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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 99 167
Rank change year-on-year -30 +68 +18
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 852 651 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.64% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.89% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 392 342
10th Percentile £288 £287 £301
25th Percentile £389 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £762 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 41
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +36.36% -31.89%
75th Percentile £49.69 £44.63 £36.00
90th Percentile £74.91 £73.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.56 £24.26
% change year-on-year -22.76% +34.24% -24.91%

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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -23 364 £500 -4.76% 276
South East -14 139 £500 - 152
North of England -67 119 £443 -4.16% 121
Midlands -27 109 £413 -13.16% 104
West Midlands -40 69 £488 -6.97% 59
Yorkshire -25 61 £500 -1.23% 49
South West +9 53 £450 +2.86% 65
North West -75 49 £435 -3.33% 55
East of England +1 48 £450 +2.86% 52
East Midlands -3 41 £392 +24.29% 45
North East -25 10 £363 -32.24% 18
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 50 (5.87%) Confluence
2 19 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.17%) CMS
4 9 (1.06%) CICS
5 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.35%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.40%) MS Visio
4 25 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.82%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.70%) iTrent
5 6 (0.70%) Magento
5 6 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.47%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.47%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.35%) 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%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 85 (9.98%) Power Platform
2 62 (7.28%) Azure
3 31 (3.64%) AWS
4 28 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.23%) GitHub
5 19 (2.23%) SaaS
6 18 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 15 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (1.64%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.17%) GCP
11 10 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.94%) Lucidchart
13 5 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (0.59%) Azure AKS
13 5 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.47%) Miro
14 4 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.23%) Firewall
2 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.82%) DNS
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.59%) FTP
5 5 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.47%) DHCP
6 4 (0.47%) WAN
7 3 (0.35%) Internet
7 3 (0.35%) MPLS
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) SSL
7 3 (0.35%) VSAN
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.23%) BGP
8 2 (0.23%) DMZ
8 2 (0.23%) IPsec
8 2 (0.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.33%) Power BI
2 13 (1.53%) Relational Database
3 12 (1.41%) Tableau
4 11 (1.29%) Metadata
5 9 (1.06%) DataStage
5 9 (1.06%) MySQL
6 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.47%) Power Query
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.23%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.23%) Big Data
9 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 99 (11.62%) JIRA
2 20 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.41%) Git
4 8 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.59%) Jaeger
5 5 (0.59%) MLflow
6 4 (0.47%) GitLab
6 4 (0.47%) Postman
7 3 (0.35%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.35%) JUnit
7 3 (0.35%) Selenium
7 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.12%) Hudson
9 1 (0.12%) WinAutomation
General
1 339 (39.79%) Finance
2 333 (39.08%) Social Skills
3 268 (31.46%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.75%) Banking
6 45 (5.28%) Legal
7 41 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (3.99%) Retail
9 28 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.88%) Local Government
13 13 (1.53%) Billing
13 13 (1.53%) Marketing
14 12 (1.41%) Front Office
14 12 (1.41%) General Ledger
14 12 (1.41%) Law
15 11 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 269 (31.57%) Analyst
2 150 (17.61%) Business Analyst
3 87 (10.21%) Senior
4 76 (8.92%) Lead
5 59 (6.92%) Consultant
6 36 (4.23%) Project Manager
6 36 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
7 35 (4.11%) Accountant
8 26 (3.05%) Data Analyst
9 23 (2.70%) Architect
10 21 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
11 20 (2.35%) Developer
11 20 (2.35%) Project Officer
12 19 (2.23%) Management Accountant
13 17 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (1.88%) Process Analyst
14 16 (1.88%) Security Analyst
14 16 (1.88%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (1.76%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (1.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.00%) Middleware
2 13 (1.53%) REST
3 10 (1.17%) .NET
4 9 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.94%) Spring Boot
6 7 (0.82%) HTML
6 7 (0.82%) Kafka
6 7 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (0.70%) Playwright
8 5 (0.59%) Flash
8 5 (0.59%) JSON
8 5 (0.59%) Node.js
8 5 (0.59%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.59%) SOAP
9 4 (0.47%) YAML
10 3 (0.35%) CSS
10 3 (0.35%) NumPy
10 3 (0.35%) Pandas
10 3 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.76%) CMDB
8 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.29%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.06%) BYOD
11 9 (1.06%) Derivative
11 9 (1.06%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.06%) VSAM
12 8 (0.94%) PMI
13 7 (0.82%) Fixed Income
14 6 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.40%) Windows
2 38 (4.46%) Linux
3 24 (2.82%) Unix
4 9 (1.06%) AIX
4 9 (1.06%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.06%) Solaris
5 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.82%) Android
6 7 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (25.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 186 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 152 (17.84%) Agile
5 140 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 134 (15.73%) Decision-Making
7 106 (12.44%) Change Management
8 91 (10.68%) ERP
8 91 (10.68%) Project Management
9 89 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
10 88 (10.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 82 (9.62%) Business Analysis
11 82 (9.62%) Validation
12 78 (9.15%) Migration
13 77 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
13 77 (9.04%) DevOps
14 76 (8.92%) Requirements Gathering
15 73 (8.57%) AI
16 65 (7.63%) Project Delivery
17 63 (7.39%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (11.85%) SQL
2 56 (6.57%) Python
3 31 (3.64%) Java
4 21 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.41%) Perl
6 10 (1.17%) VBA
7 9 (1.06%) COBOL
8 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.59%) Bash
9 5 (0.59%) Rust
10 4 (0.47%) Go
10 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.47%) R
11 3 (0.35%) ABAP
11 3 (0.35%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.35%) C#
11 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 92 (10.80%) Degree
3 86 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.63%) ACCA
5 61 (7.16%) CIMA
6 18 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.11%) PMP
7 17 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 8 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.82%) CISSP
13 6 (0.70%) CBAP
13 6 (0.70%) CISM
13 6 (0.70%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.59%) IIBA
14 5 (0.59%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.46%) QA
3 42 (4.93%) GDPR
4 40 (4.69%) PMO
5 31 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.00%) SLA
7 16 (1.88%) IFRS
8 15 (1.76%) NIST
9 14 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.17%) GAAP
11 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.59%) Basel III
13 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.47%) COBIT
13 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.35%) PSD2
14 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.23%) GRC
15 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.41%) Docker
3 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.70%) vSphere
5 5 (0.59%) GPFS
5 5 (0.59%) NFS
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) IAG
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (2.00%) Ansible
2 15 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.94%) Grafana
4 8 (0.94%) Terraform
5 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.59%) Kiali
8 3 (0.35%) WSUS
9 2 (0.23%) Control-M
9 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.23%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Autotask
10 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 85 (9.98%) SAP
2 78 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 66 (7.75%) Oracle
4 50 (5.87%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.58%) Workday
7 18 (2.11%) IFS
8 16 (1.88%) VMware
9 15 (1.76%) IBM
9 15 (1.76%) Splunk
10 11 (1.29%) Google
11 9 (1.06%) Cisco
11 9 (1.06%) Okta
12 8 (0.94%) Sonatype
13 7 (0.82%) Apple
13 7 (0.82%) NEC
13 7 (0.82%) Sage
14 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.59%) Databricks