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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 102 170
Rank change year-on-year -29 +68 +11
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 879 659 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.63% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.87% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 402 352
10th Percentile £293 £300 £283
25th Percentile £400 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £774 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 39
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.45 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -31.89%
75th Percentile £49.38 £39.87 £35.50
90th Percentile £74.74 £73.50 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £30.50 £24.26
% change year-on-year -17.21% +25.75% -24.91%

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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -20 379 £510 -2.86% 159
South East -16 139 £500 - 137
North of England -70 124 £443 -6.68% 94
Midlands -34 111 £419 -7.56% 82
West Midlands -44 70 £500 -4.03% 44
Yorkshire -24 63 £500 - 39
South West -8 54 £450 +2.86% 55
North West -73 53 £435 -3.33% 44
East of England +5 49 £450 +2.86% 44
East Midlands 0 41 £402 +13.88% 38
North East -29 9 £363 -31.60% 12
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 50 (5.69%) Confluence
2 15 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.25%) CMS
4 9 (1.02%) CICS
4 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Moodle
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 95 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.96%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.34%) Simulink
8 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.71%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.80%) iTrent
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.68%) Magento
5 6 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.46%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Endur
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.23%) Primavera
9 2 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 85 (9.67%) Power Platform
2 67 (7.62%) Azure
3 33 (3.75%) AWS
4 29 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.50%) SaaS
6 21 (2.39%) GitHub
7 20 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (2.16%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
10 14 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.14%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.02%) GCP
14 8 (0.91%) Lucidchart
15 6 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
16 5 (0.57%) Azure AKS
16 5 (0.57%) Google Workspace
17 4 (0.46%) Miro
17 4 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.16%) Firewall
2 9 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.80%) WAN
4 6 (0.68%) DNS
4 6 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.57%) FTP
5 5 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.46%) Internet
6 4 (0.46%) LAN
6 4 (0.46%) MPLS
6 4 (0.46%) Network Security
6 4 (0.46%) SSL
6 4 (0.46%) Wireless
7 3 (0.34%) BGP
7 3 (0.34%) DHCP
7 3 (0.34%) DMZ
7 3 (0.34%) IPsec
7 3 (0.34%) VSAN
8 2 (0.23%) DWDM
8 2 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.96%) Power BI
2 13 (1.48%) Relational Database
2 13 (1.48%) Tableau
3 11 (1.25%) Metadata
4 9 (1.02%) DataStage
5 8 (0.91%) MySQL
6 7 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.23%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.23%) Big Data
9 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.23%) GIS
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 101 (11.49%) JIRA
2 19 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.37%) Git
4 8 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.57%) MLflow
6 4 (0.46%) GitLab
6 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.34%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.34%) JUnit
7 3 (0.34%) Postman
7 3 (0.34%) Selenium
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Gatling
8 2 (0.23%) JMeter
8 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.23%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.11%) WinAutomation
General
1 355 (40.39%) Finance
2 342 (38.91%) Social Skills
3 276 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 70 (7.96%) Banking
6 44 (5.01%) Legal
7 42 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (3.98%) Retail
9 34 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.05%) Local Government
13 15 (1.71%) Billing
14 14 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.59%) Marketing
15 13 (1.48%) Back Office
15 13 (1.48%) Front Office
16 12 (1.37%) General Ledger
17 11 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 271 (30.83%) Analyst
2 153 (17.41%) Business Analyst
3 87 (9.90%) Senior
4 80 (9.10%) Lead
5 65 (7.39%) Consultant
6 37 (4.21%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
8 35 (3.98%) Accountant
9 28 (3.19%) Data Analyst
10 24 (2.73%) Architect
11 21 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (2.28%) Project Officer
13 19 (2.16%) Developer
13 19 (2.16%) Management Accountant
14 18 (2.05%) Process Analyst
15 17 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
16 16 (1.82%) Security Analyst
16 16 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (1.71%) Administrator
17 15 (1.71%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.71%) Middleware
2 13 (1.48%) REST
3 10 (1.14%) .NET
4 9 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
5 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (0.80%) Spring Boot
6 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.57%) HTML
7 5 (0.57%) Kafka
7 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.46%) Flash
8 4 (0.46%) JSON
8 4 (0.46%) Node.js
8 4 (0.46%) Playwright
8 4 (0.46%) SOAP
8 4 (0.46%) STL
8 4 (0.46%) YAML
9 3 (0.34%) Pandas
9 3 (0.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.37%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.10%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.05%) CMDB
7 14 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.25%) Operational Technology
9 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.14%) Derivative
11 9 (1.02%) BYOD
11 9 (1.02%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.02%) VSAM
12 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.80%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.35%) Windows
2 35 (3.98%) Linux
3 22 (2.50%) Unix
4 10 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.02%) AIX
5 9 (1.02%) Solaris
5 9 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.57%) Android
8 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (27.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 223 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 153 (17.41%) Agile
5 142 (16.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 134 (15.24%) Decision-Making
7 109 (12.40%) Change Management
8 95 (10.81%) ERP
9 94 (10.69%) Workshop Facilitation
10 92 (10.47%) User Acceptance Testing
11 91 (10.35%) Validation
12 87 (9.90%) Business Analysis
13 84 (9.56%) Project Management
13 84 (9.56%) Requirements Gathering
14 83 (9.44%) Migration
15 82 (9.33%) AI
15 82 (9.33%) DevOps
16 75 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (7.74%) Data Analysis
18 64 (7.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 98 (11.15%) SQL
2 57 (6.48%) Python
3 30 (3.41%) Java
4 21 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.37%) Perl
5 12 (1.37%) VBA
6 9 (1.02%) COBOL
7 8 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.46%) Bash
8 4 (0.46%) MATLAB
8 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.46%) R
8 4 (0.46%) Rust
9 3 (0.34%) ABAP
9 3 (0.34%) ActionScript
9 3 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
9 3 (0.34%) C#
9 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.34%) Go
9 3 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 117 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 91 (10.35%) Degree
3 90 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.28%) ACCA
5 60 (6.83%) CIMA
6 18 (2.05%) PMP
7 17 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.68%) CBAP
13 6 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.57%) CISSP
14 5 (0.57%) IIBA
14 5 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 4 (0.46%) CISM
15 4 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.03%) QA
3 43 (4.89%) GDPR
4 37 (4.21%) PMO
5 29 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.93%) SLA
7 16 (1.82%) IFRS
8 14 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (1.48%) NIST
10 10 (1.14%) GAAP
11 9 (1.02%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.46%) Basel III
12 4 (0.46%) COBIT
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.34%) GRC
13 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.34%) PSD2
13 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 27 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.25%) Docker
3 7 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) vSphere
5 5 (0.57%) IAG
5 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.46%) GPFS
6 4 (0.46%) NFS
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (2.28%) Ansible
2 17 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.14%) Terraform
5 6 (0.68%) Grafana
5 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.46%) Kiali
7 3 (0.34%) WSUS
8 2 (0.23%) Control-M
8 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.23%) vRealize
9 1 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.11%) Argo
9 1 (0.11%) Autotask
9 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 88 (10.01%) SAP
2 82 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 64 (7.28%) Oracle
4 57 (6.48%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.50%) Workday
7 18 (2.05%) IFS
8 16 (1.82%) Splunk
8 16 (1.82%) VMware
9 14 (1.59%) IBM
10 13 (1.48%) Google
11 10 (1.14%) Cisco
12 9 (1.02%) Okta
13 8 (0.91%) Apple
13 8 (0.91%) Sonatype
14 6 (0.68%) Databricks
14 6 (0.68%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.68%) NEC
14 6 (0.68%) Sage
15 5 (0.57%) Murex