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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 135 147
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 689 599 771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.48% 1.82% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.11% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 354 503
10th Percentile £263 £308 £325
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +4.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 32
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £22.04 £15.92 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £29.31 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -4.68% -2.38%
75th Percentile £36.48 £35.38 £44.61
90th Percentile £52.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -

All Process and 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 25,240 28,355 37,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.09% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,025 17,607 26,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £316
25th Percentile £405 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £645 £655
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,512 1,298 1,446
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.77 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%
75th Percentile £49.56 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement 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 2025.

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 2025.

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 2025. 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 +59 320 £500 -6.98% 353
North of England +7 131 £500 -6.37% 154
North West +18 92 £500 -6.67% 94
South East -4 88 £525 -4.55% 242
Midlands -9 84 £445 -6.81% 83
West Midlands -1 63 £475 +5.56% 52
Yorkshire -13 33 £500 -3.29% 47
East of England +7 30 £408 -18.50% 78
South West +7 23 £338 -45.78% 53
East Midlands +1 21 £250 -48.85% 29
North East -1 6 £459 - 13
Process Improvement
UK

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (5.08%) Confluence
2 24 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.58%) Resin
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 78 (11.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (5.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (4.93%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.73%) PTC Creo
6 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.44%) Sketch
6 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.29%) MicroStation
7 2 (0.29%) Navisworks
7 2 (0.29%) Revit
7 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 2 (0.29%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.15%) InDesign
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 47 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.73%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.58%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.44%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.44%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.29%) Endur
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.29%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.29%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 63 (9.14%) Power Platform
2 62 (9.00%) Azure
3 40 (5.81%) AWS
4 31 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (3.34%) SaaS
6 17 (2.47%) PowerApps
7 15 (2.18%) GCP
8 13 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.45%) Lucidchart
10 8 (1.16%) OCI
11 6 (0.87%) Miro
11 6 (0.87%) PaaS
11 6 (0.87%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.73%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.58%) GitHub
13 4 (0.58%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.32%) Firewall
2 14 (2.03%) DNS
2 14 (2.03%) WAN
3 11 (1.60%) DHCP
3 11 (1.60%) LAN
3 11 (1.60%) Wireless
4 8 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (1.16%) HTTP
4 8 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.02%) Network Security
5 7 (1.02%) PuTTY
5 7 (1.02%) WLAN
6 6 (0.87%) SSL
6 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) BGP
8 3 (0.44%) Broadband
8 3 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (0.44%) MPLS
8 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.40%) Power BI
2 19 (2.76%) Tableau
3 11 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (1.31%) MySQL
5 9 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.16%) SAP HANA
7 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.73%) Big Data
9 5 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.73%) MS Access
10 4 (0.58%) Looker
10 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.44%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.44%) OLTP
12 2 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (9.29%) JIRA
2 17 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.03%) Postman
4 10 (1.45%) Git
5 8 (1.16%) GitLab
6 4 (0.58%) Appium
6 4 (0.58%) Charles Proxy
6 4 (0.58%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (0.58%) XCUITest
7 3 (0.44%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.44%) ERwin
7 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Ranorex
9 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 317 (46.01%) Social Skills
2 244 (35.41%) Finance
3 152 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.56%) Banking
5 34 (4.93%) Public Sector
6 32 (4.64%) Manufacturing
6 32 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 24 (3.48%) Retail
9 22 (3.19%) Legal
10 21 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 15 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.18%) Investment Banking
12 15 (2.18%) Local Government
13 14 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.89%) Law
14 13 (1.89%) Marketing
15 12 (1.74%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 244 (35.41%) Analyst
2 106 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 59 (8.56%) Consultant
4 58 (8.42%) Senior
5 50 (7.26%) Lead
6 33 (4.79%) Project Manager
7 30 (4.35%) Process Analyst
8 29 (4.21%) Data Analyst
9 24 (3.48%) Architect
10 23 (3.34%) SAP Consultant
10 23 (3.34%) Senior Analyst
11 20 (2.90%) Business Process Analyst
12 18 (2.61%) Support Analyst
13 16 (2.32%) Developer
14 15 (2.18%) Financial Analyst
15 14 (2.03%) Accountant
15 14 (2.03%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (1.89%) IT Analyst
17 12 (1.74%) Business Systems Analyst
17 12 (1.74%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.18%) Web Services
2 13 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (1.45%) BAPI
4 9 (1.31%) Playwright
4 9 (1.31%) SAP Fiori
5 8 (1.16%) Node.js
6 7 (1.02%) GraphQL
6 7 (1.02%) Vitest
7 6 (0.87%) EDI
8 5 (0.73%) YAML
9 4 (0.58%) CSS
9 4 (0.58%) HTML
9 4 (0.58%) Kafka
10 3 (0.44%) .NET
10 3 (0.44%) JSON
10 3 (0.44%) Middleware
10 3 (0.44%) REST
10 3 (0.44%) XML
11 2 (0.29%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.21%) Onboarding
2 27 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.03%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (1.45%) Reinsurance
7 8 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.16%) Market Risk
8 7 (1.02%) Derivative
9 6 (0.87%) CMDB
9 6 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.73%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.73%) Social Media
11 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.64%) Windows
2 17 (2.47%) Linux
3 14 (2.03%) Unix
4 10 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.31%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) Solaris
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (22.50%) Agile
3 151 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 112 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (13.21%) Project Management
5 91 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 88 (12.77%) Change Management
7 83 (12.05%) ITIL
8 74 (10.74%) Decision-Making
9 66 (9.58%) Data Analysis
10 64 (9.29%) Workshop Facilitation
11 61 (8.85%) Project Delivery
12 58 (8.42%) Roadmaps
13 57 (8.27%) Analytics
13 57 (8.27%) DevOps
14 56 (8.13%) Business Analysis
15 53 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (6.97%) Six Sigma
16 48 (6.97%) Workflow
17 47 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 83 (12.05%) SQL
2 50 (7.26%) Python
3 22 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 19 (2.76%) Java
5 13 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.45%) ABAP
6 10 (1.45%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.31%) Perl
8 5 (0.73%) C#
8 5 (0.73%) Haskell
8 5 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.73%) R
8 5 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.58%) Swift
9 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.58%) VBA
10 3 (0.44%) OCaml
11 2 (0.29%) Groovy
11 2 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (14.80%) Degree
2 69 (10.01%) Security Cleared
3 64 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.76%) PMI Certification
6 18 (2.61%) PMP
7 16 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 12 (1.74%) ACCA
8 12 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.60%) CCNP
10 10 (1.45%) CIMA
10 10 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.02%) CCNA
13 5 (0.73%) CBAP
13 5 (0.73%) HNC
13 5 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.10%) QA
2 36 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.19%) PMO
4 20 (2.90%) SLA
5 15 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.03%) GDPR
7 10 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.73%) IFRS
10 4 (0.58%) COREP
11 3 (0.44%) MiFID
11 3 (0.44%) NIST
12 2 (0.29%) Basel III
12 2 (0.29%) EMIR
12 2 (0.29%) GAAP
12 2 (0.29%) GRC
12 2 (0.29%) HL7
12 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.29%) P3O
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 19 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.60%) Docker
3 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.15%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.32%) Ansible
2 13 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.60%) Terraform
4 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.87%) SCCM
6 5 (0.73%) Grafana
6 5 (0.73%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.29%) Puppet
8 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Argo
9 1 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.58%) SAP
3 50 (7.26%) Oracle
4 41 (5.95%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.90%) Adobe
6 19 (2.76%) Cisco
6 19 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.32%) Workday
8 10 (1.45%) Google
8 10 (1.45%) Splunk
9 8 (1.16%) Ariba
9 8 (1.16%) Remedy
10 7 (1.02%) Peregrine
11 5 (0.73%) HP
11 5 (0.73%) Liquidlogic
11 5 (0.73%) VMware
11 5 (0.73%) Zoho
12 4 (0.58%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.58%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.44%) McAfee