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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 110 171
Rank change year-on-year -6 +61 +36
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 866 606 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 2.49% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.74% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 373 328
10th Percentile £263 £311 £325
25th Percentile £364 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £611
90th Percentile £650 £761 £716
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 33
10th Percentile - £19.92 £13.21
25th Percentile £13.33 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £23.36 £32.66 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.47% +30.62% -43.00%
75th Percentile £45.75 £55.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.40 £75.00 £49.20
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £33.11 £28.50
% change year-on-year -47.15% +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 33,286 22,141 32,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.92% 90.87% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,341 14,591 21,484
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 2,040 863 2,161
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.45 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +13.29% -4.48% -11.53%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -3 352 £500 -9.09% 183
North of England -54 145 £424 -15.13% 99
South East -20 126 £475 -9.09% 144
Midlands -30 98 £425 -6.25% 79
Yorkshire +4 84 £463 -10.63% 37
South West +5 65 £500 -4.76% 27
West Midlands -29 64 £425 -19.05% 49
East of England +8 58 £450 -10.00% 47
North West -85 45 £410 -10.87% 56
East Midlands -19 35 £393 +0.51% 30
North East -1 16 £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 (6.70%) Confluence
2 19 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.04%) CICS
5 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 108 (12.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (3.70%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.27%) 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 21 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.15%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.81%) SAP HCM
4 7 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.69%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.69%) 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 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.35%) Endur
8 3 (0.35%) iTrent
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (9.70%) Power Platform
2 54 (6.24%) Azure
3 39 (4.50%) AWS
3 39 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.46%) GitHub
5 29 (3.35%) SaaS
6 20 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.96%) GCP
8 14 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
9 12 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.27%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 8 (0.92%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.81%) Lucidchart
15 6 (0.69%) Miro
16 5 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (0.58%) OCI
16 5 (0.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.00%) Firewall
2 11 (1.27%) DNS
3 7 (0.81%) VPN
4 5 (0.58%) DHCP
4 5 (0.58%) FTP
4 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.46%) Internet
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%) DWDM
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%) SSH
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.01%) Power BI
2 19 (2.19%) Relational Database
3 18 (2.08%) MySQL
4 12 (1.39%) Tableau
5 10 (1.15%) Metadata
5 10 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.04%) DataStage
6 9 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.58%) Power Query
10 4 (0.46%) 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%) ImageNet
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 112 (12.93%) JIRA
2 39 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.73%) Git
3 15 (1.73%) GitLab
4 13 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (1.04%) Postman
6 8 (0.92%) Jaeger
7 6 (0.69%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) JUnit
8 4 (0.46%) MLflow
8 4 (0.46%) TestRail
9 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.35%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) Appium
10 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 387 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 319 (36.84%) Finance
3 255 (29.45%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (9.58%) Banking
5 74 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
6 37 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
6 37 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (3.70%) Legal
8 30 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 25 (2.89%) Retail
10 23 (2.66%) Marketing
11 22 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.42%) Billing
13 20 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.85%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.62%) Law
16 13 (1.50%) Retail Banking
17 12 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 271 (31.29%) Analyst
2 169 (19.52%) Business Analyst
3 92 (10.62%) Senior
4 71 (8.20%) Consultant
5 60 (6.93%) Lead
6 38 (4.39%) Project Manager
6 38 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
7 29 (3.35%) Accountant
8 27 (3.12%) Senior Business Analyst
9 22 (2.54%) Data Analyst
10 21 (2.42%) Administrator
10 21 (2.42%) IT Support
10 21 (2.42%) Process Analyst
10 21 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
11 20 (2.31%) Financial Analyst
11 20 (2.31%) Project Officer
11 20 (2.31%) Technical Support
12 17 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (1.85%) Developer
14 15 (1.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.31%) Middleware
2 16 (1.85%) REST
3 13 (1.50%) Kafka
3 13 (1.50%) Node.js
3 13 (1.50%) Playwright
4 11 (1.27%) SOAP
4 11 (1.27%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.15%) GraphQL
5 10 (1.15%) Web Services
5 10 (1.15%) XML
6 9 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (1.04%) Vitest
7 8 (0.92%) .NET
7 8 (0.92%) YAML
8 6 (0.69%) HTML
8 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.58%) CSS
9 5 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.46%) LDAP
10 4 (0.46%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.58%) Onboarding
2 33 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
2 33 (3.81%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 30 (3.46%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.19%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.08%) CMDB
7 16 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.39%) Replication
11 11 (1.27%) Derivative
12 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.04%) BYOD
13 9 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 9 (1.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.24%) Windows
2 49 (5.66%) Linux
3 34 (3.93%) Unix
4 9 (1.04%) AIX
4 9 (1.04%) Solaris
5 8 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.69%) Android
7 6 (0.69%) VMS
8 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 179 (20.67%) Agile
4 165 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 161 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 129 (14.90%) Decision-Making
7 109 (12.59%) Project Management
8 105 (12.12%) Change Management
9 98 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
10 95 (10.97%) DevOps
11 90 (10.39%) Business Analysis
12 84 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
13 78 (9.01%) Migration
14 77 (8.89%) AI
15 75 (8.66%) Requirements Gathering
16 65 (7.51%) Coaching
17 64 (7.39%) Data Analysis
18 63 (7.27%) Roadmaps
19 62 (7.16%) User Acceptance Testing
20 61 (7.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 113 (13.05%) SQL
2 63 (7.27%) Python
3 42 (4.85%) Java
4 25 (2.89%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.19%) Perl
6 12 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.04%) COBOL
9 8 (0.92%) ABAP
9 8 (0.92%) Rust
9 8 (0.92%) VBA
10 7 (0.81%) C#
11 6 (0.69%) Bash
11 6 (0.69%) Go
12 5 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.46%) PHP
14 3 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 107 (12.36%) Degree
2 105 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 76 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.50%) ACCA
5 36 (4.16%) CIMA
6 25 (2.89%) PMP
7 24 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 23 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.66%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.04%) MBA
12 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.81%) CISSP
14 6 (0.69%) CISM
15 5 (0.58%) IIBA
15 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 4 (0.46%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.20%) QA
2 61 (7.04%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.50%) GDPR
4 30 (3.46%) PMO
5 27 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.77%) SLA
7 12 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.27%) NIST
9 8 (0.92%) Basel III
9 8 (0.92%) IFRS
10 6 (0.69%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.46%) COBIT
11 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.35%) GAAP
12 3 (0.35%) PSD2
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) GRC
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 29 (3.35%) Active Directory
1 29 (3.35%) Docker
2 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) GPFS
4 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.46%) 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 34 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.12%) Ansible
3 14 (1.62%) Grafana
3 14 (1.62%) Terraform
4 11 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.92%) Kiali
6 7 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.35%) WSUS
10 2 (0.23%) Control-M
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%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) SCCM
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 92 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.85%) SAP
3 53 (6.12%) Oracle
4 50 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.35%) Workday
7 23 (2.66%) Splunk
8 21 (2.42%) Google
9 15 (1.73%) VMware
10 14 (1.62%) IBM
11 12 (1.39%) Sonatype
12 10 (1.15%) IFS
13 8 (0.92%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.81%) Adobe
14 7 (0.81%) Anaplan
14 7 (0.81%) Ariba
15 6 (0.69%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.69%) Cisco
15 6 (0.69%) Databricks
15 6 (0.69%) NEC