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

 6 months to
15 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 94 160
Rank change year-on-year -20 +66 -7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,019 718 505
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 2.59% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.86% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 439 332
10th Percentile £313 £276 £325
25th Percentile £404 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £517
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% +1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 43 28
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £24.46 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.21 £30.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.99 £35.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.69 £30.25 £25.88
% change year-on-year -21.70% +16.90% -13.74%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -1 468 £525 +5.00% 751
South East -16 155 £500 - 277
North of England -57 144 £500 - 207
Midlands -17 126 £450 - 132
West Midlands -35 74 £500 +5.26% 77
North West -73 73 £500 +5.26% 112
Yorkshire -17 64 £500 -2.44% 71
South West -8 57 £456 +7.18% 110
East of England +11 52 £450 -10.00% 91
East Midlands +7 52 £413 +65.00% 55
North East -39 8 £400 -25.23% 26
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 51 (5.00%) Confluence
2 29 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.18%) CMS
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.29%) CICS
6 3 (0.29%) Moodle
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.29%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.098%) Appian
8 1 (0.098%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.098%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.098%) MTS
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.098%) SAS
8 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.098%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 109 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.04%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.39%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.39%) ProjectWise
7 4 (0.39%) Revit
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.29%) Simulink
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 34 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.86%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.18%) iTrent
5 10 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.59%) Magento
9 6 (0.59%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.49%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 4 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.39%) SAP Business One
12 3 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.29%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
13 2 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 111 (10.89%) Power Platform
2 95 (9.32%) Azure
3 44 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (3.83%) AWS
5 33 (3.24%) SaaS
6 30 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.16%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.06%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
12 18 (1.77%) GitHub
13 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (0.88%) Lucidchart
15 8 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.79%) Datadog
15 8 (0.79%) GCP
15 8 (0.79%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.28%) Firewall
3 10 (0.98%) WAN
4 9 (0.88%) DNS
4 9 (0.88%) VPN
4 9 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.69%) LAN
6 5 (0.49%) Network Security
6 5 (0.49%) SSL
7 4 (0.39%) MPLS
7 4 (0.39%) Wireless
8 3 (0.29%) BGP
8 3 (0.29%) DHCP
8 3 (0.29%) DMZ
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) IPsec
8 3 (0.29%) VSAN
9 2 (0.20%) OSPF
9 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.93%) Power BI
2 17 (1.67%) Tableau
3 12 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.18%) Metadata
4 8 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.59%) Power Query
6 6 (0.59%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.39%) MySQL
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.29%) DataStage
9 3 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.20%) Big Data
10 2 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.20%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 91 (8.93%) JIRA
2 12 (1.18%) Git
3 11 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.59%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.49%) Postman
5 5 (0.49%) Selenium
6 4 (0.39%) JMeter
6 4 (0.39%) JUnit
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.39%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.20%) Appium
8 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.20%) GitLab
8 2 (0.20%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.20%) MLflow
8 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 424 (41.61%) Finance
2 417 (40.92%) Social Skills
3 305 (29.93%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.62%) Banking
5 74 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.40%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (4.91%) Manufacturing
7 50 (4.91%) Retail
8 45 (4.42%) Legal
9 43 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.86%) Marketing
13 18 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.67%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.67%) Local Government
15 16 (1.57%) Front Office
15 16 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.37%) Back Office
17 13 (1.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 325 (31.89%) Analyst
2 195 (19.14%) Business Analyst
3 102 (10.01%) Senior
4 97 (9.52%) Lead
5 88 (8.64%) Consultant
6 47 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
7 43 (4.22%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.93%) Accountant
9 32 (3.14%) Data Analyst
10 28 (2.75%) Senior Business Analyst
11 27 (2.65%) Developer
12 26 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
13 24 (2.36%) Administrator
13 24 (2.36%) Process Analyst
14 22 (2.16%) Architect
15 20 (1.96%) Senior Manager
15 20 (1.96%) Transformation Manager
16 19 (1.86%) IT Manager
16 19 (1.86%) Systems Analyst
17 18 (1.77%) Management Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.86%) REST
3 16 (1.57%) .NET
4 12 (1.18%) Middleware
4 12 (1.18%) SOAP
5 9 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.88%) SAP PI
6 8 (0.79%) HTML
7 6 (0.59%) IDoc
7 6 (0.59%) JSON
8 5 (0.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.49%) JDBC
8 5 (0.49%) React
8 5 (0.49%) STL
8 5 (0.49%) Web Services
9 4 (0.39%) Kafka
9 4 (0.39%) Node.js
9 4 (0.39%) OAuth
9 4 (0.39%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.75%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 49 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 24 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.26%) CMDB
7 20 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.47%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.18%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.08%) FMCG
14 11 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 9 (0.88%) Low-Code
17 8 (0.79%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.22%) Windows
2 24 (2.36%) Linux
3 19 (1.86%) Unix
4 13 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.59%) Android
6 6 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.29%) AIX
8 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.29%) Solaris
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.098%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (33.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 264 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
3 224 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 210 (20.61%) Agile
5 185 (18.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 158 (15.51%) Workshop Facilitation
7 153 (15.01%) Decision-Making
8 150 (14.72%) User Acceptance Testing
9 147 (14.43%) ERP
10 137 (13.44%) Change Management
11 133 (13.05%) Validation
12 132 (12.95%) Requirements Gathering
13 130 (12.76%) Business Analysis
14 129 (12.66%) AI
14 129 (12.66%) Migration
15 104 (10.21%) User Stories
16 103 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
17 94 (9.22%) Data Analysis
18 91 (8.93%) Project Delivery
19 88 (8.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 109 (10.70%) SQL
2 62 (6.08%) Python
3 34 (3.34%) Java
4 21 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 19 (1.86%) VBA
6 16 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.88%) ABAP
7 9 (0.88%) C#
8 8 (0.79%) Bash
9 7 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.69%) Perl
10 6 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.49%) Korn
11 5 (0.49%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.49%) R
12 3 (0.29%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.29%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.29%) COBOL
12 3 (0.29%) Go
12 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 146 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 116 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.13%) Degree
4 62 (6.08%) ACCA
5 59 (5.79%) CIMA
6 22 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.86%) PMP
8 17 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 13 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.98%) CBAP
14 9 (0.88%) IIBA
15 8 (0.79%) ISEB
15 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
19 4 (0.39%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 61 (5.99%) QA
3 44 (4.32%) PMO
4 43 (4.22%) GDPR
5 25 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.47%) SLA
7 14 (1.37%) NIST
7 14 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.18%) IFRS
9 11 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.98%) GRC
11 9 (0.88%) GAAP
12 5 (0.49%) COBIT
13 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
14 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.20%) Basel III
15 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.20%) SEPA
16 1 (0.098%) ITGC
System Software
1 30 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.37%) IAG
3 8 (0.79%) Docker
4 7 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.59%) vSphere
6 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) GPFS
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) NFS
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.86%) Ansible
3 16 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.37%) Terraform
5 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.49%) Control-M
6 5 (0.49%) SCCM
7 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.29%) WSUS
8 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.098%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.098%) Argo
9 1 (0.098%) Autotask
9 1 (0.098%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.098%) Istio
9 1 (0.098%) Puppet
9 1 (0.098%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 142 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 120 (11.78%) SAP
3 91 (8.93%) Oracle
4 74 (7.26%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.96%) Workday
7 18 (1.77%) IFS
8 13 (1.28%) IBM
9 12 (1.18%) Google
9 12 (1.18%) Splunk
9 12 (1.18%) VMware
10 10 (0.98%) Cisco
11 9 (0.88%) Adobe
11 9 (0.88%) Apple
11 9 (0.88%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.88%) Okta
11 9 (0.88%) Sage
12 8 (0.79%) Nexthink
13 6 (0.59%) Autodesk
13 6 (0.59%) Databricks
1,467 Process Improvement jobs in England