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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 105 149
Rank change year-on-year -8 +44 -6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,087 698 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.51% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.76% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 427 342
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £406 £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 £688 £680 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 38 27
10th Percentile £13.69 £16.45 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.45 £22.81 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% -0.40% -4.38%
75th Percentile £55.86 £36.24 £35.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £55.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -27.60% +2.35% -6.95%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -3 504 £525 +5.00% 462
North of England -40 159 £459 -5.85% 167
South East -20 157 £500 -4.76% 236
Midlands -17 142 £450 - 122
North West -49 87 £467 -1.79% 75
West Midlands -31 79 £500 +0.40% 72
Yorkshire -11 64 £451 -7.49% 70
East Midlands +14 63 £425 +70.00% 51
South West -8 55 £456 +21.47% 92
East of England -2 53 £450 +20.00% 67
North East -43 9 £425 -7.36% 26
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 59 (5.43%) Confluence
2 34 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.20%) CMS
4 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.64%) 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 (0.18%) Apache
8 1 (0.092%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.092%) Appian
8 1 (0.092%) CICS
8 1 (0.092%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.092%) MTS
8 1 (0.092%) nginx
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.092%) SAS
8 1 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.092%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 130 (11.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 28 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.55%) ProjectWise
7 5 (0.46%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.46%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.46%) Revit
8 4 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Simulink
10 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.092%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.84%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (1.10%) iTrent
6 10 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.64%) Magento
9 7 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.64%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.46%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.46%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.37%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.37%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.28%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 121 (11.13%) Power Platform
2 100 (9.20%) Azure
3 52 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (4.05%) SaaS
5 41 (3.77%) AWS
6 37 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 25 (2.30%) Power Automate
9 23 (2.12%) PowerApps
10 22 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
11 20 (1.84%) GitHub
12 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.92%) Datadog
15 9 (0.83%) Intacct
15 9 (0.83%) OneDrive
16 8 (0.74%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.74%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.20%) Firewall
3 11 (1.01%) DNS
4 10 (0.92%) VPN
5 9 (0.83%) WAN
5 9 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.64%) LAN
7 6 (0.55%) Network Security
8 5 (0.46%) SSL
9 4 (0.37%) DHCP
9 4 (0.37%) MPLS
9 4 (0.37%) Wireless
10 3 (0.28%) BGP
10 3 (0.28%) DMZ
10 3 (0.28%) Internet
10 3 (0.28%) IPsec
11 2 (0.18%) Broadband
11 2 (0.18%) L2TP
11 2 (0.18%) OSPF
11 2 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (8.83%) Power BI
2 22 (2.02%) Tableau
3 12 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.01%) Metadata
5 10 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.83%) Power Query
7 8 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.55%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.37%) MySQL
11 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.28%) Big Data
12 3 (0.28%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.18%) Parquet
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (8.83%) JIRA
2 13 (1.20%) Git
3 9 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.37%) JMeter
6 4 (0.37%) JUnit
6 4 (0.37%) Postman
6 4 (0.37%) Selenium
6 4 (0.37%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.28%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.18%) Appium
8 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.18%) MLflow
8 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 455 (41.86%) Finance
2 449 (41.31%) Social Skills
3 325 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.84%) Banking
5 74 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.15%) Manufacturing
7 53 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (4.69%) Retail
9 48 (4.42%) Legal
10 42 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.12%) Marketing
12 21 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.84%) General Ledger
14 19 (1.75%) Billing
15 18 (1.66%) Local Government
15 18 (1.66%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.56%) Front Office
16 17 (1.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 338 (31.09%) Analyst
2 201 (18.49%) Business Analyst
3 104 (9.57%) Lead
3 104 (9.57%) Senior
4 94 (8.65%) Consultant
5 49 (4.51%) Project Manager
6 48 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
7 37 (3.40%) Accountant
8 32 (2.94%) Data Analyst
9 30 (2.76%) Senior Business Analyst
10 29 (2.67%) Developer
11 28 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
12 26 (2.39%) Process Analyst
13 25 (2.30%) Administrator
14 23 (2.12%) Support Engineer
15 22 (2.02%) Architect
16 21 (1.93%) Senior Manager
16 21 (1.93%) Transformation Manager
17 20 (1.84%) Finance Manager
18 19 (1.75%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (2.12%) REST
3 16 (1.47%) Terraform
4 15 (1.38%) .NET
5 13 (1.20%) Middleware
5 13 (1.20%) SOAP
6 9 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (0.74%) SAP PI
8 7 (0.64%) HTML
9 6 (0.55%) IDoc
9 6 (0.55%) JSON
9 6 (0.55%) LDAP
9 6 (0.55%) OAuth
9 6 (0.55%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.55%) Web Services
10 5 (0.46%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.46%) JDBC
10 5 (0.46%) React
10 5 (0.46%) STL
11 4 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.91%) Onboarding
2 59 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 32 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (2.21%) CMDB
7 21 (1.93%) Cloud Native
8 17 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.20%) Operational Technology
11 13 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.10%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.01%) FMCG
14 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.74%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.60%) Windows
2 27 (2.48%) Linux
3 17 (1.56%) Unix
4 13 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.55%) Android
6 6 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.092%) AIX
10 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.092%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.092%) Solaris
10 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (37.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 305 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
3 258 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 233 (21.44%) Agile
5 209 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 177 (16.28%) Workshop Facilitation
7 170 (15.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 169 (15.55%) ERP
9 162 (14.90%) Decision-Making
10 155 (14.26%) Requirements Gathering
11 153 (14.08%) Change Management
12 148 (13.62%) Validation
13 147 (13.52%) Migration
14 144 (13.25%) Business Analysis
15 139 (12.79%) AI
16 120 (11.04%) User Stories
17 112 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
18 109 (10.03%) Project Delivery
19 106 (9.75%) Data Analysis
20 103 (9.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (10.86%) SQL
2 70 (6.44%) Python
3 34 (3.13%) Java
4 24 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.56%) VBA
7 10 (0.92%) Bash
8 9 (0.83%) ABAP
9 8 (0.74%) C#
10 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.64%) Korn
10 7 (0.64%) Perl
11 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.46%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.46%) R
13 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.28%) Bicep
14 3 (0.28%) Go
14 3 (0.28%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 152 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 120 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 116 (10.67%) Degree
4 62 (5.70%) ACCA
5 59 (5.43%) CIMA
6 26 (2.39%) PMP
7 23 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.92%) CBAP
11 10 (0.92%) IIBA
12 8 (0.74%) ISEB
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 65 (5.98%) QA
3 49 (4.51%) PMO
4 41 (3.77%) GDPR
5 22 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.93%) SLA
7 19 (1.75%) GRC
8 14 (1.29%) IFRS
9 13 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.10%) NIST
11 11 (1.01%) Accessibility
11 11 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.92%) GAAP
13 5 (0.46%) ISO 19650
14 4 (0.37%) COBIT
15 3 (0.28%) SEPA
15 3 (0.28%) Solvency II
16 2 (0.18%) Basel III
16 2 (0.18%) ITGC
17 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 33 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.47%) IAG
3 9 (0.83%) Docker
4 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.18%) GPFS
8 2 (0.18%) NFS
8 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.092%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.092%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.092%) Postfix
9 1 (0.092%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.75%) Ansible
4 9 (0.83%) SCCM
5 6 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.46%) Control-M
7 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 2 (0.18%) Istio
8 2 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.18%) vRealize
9 1 (0.092%) Argo
9 1 (0.092%) Autotask
9 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.092%) Nessus
9 1 (0.092%) Puppet
9 1 (0.092%) SCOM
9 1 (0.092%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 184 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 133 (12.24%) SAP
3 103 (9.48%) Oracle
4 81 (7.45%) ServiceNow
5 43 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.75%) Workday
7 15 (1.38%) IBM
7 15 (1.38%) IFS
8 13 (1.20%) Splunk
9 11 (1.01%) Sage
10 10 (0.92%) Cisco
10 10 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.92%) Nexthink
11 9 (0.83%) Adobe
11 9 (0.83%) Apple
11 9 (0.83%) Google
11 9 (0.83%) VMware
12 8 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.74%) Autodesk
12 8 (0.74%) CyberArk