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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 98 171
Rank change year-on-year -25 +73 -7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 941 714 524
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 2.62% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.89% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 435 350
10th Percentile £313 £280 £298
25th Percentile £402 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.22% +1.06%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £680 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 43 33
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.92
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% -18.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.99 £36.50
90th Percentile £75.40 £68.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.70% +21.00% -20.63%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -18 416 £513 +2.50% 259
South East -16 152 £500 - 141
North of England -62 133 £467 -2.96% 107
Midlands -27 114 £428 -4.68% 84
West Midlands -45 70 £500 +0.40% 45
North West -69 67 £459 +2.00% 66
Yorkshire -34 58 £525 +3.70% 35
South West -3 55 £450 +5.88% 56
East of England +5 49 £450 -10.00% 60
East Midlands +4 44 £408 +63.00% 39
North East -36 9 £375 -29.25% 7
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 49 (5.21%) Confluence
2 20 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.28%) CMS
4 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.96%) CICS
6 5 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.32%) Moodle
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.32%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 94 (9.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.29%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.32%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.91%) NetSuite
3 13 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.17%) iTrent
5 10 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.64%) Magento
7 6 (0.64%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.64%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.53%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.43%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.43%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 96 (10.20%) Power Platform
2 85 (9.03%) Azure
3 38 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (3.93%) AWS
5 25 (2.66%) SaaS
6 23 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 21 (2.23%) GitHub
8 18 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
9 17 (1.81%) PowerApps
10 11 (1.17%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.96%) Lucidchart
12 8 (0.85%) GCP
12 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.64%) Datadog
14 6 (0.64%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.81%) Firewall
2 10 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.96%) WAN
4 6 (0.64%) LAN
4 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.53%) DNS
5 5 (0.53%) Network Security
5 5 (0.53%) VPN
6 4 (0.43%) MPLS
6 4 (0.43%) SSL
6 4 (0.43%) Wireless
7 3 (0.32%) BGP
7 3 (0.32%) DMZ
7 3 (0.32%) FTP
7 3 (0.32%) Internet
7 3 (0.32%) IPsec
7 3 (0.32%) VSAN
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.18%) Power BI
2 14 (1.49%) Tableau
3 11 (1.17%) Metadata
4 10 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.96%) DataStage
6 8 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.43%) MySQL
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.43%) Power Query
9 4 (0.43%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.32%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.21%) Big Data
11 2 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.21%) GIS
11 2 (0.21%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 95 (10.10%) JIRA
2 15 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.38%) Git
4 5 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.43%) JUnit
5 4 (0.43%) MLflow
5 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.32%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
6 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.21%) GitLab
7 2 (0.21%) Postman
7 2 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.21%) TestRail
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.11%) Gatling
8 1 (0.11%) Gradle
8 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 387 (41.13%) Finance
2 374 (39.74%) Social Skills
3 282 (29.97%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.40%) Banking
6 47 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (4.89%) Legal
8 41 (4.36%) Retail
9 39 (4.14%) Manufacturing
10 38 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.91%) Local Government
13 17 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.59%) General Ledger
16 14 (1.49%) Billing
16 14 (1.49%) Front Office
16 14 (1.49%) Marketing
17 13 (1.38%) Back Office
18 12 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 298 (31.67%) Analyst
2 178 (18.92%) Business Analyst
3 95 (10.10%) Senior
4 86 (9.14%) Lead
5 84 (8.93%) Consultant
6 42 (4.46%) Project Manager
7 38 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
8 36 (3.83%) Accountant
9 30 (3.19%) Data Analyst
10 25 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
11 22 (2.34%) Architect
11 22 (2.34%) Developer
11 22 (2.34%) Process Analyst
12 20 (2.13%) Senior Business Analyst
13 19 (2.02%) Administrator
13 19 (2.02%) Designer
13 19 (2.02%) Management Accountant
14 18 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (1.91%) Senior Manager
14 18 (1.91%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.02%) REST
2 14 (1.49%) Middleware
3 13 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (1.17%) .NET
5 9 (0.96%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.96%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.96%) SOAP
6 6 (0.64%) IDoc
7 5 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.53%) HTML
7 5 (0.53%) JDBC
7 5 (0.53%) JSON
7 5 (0.53%) React
7 5 (0.53%) STL
8 4 (0.43%) Node.js
8 4 (0.43%) Playwright
8 4 (0.43%) RESTful
8 4 (0.43%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.43%) YAML
9 3 (0.32%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.55%) CMDB
7 23 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.38%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.28%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.06%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.96%) BYOD
15 9 (0.96%) Derivative
15 9 (0.96%) FMCG
15 9 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.36%) Windows
2 27 (2.87%) Linux
3 23 (2.44%) Unix
4 12 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.96%) AIX
6 9 (0.96%) Solaris
7 5 (0.53%) Android
7 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (30.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 241 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
3 204 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 186 (19.77%) Agile
5 160 (17.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 141 (14.98%) Decision-Making
7 121 (12.86%) Workshop Facilitation
8 120 (12.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 120 (12.75%) Validation
9 117 (12.43%) ERP
10 115 (12.22%) Change Management
11 110 (11.69%) Migration
12 108 (11.48%) Requirements Gathering
13 105 (11.16%) Business Analysis
14 97 (10.31%) AI
15 88 (9.35%) Project Management
16 87 (9.25%) DevOps
17 83 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
18 78 (8.29%) Project Delivery
19 75 (7.97%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (10.31%) SQL
2 58 (6.16%) Python
3 30 (3.19%) Java
4 18 (1.91%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.59%) VBA
6 11 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.96%) ABAP
7 9 (0.96%) COBOL
8 8 (0.85%) Perl
9 7 (0.74%) Bash
9 7 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.43%) C#
11 4 (0.43%) Korn
11 4 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.43%) R
12 3 (0.32%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.32%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 87 (9.25%) Degree
4 60 (6.38%) ACCA
5 57 (6.06%) CIMA
6 19 (2.02%) PMP
7 18 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.06%) CBAP
11 10 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.74%) IIBA
13 6 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.64%) ISEB
14 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.43%) CCNP
15 4 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.16%) QA
3 44 (4.68%) GDPR
4 38 (4.04%) PMO
5 28 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.49%) IFRS
7 13 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.28%) NIST
8 12 (1.28%) SLA
9 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.96%) GAAP
11 6 (0.64%) GRC
12 3 (0.32%) Basel III
12 3 (0.32%) COBIT
12 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.21%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.28%) IAG
3 10 (1.06%) Docker
4 8 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.64%) vSphere
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) GPFS
8 3 (0.32%) NFS
8 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (2.13%) Ansible
2 19 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.17%) Terraform
5 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) SCCM
6 3 (0.32%) WSUS
7 2 (0.21%) Control-M
7 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.21%) vRealize
8 1 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Autotask
8 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (11.80%) SAP
2 105 (11.16%) Microsoft
3 76 (8.08%) Oracle
4 68 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.13%) Workday
7 18 (1.91%) IFS
8 17 (1.81%) IBM
8 17 (1.81%) VMware
9 15 (1.59%) Splunk
10 11 (1.17%) Google
11 10 (1.06%) Cisco
12 9 (0.96%) Apple
12 9 (0.96%) Okta
12 9 (0.96%) Sage
13 8 (0.85%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.74%) Adobe
14 7 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.64%) NEC
645 Process Improvement jobs in England