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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 103 155
Rank change year-on-year -11 +52 -5
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,046 707 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.29% 2.57% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.83% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 427 342
10th Percentile £313 £263 £338
25th Percentile £403 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £691 £693 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 46 28
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.81 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.21 £30.00 £29.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +2.35% -2.30%
75th Percentile £52.11 £39.61 £35.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £66.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.16 £30.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year -20.13% +6.14% -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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £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 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -9 483 £523 +4.50% 253
South East -23 156 £500 - 110
North of England -54 150 £487 +2.53% 114
Midlands -13 131 £450 +1.12% 79
North West -61 79 £500 +5.26% 67
West Midlands -44 73 £500 +5.26% 49
Yorkshire -5 64 £451 -7.49% 34
East Midlands +11 58 £425 +70.00% 31
South West -6 56 £456 +7.18% 74
East of England +7 54 £450 +10.43% 43
North East -39 8 £400 -12.81% 14
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 54 (5.16%) Confluence
2 31 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.24%) CMS
4 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.29%) Moodle
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.29%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.19%) Apache
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.19%) CICS
8 1 (0.096%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.096%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.096%) MTS
8 1 (0.096%) nginx
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.096%) SAS
8 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.096%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 120 (11.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.15%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.48%) 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 (0.29%) Simulink
10 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.096%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.096%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.91%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.15%) iTrent
4 11 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.67%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.57%) Magento
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.48%) 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 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.29%) Loan IQ
12 3 (0.29%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (10.99%) Power Platform
2 98 (9.37%) Azure
3 47 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (3.92%) AWS
5 38 (3.63%) SaaS
6 34 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (2.49%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.29%) Power Automate
9 22 (2.10%) PowerApps
10 20 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
11 19 (1.82%) GitHub
12 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.96%) Datadog
15 9 (0.86%) Intacct
15 9 (0.86%) Lucidchart
16 8 (0.76%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.24%) Firewall
3 10 (0.96%) DNS
3 10 (0.96%) WAN
4 9 (0.86%) VPN
4 9 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.67%) LAN
6 5 (0.48%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) SSL
7 4 (0.38%) MPLS
7 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.19%) Broadband
9 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (8.89%) Power BI
2 19 (1.82%) Tableau
3 12 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.15%) Metadata
4 10 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.57%) Power Query
6 6 (0.57%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.38%) MySQL
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.29%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.19%) Big Data
9 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.19%) DataStage
9 2 (0.19%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (8.89%) JIRA
2 13 (1.24%) Git
3 9 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.48%) Postman
5 5 (0.48%) Selenium
6 4 (0.38%) JMeter
6 4 (0.38%) JUnit
6 4 (0.38%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.29%) 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
1 437 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 435 (41.59%) Finance
3 314 (30.02%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (10.13%) Banking
5 69 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 51 (4.88%) Retail
8 49 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (4.49%) Legal
10 41 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.82%) General Ledger
12 19 (1.82%) Marketing
12 19 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.72%) Local Government
14 17 (1.63%) Front Office
15 16 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 330 (31.55%) Analyst
2 198 (18.93%) Business Analyst
3 107 (10.23%) Senior
4 100 (9.56%) Lead
5 91 (8.70%) Consultant
6 50 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
7 47 (4.49%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.82%) Accountant
9 31 (2.96%) Data Analyst
9 31 (2.96%) Senior Business Analyst
10 28 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
11 27 (2.58%) Developer
12 24 (2.29%) Administrator
12 24 (2.29%) Process Analyst
13 23 (2.20%) Architect
14 21 (2.01%) Support Engineer
14 21 (2.01%) Transformation Manager
15 20 (1.91%) Senior Manager
16 19 (1.82%) IT Manager
16 19 (1.82%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (2.20%) REST
3 15 (1.43%) .NET
3 15 (1.43%) Terraform
4 13 (1.24%) SOAP
5 12 (1.15%) Middleware
6 9 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (0.76%) HTML
7 8 (0.76%) SAP PI
8 6 (0.57%) IDoc
8 6 (0.57%) JSON
8 6 (0.57%) OAuth
8 6 (0.57%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.48%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.48%) JDBC
9 5 (0.48%) React
9 5 (0.48%) STL
9 5 (0.48%) Web Services
10 4 (0.38%) LDAP
10 4 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 55 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 53 (5.07%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.39%) CMDB
7 21 (2.01%) Cloud Native
8 18 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.34%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.15%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.05%) FMCG
13 11 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.86%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.49%) Windows
2 27 (2.58%) Linux
3 18 (1.72%) Unix
4 13 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) Android
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.19%) AIX
10 2 (0.19%) Solaris
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.096%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (35.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 283 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
3 237 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 222 (21.22%) Agile
5 198 (18.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 171 (16.35%) Workshop Facilitation
7 163 (15.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 157 (15.01%) ERP
9 156 (14.91%) Decision-Making
10 146 (13.96%) Change Management
11 143 (13.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 138 (13.19%) Validation
13 135 (12.91%) AI
13 135 (12.91%) Migration
14 133 (12.72%) Business Analysis
15 114 (10.90%) User Stories
16 108 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
17 103 (9.85%) Project Delivery
18 100 (9.56%) Data Analysis
18 100 (9.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (10.80%) SQL
2 67 (6.41%) Python
3 35 (3.35%) Java
4 22 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 21 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 17 (1.63%) VBA
7 9 (0.86%) ABAP
8 8 (0.76%) Bash
8 8 (0.76%) C#
9 7 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.67%) Perl
10 6 (0.57%) Korn
10 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.48%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.38%) R
13 3 (0.29%) C++
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 144 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 115 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 111 (10.61%) Degree
4 65 (6.21%) ACCA
5 62 (5.93%) CIMA
6 22 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.91%) PMP
8 18 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 15 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.05%) CBAP
14 9 (0.86%) IIBA
15 8 (0.76%) ISEB
15 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
18 5 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 62 (5.93%) QA
3 48 (4.59%) PMO
4 44 (4.21%) GDPR
5 23 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.53%) SLA
7 13 (1.24%) GRC
7 13 (1.24%) IFRS
7 13 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (1.05%) NIST
9 10 (0.96%) GAAP
10 4 (0.38%) COBIT
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.19%) Basel III
12 2 (0.19%) ITGC
12 2 (0.19%) SEPA
13 1 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.53%) IAG
3 9 (0.86%) Docker
4 7 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) GPFS
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.096%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.096%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.096%) Postfix
10 1 (0.096%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.72%) Ansible
2 18 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.67%) SCCM
4 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.48%) Control-M
6 3 (0.29%) Grafana
6 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.29%) WSUS
7 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.19%) vRealize
8 1 (0.096%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.096%) Argo
8 1 (0.096%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.096%) Istio
8 1 (0.096%) Nessus
8 1 (0.096%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.096%) Puppet
8 1 (0.096%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 161 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 123 (11.76%) SAP
3 96 (9.18%) Oracle
4 79 (7.55%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.82%) Workday
7 17 (1.63%) IFS
8 14 (1.34%) IBM
9 13 (1.24%) Splunk
10 11 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.05%) Google
10 11 (1.05%) Sage
10 11 (1.05%) VMware
11 10 (0.96%) Adobe
11 10 (0.96%) Cisco
11 10 (0.96%) Nexthink
12 9 (0.86%) Apple
13 7 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.67%) Autodesk
13 7 (0.67%) Databricks