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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 109 165
Rank change year-on-year +4 +56 +16
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 798 635 568
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 2.35% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.64% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 359 358
10th Percentile £220 £300 £313
25th Percentile £359 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £524 £513
% change year-on-year -9.31% +2.20% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 29
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.18 £13.05
25th Percentile £14.09 £26.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.00 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% -3.53% +9.94%
75th Percentile £40.93 £58.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.62 £56.52
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -51.43% -4.11% +10.61%

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 28,047 24,036 31,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.31% 89.14% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,899 14,761 21,230
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,744 772 1,471
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.59 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 15 January 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 January 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 January 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 +18 346 £500 -13.04% 112
North of England -13 151 £475 -5.00% 85
Midlands -7 99 £450 - 70
South East -20 99 £400 -27.27% 141
North West -23 73 £500 +8.70% 41
West Midlands -6 67 £475 -17.39% 49
Yorkshire -7 65 £463 -26.00% 33
South West -25 49 £500 -4.76% 30
East of England -2 45 £475 +34.56% 31
East Midlands -13 33 £352 -1.12% 21
North East -5 13 £350 -39.13% 12
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 47 (5.89%) Confluence
2 25 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.50%) CMS
5 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Moodle
6 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Resin
6 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 107 (13.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (5.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 41 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (4.51%) MS Visio
5 19 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.38%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 51 (6.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.13%) SAP HCM
3 8 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.88%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.50%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.50%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.38%) Endur
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 80 (10.03%) Power Platform
2 56 (7.02%) Azure
3 46 (5.76%) AWS
4 42 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (5.01%) SaaS
6 24 (3.01%) GitHub
7 19 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (2.13%) GCP
9 12 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (1.50%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (1.25%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.13%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.13%) Google Workspace
13 8 (1.00%) Lucidchart
14 6 (0.75%) Miro
14 6 (0.75%) OCI
14 6 (0.75%) PaaS
15 5 (0.63%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.76%) Firewall
2 13 (1.63%) DNS
3 9 (1.13%) VPN
4 6 (0.75%) DHCP
4 6 (0.75%) HTTP
4 6 (0.75%) Internet
5 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.50%) Network Security
6 4 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) FTP
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.25%) DWDM
8 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.25%) SSH
8 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.13%) 5G
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.15%) Power BI
2 22 (2.76%) MySQL
3 21 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 11 (1.38%) SAP HANA
4 11 (1.38%) Tableau
5 9 (1.13%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.75%) Power Query
9 5 (0.63%) Metadata
10 4 (0.50%) Looker
10 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.38%) Big Data
11 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 90 (11.28%) JIRA
2 44 (5.51%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.26%) GitLab
4 17 (2.13%) Postman
5 9 (1.13%) Git
5 9 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.88%) Jaeger
7 6 (0.75%) Appium
8 5 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (0.63%) XCUITest
9 4 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.50%) Selenium
10 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.25%) MLflow
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
12 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 380 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 268 (33.58%) Finance
3 184 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.15%) Banking
5 55 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (4.14%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 24 (3.01%) Marketing
10 24 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.88%) Legal
12 19 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (2.26%) Billing
13 18 (2.26%) Retail
14 15 (1.88%) Law
15 12 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.38%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 253 (31.70%) Analyst
2 130 (16.29%) Business Analyst
3 84 (10.53%) Senior
4 71 (8.90%) Consultant
5 58 (7.27%) Lead
6 39 (4.89%) Project Manager
7 31 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
8 27 (3.38%) SAP Consultant
8 27 (3.38%) Technical Analyst
9 26 (3.26%) Data Analyst
9 26 (3.26%) Process Analyst
9 26 (3.26%) Technical Support
10 23 (2.88%) Senior Business Analyst
11 22 (2.76%) Administrator
12 19 (2.38%) Developer
13 18 (2.26%) Change Manager
13 18 (2.26%) IT Support
13 18 (2.26%) Senior Consultant
14 17 (2.13%) Accountant
15 14 (1.75%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.76%) Web Services
2 20 (2.51%) Playwright
3 18 (2.26%) GraphQL
3 18 (2.26%) Node.js
3 18 (2.26%) Vitest
4 14 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
5 12 (1.50%) Kafka
6 11 (1.38%) BAPI
7 10 (1.25%) REST
7 10 (1.25%) SOAP
7 10 (1.25%) XML
7 10 (1.25%) YAML
8 9 (1.13%) Middleware
8 9 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.88%) .NET
9 7 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (0.88%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.88%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.75%) HTML
11 5 (0.63%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.64%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.50%) Replication
9 11 (1.38%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.25%) CMDB
11 9 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.13%) PMI
12 8 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.00%) NHS
13 7 (0.88%) Derivative
13 7 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.52%) Windows
2 41 (5.14%) Linux
3 30 (3.76%) Unix
4 14 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.25%) Android
6 9 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.88%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
2 177 (22.18%) Agile
3 169 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 152 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 144 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (12.78%) Change Management
7 101 (12.66%) Project Management
8 99 (12.41%) Decision-Making
9 94 (11.78%) DevOps
10 91 (11.40%) Workshop Facilitation
11 72 (9.02%) Business Analysis
11 72 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
12 70 (8.77%) Coaching
13 69 (8.65%) Project Delivery
14 66 (8.27%) Roadmaps
15 65 (8.15%) Data Analysis
15 65 (8.15%) ITIL
16 63 (7.89%) CI/CD
17 62 (7.77%) Six Sigma
18 61 (7.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 99 (12.41%) SQL
2 62 (7.77%) Python
3 37 (4.64%) Java
4 30 (3.76%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.88%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.76%) Perl
7 18 (2.26%) ABAP
8 14 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.88%) Bash
10 7 (0.88%) C#
10 7 (0.88%) Rust
11 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.63%) Swift
13 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.50%) PHP
13 4 (0.50%) VBA
14 3 (0.38%) Go
14 3 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (15.16%) Degree
2 93 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 71 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.88%) PMP
8 18 (2.26%) ACCA
9 14 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.63%) CIMA
10 13 (1.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.13%) MBA
13 7 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.63%) CISSP
14 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.50%) CISM
15 4 (0.50%) GIAC
15 4 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.77%) QA
2 42 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.39%) PMO
4 26 (3.26%) GDPR
5 25 (3.13%) SLA
6 12 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.88%) Basel III
9 7 (0.88%) NIST
10 5 (0.63%) GAAP
10 5 (0.63%) IFRS
10 5 (0.63%) ISO 19650
10 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.38%) GRC
11 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.25%) COBIT
12 2 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (4.51%) Docker
2 28 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.38%) GPFS
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.25%) NFS
5 2 (0.25%) Xen
6 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Postfix
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.01%) Ansible
3 16 (2.01%) Terraform
4 14 (1.75%) Grafana
5 10 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (0.88%) Kiali
8 4 (0.50%) QRadar
9 3 (0.38%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Nessus
11 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 107 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 83 (10.40%) SAP
3 58 (7.27%) Oracle
4 53 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.88%) Splunk
6 22 (2.76%) Workday
7 18 (2.26%) Google
8 14 (1.75%) Adobe
9 10 (1.25%) Alteryx
10 9 (1.13%) Anaplan
10 9 (1.13%) Ariba
11 8 (1.00%) Sonatype
12 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.63%) Cisco
12 5 (0.63%) Computacenter
12 5 (0.63%) IBM
12 5 (0.63%) Planview
13 4 (0.50%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.50%) MuleSoft