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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 101 173
Rank change year-on-year -25 +72 -8
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 930 706 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.60% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.86% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 433 355
10th Percentile £313 £283 £275
25th Percentile £402 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% +0.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £680 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 42 36
10th Percentile £13.33 £18.31 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £23.67
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +26.74% -23.02%
75th Percentile £49.38 £36.24 £36.13
90th Percentile £75.40 £69.38 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.39% +22.00% -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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £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 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -25 404 £511 +2.25% 189
South East -8 154 £500 +2.56% 118
North of England -62 135 £465 -4.62% 100
Midlands -33 112 £425 -5.24% 68
West Midlands -52 68 £500 +5.26% 42
North West -70 67 £454 +0.89% 56
Yorkshire -23 60 £525 +5.00% 39
South West -7 54 £430 +1.18% 50
East of England +9 49 £450 +20.00% 56
East Midlands +3 44 £408 +63.00% 26
North East -31 9 £375 -29.25% 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 47 (5.05%) Confluence
2 17 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.18%) CMS
4 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.97%) CICS
6 5 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.32%) Moodle
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.32%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
8 2 (0.22%) 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 98 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 19 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.32%) Simulink
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.22%) 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 33 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.83%) NetSuite
3 13 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.18%) iTrent
5 10 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.65%) Magento
7 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.65%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.54%) 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%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.32%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 2 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 94 (10.11%) Power Platform
2 82 (8.82%) Azure
3 35 (3.76%) AWS
4 33 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (2.80%) SaaS
6 23 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 22 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (2.37%) GitHub
8 18 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
9 16 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.97%) Lucidchart
12 8 (0.86%) GCP
13 7 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.65%) Datadog
15 5 (0.54%) Azure AKS
15 5 (0.54%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.83%) Firewall
2 10 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.97%) WAN
4 6 (0.65%) LAN
4 6 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.54%) DNS
5 5 (0.54%) Network Security
5 5 (0.54%) 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 (0.22%) DHCP
8 2 (0.22%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.17%) Power BI
2 13 (1.40%) Tableau
3 11 (1.18%) Metadata
4 10 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.97%) DataStage
6 8 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (0.54%) MySQL
8 5 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.32%) Power Query
10 3 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.32%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.22%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.22%) GIS
11 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (10.00%) JIRA
2 16 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.40%) Git
4 6 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.43%) JUnit
5 4 (0.43%) MLflow
6 3 (0.32%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
6 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.22%) Postman
7 2 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.22%) TestRail
8 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Gatling
8 1 (0.11%) Gradle
8 1 (0.11%) Hudson
8 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 380 (40.86%) Finance
2 364 (39.14%) Social Skills
3 282 (30.32%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.96%) Banking
6 47 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (4.73%) Legal
8 38 (4.09%) Retail
9 37 (3.98%) Manufacturing
10 36 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.94%) Local Government
12 18 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.61%) Billing
13 15 (1.61%) General Ledger
14 14 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.40%) Back Office
15 13 (1.40%) Front Office
16 12 (1.29%) Marketing
17 10 (1.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 291 (31.29%) Analyst
2 176 (18.92%) Business Analyst
3 95 (10.22%) Senior
4 85 (9.14%) Lead
5 84 (9.03%) Consultant
6 42 (4.52%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
8 36 (3.87%) Accountant
9 29 (3.12%) Data Analyst
10 24 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
11 22 (2.37%) Architect
11 22 (2.37%) Process Analyst
12 21 (2.26%) Developer
13 20 (2.15%) Senior Business Analyst
14 19 (2.04%) Management Accountant
15 18 (1.94%) Administrator
15 18 (1.94%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (1.94%) Designer
15 18 (1.94%) Senior Manager
16 17 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.04%) REST
2 14 (1.51%) Middleware
3 13 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (1.08%) .NET
5 9 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.97%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.97%) SOAP
6 6 (0.65%) IDoc
7 5 (0.54%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.54%) HTML
7 5 (0.54%) JDBC
7 5 (0.54%) React
7 5 (0.54%) STL
8 4 (0.43%) JSON
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%) Web Services
8 4 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.31%) Onboarding
2 39 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.47%) CMDB
8 17 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.29%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.08%) Derivative
14 9 (0.97%) BYOD
14 9 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.97%) VSAM
15 8 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.62%) Windows
2 28 (3.01%) Linux
3 24 (2.58%) Unix
4 12 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.97%) AIX
6 9 (0.97%) Solaris
7 5 (0.54%) Android
7 5 (0.54%) 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
1 277 (29.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 244 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 174 (18.71%) Agile
5 159 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 141 (15.16%) Decision-Making
7 117 (12.58%) Workshop Facilitation
8 116 (12.47%) User Acceptance Testing
8 116 (12.47%) Validation
9 113 (12.15%) ERP
10 108 (11.61%) Change Management
11 104 (11.18%) Requirements Gathering
12 103 (11.08%) Migration
13 102 (10.97%) Business Analysis
14 93 (10.00%) AI
15 89 (9.57%) Project Management
16 85 (9.14%) DevOps
17 82 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
18 75 (8.06%) Project Delivery
19 73 (7.85%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (10.43%) SQL
2 57 (6.13%) Python
3 31 (3.33%) Java
4 19 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.61%) VBA
6 11 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.97%) ABAP
7 9 (0.97%) COBOL
7 9 (0.97%) Perl
8 7 (0.75%) Bash
9 6 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.54%) MATLAB
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%) C#
12 3 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 134 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 100 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 87 (9.35%) Degree
4 61 (6.56%) ACCA
5 58 (6.24%) CIMA
6 18 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.83%) PMP
8 16 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.08%) CBAP
11 10 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.65%) ISEB
13 5 (0.54%) IIBA
14 4 (0.43%) CCNP
14 4 (0.43%) CISSP
14 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.49%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.70%) QA
3 44 (4.73%) GDPR
4 37 (3.98%) PMO
5 28 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.61%) IFRS
7 13 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.29%) NIST
8 12 (1.29%) SLA
9 10 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.97%) GAAP
11 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.65%) GRC
13 3 (0.32%) COBIT
13 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.22%) Basel III
14 2 (0.22%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.18%) IAG
3 10 (1.08%) Docker
4 8 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.65%) vSphere
6 5 (0.54%) 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 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (2.26%) Ansible
2 19 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.18%) Terraform
5 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) SCCM
6 3 (0.32%) WSUS
7 2 (0.22%) Control-M
7 2 (0.22%) Grafana
7 2 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.22%) 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
1 109 (11.72%) SAP
2 105 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 76 (8.17%) Oracle
4 67 (7.20%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.26%) Workday
7 18 (1.94%) IFS
8 17 (1.83%) VMware
9 16 (1.72%) Splunk
10 13 (1.40%) IBM
11 11 (1.18%) Google
12 10 (1.08%) Cisco
13 9 (0.97%) Apple
13 9 (0.97%) Okta
14 8 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.86%) Sage
15 7 (0.75%) Adobe
15 7 (0.75%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.65%) ForgeRock
16 6 (0.65%) NEC
520 Process Improvement jobs in England