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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 105 157
Rank change year-on-year -10 +52 +42
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 802 654 590
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.49% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.78% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 366 375
10th Percentile £220 £296 £309
25th Percentile £363 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £629 £615
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £511 £517
% change year-on-year -7.09% -1.11% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 35
10th Percentile - £14.83 £14.17
25th Percentile £13.33 £26.44 £17.20
Median hourly rate £20.86 £33.91 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.48% -0.28% -22.60%
75th Percentile £40.93 £52.44 £46.68
90th Percentile £64.38 £65.62 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £33.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year -49.86% -20.22% -3.26%

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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +3 347 £500 -9.09% 176
North of England -24 156 £436 -12.80% 103
South East -27 97 £400 -23.44% 140
Midlands -24 94 £450 +3.45% 74
Yorkshire -14 75 £450 -24.81% 34
North West -35 66 £500 +2.56% 61
West Midlands -17 64 £469 -1.32% 49
South West -17 52 £500 -4.76% 28
East of England -5 42 £463 +13.92% 39
East Midlands -9 31 £400 +12.36% 25
North East -5 15 £363 -36.96% 9
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 (6.86%) Confluence
2 22 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.37%) CICS
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Moodle
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 107 (13.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (4.11%) MS Visio
5 19 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.37%) Trello
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (4.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.12%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.62%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.62%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.37%) Endur
6 3 (0.37%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.37%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 80 (9.98%) Power Platform
2 53 (6.61%) Azure
3 43 (5.36%) AWS
3 43 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (5.24%) SaaS
5 30 (3.74%) GitHub
6 19 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.00%) GCP
8 13 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.37%) Power Automate
9 11 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.12%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.87%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.75%) Miro
14 5 (0.62%) OCI
14 5 (0.62%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.62%) PaaS
14 5 (0.62%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.24%) Firewall
2 13 (1.62%) DNS
3 9 (1.12%) VPN
4 6 (0.75%) DHCP
4 6 (0.75%) HTTP
4 6 (0.75%) Internet
5 5 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.50%) Network Security
6 4 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.37%) FTP
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.25%) DWDM
8 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.25%) SSH
8 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.12%) 5G
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.10%) Power BI
2 22 (2.74%) MySQL
2 22 (2.74%) Relational Database
3 11 (1.37%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.37%) SAP HANA
4 10 (1.25%) Tableau
5 7 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.75%) Power Query
7 5 (0.62%) Metadata
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.37%) Big Data
9 3 (0.37%) DataStage
9 3 (0.37%) Looker
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.25%) ImageNet
Development Applications
1 102 (12.72%) JIRA
2 47 (5.86%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.12%) GitLab
4 15 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (1.62%) Postman
6 11 (1.37%) Git
7 8 (1.00%) Jaeger
8 6 (0.75%) Appium
9 5 (0.62%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.62%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.50%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.37%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.25%) MLflow
12 2 (0.25%) TestRail
13 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 379 (47.26%) Social Skills
2 269 (33.54%) Finance
3 195 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.73%) Banking
5 67 (8.35%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (4.36%) Telecoms
8 31 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.87%) Legal
10 23 (2.87%) Marketing
10 23 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.49%) Billing
11 20 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.37%) Retail
13 15 (1.87%) Law
14 12 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.37%) General Ledger
15 11 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 253 (31.55%) Analyst
2 145 (18.08%) Business Analyst
3 91 (11.35%) Senior
4 75 (9.35%) Consultant
5 58 (7.23%) Lead
6 39 (4.86%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
8 30 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
9 29 (3.62%) SAP Consultant
10 28 (3.49%) Data Analyst
11 26 (3.24%) Senior Business Analyst
11 26 (3.24%) Technical Support
12 20 (2.49%) IT Support
13 19 (2.37%) Administrator
13 19 (2.37%) Senior Consultant
14 18 (2.24%) Technical Business Analyst
15 17 (2.12%) Developer
15 17 (2.12%) Process Analyst
16 16 (2.00%) Change Manager
17 15 (1.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.87%) Web Services
2 20 (2.49%) Playwright
3 18 (2.24%) GraphQL
3 18 (2.24%) Node.js
3 18 (2.24%) Vitest
4 14 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
5 12 (1.50%) Kafka
5 12 (1.50%) Middleware
6 11 (1.37%) BAPI
7 10 (1.25%) REST
7 10 (1.25%) SOAP
7 10 (1.25%) XML
8 9 (1.12%) YAML
9 8 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.00%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.87%) .NET
10 7 (0.87%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.75%) HTML
12 5 (0.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 25 (3.12%) Product Ownership
3 24 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.87%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.62%) Replication
9 12 (1.50%) CMDB
10 9 (1.12%) Derivative
10 9 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.12%) PMI
10 9 (1.12%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.73%) Windows
2 45 (5.61%) Linux
3 34 (4.24%) Unix
4 14 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.25%) Android
6 9 (1.12%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.87%) VMS
8 3 (0.37%) AIX
8 3 (0.37%) Solaris
9 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (21.70%) Agile
3 172 (21.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 153 (19.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 134 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 105 (13.09%) Project Management
7 100 (12.47%) Decision-Making
8 96 (11.97%) DevOps
9 94 (11.72%) Change Management
10 90 (11.22%) Workshop Facilitation
11 78 (9.73%) Business Analysis
12 73 (9.10%) Coaching
13 72 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
14 69 (8.60%) Data Analysis
15 66 (8.23%) Project Delivery
15 66 (8.23%) Roadmaps
16 65 (8.10%) CI/CD
17 64 (7.98%) AI
17 64 (7.98%) Migration
18 62 (7.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 101 (12.59%) SQL
2 56 (6.98%) Python
3 38 (4.74%) Java
4 30 (3.74%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.87%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.74%) Perl
7 18 (2.24%) ABAP
8 11 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.00%) Rust
10 7 (0.87%) C#
10 7 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.75%) Bash
11 6 (0.75%) VBA
12 5 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.62%) Swift
13 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.50%) PHP
13 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.37%) COBOL
14 3 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 113 (14.09%) Degree
2 103 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 76 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (3.24%) Master's Degree
5 25 (3.12%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.99%) PMP
7 20 (2.49%) ACCA
8 16 (2.00%) CIMA
9 13 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.12%) MBA
13 8 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
15 6 (0.75%) CISSP
15 6 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.62%) CBAP
16 5 (0.62%) CISM
17 4 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.23%) QA
2 48 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.87%) PMO
4 24 (2.99%) GDPR
5 18 (2.24%) SLA
6 13 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.00%) IFRS
10 7 (0.87%) Basel III
10 7 (0.87%) NIST
11 5 (0.62%) GAAP
11 5 (0.62%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.37%) GRC
13 3 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (4.49%) Docker
2 28 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) GPFS
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.37%) NFS
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.25%) Xen
6 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Postfix
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.24%) Ansible
3 15 (1.87%) Terraform
4 14 (1.75%) Grafana
5 11 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.00%) Kiali
6 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.50%) QRadar
9 3 (0.37%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 105 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.73%) SAP
3 52 (6.48%) Oracle
4 50 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.49%) Splunk
6 24 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.74%) Workday
8 18 (2.24%) Google
9 15 (1.87%) Adobe
10 14 (1.75%) Sonatype
11 10 (1.25%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.12%) IBM
13 8 (1.00%) Anaplan
13 8 (1.00%) Ariba
14 6 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.75%) VMware
15 5 (0.62%) Cisco
15 5 (0.62%) Computacenter
15 5 (0.62%) Databricks
16 4 (0.50%) Remedy