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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +12
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,110 689 599
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.48% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.73% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 424 354
10th Percentile £313 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% +4.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £685 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 37 28
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.43 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.69 £22.04 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £29.31
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% +2.35% -4.68%
75th Percentile £54.23 £36.48 £35.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £52.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -27.60% +5.26% -9.52%

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 39,208 25,244 28,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 90.88% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,936 16,028 17,611
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
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 2,812 1,512 1,298
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.56 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +3 521 £525 +5.00% 1,063
South East -5 160 £500 -4.76% 341
North of England -46 160 £467 -6.70% 280
Midlands -3 146 £450 +1.12% 191
North West -41 87 £459 -8.20% 139
West Midlands -33 82 £500 +5.26% 110
Yorkshire -13 66 £463 -7.40% 103
East Midlands +16 64 £425 +70.00% 82
South West -5 54 £456 +34.96% 136
East of England -5 52 £461 +13.13% 118
North East -40 8 £488 +6.27% 41
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 55 (4.95%) Confluence
2 34 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.26%) CMS
4 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.27%) Moodle
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 1 (0.090%) Apache
7 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.090%) CICS
7 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.090%) MTS
7 1 (0.090%) nginx
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.090%) SAS
7 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 134 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.97%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.63%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.54%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.54%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.54%) Revit
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Simulink
10 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.090%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.80%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (1.08%) iTrent
6 11 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.63%) Magento
10 6 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.54%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
11 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 4 (0.36%) SAP Business One
12 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 125 (11.26%) Power Platform
2 97 (8.74%) Azure
3 54 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (3.87%) SaaS
5 38 (3.42%) AWS
6 37 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (2.34%) Entra ID
8 25 (2.25%) Power Automate
9 23 (2.07%) PowerApps
10 22 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
11 18 (1.62%) GitHub
11 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (0.90%) Datadog
13 10 (0.90%) Intacct
14 9 (0.81%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.72%) OCI
16 7 (0.63%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.62%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.35%) Firewall
3 11 (0.99%) DNS
3 11 (0.99%) WAN
4 10 (0.90%) VPN
4 10 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.81%) LAN
6 8 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.45%) MPLS
7 5 (0.45%) SSL
7 5 (0.45%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) BGP
8 4 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.27%) Broadband
9 3 (0.27%) DMZ
9 3 (0.27%) DWDM
9 3 (0.27%) Internet
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
10 2 (0.18%) OSPF
10 2 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (8.74%) Power BI
2 21 (1.89%) Tableau
3 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.90%) Metadata
4 10 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (0.81%) Power Query
6 7 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.36%) MySQL
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.18%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.18%) Big Data
11 2 (0.18%) Looker
11 2 (0.18%) Parquet
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 90 (8.11%) JIRA
2 12 (1.08%) Git
3 9 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.45%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.36%) GitLab
5 4 (0.36%) JMeter
5 4 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.27%) eggPlant
6 3 (0.27%) JUnit
6 3 (0.27%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.27%) Postman
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
6 3 (0.27%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.18%) Appium
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.090%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.090%) Vagrant
General
1 480 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 467 (42.07%) Finance
3 334 (30.09%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.18%) Banking
5 78 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.86%) Manufacturing
7 61 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (4.68%) Retail
10 47 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (4.23%) Legal
11 25 (2.25%) Marketing
12 24 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (2.07%) General Ledger
14 22 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.89%) Billing
16 20 (1.80%) Local Government
16 20 (1.80%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.53%) Front Office
17 17 (1.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 343 (30.90%) Analyst
2 204 (18.38%) Business Analyst
3 106 (9.55%) Lead
4 105 (9.46%) Senior
5 93 (8.38%) Consultant
6 52 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (4.50%) Project Manager
8 39 (3.51%) Accountant
9 34 (3.06%) Senior Business Analyst
10 33 (2.97%) Data Analyst
11 30 (2.70%) Developer
12 28 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
13 27 (2.43%) Process Analyst
14 23 (2.07%) Architect
14 23 (2.07%) Support Engineer
15 22 (1.98%) Administrator
16 19 (1.71%) Finance Manager
16 19 (1.71%) SAP Consultant
16 19 (1.71%) Senior Manager
16 19 (1.71%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.89%) REST
3 15 (1.35%) Terraform
4 14 (1.26%) .NET
5 12 (1.08%) Middleware
5 12 (1.08%) SOAP
6 9 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (0.72%) SAP PI
8 7 (0.63%) HTML
9 6 (0.54%) JSON
9 6 (0.54%) LDAP
9 6 (0.54%) OAuth
9 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.54%) Web Services
10 5 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.45%) IDoc
10 5 (0.45%) JDBC
10 5 (0.45%) React
10 5 (0.45%) STL
11 4 (0.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.29%) Onboarding
2 62 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 61 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (2.07%) CMDB
7 21 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.08%) Reinsurance
13 11 (0.99%) FMCG
13 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.72%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.77%) Windows
2 27 (2.43%) Linux
3 19 (1.71%) Unix
4 13 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.54%) Android
6 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.090%) AIX
10 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.090%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.090%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (38.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 316 (28.47%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 231 (20.81%) Agile
5 222 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 180 (16.22%) Workshop Facilitation
7 174 (15.68%) ERP
8 173 (15.59%) User Acceptance Testing
9 165 (14.86%) Decision-Making
10 164 (14.77%) Change Management
11 159 (14.32%) Requirements Gathering
12 150 (13.51%) Business Analysis
12 150 (13.51%) Validation
13 147 (13.24%) Migration
14 139 (12.52%) AI
15 117 (10.54%) User Stories
16 113 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
16 113 (10.18%) Project Delivery
17 110 (9.91%) Data Analysis
18 103 (9.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (10.54%) SQL
2 65 (5.86%) Python
3 31 (2.79%) Java
4 24 (2.16%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.62%) VBA
7 9 (0.81%) Bash
8 8 (0.72%) ABAP
9 7 (0.63%) C#
9 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.54%) Korn
10 6 (0.54%) Perl
11 5 (0.45%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.45%) R
12 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.27%) Bicep
13 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.18%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 148 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 115 (10.36%) Degree
2 115 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 63 (5.68%) ACCA
4 60 (5.41%) CIMA
5 27 (2.43%) PMP
6 24 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.07%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.90%) CBAP
12 9 (0.81%) IIBA
13 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.63%) ISEB
15 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 64 (5.77%) QA
3 50 (4.50%) PMO
4 37 (3.33%) GDPR
5 20 (1.80%) SLA
6 19 (1.71%) GRC
7 17 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.35%) IFRS
9 13 (1.17%) Accessibility
10 12 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.90%) GAAP
12 10 (0.90%) NIST
13 6 (0.54%) ISO 19650
14 3 (0.27%) COBIT
14 3 (0.27%) SEPA
14 3 (0.27%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.18%) Basel III
15 2 (0.18%) ITGC
16 1 (0.090%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.44%) IAG
3 8 (0.72%) Docker
4 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) GPFS
7 2 (0.18%) NFS
7 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.090%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.090%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.090%) Postfix
8 1 (0.090%) Squid
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (2.16%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.71%) Ansible
4 10 (0.90%) SCCM
5 6 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.36%) Control-M
7 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 2 (0.18%) Istio
8 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.18%) vRealize
9 1 (0.090%) Argo
9 1 (0.090%) Autotask
9 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.090%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.090%) Nessus
9 1 (0.090%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.090%) SCOM
9 1 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 194 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 139 (12.52%) SAP
3 110 (9.91%) Oracle
4 81 (7.30%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.69%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.80%) Workday
7 17 (1.53%) IBM
8 16 (1.44%) IFS
9 15 (1.35%) Splunk
10 12 (1.08%) Sage
11 11 (0.99%) Cisco
12 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.90%) Nexthink
13 9 (0.81%) Adobe
13 9 (0.81%) Apple
13 9 (0.81%) Autodesk
14 8 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.72%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.72%) JD Edwards
14 8 (0.72%) VMware