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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 102 165
Rank change year-on-year -16 +63 -7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 999 708 497
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 2.56% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.82% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 427 327
10th Percentile £313 £281 £320
25th Percentile £403 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +0.48%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 44 25
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £14.11
25th Percentile £14.22 £25.67 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £68.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £24.26
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.69% -21.12%

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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -9 447 £520 +4.00% 400
South East -12 157 £500 - 227
North of England -54 145 £469 -3.79% 145
Midlands -27 121 £450 +0.67% 117
North West -68 76 £469 +1.41% 75
West Midlands -42 74 £500 +5.26% 80
Yorkshire -22 62 £500 -2.44% 59
South West -2 60 £456 +7.18% 57
East of England +10 54 £450 -10.00% 64
East Midlands +6 47 £413 +65.00% 37
North East -36 8 £400 -25.23% 14
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 47 (4.70%) Confluence
2 24 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.20%) CMS
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.60%) CICS
6 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.30%) Moodle
7 3 (0.30%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) Appian
9 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 104 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.30%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.40%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.40%) ProjectWise
7 4 (0.40%) Revit
8 3 (0.30%) Simulink
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.80%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.20%) iTrent
5 10 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.60%) Magento
8 6 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.60%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.50%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
10 4 (0.40%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.40%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 105 (10.51%) Power Platform
2 91 (9.11%) Azure
3 41 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.80%) AWS
5 28 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (2.80%) SaaS
6 25 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (2.00%) PowerApps
8 20 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
9 18 (1.80%) GitHub
9 18 (1.80%) Power Automate
10 9 (0.90%) Lucidchart
10 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (0.80%) GCP
12 7 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (0.70%) Datadog
12 7 (0.70%) OCI
12 7 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.60%) Firewall
2 14 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.00%) WAN
4 8 (0.80%) DNS
4 8 (0.80%) VPN
4 8 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.70%) LAN
6 5 (0.50%) Network Security
6 5 (0.50%) SSL
7 4 (0.40%) MPLS
7 4 (0.40%) Wireless
8 3 (0.30%) BGP
8 3 (0.30%) DHCP
8 3 (0.30%) DMZ
8 3 (0.30%) Internet
8 3 (0.30%) IPsec
8 3 (0.30%) VSAN
9 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.20%) Multicast
9 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.51%) Power BI
2 15 (1.50%) Tableau
3 12 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.20%) Metadata
4 8 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
4 8 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.60%) DataStage
6 6 (0.60%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.40%) MySQL
8 4 (0.40%) Power Query
9 3 (0.30%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.20%) Ataccama
10 2 (0.20%) Big Data
10 2 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.20%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 88 (8.81%) JIRA
2 13 (1.30%) Git
3 11 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.40%) JUnit
4 4 (0.40%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.30%) IntelliJ
5 3 (0.30%) MLflow
5 3 (0.30%) Selenium
5 3 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.20%) GitLab
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) TestRail
7 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.10%) Gradle
7 1 (0.10%) Hudson
7 1 (0.10%) JDeveloper
General
1 414 (41.44%) Finance
2 400 (40.04%) Social Skills
3 304 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (9.01%) Banking
5 77 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.01%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (4.80%) Retail
8 47 (4.70%) Manufacturing
9 45 (4.50%) Legal
10 38 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.00%) Local Government
14 17 (1.70%) Marketing
14 17 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.60%) General Ledger
16 15 (1.50%) Investment Banking
17 14 (1.40%) Front Office
18 13 (1.30%) Billing
19 12 (1.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 318 (31.83%) Analyst
2 188 (18.82%) Business Analyst
3 102 (10.21%) Senior
4 92 (9.21%) Lead
5 89 (8.91%) Consultant
6 46 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
7 42 (4.20%) Accountant
7 42 (4.20%) Project Manager
8 32 (3.20%) Data Analyst
9 27 (2.70%) Financial Analyst
9 27 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
10 26 (2.60%) Developer
11 24 (2.40%) Process Analyst
12 23 (2.30%) Administrator
13 21 (2.10%) Architect
14 19 (1.90%) Management Accountant
15 18 (1.80%) IT Manager
15 18 (1.80%) Systems Analyst
16 17 (1.70%) Finance Manager
16 17 (1.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.90%) REST
3 13 (1.30%) .NET
4 11 (1.10%) Middleware
5 9 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.90%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.90%) SOAP
6 6 (0.60%) IDoc
6 6 (0.60%) JSON
7 5 (0.50%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.50%) HTML
7 5 (0.50%) JDBC
7 5 (0.50%) React
7 5 (0.50%) STL
8 4 (0.40%) Node.js
8 4 (0.40%) Playwright
8 4 (0.40%) RESTful
8 4 (0.40%) YAML
9 3 (0.30%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.61%) Onboarding
2 51 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 50 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.20%) CMDB
5 22 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.50%) Operational Technology
9 13 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.20%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.10%) FMCG
11 11 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.80%) Derivative
13 8 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.20%) Windows
2 23 (2.30%) Linux
3 19 (1.90%) Unix
4 12 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.60%) AIX
6 6 (0.60%) Android
6 6 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.60%) Solaris
7 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (31.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 260 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 218 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 195 (19.52%) Agile
5 183 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 151 (15.12%) Decision-Making
7 141 (14.11%) Workshop Facilitation
8 140 (14.01%) User Acceptance Testing
9 137 (13.71%) ERP
10 131 (13.11%) Change Management
11 127 (12.71%) Validation
12 124 (12.41%) Migration
13 121 (12.11%) Business Analysis
14 120 (12.01%) Requirements Gathering
15 113 (11.31%) AI
16 97 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (9.01%) User Stories
18 87 (8.71%) DevOps
19 84 (8.41%) Project Delivery
19 84 (8.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (10.61%) SQL
2 58 (5.81%) Python
3 29 (2.90%) Java
4 17 (1.70%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.50%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.50%) VBA
6 9 (0.90%) ABAP
7 8 (0.80%) Bash
8 7 (0.70%) C#
8 7 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.70%) Perl
9 6 (0.60%) COBOL
10 5 (0.50%) Korn
10 5 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.50%) R
11 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.30%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.30%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.30%) Go
13 2 (0.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 141 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.91%) Degree
4 63 (6.31%) ACCA
5 60 (6.01%) CIMA
6 21 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.90%) PMP
8 17 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.90%) CBAP
13 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.60%) IIBA
14 6 (0.60%) ISEB
15 4 (0.40%) APMG
15 4 (0.40%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.01%) QA
3 45 (4.50%) GDPR
4 41 (4.10%) PMO
5 25 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.60%) SLA
7 14 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (1.30%) NIST
9 12 (1.20%) IFRS
10 10 (1.00%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (1.00%) GRC
11 9 (0.90%) GAAP
12 4 (0.40%) COBIT
12 4 (0.40%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.30%) Basel III
13 3 (0.30%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.10%) COREP
15 1 (0.10%) FINREP
System Software
1 31 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.30%) IAG
3 9 (0.90%) Docker
4 8 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.60%) vSphere
6 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) GPFS
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) NFS
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.80%) Ansible
3 15 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.40%) Terraform
5 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) SCCM
7 3 (0.30%) WSUS
8 2 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.10%) Argo
9 1 (0.10%) Autotask
9 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 129 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 117 (11.71%) SAP
3 85 (8.51%) Oracle
4 73 (7.31%) ServiceNow
5 38 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.30%) Workday
7 18 (1.80%) IFS
8 15 (1.50%) VMware
9 13 (1.30%) IBM
10 12 (1.20%) Google
10 12 (1.20%) Splunk
11 10 (1.00%) Cisco
12 9 (0.90%) Apple
12 9 (0.90%) Okta
13 8 (0.80%) Adobe
13 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.80%) Sage
14 7 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.70%) Nexthink
15 6 (0.60%) ForgeRock
927 Process Improvement jobs in England