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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 111 123
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,115 702 628
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.52% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.77% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 435 357
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.21% +4.39%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £626
90th Percentile £682 £687 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 30
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.82 £20.63 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £49.75 £40.33 £51.25
90th Percentile £69.60 £59.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year -28.33% -11.11% +12.50%

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 39,523 25,365 27,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.87% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,845 16,097 16,849
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,022 1,590 1,111
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.44 £44.80 £66.80
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +5 531 £525 +8.06% 544
North of England -37 169 £459 -8.30% 138
South East -17 152 £500 - 169
Midlands -4 144 £455 +3.29% 123
North West -46 90 £441 -11.90% 72
West Midlands -35 80 £500 +5.26% 78
Yorkshire +6 75 £471 -1.72% 52
East Midlands +19 63 £425 +50.44% 45
East of England -7 51 £510 +17.24% 64
South West -8 50 £513 +51.85% 73
North East -42 4 £488 +27.87% 15
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 56 (5.02%) Confluence
2 36 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.43%) CMS
4 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.18%) Moodle
8 1 (0.090%) Apache
8 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.090%) Appian
8 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.090%) MTS
8 1 (0.090%) nginx
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.090%) SAS
8 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 133 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (3.14%) MS Visio
4 26 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.63%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.54%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.54%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.54%) Revit
9 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.27%) Simulink
11 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.090%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 45 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.52%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.72%) iTrent
9 7 (0.63%) Magento
9 7 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.45%) SAP EWM
11 5 (0.45%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
11 5 (0.45%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.45%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 123 (11.03%) Power Platform
2 98 (8.79%) Azure
3 62 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.41%) AWS
4 38 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
5 36 (3.23%) SaaS
6 28 (2.51%) Power Automate
7 27 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 27 (2.42%) PowerApps
8 22 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
8 22 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
9 15 (1.35%) GitHub
10 12 (1.08%) Intacct
11 11 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (0.90%) Datadog
13 8 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (0.72%) OneDrive
14 7 (0.63%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.70%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.35%) Firewall
3 12 (1.08%) DNS
4 11 (0.99%) WAN
4 11 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.90%) VPN
6 9 (0.81%) LAN
7 8 (0.72%) Network Security
8 5 (0.45%) Broadband
8 5 (0.45%) MPLS
8 5 (0.45%) Wireless
9 4 (0.36%) BGP
9 4 (0.36%) SSL
10 3 (0.27%) DHCP
10 3 (0.27%) DMZ
10 3 (0.27%) DWDM
10 3 (0.27%) Internet
10 3 (0.27%) IPsec
11 2 (0.18%) L2TP
11 2 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (7.98%) Power BI
2 22 (1.97%) Tableau
3 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.81%) Power Query
5 8 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (0.63%) Metadata
7 6 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.36%) MySQL
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.36%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.27%) Big Data
10 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.18%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.18%) Looker
11 2 (0.18%) Parquet
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 93 (8.34%) JIRA
2 9 (0.81%) Git
3 7 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) JMeter
4 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.36%) eggPlant
5 4 (0.36%) GitLab
5 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.36%) Postman
5 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.27%) Appium
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
6 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.090%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.090%) JDeveloper
8 1 (0.090%) JUnit
8 1 (0.090%) Visual Studio
General
1 502 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 465 (41.70%) Finance
3 331 (29.69%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (10.58%) Banking
5 85 (7.62%) Manufacturing
5 85 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 68 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (4.48%) Legal
8 50 (4.48%) Retail
9 44 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (2.51%) Marketing
11 25 (2.24%) Billing
11 25 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (2.06%) General Ledger
12 23 (2.06%) Local Government
13 22 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 337 (30.22%) Analyst
2 211 (18.92%) Business Analyst
3 104 (9.33%) Lead
4 101 (9.06%) Senior
5 91 (8.16%) Consultant
6 50 (4.48%) Project Manager
6 50 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
7 38 (3.41%) Accountant
8 36 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
9 32 (2.87%) Architect
10 31 (2.78%) Developer
11 30 (2.69%) Data Analyst
12 27 (2.42%) Systems Accountant
13 25 (2.24%) Process Analyst
14 24 (2.15%) Administrator
15 23 (2.06%) SAP Consultant
16 22 (1.97%) Financial Analyst
16 22 (1.97%) Support Engineer
17 19 (1.70%) Finance Manager
18 18 (1.61%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.70%) REST
3 15 (1.35%) Middleware
3 15 (1.35%) Terraform
4 13 (1.17%) .NET
4 13 (1.17%) SOAP
5 8 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.72%) SAP PI
6 6 (0.54%) LDAP
6 6 (0.54%) OAuth
6 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.54%) Web Services
7 5 (0.45%) HTML
7 5 (0.45%) IDoc
7 5 (0.45%) JDBC
7 5 (0.45%) React
8 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.36%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.36%) Kafka
8 4 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.61%) Onboarding
2 63 (5.65%) Management Information System
2 63 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 20 (1.79%) CMDB
6 19 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.17%) FMCG
9 13 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.08%) Reinsurance
11 10 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.81%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.11%) Windows
2 25 (2.24%) Linux
3 18 (1.61%) Unix
4 13 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.08%) macOS
6 5 (0.45%) Android
7 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.090%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (41.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 322 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (23.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 237 (21.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 225 (20.18%) Agile
6 186 (16.68%) Workshop Facilitation
7 178 (15.96%) User Acceptance Testing
8 171 (15.34%) Decision-Making
9 169 (15.16%) Requirements Gathering
10 168 (15.07%) ERP
11 165 (14.80%) Business Analysis
12 161 (14.44%) Change Management
12 161 (14.44%) Migration
13 158 (14.17%) Validation
14 139 (12.47%) AI
15 133 (11.93%) Project Delivery
16 130 (11.66%) User Stories
17 113 (10.13%) Data Analysis
18 108 (9.69%) Data Migration
19 104 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 112 (10.04%) SQL
2 55 (4.93%) Python
3 29 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 28 (2.51%) Java
5 18 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.43%) VBA
7 9 (0.81%) Bash
8 7 (0.63%) ABAP
8 7 (0.63%) C#
8 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.63%) Korn
9 5 (0.45%) MATLAB
9 5 (0.45%) Perl
9 5 (0.45%) R
10 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.27%) Bicep
11 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.18%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 147 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 111 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.87%) Degree
4 52 (4.66%) ACCA
5 49 (4.39%) CIMA
6 28 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.15%) PMP
8 21 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 14 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.08%) CBAP
14 9 (0.81%) IIBA
15 8 (0.72%) ISEB
15 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.63%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.45%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.96%) Data Quality
2 61 (5.47%) QA
3 55 (4.93%) PMO
4 33 (2.96%) GDPR
5 20 (1.79%) GRC
5 20 (1.79%) SLA
6 13 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.17%) IFRS
7 11 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.90%) GAAP
8 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.81%) NIST
10 6 (0.54%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.36%) COBIT
12 3 (0.27%) SEPA
12 3 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.18%) Basel III
13 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.26%) IAG
3 8 (0.72%) Docker
4 4 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.18%) GPFS
6 2 (0.18%) NFS
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.090%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.090%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.090%) Postfix
7 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.090%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (1.61%) Ansible
4 10 (0.90%) SCCM
5 7 (0.63%) 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%) Nessus
9 1 (0.090%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.090%) Puppet
9 1 (0.090%) SCOM
9 1 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 221 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 148 (13.27%) SAP
3 106 (9.51%) Oracle
4 83 (7.44%) ServiceNow
5 42 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.79%) IBM
6 20 (1.79%) Workday
7 15 (1.35%) Sage
7 15 (1.35%) Splunk
8 11 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.90%) Cisco
9 10 (0.90%) JD Edwards
9 10 (0.90%) Nexthink
10 9 (0.81%) Autodesk
10 9 (0.81%) IFS
11 8 (0.72%) Adobe
11 8 (0.72%) Apple
11 8 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.72%) CyberArk
12 7 (0.63%) Google