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

 6 months to
22 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 98 169
Rank change year-on-year -24 +71 -7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 946 716 521
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.11% 2.62% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.89% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 434 348
10th Percentile £313 £279 £293
25th Percentile £402 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £624
90th Percentile £680 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 44 32
10th Percentile £13.33 £17.01 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.90
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.75 £36.13
90th Percentile £75.40 £68.13 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.39% +22.00% -21.63%

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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -18 417 £513 +2.50% 279
South East -10 153 £500 - 146
North of England -61 135 £465 -2.11% 105
Midlands -31 115 £430 -4.12% 87
West Midlands -46 71 £500 +0.40% 49
North West -66 69 £454 +0.89% 64
Yorkshire -28 58 £525 +3.70% 35
South West -1 55 £450 +5.88% 58
East of England +7 49 £450 -10.00% 59
East Midlands +4 44 £408 +63.00% 38
North East -30 9 £375 -29.25% 7
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 50 (5.29%) Confluence
2 20 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.27%) CMS
4 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.95%) CICS
6 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.32%) Moodle
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.32%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 93 (9.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.32%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.90%) NetSuite
3 14 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.16%) iTrent
5 10 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.63%) Magento
7 6 (0.63%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.63%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.53%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.42%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.42%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 2 (0.21%) Primavera
11 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 98 (10.36%) Power Platform
2 84 (8.88%) Azure
3 39 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.81%) AWS
5 25 (2.64%) SaaS
6 24 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 20 (2.11%) GitHub
9 18 (1.90%) PowerApps
9 18 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
10 13 (1.37%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.95%) Lucidchart
12 8 (0.85%) GCP
12 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.63%) Datadog
14 6 (0.63%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.80%) Firewall
2 10 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.95%) WAN
4 6 (0.63%) LAN
4 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.53%) DNS
5 5 (0.53%) Network Security
5 5 (0.53%) VPN
6 4 (0.42%) MPLS
6 4 (0.42%) SSL
6 4 (0.42%) Wireless
7 3 (0.32%) BGP
7 3 (0.32%) DMZ
7 3 (0.32%) FTP
7 3 (0.32%) Internet
7 3 (0.32%) IPsec
7 3 (0.32%) VSAN
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.25%) Power BI
2 14 (1.48%) Tableau
3 11 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.16%) Metadata
4 9 (0.95%) DataStage
5 8 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.53%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.42%) MySQL
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.42%) Power Query
9 3 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.21%) Big Data
10 2 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.21%) GIS
10 2 (0.21%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.21%) Parquet
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 97 (10.25%) JIRA
2 15 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.27%) Git
4 5 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.42%) JUnit
5 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.32%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.32%) MLflow
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
6 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.21%) GitLab
7 2 (0.21%) Postman
7 2 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.21%) TestRail
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Gradle
8 1 (0.11%) Hudson
8 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 395 (41.75%) Finance
2 377 (39.85%) Social Skills
3 286 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (8.67%) Banking
5 80 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (4.86%) Legal
8 41 (4.33%) Retail
9 39 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 32 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.90%) Local Government
12 17 (1.80%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.59%) General Ledger
15 14 (1.48%) Billing
15 14 (1.48%) Front Office
15 14 (1.48%) Marketing
16 13 (1.37%) Back Office
17 12 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 299 (31.61%) Analyst
2 177 (18.71%) Business Analyst
3 98 (10.36%) Senior
4 87 (9.20%) Lead
5 84 (8.88%) Consultant
6 41 (4.33%) Project Manager
7 40 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
8 38 (4.02%) Accountant
9 31 (3.28%) Data Analyst
10 25 (2.64%) Financial Analyst
11 23 (2.43%) Developer
12 22 (2.33%) Architect
12 22 (2.33%) Process Analyst
13 21 (2.22%) Senior Business Analyst
14 19 (2.01%) Administrator
14 19 (2.01%) Designer
14 19 (2.01%) Management Accountant
15 18 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (1.90%) Senior Manager
15 18 (1.90%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.01%) REST
2 15 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (1.48%) Middleware
4 12 (1.27%) .NET
5 9 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.95%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.95%) SOAP
6 6 (0.63%) IDoc
6 6 (0.63%) JSON
7 5 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.53%) HTML
7 5 (0.53%) JDBC
7 5 (0.53%) React
7 5 (0.53%) STL
8 4 (0.42%) Node.js
8 4 (0.42%) Playwright
8 4 (0.42%) RESTful
8 4 (0.42%) YAML
9 3 (0.32%) OAuth
9 3 (0.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.40%) Onboarding
2 45 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.64%) CMDB
5 25 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.27%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.95%) BYOD
13 9 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.95%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.33%) Windows
2 27 (2.85%) Linux
3 23 (2.43%) Unix
4 12 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.95%) AIX
6 9 (0.95%) Solaris
7 5 (0.53%) Android
7 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (30.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 245 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
3 205 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 187 (19.77%) Agile
5 163 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 143 (15.12%) Decision-Making
7 125 (13.21%) User Acceptance Testing
8 122 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
9 121 (12.79%) Validation
10 119 (12.58%) ERP
11 115 (12.16%) Change Management
12 114 (12.05%) Migration
13 108 (11.42%) Requirements Gathering
14 107 (11.31%) Business Analysis
15 99 (10.47%) AI
16 87 (9.20%) DevOps
17 86 (9.09%) Project Management
18 85 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
19 78 (8.25%) Project Delivery
20 77 (8.14%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 98 (10.36%) SQL
2 58 (6.13%) Python
3 30 (3.17%) Java
4 18 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.59%) VBA
6 11 (1.16%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.95%) ABAP
7 9 (0.95%) COBOL
8 8 (0.85%) Perl
9 7 (0.74%) Bash
9 7 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.53%) C#
10 5 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.42%) Korn
11 4 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.42%) R
12 3 (0.32%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.32%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.09%) Degree
4 62 (6.55%) ACCA
5 59 (6.24%) CIMA
6 19 (2.01%) PMP
7 18 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 11 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.06%) CBAP
12 10 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.74%) IIBA
13 7 (0.74%) ISEB
14 6 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.42%) CCNP
16 4 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.13%) QA
3 44 (4.65%) GDPR
4 38 (4.02%) PMO
5 28 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.48%) IFRS
7 13 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.27%) NIST
8 12 (1.27%) SLA
9 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.95%) GAAP
11 7 (0.74%) GRC
12 3 (0.32%) Basel III
12 3 (0.32%) COBIT
12 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.21%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.27%) IAG
3 9 (0.95%) Docker
4 8 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.63%) vSphere
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) GPFS
8 3 (0.32%) NFS
8 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (2.11%) Ansible
2 19 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.16%) Terraform
5 6 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) SCCM
6 3 (0.32%) WSUS
7 2 (0.21%) Control-M
7 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.21%) vRealize
8 1 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Autotask
8 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (11.73%) SAP
2 106 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 78 (8.25%) Oracle
4 69 (7.29%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.11%) Workday
7 18 (1.90%) IFS
8 17 (1.80%) IBM
8 17 (1.80%) VMware
9 15 (1.59%) Splunk
10 11 (1.16%) Google
11 10 (1.06%) Cisco
12 9 (0.95%) Apple
12 9 (0.95%) Okta
12 9 (0.95%) Sage
13 8 (0.85%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.74%) Adobe
14 7 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.63%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.63%) NEC
667 Process Improvement jobs in England