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

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 97 163
Rank change year-on-year -20 +66 -15
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,024 717 508
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 2.60% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.86% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 435 335
10th Percentile £313 £280 £330
25th Percentile £402 £366 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £517
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 44 28
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £25.61 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.47 £30.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.75 £35.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.69 £30.00 £25.88
% change year-on-year -21.05% +15.93% -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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
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 £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -2 468 £525 +5.00% 260
South East -25 156 £500 - 221
North of England -65 148 £500 - 142
Midlands -20 127 £450 - 96
North West -66 75 £500 +5.26% 79
West Midlands -38 72 £500 +5.26% 63
Yorkshire -16 66 £476 -7.22% 48
South West -1 57 £456 +7.18% 65
East Midlands +4 55 £413 +65.00% 33
East of England +7 51 £450 -0.83% 64
North East -35 8 £400 -25.23% 17
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 53 (5.18%) Confluence
2 29 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.17%) CMS
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.68%) 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
1 113 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.34%) 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 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.86%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.17%) iTrent
5 10 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.68%) 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%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 2 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 114 (11.13%) Power Platform
2 94 (9.18%) Azure
3 44 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (3.91%) AWS
5 33 (3.22%) SaaS
6 30 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.25%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.05%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
12 18 (1.76%) GitHub
13 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (0.88%) Lucidchart
15 8 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.78%) Datadog
15 8 (0.78%) GCP
15 8 (0.78%) Intacct
15 8 (0.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.27%) Firewall
3 10 (0.98%) WAN
4 9 (0.88%) DNS
4 9 (0.88%) VPN
4 9 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.68%) 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 94 (9.18%) Power BI
2 17 (1.66%) Tableau
3 13 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.17%) Metadata
5 8 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.59%) Power Query
7 6 (0.59%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.39%) MySQL
9 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.29%) DataStage
10 3 (0.29%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.20%) Big Data
11 2 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (9.08%) JIRA
2 12 (1.17%) Git
3 11 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.59%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.49%) Postman
5 5 (0.49%) Selenium
6 4 (0.39%) JMeter
6 4 (0.39%) JUnit
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
1 430 (41.99%) Finance
2 424 (41.41%) Social Skills
3 310 (30.27%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (9.86%) Banking
5 72 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.98%) Retail
8 49 (4.79%) Manufacturing
9 47 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (4.39%) Legal
11 38 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.86%) Marketing
14 18 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.66%) General Ledger
15 17 (1.66%) Local Government
16 16 (1.56%) Front Office
17 15 (1.46%) Investment Banking
17 15 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (1.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 327 (31.93%) Analyst
2 196 (19.14%) Business Analyst
3 103 (10.06%) Senior
4 99 (9.67%) Lead
5 87 (8.50%) Consultant
6 48 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
7 43 (4.20%) Project Manager
8 41 (4.00%) Accountant
9 32 (3.13%) Data Analyst
10 29 (2.83%) Senior Business Analyst
11 27 (2.64%) Developer
12 26 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
13 24 (2.34%) Administrator
14 23 (2.25%) Process Analyst
15 22 (2.15%) Architect
16 20 (1.95%) Senior Manager
16 20 (1.95%) Transformation Manager
17 19 (1.86%) Support Engineer
17 19 (1.86%) Systems Analyst
18 18 (1.76%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.95%) REST
3 16 (1.56%) .NET
4 12 (1.17%) Middleware
4 12 (1.17%) SOAP
5 9 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.88%) SAP PI
6 8 (0.78%) 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%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.39%) XML
9 4 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.81%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 51 (4.98%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 24 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.25%) CMDB
7 20 (1.95%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.17%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.07%) FMCG
14 11 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.88%) Low-Code
17 8 (0.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.30%) Windows
2 25 (2.44%) Linux
3 19 (1.86%) Unix
4 13 (1.27%) 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
1 346 (33.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 268 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
3 227 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 214 (20.90%) Agile
5 186 (18.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 159 (15.53%) Workshop Facilitation
7 155 (15.14%) Decision-Making
8 152 (14.84%) User Acceptance Testing
9 149 (14.55%) ERP
10 139 (13.57%) Change Management
11 134 (13.09%) Requirements Gathering
11 134 (13.09%) Validation
12 131 (12.79%) AI
12 131 (12.79%) Business Analysis
13 130 (12.70%) Migration
14 107 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
15 105 (10.25%) User Stories
16 97 (9.47%) Data Analysis
17 92 (8.98%) Project Management
18 91 (8.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 111 (10.84%) SQL
2 64 (6.25%) Python
3 35 (3.42%) Java
4 21 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.76%) PowerShell
5 18 (1.76%) VBA
6 9 (0.88%) ABAP
6 9 (0.88%) C#
7 8 (0.78%) Bash
8 7 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.68%) Perl
9 6 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.49%) Korn
10 5 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.49%) R
11 3 (0.29%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.29%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.29%) COBOL
11 3 (0.29%) Go
11 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 146 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 116 (11.33%) SC Cleared
3 99 (9.67%) Degree
4 63 (6.15%) ACCA
5 60 (5.86%) CIMA
6 22 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.95%) PMP
8 18 (1.76%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.07%) CBAP
12 10 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.88%) IIBA
14 8 (0.78%) ISEB
14 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
18 4 (0.39%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 61 (5.96%) QA
3 46 (4.49%) PMO
4 44 (4.30%) GDPR
5 25 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.46%) SLA
7 14 (1.37%) NIST
8 13 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.17%) IFRS
10 11 (1.07%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.98%) GRC
12 9 (0.88%) GAAP
13 5 (0.49%) COBIT
14 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 2 (0.20%) Basel III
16 2 (0.20%) SEPA
17 1 (0.098%) IEC 62304
17 1 (0.098%) ITGC
System Software
1 30 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.37%) IAG
3 8 (0.78%) Docker
4 7 (0.68%) 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 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.86%) Ansible
3 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.37%) Terraform
5 6 (0.59%) SCCM
5 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.49%) Control-M
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
1 146 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 120 (11.72%) SAP
3 91 (8.89%) Oracle
4 73 (7.13%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.95%) Workday
7 18 (1.76%) IFS
8 13 (1.27%) IBM
8 13 (1.27%) Splunk
9 12 (1.17%) Google
9 12 (1.17%) VMware
10 10 (0.98%) Cisco
10 10 (0.98%) Sage
11 9 (0.88%) Adobe
11 9 (0.88%) Apple
11 9 (0.88%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.88%) Okta
12 8 (0.78%) Nexthink
13 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.59%) Alteryx
741 Process Improvement jobs in England