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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 111 155
Rank change year-on-year +3 +44 +28
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 789 643 577
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.44% 2.40% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.68% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 359 367
10th Percentile £220 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £523 £517
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.06% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 33
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.40 £13.05
25th Percentile £13.42 £26.13 £17.14
Median hourly rate £20.00 £33.75 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +0.93% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.20 £57.00 £46.86
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.62 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £33.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year -49.63% -7.53% +10.61%

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 28,535 23,973 32,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.13% 89.35% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,262 14,701 21,581
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,781 779 1,693
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -9.21% +8.57%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.75 £63.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +3 345 £500 -10.11% 117
North of England -25 151 £468 -6.40% 102
South East -33 96 £400 -27.27% 162
Midlands -18 95 £450 +3.45% 83
Yorkshire -9 70 £460 -26.40% 39
North West -30 67 £500 - 49
West Midlands -18 65 £475 - 47
South West -18 49 £500 -4.76% 38
East of England -1 43 £469 +15.46% 44
East Midlands -10 31 £354 -0.56% 35
North East -6 14 £358 -37.83% 16
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 (6.34%) Confluence
2 24 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.51%) CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Moodle
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 107 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (5.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (4.31%) MS Visio
5 19 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.38%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 45 (5.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.14%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.89%) SAP Payroll
4 6 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.63%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.63%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.38%) Endur
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.38%) Shopify
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 77 (9.76%) Power Platform
2 55 (6.97%) Azure
3 45 (5.70%) AWS
4 43 (5.45%) SaaS
5 42 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.30%) GitHub
7 19 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (2.15%) GCP
9 12 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (1.52%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.14%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.14%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.01%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.76%) Lucidchart
13 6 (0.76%) Miro
13 6 (0.76%) OCI
13 6 (0.76%) PaaS
14 5 (0.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.92%) Firewall
2 13 (1.65%) DNS
3 9 (1.14%) VPN
4 6 (0.76%) DHCP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
4 6 (0.76%) Internet
5 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.51%) Network Security
6 4 (0.51%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) FTP
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.25%) DWDM
8 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.25%) SSH
8 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.13%) 5G
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.00%) Power BI
2 23 (2.92%) MySQL
2 23 (2.92%) Relational Database
3 11 (1.39%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.39%) SAP HANA
4 9 (1.14%) Tableau
5 7 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.76%) Power Query
7 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.38%) Big Data
8 3 (0.38%) Looker
8 3 (0.38%) Metadata
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.25%) ImageNet
Development Applications
1 91 (11.53%) JIRA
2 45 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.15%) GitLab
4 15 (1.90%) Postman
5 11 (1.39%) Git
5 11 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.01%) Jaeger
7 6 (0.76%) Appium
8 5 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (0.63%) XCUITest
9 4 (0.51%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.51%) Selenium
10 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.38%) MLflow
10 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
12 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 374 (47.40%) Social Skills
2 269 (34.09%) Finance
3 187 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (9.63%) Banking
5 57 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 25 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (3.17%) Marketing
9 23 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.79%) Legal
11 21 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.41%) Billing
12 19 (2.41%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.41%) Retail
13 15 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.77%) Law
15 12 (1.52%) General Ledger
15 12 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 249 (31.56%) Analyst
2 134 (16.98%) Business Analyst
3 87 (11.03%) Senior
4 73 (9.25%) Consultant
5 58 (7.35%) Lead
6 39 (4.94%) Project Manager
7 34 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
8 29 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
9 28 (3.55%) Technical Analyst
10 26 (3.30%) Technical Support
11 25 (3.17%) Data Analyst
12 24 (3.04%) Senior Business Analyst
13 20 (2.53%) Administrator
13 20 (2.53%) Process Analyst
14 19 (2.41%) IT Support
15 18 (2.28%) Developer
15 18 (2.28%) Senior Consultant
16 17 (2.15%) Change Manager
17 16 (2.03%) Accountant
17 16 (2.03%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.92%) Web Services
2 20 (2.53%) Playwright
3 18 (2.28%) GraphQL
3 18 (2.28%) Node.js
3 18 (2.28%) Vitest
4 14 (1.77%) SAP Fiori
5 12 (1.52%) Kafka
6 11 (1.39%) BAPI
7 10 (1.27%) REST
7 10 (1.27%) SOAP
7 10 (1.27%) XML
8 9 (1.14%) Middleware
8 9 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.14%) YAML
9 8 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.89%) .NET
10 7 (0.89%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.76%) HTML
12 5 (0.63%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.52%) Replication
11 11 (1.39%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.14%) CMDB
13 9 (1.14%) Derivative
13 9 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.14%) PMI
14 8 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.01%) NHS
15 7 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.73%) Windows
2 42 (5.32%) Linux
3 31 (3.93%) Unix
4 14 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.27%) Android
6 9 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.89%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (21.93%) Agile
3 169 (21.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 149 (18.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 136 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (12.93%) Project Management
7 97 (12.29%) Decision-Making
8 96 (12.17%) Change Management
9 94 (11.91%) DevOps
10 88 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
11 76 (9.63%) Business Analysis
12 71 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
12 71 (9.00%) Coaching
13 67 (8.49%) Project Delivery
14 64 (8.11%) Data Analysis
14 64 (8.11%) Roadmaps
15 62 (7.86%) CI/CD
16 61 (7.73%) AI
17 60 (7.60%) ITIL
18 59 (7.48%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 102 (12.93%) SQL
2 63 (7.98%) Python
3 39 (4.94%) Java
4 31 (3.93%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.92%) Perl
5 23 (2.92%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.28%) ABAP
7 12 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.01%) Rust
10 7 (0.89%) C#
11 6 (0.76%) Bash
11 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.76%) VBA
12 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.63%) Swift
13 4 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.51%) PHP
14 3 (0.38%) Go
15 2 (0.25%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 116 (14.70%) Degree
2 94 (11.91%) Security Cleared
3 72 (9.13%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.04%) Master's Degree
5 24 (3.04%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.92%) PMP
7 19 (2.41%) ACCA
8 15 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.77%) CIMA
10 10 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 9 (1.14%) MBA
12 7 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.89%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.63%) CISSP
15 4 (0.51%) CISM
15 4 (0.51%) GIAC
15 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.97%) QA
2 38 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.31%) PMO
4 24 (3.04%) GDPR
5 20 (2.53%) SLA
6 12 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.89%) Basel III
9 7 (0.89%) IFRS
9 7 (0.89%) NIST
10 5 (0.63%) GAAP
10 5 (0.63%) ISO 19650
10 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.38%) GRC
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (4.82%) Docker
2 28 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.38%) GPFS
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.25%) NFS
5 2 (0.25%) Xen
6 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Postfix
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 42 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.04%) Ansible
3 15 (1.90%) Terraform
4 14 (1.77%) Grafana
5 11 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.01%) Kiali
6 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.51%) QRadar
9 3 (0.38%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Nessus
11 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 107 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.89%) SAP
3 56 (7.10%) Oracle
4 49 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.04%) Splunk
6 23 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.92%) Workday
7 18 (2.28%) Google
8 15 (1.90%) Adobe
9 10 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 10 (1.27%) Sonatype
10 9 (1.14%) Anaplan
11 8 (1.01%) Ariba
12 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.63%) Cisco
12 5 (0.63%) Computacenter
12 5 (0.63%) Databricks
12 5 (0.63%) IBM
13 4 (0.51%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.51%) Planview