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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 109 177
Rank change year-on-year -7 +68 +20
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 860 602 507
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.48% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.73% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 366 323
10th Percentile £263 £311 £325
25th Percentile £363 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -0.10% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £614
90th Percentile £650 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 32
10th Percentile - £19.93 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.33 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £19.36 £32.81 £23.67
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% +38.61% -46.03%
75th Percentile £44.00 £53.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £49.54
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £33.11 £28.50
% change year-on-year -48.66% +16.18% -35.02%

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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -14 349 £500 -9.09% 183
North of England -51 144 £410 -18.00% 99
South East -19 123 £450 -13.88% 144
Midlands -29 102 £425 -6.25% 79
Yorkshire +4 85 £460 -11.11% 37
West Midlands -26 68 £425 -19.05% 49
South West +2 63 £500 -2.44% 27
East of England +8 57 £450 -10.00% 47
North West -83 44 £406 -9.78% 56
East Midlands -17 35 £393 +0.51% 30
North East 0 15 £363 -36.96% 8
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 58 (6.74%) Confluence
2 19 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.93%) CICS
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.58%) CMS
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
7 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 109 (12.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (3.72%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.81%) SAP HCM
4 7 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.70%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.70%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.58%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.35%) Endur
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (9.53%) Power Platform
2 53 (6.16%) Azure
3 42 (4.88%) AWS
4 39 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (3.60%) SaaS
6 29 (3.37%) GitHub
7 20 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.98%) GCP
9 12 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.28%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.05%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.81%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.70%) Lucidchart
14 6 (0.70%) Miro
15 5 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.58%) OCI
15 5 (0.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.26%) Firewall
2 11 (1.28%) DNS
3 7 (0.81%) VPN
4 6 (0.70%) Internet
5 5 (0.58%) DHCP
5 5 (0.58%) FTP
5 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Network Security
6 3 (0.35%) VSAN
6 3 (0.35%) WAN
7 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.12%) Broadband
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.84%) Power BI
2 19 (2.21%) Relational Database
3 18 (2.09%) MySQL
4 12 (1.40%) Tableau
5 10 (1.16%) Metadata
5 10 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.93%) DataStage
8 7 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.58%) Power Query
10 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.23%) Big Data
11 2 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.23%) Looker
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 111 (12.91%) JIRA
2 40 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.74%) GitLab
4 14 (1.63%) Git
5 13 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.05%) Postman
7 8 (0.93%) Jaeger
8 6 (0.70%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) MLflow
9 4 (0.47%) TestRail
10 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.35%) JUnit
10 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.23%) Appium
11 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.23%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
11 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 382 (44.42%) Social Skills
2 315 (36.63%) Finance
3 249 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.77%) Banking
5 73 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
6 37 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
8 31 (3.60%) Legal
9 30 (3.49%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.91%) Retail
11 23 (2.67%) Marketing
11 23 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 21 (2.44%) Billing
14 18 (2.09%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.63%) Law
16 13 (1.51%) Retail Banking
17 12 (1.40%) General Ledger
17 12 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 267 (31.05%) Analyst
2 165 (19.19%) Business Analyst
3 95 (11.05%) Senior
4 70 (8.14%) Consultant
5 60 (6.98%) Lead
6 39 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
7 38 (4.42%) Project Manager
8 29 (3.37%) Accountant
9 27 (3.14%) Senior Business Analyst
10 22 (2.56%) Administrator
11 21 (2.44%) IT Support
11 21 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
12 20 (2.33%) Data Analyst
12 20 (2.33%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (2.33%) Process Analyst
12 20 (2.33%) Project Officer
12 20 (2.33%) Technical Support
13 17 (1.98%) Developer
14 16 (1.86%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (1.86%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.21%) Middleware
2 16 (1.86%) REST
3 15 (1.74%) Playwright
4 14 (1.63%) Node.js
5 13 (1.51%) Kafka
6 12 (1.40%) GraphQL
7 11 (1.28%) SOAP
7 11 (1.28%) Vitest
8 10 (1.16%) Spring Boot
8 10 (1.16%) Web Services
8 10 (1.16%) XML
8 10 (1.16%) YAML
9 9 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (0.93%) .NET
11 6 (0.70%) HTML
11 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.58%) CSS
12 5 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
13 4 (0.47%) scikit-learn
13 4 (0.47%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.51%) Onboarding
2 34 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 31 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.09%) CMDB
8 15 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.40%) Replication
12 10 (1.16%) Derivative
12 10 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.05%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.05%) NHS
13 9 (1.05%) PMI
14 8 (0.93%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.40%) Windows
2 48 (5.58%) Linux
3 33 (3.84%) Unix
4 8 (0.93%) AIX
4 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.93%) Solaris
5 7 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.70%) Android
6 6 (0.70%) VMS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (20.93%) Agile
2 180 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 161 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 157 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 127 (14.77%) Decision-Making
6 108 (12.56%) Project Management
7 101 (11.74%) Change Management
8 95 (11.05%) DevOps
9 94 (10.93%) Workshop Facilitation
10 88 (10.23%) Business Analysis
11 81 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
12 78 (9.07%) Migration
13 76 (8.84%) AI
14 73 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
15 66 (7.67%) Coaching
16 63 (7.33%) Data Analysis
17 62 (7.21%) User Acceptance Testing
18 61 (7.09%) CI/CD
18 61 (7.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 114 (13.26%) SQL
2 62 (7.21%) Python
3 40 (4.65%) Java
4 25 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.21%) Perl
6 15 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.05%) VBA
9 8 (0.93%) ABAP
9 8 (0.93%) COBOL
9 8 (0.93%) Rust
10 7 (0.81%) C#
11 6 (0.70%) Bash
12 5 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.58%) Go
12 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.47%) PHP
14 3 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 107 (12.44%) Degree
2 103 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 73 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.53%) ACCA
5 36 (4.19%) CIMA
6 26 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.91%) PMP
8 23 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.67%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.16%) MBA
12 9 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.81%) CISSP
15 6 (0.70%) CISM
16 5 (0.58%) IIBA
16 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 4 (0.47%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.14%) QA
2 58 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 37 (4.30%) GDPR
4 30 (3.49%) PMO
5 25 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.79%) SLA
7 12 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.16%) NIST
9 8 (0.93%) Basel III
9 8 (0.93%) IFRS
10 5 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.47%) COBIT
11 4 (0.47%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.35%) GAAP
12 3 (0.35%) PSD2
13 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 31 (3.60%) Docker
2 29 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.47%) GPFS
4 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.47%) vSphere
5 3 (0.35%) NFS
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.23%) Xen
7 1 (0.12%) IAG
Systems Management
1 35 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.02%) Ansible
3 14 (1.63%) Grafana
3 14 (1.63%) Terraform
4 11 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.93%) Kiali
6 7 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.47%) QRadar
9 3 (0.35%) WSUS
10 2 (0.23%) Control-M
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
11 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 90 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.91%) SAP
3 49 (5.70%) Oracle
3 49 (5.70%) ServiceNow
4 30 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.14%) Workday
6 26 (3.02%) Splunk
7 24 (2.79%) Google
8 14 (1.63%) VMware
9 13 (1.51%) IBM
10 12 (1.40%) Sonatype
11 10 (1.16%) IFS
12 9 (1.05%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.81%) Adobe
13 7 (0.81%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.81%) Ariba
13 7 (0.81%) Databricks
14 6 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.70%) Cisco
14 6 (0.70%) NEC