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

 6 months to
13 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 103 173
Rank change year-on-year -27 +70 +27
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 852 644 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 2.62% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.87% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 390 343
10th Percentile £288 £285 £302
25th Percentile £391 £386 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £764 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £515
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.81% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 35 41
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -49.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.63 £36.00
90th Percentile £75.07 £73.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £33.11 £24.26
% change year-on-year -24.27% +36.51% -43.83%

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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +1.67%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -18 364 £500 -4.76% 226
South East -19 139 £500 - 148
North of England -56 120 £442 -4.38% 112
Midlands -23 109 £413 -13.16% 97
West Midlands -32 70 £488 -7.05% 56
Yorkshire -23 63 £500 -1.23% 44
South West +14 52 £450 +2.86% 59
East of England +4 48 £450 +2.86% 52
North West -73 48 £435 -3.33% 56
East Midlands 0 40 £393 +24.76% 41
North East -26 10 £363 -32.24% 13
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 (5.87%) Confluence
2 19 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.17%) CMS
4 9 (1.06%) CICS
5 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.35%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 96 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.40%) MS Visio
4 25 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.82%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.70%) Magento
6 5 (0.59%) iTrent
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.47%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.47%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Endur
9 2 (0.23%) Global One
9 2 (0.23%) Primavera
9 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (9.74%) Power Platform
2 63 (7.39%) Azure
3 33 (3.87%) AWS
4 27 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (2.46%) GitHub
6 19 (2.23%) SaaS
7 18 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
10 13 (1.53%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.41%) GCP
12 9 (1.06%) Power Automate
13 8 (0.94%) Lucidchart
14 7 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
15 5 (0.59%) Azure AKS
15 5 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 4 (0.47%) Miro
16 4 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.46%) Firewall
2 10 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.06%) DNS
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.59%) FTP
5 5 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.47%) DHCP
6 4 (0.47%) WAN
7 3 (0.35%) Internet
7 3 (0.35%) MPLS
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) SSL
7 3 (0.35%) VSAN
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.23%) BGP
8 2 (0.23%) DMZ
8 2 (0.23%) IPsec
8 2 (0.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (8.22%) Power BI
2 13 (1.53%) Relational Database
3 12 (1.41%) Tableau
4 11 (1.29%) Metadata
5 9 (1.06%) DataStage
5 9 (1.06%) MySQL
6 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.47%) Power Query
8 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.23%) Ataccama
10 2 (0.23%) Big Data
10 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 101 (11.85%) JIRA
2 22 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.64%) Git
4 8 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.70%) GitLab
6 5 (0.59%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.59%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) Postman
7 4 (0.47%) Selenium
8 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.35%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.35%) JUnit
8 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) Gatling
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
9 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
9 2 (0.23%) TestRail
10 1 (0.12%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
General
1 341 (40.02%) Finance
2 332 (38.97%) Social Skills
3 269 (31.57%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 69 (8.10%) Banking
6 42 (4.93%) Legal
7 41 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (3.99%) Retail
9 28 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.88%) Local Government
13 15 (1.76%) Law
14 13 (1.53%) Billing
14 13 (1.53%) Marketing
15 12 (1.41%) Front Office
15 12 (1.41%) General Ledger
16 11 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 268 (31.46%) Analyst
2 149 (17.49%) Business Analyst
3 87 (10.21%) Senior
4 78 (9.15%) Lead
5 59 (6.92%) Consultant
6 37 (4.34%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
8 34 (3.99%) Accountant
9 25 (2.93%) Data Analyst
10 21 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
11 20 (2.35%) Developer
11 20 (2.35%) Project Officer
12 19 (2.23%) Architect
12 19 (2.23%) Management Accountant
13 17 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (2.00%) Process Analyst
14 16 (1.88%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (1.76%) IT Support
15 15 (1.76%) Security Analyst
15 15 (1.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.00%) Middleware
2 13 (1.53%) REST
3 10 (1.17%) .NET
4 9 (1.06%) Kafka
5 8 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.94%) Spring Boot
6 7 (0.82%) HTML
6 7 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (0.70%) Playwright
8 5 (0.59%) Flash
8 5 (0.59%) JSON
8 5 (0.59%) Node.js
8 5 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.59%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.59%) SOAP
9 4 (0.47%) YAML
10 3 (0.35%) CSS
10 3 (0.35%) NumPy
10 3 (0.35%) Pandas
10 3 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.22%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.88%) CMDB
8 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.06%) BYOD
12 9 (1.06%) Derivative
12 9 (1.06%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.06%) VSAM
13 8 (0.94%) PMI
14 7 (0.82%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.63%) Windows
2 40 (4.69%) Linux
3 26 (3.05%) Unix
4 9 (1.06%) AIX
4 9 (1.06%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.06%) Solaris
5 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.82%) Android
6 7 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 216 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
3 187 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 153 (17.96%) Agile
5 140 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 136 (15.96%) Decision-Making
7 106 (12.44%) Change Management
8 93 (10.92%) Project Management
9 90 (10.56%) ERP
10 89 (10.45%) Workshop Facilitation
11 88 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 82 (9.62%) Business Analysis
13 80 (9.39%) DevOps
13 80 (9.39%) Validation
14 78 (9.15%) Migration
15 76 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
16 75 (8.80%) AI
17 73 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
18 64 (7.51%) Project Delivery
19 62 (7.28%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 103 (12.09%) SQL
2 59 (6.92%) Python
3 34 (3.99%) Java
4 20 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.41%) Perl
6 10 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.06%) COBOL
7 9 (1.06%) VBA
8 7 (0.82%) Bash
9 6 (0.70%) Go
10 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.59%) Rust
10 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.47%) R
12 3 (0.35%) ABAP
12 3 (0.35%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.35%) C#
12 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 92 (10.80%) Degree
3 85 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.51%) ACCA
5 60 (7.04%) CIMA
6 19 (2.23%) PMP
7 18 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 8 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.82%) CISSP
13 6 (0.70%) CBAP
13 6 (0.70%) CISM
13 6 (0.70%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.59%) IIBA
14 5 (0.59%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 57 (6.69%) QA
3 42 (4.93%) GDPR
4 41 (4.81%) PMO
5 31 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.23%) SLA
7 16 (1.88%) IFRS
8 15 (1.76%) NIST
8 15 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.17%) GAAP
10 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.59%) Basel III
12 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.47%) COBIT
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.35%) GRC
13 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.35%) PSD2
13 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 25 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.64%) Docker
3 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.70%) vSphere
5 5 (0.59%) GPFS
5 5 (0.59%) NFS
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) IAG
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.23%) Ansible
2 17 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.17%) Grafana
4 10 (1.17%) Terraform
5 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.59%) Kiali
8 3 (0.35%) WSUS
9 2 (0.23%) Control-M
9 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.23%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Autotask
10 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 84 (9.86%) SAP
2 76 (8.92%) Microsoft
3 66 (7.75%) Oracle
4 55 (6.46%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.70%) Workday
7 18 (2.11%) IFS
8 17 (2.00%) Splunk
9 16 (1.88%) VMware
10 15 (1.76%) IBM
11 11 (1.29%) Google
12 9 (1.06%) Cisco
12 9 (1.06%) Okta
13 8 (0.94%) Sonatype
14 7 (0.82%) Apple
14 7 (0.82%) NEC
14 7 (0.82%) Sage
15 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
16 5 (0.59%) Databricks
627 Process Improvement jobs in England