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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 113 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,106 694 624
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.49% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.74% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 426 365
10th Percentile £313 £263 £311
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -7.30% +3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 31
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.46 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.02 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% -0.40% -2.05%
75th Percentile £49.88 £38.24 £46.25
90th Percentile £70.10 £49.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -27.60% +2.35% -6.95%

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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +2 527 £525 +6.06% 1,061
North of England -37 159 £474 -5.20% 297
South East -16 157 £500 -4.76% 388
Midlands -3 146 £450 +2.74% 221
North West -46 87 £467 -6.70% 151
West Midlands -23 83 £500 +5.26% 130
Yorkshire -7 66 £463 -6.23% 114
East Midlands +20 63 £425 +70.00% 91
South West -9 52 £478 +41.56% 134
East of England -17 47 £472 +8.51% 136
North East -42 7 £488 +6.27% 35
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 55 (4.97%) Confluence
2 35 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.27%) CMS
4 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.27%) Moodle
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 1 (0.090%) Apache
6 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.090%) Appian
6 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.090%) CICS
6 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.090%) nginx
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.090%) SAS
6 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 135 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.98%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.63%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.54%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.54%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.54%) Revit
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Simulink
10 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.090%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.72%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (1.08%) iTrent
6 10 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.63%) Magento
9 6 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.54%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 4 (0.36%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.27%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 128 (11.57%) Power Platform
2 100 (9.04%) Azure
3 56 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (3.71%) SaaS
5 38 (3.44%) AWS
6 37 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 26 (2.35%) Power Automate
8 25 (2.26%) PowerApps
9 24 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
11 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (1.54%) GitHub
13 11 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (0.99%) Intacct
14 10 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.90%) Datadog
15 9 (0.81%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.63%) Lucidchart
16 7 (0.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.36%) Firewall
3 11 (0.99%) WAN
4 10 (0.90%) DNS
4 10 (0.90%) VPN
4 10 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.81%) LAN
6 8 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.45%) MPLS
7 5 (0.45%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) BGP
8 4 (0.36%) SSL
9 3 (0.27%) Broadband
9 3 (0.27%) DHCP
9 3 (0.27%) DMZ
9 3 (0.27%) DWDM
9 3 (0.27%) Internet
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
10 2 (0.18%) OSPF
10 2 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (8.86%) Power BI
2 22 (1.99%) Tableau
3 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.81%) Metadata
4 9 (0.81%) Power Query
4 9 (0.81%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.36%) MySQL
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
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 (8.14%) JIRA
2 10 (0.90%) Git
3 8 (0.72%) 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%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) Appium
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) JUnit
7 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.090%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.090%) MLflow
8 1 (0.090%) Visual Studio
General
1 485 (43.85%) Social Skills
2 464 (41.95%) Finance
3 332 (30.02%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (10.31%) Banking
5 84 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 66 (5.97%) Manufacturing
7 62 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (4.61%) Retail
9 49 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (4.25%) Legal
11 26 (2.35%) Marketing
12 24 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (2.08%) General Ledger
13 23 (2.08%) Local Government
13 23 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.90%) Billing
15 19 (1.72%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.54%) Front Office
16 17 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 341 (30.83%) Analyst
2 204 (18.44%) Business Analyst
3 106 (9.58%) Lead
4 104 (9.40%) Senior
5 92 (8.32%) Consultant
6 53 (4.79%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (4.52%) Project Manager
8 38 (3.44%) Accountant
9 35 (3.16%) Senior Business Analyst
10 33 (2.98%) Data Analyst
11 29 (2.62%) Developer
12 27 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
12 27 (2.44%) Process Analyst
13 25 (2.26%) Architect
14 23 (2.08%) Support Engineer
15 22 (1.99%) Administrator
16 19 (1.72%) SAP Consultant
16 19 (1.72%) Senior Manager
16 19 (1.72%) Systems Accountant
16 19 (1.72%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.81%) REST
3 14 (1.27%) Terraform
4 13 (1.18%) .NET
4 13 (1.18%) Middleware
4 13 (1.18%) SOAP
5 9 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (0.72%) SAP PI
7 6 (0.54%) HTML
7 6 (0.54%) LDAP
7 6 (0.54%) OAuth
7 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
7 6 (0.54%) Web Services
8 5 (0.45%) IDoc
8 5 (0.45%) JDBC
8 5 (0.45%) JSON
8 5 (0.45%) React
9 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.36%) Kafka
9 4 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.23%) Onboarding
2 62 (5.61%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (2.08%) CMDB
7 20 (1.81%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.08%) Reinsurance
13 11 (0.99%) FMCG
13 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.72%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.79%) Windows
2 26 (2.35%) Linux
3 19 (1.72%) Unix
4 13 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.54%) Android
6 6 (0.54%) 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%) AIX
10 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.090%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.090%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (39.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 314 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
3 266 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 229 (20.71%) Agile
5 228 (20.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 179 (16.18%) Workshop Facilitation
7 174 (15.73%) User Acceptance Testing
8 170 (15.37%) ERP
9 166 (15.01%) Decision-Making
10 161 (14.56%) Change Management
11 159 (14.38%) Requirements Gathering
12 152 (13.74%) Business Analysis
12 152 (13.74%) Validation
13 151 (13.65%) Migration
14 139 (12.57%) AI
15 119 (10.76%) Project Delivery
16 118 (10.67%) User Stories
17 114 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
18 112 (10.13%) Data Analysis
19 103 (9.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (10.49%) SQL
2 66 (5.97%) Python
3 30 (2.71%) Java
4 25 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.63%) VBA
7 9 (0.81%) Bash
8 8 (0.72%) ABAP
9 7 (0.63%) C#
9 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.54%) Korn
10 6 (0.54%) Perl
10 6 (0.54%) R
11 5 (0.45%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.27%) Bicep
13 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.18%) C++
14 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 149 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 116 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.22%) Degree
4 59 (5.33%) ACCA
5 56 (5.06%) CIMA
6 28 (2.53%) PMP
7 24 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 23 (2.08%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 15 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.90%) CBAP
14 8 (0.72%) IIBA
14 8 (0.72%) ISEB
14 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.95%) Data Quality
2 62 (5.61%) QA
3 51 (4.61%) PMO
4 35 (3.16%) GDPR
5 20 (1.81%) GRC
6 19 (1.72%) SLA
7 17 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.36%) IFRS
9 12 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 12 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.99%) NIST
11 10 (0.90%) GAAP
12 6 (0.54%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.36%) COBIT
14 3 (0.27%) SEPA
14 3 (0.27%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.18%) Basel III
15 2 (0.18%) ITGC
16 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 32 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.45%) IAG
3 8 (0.72%) Docker
4 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.18%) GPFS
7 2 (0.18%) NFS
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.090%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.090%) Postfix
8 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.090%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.72%) Ansible
4 10 (0.90%) SCCM
5 6 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.45%) 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%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.090%) Nessus
9 1 (0.090%) Puppet
9 1 (0.090%) SCOM
9 1 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 203 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 137 (12.39%) SAP
3 108 (9.76%) Oracle
4 79 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.71%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.90%) Workday
7 18 (1.63%) IBM
8 15 (1.36%) Splunk
9 14 (1.27%) IFS
10 12 (1.08%) Sage
11 10 (0.90%) Cisco
11 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 10 (0.90%) Nexthink
12 9 (0.81%) Apple
12 9 (0.81%) Autodesk
13 8 (0.72%) Adobe
13 8 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.72%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.72%) JD Edwards
14 7 (0.63%) Zscaler