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

 6 months to
28 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 99 156
Rank change year-on-year -12 +57 -6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,053 712 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 2.58% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.85% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 428 344
10th Percentile £313 £263 £329
25th Percentile £405 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -7.54% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 43 28
10th Percentile £13.42 £16.50 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £23.59 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.69 £30.00 £29.31
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +2.35% -2.30%
75th Percentile £55.05 £35.99 £35.38
90th Percentile £73.43 £57.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.58 £30.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% +5.26% -5.00%

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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -12 486 £525 +5.00% 804
South East -14 157 £500 -2.44% 301
North of England -52 151 £487 +2.53% 227
Midlands -17 131 £450 +1.12% 140
North West -57 80 £500 +5.26% 121
West Midlands -42 73 £500 +5.26% 79
Yorkshire -11 64 £451 -7.49% 74
East Midlands +9 58 £425 +70.00% 62
South West +8 57 £456 +7.18% 130
East of England +13 55 £450 +10.43% 95
North East -37 8 £400 -12.81% 36
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 55 (5.22%) Confluence
2 32 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.23%) CMS
4 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.28%) Moodle
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.28%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.095%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.095%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.095%) CICS
8 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.095%) MTS
8 1 (0.095%) nginx
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.095%) SAS
8 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.095%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 121 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.47%) ProjectWise
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.38%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.38%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.38%) Revit
9 3 (0.28%) Simulink
10 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.095%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.90%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.14%) iTrent
4 11 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.66%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.57%) Magento
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 4 (0.38%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.38%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
12 3 (0.28%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 116 (11.02%) Power Platform
2 99 (9.40%) Azure
3 48 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (3.80%) AWS
5 39 (3.70%) SaaS
6 35 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 24 (2.28%) Power Automate
10 22 (2.09%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
12 19 (1.80%) GitHub
13 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (0.95%) Datadog
16 9 (0.85%) Intacct
17 8 (0.76%) Google Workspace
17 8 (0.76%) Lucidchart
17 8 (0.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.23%) Firewall
3 11 (1.04%) DNS
4 10 (0.95%) VPN
5 9 (0.85%) WAN
5 9 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.66%) LAN
7 5 (0.47%) Network Security
7 5 (0.47%) SSL
8 4 (0.38%) DHCP
8 4 (0.38%) MPLS
8 4 (0.38%) Wireless
9 3 (0.28%) BGP
9 3 (0.28%) DMZ
9 3 (0.28%) Internet
9 3 (0.28%) IPsec
9 3 (0.28%) VSAN
10 2 (0.19%) DWDM
10 2 (0.19%) OSPF
10 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (8.93%) Power BI
2 21 (1.99%) Tableau
3 12 (1.14%) Metadata
4 11 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (0.57%) Power Query
8 6 (0.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.28%) MySQL
11 3 (0.28%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.19%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.19%) Big Data
12 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 94 (8.93%) JIRA
2 13 (1.23%) Git
3 9 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.47%) Postman
5 5 (0.47%) Selenium
6 4 (0.38%) JMeter
6 4 (0.38%) JUnit
6 4 (0.38%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.28%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.19%) Appium
8 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.19%) GitLab
8 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.19%) MLflow
8 2 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 441 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 438 (41.60%) Finance
3 315 (29.91%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.97%) Banking
5 70 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.84%) Retail
8 50 (4.75%) Manufacturing
9 49 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
10 47 (4.46%) Legal
11 41 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.80%) General Ledger
13 19 (1.80%) Marketing
13 19 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.71%) Local Government
14 18 (1.71%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.61%) Front Office
16 16 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 14 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 335 (31.81%) Analyst
2 200 (18.99%) Business Analyst
3 107 (10.16%) Senior
4 100 (9.50%) Lead
5 93 (8.83%) Consultant
6 49 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
7 47 (4.46%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.80%) Accountant
9 31 (2.94%) Data Analyst
10 30 (2.85%) Senior Business Analyst
11 28 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
12 27 (2.56%) Developer
13 26 (2.47%) Process Analyst
14 24 (2.28%) Administrator
15 22 (2.09%) Architect
16 21 (1.99%) Support Engineer
16 21 (1.99%) Transformation Manager
17 20 (1.90%) Senior Manager
18 19 (1.80%) IT Manager
19 18 (1.71%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (2.09%) REST
3 16 (1.52%) Terraform
4 15 (1.42%) .NET
5 13 (1.23%) SOAP
6 11 (1.04%) Middleware
7 9 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (0.76%) HTML
8 8 (0.76%) SAP PI
9 6 (0.57%) IDoc
9 6 (0.57%) JSON
9 6 (0.57%) OAuth
9 6 (0.57%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.47%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.47%) JDBC
10 5 (0.47%) React
10 5 (0.47%) STL
10 5 (0.47%) Web Services
11 4 (0.38%) LDAP
11 4 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.60%) Onboarding
2 55 (5.22%) Management Information System
2 55 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.37%) CMDB
6 21 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.23%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.14%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.04%) FMCG
12 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.56%) Windows
2 27 (2.56%) Linux
3 17 (1.61%) Unix
4 13 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) Android
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.095%) AIX
11 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.095%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.095%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (35.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 284 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
3 243 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 224 (21.27%) Agile
5 202 (19.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 171 (16.24%) Workshop Facilitation
7 162 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 159 (15.10%) ERP
9 157 (14.91%) Decision-Making
10 147 (13.96%) Requirements Gathering
11 146 (13.87%) Change Management
12 139 (13.20%) Validation
13 137 (13.01%) Migration
14 136 (12.92%) AI
15 135 (12.82%) Business Analysis
16 115 (10.92%) User Stories
17 110 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
18 104 (9.88%) Project Delivery
19 100 (9.50%) Data Analysis
20 98 (9.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (10.64%) SQL
2 67 (6.36%) Python
3 34 (3.23%) Java
4 22 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 22 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 17 (1.61%) VBA
6 9 (0.85%) ABAP
6 9 (0.85%) Bash
7 8 (0.76%) C#
8 7 (0.66%) Perl
9 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.57%) Korn
9 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.47%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.38%) R
12 3 (0.28%) Bicep
12 3 (0.28%) Go
12 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.28%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 147 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 118 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.73%) Degree
4 65 (6.17%) ACCA
5 62 (5.89%) CIMA
6 22 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.90%) PMP
8 18 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.04%) CBAP
13 10 (0.95%) IIBA
14 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.76%) ISEB
16 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
18 5 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.08%) QA
3 48 (4.56%) PMO
4 43 (4.08%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.52%) GRC
6 16 (1.52%) SLA
7 13 (1.23%) IFRS
7 13 (1.23%) NIST
7 13 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.95%) GAAP
10 4 (0.38%) COBIT
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.19%) Basel III
12 2 (0.19%) ITGC
12 2 (0.19%) SEPA
13 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 32 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.52%) IAG
3 9 (0.85%) Docker
4 8 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 5 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) GPFS
9 2 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.095%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.095%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.095%) Postfix
10 1 (0.095%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.80%) Ansible
3 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.66%) SCCM
5 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.47%) Control-M
7 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.28%) WSUS
8 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.19%) Istio
8 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.19%) vRealize
9 1 (0.095%) Argo
9 1 (0.095%) Autotask
9 1 (0.095%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.095%) Nessus
9 1 (0.095%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.095%) Puppet
9 1 (0.095%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 164 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 125 (11.87%) SAP
3 96 (9.12%) Oracle
4 79 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.80%) Workday
7 16 (1.52%) IFS
8 13 (1.23%) IBM
8 13 (1.23%) Splunk
9 11 (1.04%) Sage
9 11 (1.04%) VMware
10 10 (0.95%) Adobe
10 10 (0.95%) Cisco
10 10 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.95%) Nexthink
11 9 (0.85%) Apple
11 9 (0.85%) Google
12 7 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.66%) Autodesk
12 7 (0.66%) Okta
1,588 Process Improvement jobs in England