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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 109 127
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,097 705 629
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.52% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.77% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 435 361
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -9.43% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £625
90th Percentile £685 £687 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 39 31
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.46 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.79 £20.63 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £49.75 £40.33 £46.50
90th Percentile £69.75 £59.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% -14.29% +16.67%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
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 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -4 525 £525 +7.88% 1,145
North of England -43 160 £466 -6.80% 317
South East -11 152 £500 - 371
Midlands -4 147 £460 +8.24% 231
North West -45 86 £445 -11.00% 167
West Midlands -30 84 £500 +5.26% 143
Yorkshire -4 69 £466 -4.41% 107
East Midlands +22 62 £425 +70.00% 88
South West -14 48 £525 +75.00% 144
East of England -22 46 £449 +3.10% 132
North East -38 5 £488 +27.87% 45
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 54 (4.92%) Confluence
2 35 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.28%) CMS
4 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.18%) Moodle
8 1 (0.091%) Apache
8 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.091%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.091%) Appian
8 1 (0.091%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.091%) MTS
8 1 (0.091%) nginx
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.091%) SAS
8 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.091%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 127 (11.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.01%) MS Visio
4 25 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.64%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.55%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.55%) Revit
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Simulink
10 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.091%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 47 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.73%) iTrent
7 8 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.64%) Magento
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.46%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP EWM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.46%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.46%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.46%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 123 (11.21%) Power Platform
2 98 (8.93%) Azure
3 59 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.46%) AWS
5 36 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
5 36 (3.28%) SaaS
6 28 (2.55%) Power Automate
7 27 (2.46%) PowerApps
8 26 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 21 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
10 20 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.46%) GitHub
12 12 (1.09%) Intacct
13 11 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.91%) Datadog
15 8 (0.73%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.64%) Lucidchart
16 7 (0.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.73%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.37%) Firewall
3 12 (1.09%) DNS
4 11 (1.00%) WAN
4 11 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.91%) VPN
6 9 (0.82%) LAN
7 8 (0.73%) Network Security
8 5 (0.46%) Broadband
8 5 (0.46%) MPLS
8 5 (0.46%) 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%) 4G
11 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.11%) Power BI
2 19 (1.73%) Tableau
3 10 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.82%) Power Query
5 8 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (0.64%) Metadata
7 6 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.46%) 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%) 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 (8.20%) JIRA
2 9 (0.82%) Git
3 7 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.46%) JMeter
4 5 (0.46%) 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 (0.091%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.091%) Gradle
8 1 (0.091%) Hudson
8 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 495 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 452 (41.20%) Finance
3 329 (29.99%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.03%) Banking
5 84 (7.66%) Public Sector
6 83 (7.57%) Manufacturing
7 66 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (4.65%) Retail
9 49 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (4.28%) Legal
11 45 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (2.28%) Marketing
13 24 (2.19%) Billing
14 22 (2.01%) General Ledger
14 22 (2.01%) Local Government
15 21 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.37%) Front Office
16 15 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 330 (30.08%) Analyst
2 208 (18.96%) Business Analyst
3 104 (9.48%) Lead
4 102 (9.30%) Senior
5 93 (8.48%) Consultant
6 50 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
7 49 (4.47%) Project Manager
8 36 (3.28%) Accountant
9 35 (3.19%) Senior Business Analyst
10 30 (2.73%) Developer
11 29 (2.64%) Architect
11 29 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 24 (2.19%) Process Analyst
12 24 (2.19%) SAP Consultant
12 24 (2.19%) Systems Accountant
13 23 (2.10%) Financial Analyst
14 22 (2.01%) Administrator
14 22 (2.01%) Support Engineer
15 18 (1.64%) Finance Manager
15 18 (1.64%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (1.64%) REST
3 14 (1.28%) Terraform
4 13 (1.19%) .NET
4 13 (1.19%) Middleware
4 13 (1.19%) SOAP
5 8 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.73%) SAP PI
6 6 (0.55%) LDAP
6 6 (0.55%) OAuth
6 6 (0.55%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.55%) Web Services
7 5 (0.46%) HTML
7 5 (0.46%) IDoc
7 5 (0.46%) JDBC
7 5 (0.46%) 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 95 (8.66%) Onboarding
2 62 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 20 (1.82%) CMDB
8 15 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.19%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.09%) FMCG
10 12 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.09%) Low-Code
11 10 (0.91%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.82%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.01%) Windows
2 25 (2.28%) Linux
3 18 (1.64%) Unix
4 13 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.55%) Android
7 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.091%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (41.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 316 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
3 257 (23.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 233 (21.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 220 (20.05%) Agile
6 183 (16.68%) Workshop Facilitation
7 176 (16.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 172 (15.68%) Decision-Making
9 168 (15.31%) ERP
10 166 (15.13%) Requirements Gathering
11 162 (14.77%) Business Analysis
12 158 (14.40%) Change Management
12 158 (14.40%) Migration
13 156 (14.22%) Validation
14 136 (12.40%) AI
15 129 (11.76%) Project Delivery
16 127 (11.58%) User Stories
17 110 (10.03%) Data Analysis
18 105 (9.57%) Data Migration
19 104 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 111 (10.12%) SQL
2 54 (4.92%) Python
3 29 (2.64%) Java
4 27 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.46%) VBA
7 9 (0.82%) Bash
8 8 (0.73%) ABAP
9 7 (0.64%) C#
9 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.64%) Korn
10 5 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.46%) Perl
10 5 (0.46%) R
11 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.27%) Bicep
12 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.18%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 146 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.12%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.85%) Degree
4 53 (4.83%) ACCA
5 50 (4.56%) CIMA
6 27 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.19%) PMP
8 21 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 14 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.00%) CBAP
14 9 (0.82%) IIBA
15 8 (0.73%) ISEB
15 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
18 4 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 61 (5.56%) QA
3 52 (4.74%) PMO
4 33 (3.01%) GDPR
5 20 (1.82%) GRC
5 20 (1.82%) SLA
6 13 (1.19%) IFRS
7 12 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.91%) GAAP
9 10 (0.91%) NIST
10 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.091%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.37%) IAG
3 8 (0.73%) 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 (0.091%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.091%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.091%) Postfix
7 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.091%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (1.64%) Ansible
4 10 (0.91%) SCCM
5 7 (0.64%) 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 (0.091%) Argo
9 1 (0.091%) Autotask
9 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.091%) Nessus
9 1 (0.091%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.091%) Puppet
9 1 (0.091%) SCOM
9 1 (0.091%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.091%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 212 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 148 (13.49%) SAP
3 102 (9.30%) Oracle
4 80 (7.29%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.91%) IBM
7 19 (1.73%) Workday
8 14 (1.28%) Sage
8 14 (1.28%) Splunk
9 10 (0.91%) Cisco
9 10 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.91%) IFS
9 10 (0.91%) JD Edwards
9 10 (0.91%) Nexthink
10 9 (0.82%) Autodesk
11 8 (0.73%) Adobe
11 8 (0.73%) Apple
11 8 (0.73%) CyberArk
12 7 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.64%) Zscaler