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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 107 170
Rank change year-on-year -14 +63 +32
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 804 628 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 2.52% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.78% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 367 335
10th Percentile £259 £300 £305
25th Percentile £363 £410 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £517
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% +1.16% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £610
90th Percentile £656 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 33
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.32 £13.21
25th Percentile £13.37 £26.59 £15.85
Median hourly rate £22.11 £32.50 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% +45.48% -49.07%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £52.78
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £32.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -43.08% +10.17% -32.74%

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 31,205 22,550 33,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.68% 90.54% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,990 14,548 21,873
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,928 809 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.44 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -3 335 £500 -9.09% 173
North of England -37 153 £425 -15.00% 73
South East -44 96 £400 -20.00% 154
Midlands -19 95 £425 -2.13% 80
Yorkshire -6 82 £460 -11.11% 26
West Midlands -24 63 £438 -3.42% 49
North West -59 59 £430 -14.00% 41
South West -13 55 £500 - 32
East of England -7 49 £458 -8.35% 42
East Midlands -17 33 £393 +5.22% 31
North East -5 12 £326 -43.26% 6
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 (6.84%) Confluence
2 19 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.00%) CICS
5 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 110 (13.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 41 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (3.98%) MS Visio
5 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.87%) SAP HCM
2 7 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.62%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.62%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.37%) Endur
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.37%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (9.70%) Power Platform
2 46 (5.72%) Azure
3 41 (5.10%) AWS
4 38 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (3.98%) SaaS
6 30 (3.73%) GitHub
7 17 (2.11%) GCP
8 14 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.12%) Google Workspace
10 9 (1.12%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.75%) Miro
11 6 (0.75%) OCI
12 5 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.62%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.50%) Lucidchart
13 4 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.73%) Firewall
2 11 (1.37%) DNS
3 8 (1.00%) VPN
4 6 (0.75%) Internet
5 5 (0.62%) DHCP
5 5 (0.62%) FTP
5 5 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.62%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) LAN
6 3 (0.37%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.25%) DWDM
7 2 (0.25%) HTTP
7 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.25%) VSAN
8 1 (0.12%) 5G
8 1 (0.12%) NaaS
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (8.96%) Power BI
2 19 (2.36%) MySQL
3 18 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.37%) SAP HANA
5 10 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.24%) Tableau
6 8 (1.00%) DataStage
6 8 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.75%) Metadata
8 6 (0.75%) Power Query
9 5 (0.62%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.25%) Big Data
10 2 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 104 (12.94%) JIRA
2 44 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (1.87%) GitLab
5 11 (1.37%) Git
6 8 (1.00%) Jaeger
6 8 (1.00%) Postman
7 4 (0.50%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) Appium
8 3 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
8 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.25%) TestRail
9 2 (0.25%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 383 (47.64%) Social Skills
2 281 (34.95%) Finance
3 220 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.83%) Banking
5 78 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 31 (3.86%) Telecoms
9 29 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (3.11%) Legal
11 23 (2.86%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.74%) Marketing
12 22 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.61%) Financial Institution
14 19 (2.36%) Billing
15 18 (2.24%) Retail
16 15 (1.87%) Law
17 13 (1.62%) Retail Banking
18 11 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 10 (1.24%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 255 (31.72%) Analyst
2 152 (18.91%) Business Analyst
3 89 (11.07%) Senior
4 74 (9.20%) Consultant
5 59 (7.34%) Lead
6 38 (4.73%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
8 26 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
8 26 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
8 26 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
9 25 (3.11%) Data Analyst
10 21 (2.61%) IT Support
10 21 (2.61%) Technical Support
11 19 (2.36%) Project Officer
12 18 (2.24%) Accountant
12 18 (2.24%) Administrator
12 18 (2.24%) Senior Consultant
12 18 (2.24%) Technical Business Analyst
13 17 (2.11%) Developer
14 16 (1.99%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.61%) Web Services
2 17 (2.11%) Middleware
3 15 (1.87%) Playwright
3 15 (1.87%) SAP Fiori
4 14 (1.74%) GraphQL
5 13 (1.62%) Kafka
5 13 (1.62%) Node.js
5 13 (1.62%) Vitest
6 12 (1.49%) REST
7 11 (1.37%) SOAP
8 10 (1.24%) BAPI
8 10 (1.24%) XML
9 9 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (1.00%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.87%) .NET
11 7 (0.87%) HTML
11 7 (0.87%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (0.75%) YAML
13 5 (0.62%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.59%) Onboarding
2 31 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.49%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.74%) CMDB
8 13 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.49%) Replication
9 12 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.24%) PMI
11 9 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.12%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.12%) NHS
12 8 (1.00%) Derivative
12 8 (1.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.21%) Windows
2 47 (5.85%) Linux
3 34 (4.23%) Unix
4 9 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.00%) AIX
5 8 (1.00%) Solaris
6 7 (0.87%) Android
6 7 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.75%) VMS
7 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 164 (20.40%) Agile
4 157 (19.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 140 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 114 (14.18%) Decision-Making
7 106 (13.18%) Project Management
8 95 (11.82%) Change Management
9 89 (11.07%) DevOps
10 88 (10.95%) Workshop Facilitation
11 86 (10.70%) Business Analysis
12 73 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
13 72 (8.96%) Coaching
14 69 (8.58%) Migration
15 68 (8.46%) AI
16 65 (8.08%) Roadmaps
17 63 (7.84%) Data Analysis
17 63 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
18 61 (7.59%) Mentoring
19 59 (7.34%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 100 (12.44%) SQL
2 48 (5.97%) Python
3 37 (4.60%) Java
4 25 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.24%) Perl
6 17 (2.11%) ABAP
6 17 (2.11%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.00%) COBOL
8 8 (1.00%) Rust
9 7 (0.87%) C#
9 7 (0.87%) VBA
10 6 (0.75%) Bash
11 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.50%) PHP
13 3 (0.37%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (0.37%) Go
13 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.06%) Degree
3 79 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.36%) Master's Degree
5 24 (2.99%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.86%) PMP
7 22 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.61%) ACCA
9 18 (2.24%) CIMA
10 12 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.24%) MBA
13 8 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (1.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 7 (0.87%) CISSP
15 6 (0.75%) CISM
15 6 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.62%) CBAP
16 5 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.46%) QA
2 53 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.86%) PMO
4 29 (3.61%) GDPR
5 20 (2.49%) SLA
6 17 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.24%) NIST
9 8 (1.00%) Basel III
10 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.75%) IFRS
11 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.62%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.50%) GAAP
13 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.37%) COBIT
14 3 (0.37%) GRC
14 3 (0.37%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 31 (3.86%) Docker
2 30 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.50%) GPFS
4 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.37%) NFS
6 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) Xen
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.61%) Ansible
3 14 (1.74%) Grafana
4 13 (1.62%) Terraform
5 11 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.00%) Kiali
7 7 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.50%) QRadar
10 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) WSUS
11 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 96 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.58%) SAP
3 46 (5.72%) Oracle
3 46 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 26 (3.23%) Splunk
4 26 (3.23%) Workday
5 23 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.49%) Google
7 16 (1.99%) Adobe
8 15 (1.87%) Sonatype
9 14 (1.74%) IBM
10 13 (1.62%) VMware
11 9 (1.12%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.87%) Anaplan
12 7 (0.87%) Ariba
12 7 (0.87%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.62%) Cisco
13 5 (0.62%) Computacenter
13 5 (0.62%) Databricks
13 5 (0.62%) NEC