control-M
8 2 (0.21%) Grafana
8 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.21%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.10%) Argo
9 1 (0.10%) Autotask
9 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 113 (11.65%) SAP
3 81 (8.35%) Oracle
4 70 (7.22%) ServiceNow
5 35 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.06%) Workday
7 18 (1.86%) IFS
8 17 (1.75%) IBM
8 17 (1.75%) VMware
9 12 (1.24%) Splunk
10 11 (1.13%) Google
11 10 (1.03%) Cisco
12 9 (0.93%) Apple
12 9 (0.93%) Okta
13 8 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.82%) Sage
14 7 (0.72%) Adobe
14 7 (0.72%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.62%) Databricks
15 6 (0.62%) ForgeRock
610 Process Improvement jobs in England