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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 102 151
Rank change year-on-year -12 +49 -6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,061 697 540
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 2.56% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.82% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 423 346
10th Percentile £313 £263 £309
25th Percentile £406 £363 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 41 27
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.04 £15.92
Median hourly rate £23.21 £30.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -0.40% -2.05%
75th Percentile £57.50 £35.50 £35.75
90th Percentile £73.53 £53.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.69 £30.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -21.05% +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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -10 492 £525 +5.00% 909
South East -21 157 £500 -4.76% 305
North of England -48 155 £455 -5.45% 229
Midlands -9 136 £450 - 158
North West -48 84 £467 -1.79% 123
West Midlands -35 77 £500 +5.26% 87
Yorkshire -9 64 £451 -7.49% 74
East Midlands +9 59 £425 +70.00% 72
South West -10 55 £456 +7.18% 144
East of England +6 50 £450 +15.02% 98
North East -35 8 £400 -12.81% 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 58 (5.47%) Confluence
2 33 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.23%) CMS
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.28%) Moodle
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.28%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.094%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.094%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.094%) CICS
8 1 (0.094%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.094%) MTS
8 1 (0.094%) nginx
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.094%) SAS
8 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.094%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 122 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.11%) MS Visio
4 28 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.47%) ProjectWise
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.38%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.38%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.38%) Revit
9 3 (0.28%) Simulink
10 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.094%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 36 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.89%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.13%) iTrent
3 12 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.66%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.57%) Magento
9 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
10 4 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.38%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.38%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
11 3 (0.28%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 116 (10.93%) Power Platform
2 101 (9.52%) Azure
3 49 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (3.86%) AWS
4 41 (3.86%) SaaS
5 37 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (2.45%) Entra ID
8 25 (2.36%) Power Automate
9 23 (2.17%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
11 20 (1.89%) GitHub
12 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.94%) Datadog
15 9 (0.85%) Intacct
16 8 (0.75%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.75%) Lucidchart
16 8 (0.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.51%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.23%) Firewall
3 11 (1.04%) DNS
4 10 (0.94%) VPN
5 9 (0.85%) WAN
5 9 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.66%) LAN
7 6 (0.57%) Network Security
8 5 (0.47%) SSL
9 4 (0.38%) DHCP
9 4 (0.38%) MPLS
9 4 (0.38%) Wireless
10 3 (0.28%) BGP
10 3 (0.28%) DMZ
10 3 (0.28%) Internet
10 3 (0.28%) IPsec
11 2 (0.19%) DWDM
11 2 (0.19%) L2TP
11 2 (0.19%) OSPF
11 2 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (8.77%) Power BI
2 21 (1.98%) Tableau
3 12 (1.13%) Metadata
4 11 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (0.66%) Power Query
8 6 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.38%) MySQL
10 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.28%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.19%) Big Data
12 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (9.05%) JIRA
2 13 (1.23%) Git
3 9 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.47%) Postman
5 5 (0.47%) Selenium
6 4 (0.38%) JMeter
6 4 (0.38%) JUnit
6 4 (0.38%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.28%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.19%) Appium
8 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.19%) MLflow
8 2 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 443 (41.75%) Finance
2 441 (41.56%) Social Skills
3 317 (29.88%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (10.18%) Banking
5 72 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 54 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
7 53 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 50 (4.71%) Retail
9 47 (4.43%) Legal
9 47 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.89%) General Ledger
13 20 (1.89%) Marketing
14 18 (1.70%) Local Government
14 18 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.60%) Front Office
15 17 (1.60%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 337 (31.76%) Analyst
2 201 (18.94%) Business Analyst
3 105 (9.90%) Lead
3 105 (9.90%) Senior
4 93 (8.77%) Consultant
5 49 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
6 48 (4.52%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.49%) Accountant
8 32 (3.02%) Data Analyst
9 30 (2.83%) Senior Business Analyst
10 29 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
11 27 (2.54%) Developer
12 25 (2.36%) Administrator
12 25 (2.36%) Process Analyst
13 22 (2.07%) Architect
13 22 (2.07%) Support Engineer
14 20 (1.89%) Senior Manager
14 20 (1.89%) Transformation Manager
15 19 (1.79%) IT Manager
16 18 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (2.07%) REST
3 16 (1.51%) Terraform
4 15 (1.41%) .NET
5 13 (1.23%) SOAP
6 12 (1.13%) Middleware
7 9 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (0.75%) SAP PI
9 7 (0.66%) HTML
10 6 (0.57%) IDoc
10 6 (0.57%) JSON
10 6 (0.57%) OAuth
10 6 (0.57%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.47%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.47%) JDBC
11 5 (0.47%) React
11 5 (0.47%) STL
11 5 (0.47%) Web Services
12 4 (0.38%) LDAP
12 4 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.73%) Onboarding
2 58 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 30 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.26%) CMDB
7 21 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 17 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 13 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.13%) Reinsurance
12 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.04%) FMCG
14 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.52%) Windows
2 26 (2.45%) Linux
3 17 (1.60%) Unix
4 13 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) Android
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.094%) AIX
10 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.094%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (36.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 288 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
3 247 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 231 (21.77%) Agile
5 207 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 176 (16.59%) Workshop Facilitation
7 166 (15.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 159 (14.99%) Decision-Making
8 159 (14.99%) ERP
9 150 (14.14%) Requirements Gathering
10 149 (14.04%) Change Management
11 142 (13.38%) Validation
12 140 (13.20%) Business Analysis
13 138 (13.01%) AI
13 138 (13.01%) Migration
14 118 (11.12%) User Stories
15 109 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
16 106 (9.99%) Project Delivery
17 103 (9.71%) Project Management
18 102 (9.61%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 115 (10.84%) SQL
2 68 (6.41%) Python
3 34 (3.20%) Java
4 23 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.60%) VBA
7 10 (0.94%) Bash
8 9 (0.85%) ABAP
9 8 (0.75%) C#
10 7 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.66%) Perl
11 6 (0.57%) Korn
11 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.47%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.38%) R
13 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.28%) Bicep
14 3 (0.28%) Go
14 3 (0.28%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 149 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 118 (11.12%) SC Cleared
3 117 (11.03%) Degree
4 64 (6.03%) ACCA
5 61 (5.75%) CIMA
6 25 (2.36%) PMP
7 23 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 22 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 14 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.94%) CBAP
13 10 (0.94%) IIBA
14 8 (0.75%) ISEB
14 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.03%) QA
3 48 (4.52%) PMO
4 43 (4.05%) GDPR
5 24 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.70%) SLA
7 17 (1.60%) GRC
8 14 (1.32%) IFRS
9 13 (1.23%) NIST
9 13 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.94%) GAAP
12 4 (0.38%) COBIT
12 4 (0.38%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.28%) SEPA
13 3 (0.28%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.19%) Basel III
14 2 (0.19%) ITGC
15 1 (0.094%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.51%) IAG
3 9 (0.85%) Docker
4 7 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.47%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.19%) GPFS
8 2 (0.19%) NFS
8 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.094%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.094%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.094%) Postfix
9 1 (0.094%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.79%) Ansible
2 19 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.75%) SCCM
4 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.47%) Control-M
6 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) Istio
7 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) vRealize
7 2 (0.19%) WSUS
8 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.094%) Nessus
8 1 (0.094%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.094%) Puppet
8 1 (0.094%) SCOM
8 1 (0.094%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 125 (11.78%) SAP
3 99 (9.33%) Oracle
4 79 (7.45%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.70%) Workday
7 15 (1.41%) IFS
8 13 (1.23%) IBM
8 13 (1.23%) Splunk
9 11 (1.04%) Sage
10 10 (0.94%) Cisco
10 10 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.94%) Nexthink
10 10 (0.94%) VMware
11 9 (0.85%) Adobe
11 9 (0.85%) Apple
11 9 (0.85%) Google
12 8 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.66%) Autodesk
13 7 (0.66%) Okta