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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 99 167
Rank change year-on-year -32 +68 +42
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 832 635 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.66% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.92% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 383 333
10th Percentile £288 £301 £325
25th Percentile £381 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £614 £615
90th Percentile £658 £761 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 31 39
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.25 £13.69
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -49.84%
75th Percentile £46.75 £50.63 £36.25
90th Percentile £74.74 £75.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £33.40 £24.26
% change year-on-year -30.51% +37.70% -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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -35 336 £500 -5.21% 248
South East -17 136 £500 -3.15% 130
North of England -65 124 £442 -11.55% 106
Midlands -20 114 £413 -14.06% 82
Yorkshire -11 73 £468 -9.13% 42
West Midlands -32 73 £469 -10.54% 52
South West +1 52 £450 -14.29% 51
East of England +10 51 £450 -13.25% 45
East Midlands -2 42 £390 +56.00% 30
North West -85 41 £436 -3.22% 57
North East -19 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 (5.77%) Confluence
2 20 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.32%) CMS
4 9 (1.08%) 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 98 (11.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (3.37%) MS Visio
4 26 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (1.20%) 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%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.84%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.60%) iTrent
5 5 (0.60%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.48%) Magento
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.48%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.24%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 83 (9.98%) Power Platform
2 60 (7.21%) Azure
3 32 (3.85%) AWS
4 25 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (2.76%) SaaS
6 21 (2.52%) GitHub
7 15 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (1.80%) GCP
8 14 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
9 12 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 11 (1.32%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.20%) Entra ID
12 8 (0.96%) Lucidchart
13 7 (0.84%) 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 (2.40%) Firewall
2 8 (0.96%) 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%) Broadband
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) NaaS
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 71 (8.53%) Power BI
2 16 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 14 (1.68%) MySQL
4 12 (1.44%) Metadata
5 11 (1.32%) Tableau
6 9 (1.08%) DataStage
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.72%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.60%) Power Query
10 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.24%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.24%) Big Data
12 2 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (12.38%) JIRA
2 27 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.56%) Git
4 8 (0.96%) GitLab
4 8 (0.96%) Jaeger
4 8 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.84%) Postman
5 7 (0.84%) Selenium
6 5 (0.60%) MLflow
7 4 (0.48%) JUnit
7 4 (0.48%) TestRail
8 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) Gatling
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
General
1 328 (39.42%) Finance
2 325 (39.06%) Social Skills
3 258 (31.01%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.41%) Banking
5 65 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.57%) Legal
7 35 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.61%) Retail
10 28 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.92%) Marketing
14 15 (1.80%) General Ledger
15 13 (1.56%) Billing
15 13 (1.56%) Law
15 13 (1.56%) Local Government
16 12 (1.44%) Retail Banking
17 11 (1.32%) Financial Institution
18 10 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 260 (31.25%) Analyst
2 144 (17.31%) Business Analyst
3 85 (10.22%) Senior
4 77 (9.25%) Lead
5 55 (6.61%) Consultant
6 36 (4.33%) Project Manager
6 36 (4.33%) Senior Analyst
7 35 (4.21%) Accountant
8 22 (2.64%) Financial Analyst
9 21 (2.52%) Data Analyst
9 21 (2.52%) Project Officer
10 19 (2.28%) Developer
10 19 (2.28%) Management Accountant
11 18 (2.16%) Process Analyst
12 17 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
12 17 (2.04%) Support Analyst
13 16 (1.92%) Technical Support
14 14 (1.68%) Administrator
14 14 (1.68%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.40%) Middleware
2 15 (1.80%) REST
3 12 (1.44%) .NET
3 12 (1.44%) Kafka
4 11 (1.32%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (0.96%) Playwright
7 7 (0.84%) HTML
7 7 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
7 7 (0.84%) Node.js
8 5 (0.60%) Flash
8 5 (0.60%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.48%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.48%) JSON
9 4 (0.48%) LDAP
9 4 (0.48%) OpenID
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.48%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.48%) SOAP
9 4 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.89%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.33%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 32 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.04%) CMDB
7 13 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.44%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.44%) Operational Technology
8 12 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.08%) BYOD
11 9 (1.08%) Derivative
11 9 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.08%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.08%) PMI
11 9 (1.08%) VSAM
12 7 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.17%) Windows
2 42 (5.05%) Linux
3 27 (3.25%) Unix
4 9 (1.08%) AIX
4 9 (1.08%) Solaris
5 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.84%) Android
7 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
2 198 (23.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 179 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 154 (18.51%) Agile
5 140 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 137 (16.47%) Decision-Making
7 98 (11.78%) Project Management
8 97 (11.66%) Change Management
9 84 (10.10%) DevOps
9 84 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
10 83 (9.98%) ERP
11 80 (9.62%) AI
11 80 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
12 78 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
13 76 (9.13%) Migration
14 75 (9.01%) Business Analysis
15 67 (8.05%) Validation
16 66 (7.93%) Requirements Gathering
17 61 (7.33%) Mentoring
18 58 (6.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (12.02%) SQL
2 57 (6.85%) Python
3 43 (5.17%) Java
4 25 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.56%) Perl
6 9 (1.08%) COBOL
7 8 (0.96%) Rust
7 8 (0.96%) 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
1 110 (13.22%) Degree
2 105 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 77 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 62 (7.45%) ACCA
5 60 (7.21%) CIMA
6 22 (2.64%) PMP
7 21 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 20 (2.40%) PMI Certification
9 18 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.84%) MBA
12 7 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 5 (0.60%) CBAP
13 5 (0.60%) CISM
13 5 (0.60%) CISSP
13 5 (0.60%) IIBA
14 4 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.57%) QA
2 61 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.93%) GDPR
4 37 (4.45%) PMO
5 27 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.28%) SLA
7 14 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (1.56%) IFRS
9 12 (1.44%) NIST
10 7 (0.84%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.84%) Basel III
10 7 (0.84%) 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%) PSD2
13 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.24%) PERC
System Software
1 19 (2.28%) Docker
2 15 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.84%) 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 21 (2.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.04%) Ansible
3 13 (1.56%) Grafana
4 10 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.20%) Terraform
5 8 (0.96%) Kiali
6 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.36%) WSUS
8 2 (0.24%) Control-M
8 2 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.24%) vRealize
9 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Autotask
9 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 77 (9.25%) SAP
2 68 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 64 (7.69%) Oracle
4 52 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.00%) Workday
7 18 (2.16%) IFS
7 18 (2.16%) Splunk
8 16 (1.92%) VMware
9 15 (1.80%) IBM
10 11 (1.32%) Google
11 8 (0.96%) Sonatype
12 7 (0.84%) NEC
12 7 (0.84%) Okta
13 6 (0.72%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.60%) Cisco
14 5 (0.60%) Databricks
14 5 (0.60%) Murex
14 5 (0.60%) Sage