Process Improvement Contracts in England

Process Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Process Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Process Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 168 209
Rank change year-on-year +64 +41 -15
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 614 521 644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.52% 1.40% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.62% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 331 440
10th Percentile £309 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -0.95% +2.41%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £600
90th Percentile £759 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 18
10th Percentile £19.15 £13.37 £23.96
25th Percentile £26.03 £15.85 £32.30
Median hourly rate £29.15 £25.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year +16.60% -43.09% -2.81%
75th Percentile £58.44 £36.88 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £43.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £26.75 £43.93
% change year-on-year +22.65% -39.11% -2.38%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in England.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in England.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +38 281 £550 - 1,128
North of England +68 119 £500 -3.29% 544
North West +66 96 £475 -10.29% 282
South East +43 89 £524 +10.32% 590
Midlands +29 56 £485 +1.84% 395
West Midlands +22 41 £524 +39.73% 215
South West +47 32 £488 -1.02% 252
Yorkshire +9 19 £518 +0.10% 199
East of England +29 16 £500 -9.09% 316
East Midlands +15 15 £391 -22.69% 153
North East 0 4 £558 +13.03% 68
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 21 (3.42%) Confluence
2 11 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.30%) Apache
6 5 (0.81%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.65%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.93%) MS Visio
4 15 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.81%) Trello
7 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.16%) CATIA
8 1 (0.16%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 32 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.98%) Endur
3 6 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.98%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.65%) SAP ECC
4 4 (0.65%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.65%) SAP Retail
4 4 (0.65%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.65%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.49%) Actimize
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.33%) Movex
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.33%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 65 (10.59%) Azure
2 55 (8.96%) Power Platform
3 49 (7.98%) AWS
4 27 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (3.09%) PowerApps
6 10 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (1.63%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (1.30%) GitHub
9 7 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.14%) OCI
9 7 (1.14%) SaaS
10 6 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.79%) Firewall
2 10 (1.63%) SSL
3 8 (1.30%) WAN
4 7 (1.14%) BGP
4 7 (1.14%) VPN
4 7 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.14%) Wireshark
5 6 (0.98%) DNS
5 6 (0.98%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.98%) Wireless
6 5 (0.81%) Network Security
6 5 (0.81%) OSPF
6 5 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.65%) IPsec
7 4 (0.65%) MPLS
7 4 (0.65%) Skype
7 4 (0.65%) SSH
8 3 (0.49%) DWDM
8 3 (0.49%) Internet
8 3 (0.49%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.35%) Power BI
2 17 (2.77%) Tableau
3 13 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.95%) Big Data
4 12 (1.95%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.95%) SAP HANA
5 10 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.65%) DB2
8 4 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.49%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.49%) Looker
9 3 (0.49%) MS Access
9 3 (0.49%) MySQL
9 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 50 (8.14%) JIRA
2 17 (2.77%) Git
3 15 (2.44%) GitLab
4 11 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.47%) Selenium
6 6 (0.98%) JMeter
7 5 (0.81%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.65%) Subversion
9 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) JUnit
10 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.16%) Ant
11 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.16%) NUnit
11 1 (0.16%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.16%) Toad
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 280 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 189 (30.78%) Finance
3 146 (23.78%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.00%) Banking
6 28 (4.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 26 (4.23%) Legal
7 26 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 26 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.93%) Marketing
9 18 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (2.12%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.95%) Retail
15 10 (1.63%) Front Office
16 9 (1.47%) Billing
16 9 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 180 (29.32%) Analyst
2 105 (17.10%) Business Analyst
3 47 (7.65%) Lead
3 47 (7.65%) Senior
4 36 (5.86%) Project Manager
5 34 (5.54%) Consultant
5 34 (5.54%) Developer
6 30 (4.89%) Administrator
7 29 (4.72%) Architect
8 22 (3.58%) Data Analyst
8 22 (3.58%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
9 17 (2.77%) Technical Analyst
10 16 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.12%) Process Analyst
12 12 (1.95%) SAP Developer
13 11 (1.79%) Technical Leader
14 10 (1.63%) SAP Consultant
14 10 (1.63%) Senior Business Analyst
14 10 (1.63%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.61%) REST
2 14 (2.28%) Web Services
3 13 (2.12%) JSON
4 9 (1.47%) BAPI
5 8 (1.30%) CSS
5 8 (1.30%) HTML
5 8 (1.30%) XML
6 7 (1.14%) .NET
6 7 (1.14%) React
6 7 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
6 7 (1.14%) SOAP
7 5 (0.81%) Middleware
7 5 (0.81%) PySpark
7 5 (0.81%) Spring
7 5 (0.81%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.81%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (0.65%) Node.js
9 3 (0.49%) HTML5
9 3 (0.49%) Kafka
9 3 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.23%) Onboarding
2 25 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.12%) CMDB
4 12 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.47%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.98%) CSOC
9 6 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.98%) PMI
9 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.81%) Derivative
10 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.23%) Linux
2 24 (3.91%) Windows
3 7 (1.14%) Android
3 7 (1.14%) Unix
4 4 (0.65%) CentOS
4 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Rocky
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (26.38%) Agile
3 130 (21.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (15.47%) Project Management
5 87 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 74 (12.05%) Change Management
7 73 (11.89%) DevOps
8 59 (9.61%) Data Analysis
9 57 (9.28%) Business Analysis
10 52 (8.47%) Decision-Making
11 51 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 49 (7.98%) Project Delivery
14 48 (7.82%) ITIL
15 42 (6.84%) Analytics
15 42 (6.84%) Risk Management
16 40 (6.51%) CI/CD
17 38 (6.19%) ERP
18 36 (5.86%) Budget Management
18 36 (5.86%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 92 (14.98%) SQL
2 42 (6.84%) Python
3 27 (4.40%) Java
4 14 (2.28%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.95%) ABAP
6 11 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.14%) C#
8 5 (0.81%) Bash
8 5 (0.81%) R
8 5 (0.81%) VBA
9 4 (0.65%) ActionScript
9 4 (0.65%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.49%) Perl
10 3 (0.49%) REXX
11 2 (0.33%) C
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) PHP
11 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (14.17%) Degree
2 83 (13.52%) Security Cleared
3 52 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (4.40%) PMI Certification
5 27 (4.40%) PMP
6 25 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.47%) CBAP
9 9 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.98%) GIAC
12 5 (0.81%) CISSP
13 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.65%) IIBA
14 3 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.89%) Data Quality
1 30 (4.89%) QA
2 15 (2.44%) SLA
3 14 (2.28%) PMO
4 13 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.47%) GDPR
6 6 (0.98%) GRC
6 6 (0.98%) MiFID
7 5 (0.81%) EMIR
8 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.49%) IFRS
10 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.33%) Basel III
10 2 (0.33%) COBIT
10 2 (0.33%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.33%) NIST
10 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.30%) Docker
3 4 (0.65%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (3.26%) Terraform
2 15 (2.44%) Ansible
3 13 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.65%) Puppet
4 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.49%) Grafana
5 3 (0.49%) Opsview
6 2 (0.33%) OPNET
6 2 (0.33%) Rundeck
6 2 (0.33%) SCCM
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) QRadar
7 1 (0.16%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 94 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 91 (14.82%) SAP
3 34 (5.54%) ServiceNow
4 32 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.72%) Oracle
6 16 (2.61%) IBM
7 12 (1.95%) Cisco
8 10 (1.63%) Workday
9 9 (1.47%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.30%) Splunk
10 8 (1.30%) VMware
11 7 (1.14%) Apple
12 6 (0.98%) Ariba
13 5 (0.81%) Adobe
13 5 (0.81%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.81%) Google
13 5 (0.81%) Murex
14 4 (0.65%) IBM Sterling
14 4 (0.65%) McAfee
14 4 (0.65%) Red Hat