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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 99 167
Rank change year-on-year -29 +68 +38
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 828 625 516
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.63% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.88% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 380 336
10th Percentile £288 £285 £325
25th Percentile £384 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £575 £618 £615
90th Percentile £669 £773 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 29 39
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.78 £13.69
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.81 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.80% +49.14% -49.84%
75th Percentile £48.75 £53.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £75.07 £75.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £36.00 £24.26
% change year-on-year -35.53% +48.42% -44.70%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -37 333 £500 -5.66% 242
South East -17 135 £500 -3.15% 124
North of England -68 124 £438 -10.26% 108
Midlands -18 114 £413 -14.06% 94
West Midlands -32 74 £463 -11.74% 56
Yorkshire -7 73 £464 -9.46% 45
South West -3 55 £450 -14.29% 48
East of England +2 48 £450 -13.25% 46
East Midlands -5 41 £372 +48.80% 38
North West -84 41 £436 -3.22% 56
North East -13 11 £364 -32.01% 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 48 (5.80%) Confluence
2 20 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.21%) CMS
4 9 (1.09%) CICS
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.48%) Moodle
7 2 (0.24%) Apache
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (11.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 26 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.21%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.85%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.60%) iTrent
6 5 (0.60%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.48%) Magento
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.48%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.54%) Power Platform
2 60 (7.25%) Azure
3 33 (3.99%) AWS
4 25 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (2.78%) SaaS
6 20 (2.42%) GitHub
7 16 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.93%) GCP
8 14 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
9 13 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.21%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.09%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.97%) Lucidchart
13 7 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.60%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (0.60%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.48%) Miro
15 4 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.42%) Firewall
2 8 (0.97%) DNS
3 6 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.60%) FTP
5 4 (0.48%) DHCP
5 4 (0.48%) VPN
6 3 (0.36%) VSAN
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.12%) BGP
8 1 (0.12%) Broadband
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.12%) MPLS
8 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.12%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (8.45%) Power BI
2 16 (1.93%) Relational Database
3 14 (1.69%) MySQL
4 12 (1.45%) Metadata
5 11 (1.33%) Tableau
6 9 (1.09%) DataStage
7 8 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.85%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.60%) Power Query
11 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.24%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.24%) Big Data
12 2 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.12%) Looker
Development Applications
1 102 (12.32%) JIRA
2 29 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.69%) Git
4 9 (1.09%) GitLab
5 8 (0.97%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.85%) Postman
6 7 (0.85%) Selenium
7 5 (0.60%) MLflow
8 4 (0.48%) JUnit
8 4 (0.48%) TestRail
9 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.36%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) Gatling
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
General
1 327 (39.49%) Finance
2 325 (39.25%) Social Skills
3 257 (31.04%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.70%) Banking
5 63 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.59%) Legal
7 35 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (3.50%) Retail
10 21 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.93%) Marketing
13 15 (1.81%) General Ledger
14 13 (1.57%) Billing
14 13 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.57%) Law
15 12 (1.45%) Local Government
15 12 (1.45%) Retail Banking
16 10 (1.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 257 (31.04%) Analyst
2 143 (17.27%) Business Analyst
3 85 (10.27%) Senior
4 75 (9.06%) Lead
5 55 (6.64%) Consultant
6 36 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 36 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 35 (4.23%) Accountant
8 22 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
8 22 (2.66%) Project Officer
9 21 (2.54%) Data Analyst
10 19 (2.29%) Management Accountant
11 18 (2.17%) Developer
11 18 (2.17%) Process Analyst
12 17 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.05%) Senior Business Analyst
12 17 (2.05%) Support Analyst
13 16 (1.93%) Technical Support
14 14 (1.69%) Architect
14 14 (1.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.42%) Middleware
2 16 (1.93%) REST
3 12 (1.45%) Kafka
4 11 (1.33%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.21%) .NET
5 10 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (0.97%) HTML
6 8 (0.97%) Playwright
7 7 (0.85%) Node.js
8 6 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (0.60%) Flash
9 5 (0.60%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.60%) SOAP
10 4 (0.48%) CSS
10 4 (0.48%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.48%) JSON
10 4 (0.48%) LDAP
10 4 (0.48%) OpenID
10 4 (0.48%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.80%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 32 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.17%) CMDB
6 13 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.45%) Operational Technology
7 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.21%) Derivative
10 9 (1.09%) BYOD
10 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.09%) PMI
10 9 (1.09%) VSAM
11 7 (0.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.19%) Linux
1 43 (5.19%) Windows
2 28 (3.38%) Unix
3 9 (1.09%) AIX
3 9 (1.09%) Solaris
4 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.72%) Android
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (23.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 178 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 154 (18.60%) Agile
5 140 (16.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 136 (16.43%) Decision-Making
7 99 (11.96%) Change Management
7 99 (11.96%) Project Management
8 85 (10.27%) Workshop Facilitation
9 84 (10.14%) DevOps
10 82 (9.90%) ERP
11 79 (9.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 78 (9.42%) AI
12 78 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
12 78 (9.42%) Migration
13 73 (8.82%) Business Analysis
14 66 (7.97%) Validation
15 63 (7.61%) Requirements Gathering
16 59 (7.13%) Mentoring
17 58 (7.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (12.08%) SQL
2 58 (7.00%) Python
3 42 (5.07%) Java
4 25 (3.02%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.69%) Perl
6 9 (1.09%) COBOL
7 8 (0.97%) Rust
7 8 (0.97%) VBA
8 6 (0.72%) Go
8 6 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.48%) Bash
10 4 (0.48%) C#
10 4 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.48%) R
11 3 (0.36%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.24%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 109 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.92%) Degree
3 81 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 62 (7.49%) ACCA
5 60 (7.25%) CIMA
6 22 (2.66%) PMP
7 20 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.42%) PMI Certification
8 18 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (0.85%) MBA
11 7 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 5 (0.60%) CBAP
12 5 (0.60%) CISM
12 5 (0.60%) CISSP
12 5 (0.60%) IIBA
13 4 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.49%) QA
2 61 (7.37%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.95%) GDPR
4 37 (4.47%) PMO
5 27 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.29%) SLA
7 15 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (1.57%) IFRS
9 12 (1.45%) NIST
10 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.85%) Basel III
10 7 (0.85%) GAAP
11 4 (0.48%) COBIT
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.36%) PSD2
13 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.24%) PERC
System Software
1 19 (2.29%) Docker
2 16 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 5 (0.60%) GPFS
5 5 (0.60%) NFS
6 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.24%) IAG
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.29%) Ansible
3 13 (1.57%) Grafana
4 11 (1.33%) Terraform
5 10 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.97%) Kiali
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.36%) WSUS
9 2 (0.24%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Autotask
10 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 77 (9.30%) SAP
2 68 (8.21%) Microsoft
3 63 (7.61%) Oracle
4 54 (6.52%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.14%) Workday
7 20 (2.42%) Splunk
8 18 (2.17%) IFS
9 16 (1.93%) VMware
10 15 (1.81%) IBM
11 11 (1.33%) Google
12 8 (0.97%) Sonatype
13 7 (0.85%) NEC
13 7 (0.85%) Okta
14 6 (0.72%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.60%) Cisco
15 5 (0.60%) Databricks
15 5 (0.60%) Murex
15 5 (0.60%) Sage
16 4 (0.48%) Adobe