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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 110 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,096 696 621
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.48% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.73% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 427 358
10th Percentile £313 £261 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -9.02% +4.20%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 39 28
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.46 £14.28
25th Percentile £14.82 £20.63 £15.57
Median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £49.75 £40.33 £57.02
90th Percentile £69.95 £59.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -27.60% -7.69% +5.69%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -5 520 £525 +7.88% 1,192
North of England -43 160 £466 -6.80% 357
South East -8 156 £500 -2.44% 429
Midlands +2 146 £450 +5.88% 257
North West -39 87 £460 -8.10% 174
West Midlands -31 84 £500 +5.26% 159
Yorkshire -6 69 £459 -5.95% 131
East Midlands +26 62 £425 +70.00% 98
South West -6 49 £500 +66.67% 166
East of England -4 47 £449 +3.10% 154
North East -39 5 £488 +25.81% 58
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 55 (5.02%) Confluence
2 35 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.28%) CMS
4 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.27%) Moodle
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 1 (0.091%) Apache
6 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.091%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.091%) Appian
6 1 (0.091%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.091%) MTS
6 1 (0.091%) nginx
6 1 (0.091%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.091%) SAS
6 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.091%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 131 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.10%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.64%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.55%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.55%) Revit
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Simulink
10 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.091%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 45 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (1.09%) iTrent
6 9 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.64%) Magento
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.46%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.46%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.46%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.46%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 123 (11.22%) Power Platform
2 98 (8.94%) Azure
3 58 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.47%) AWS
4 38 (3.47%) SaaS
5 36 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (2.37%) Power Automate
7 25 (2.28%) Entra ID
7 25 (2.28%) PowerApps
8 24 (2.19%) SuccessFactors
9 23 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.46%) GitHub
12 12 (1.09%) Intacct
13 11 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.91%) Datadog
15 8 (0.73%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.64%) Lucidchart
16 7 (0.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.73%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.37%) Firewall
3 12 (1.09%) DNS
4 11 (1.00%) WAN
4 11 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.91%) VPN
6 9 (0.82%) LAN
7 8 (0.73%) Network Security
8 5 (0.46%) MPLS
8 5 (0.46%) Wireless
9 4 (0.36%) BGP
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) SSL
10 3 (0.27%) DHCP
10 3 (0.27%) DMZ
10 3 (0.27%) DWDM
10 3 (0.27%) Internet
10 3 (0.27%) IPsec
11 2 (0.18%) L2TP
11 2 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.39%) Power BI
2 19 (1.73%) Tableau
3 10 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.82%) Power Query
5 8 (0.73%) Metadata
5 8 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.36%) MySQL
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.36%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.18%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.18%) Big Data
11 2 (0.18%) Looker
11 2 (0.18%) Parquet
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 90 (8.21%) JIRA
2 9 (0.82%) Git
3 7 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.46%) JMeter
4 5 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.36%) eggPlant
5 4 (0.36%) GitLab
5 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.36%) Postman
5 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.27%) Appium
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
6 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.091%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.091%) JDeveloper
8 1 (0.091%) JUnit
8 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 486 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 453 (41.33%) Finance
3 332 (30.29%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (9.95%) Banking
5 86 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 74 (6.75%) Manufacturing
7 67 (6.11%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (4.74%) Retail
9 50 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (4.20%) Legal
11 45 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (2.28%) Marketing
13 24 (2.19%) Billing
14 23 (2.10%) Local Government
15 22 (2.01%) General Ledger
16 21 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.37%) Front Office
18 15 (1.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 337 (30.75%) Analyst
2 210 (19.16%) Business Analyst
3 104 (9.49%) Senior
4 103 (9.40%) Lead
5 88 (8.03%) Consultant
6 52 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (4.56%) Project Manager
8 37 (3.38%) Accountant
9 35 (3.19%) Senior Business Analyst
10 33 (3.01%) Data Analyst
11 30 (2.74%) Developer
12 27 (2.46%) Architect
13 25 (2.28%) Process Analyst
14 24 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
15 23 (2.10%) Systems Accountant
16 22 (2.01%) Administrator
16 22 (2.01%) Support Engineer
17 21 (1.92%) SAP Consultant
18 19 (1.73%) Systems Analyst
19 18 (1.64%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (1.64%) REST
3 14 (1.28%) Terraform
4 13 (1.19%) .NET
4 13 (1.19%) Middleware
4 13 (1.19%) SOAP
5 9 (0.82%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (0.73%) SAP PI
7 6 (0.55%) HTML
7 6 (0.55%) LDAP
7 6 (0.55%) OAuth
7 6 (0.55%) OAuth2
7 6 (0.55%) Web Services
8 5 (0.46%) IDoc
8 5 (0.46%) JDBC
8 5 (0.46%) React
9 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.36%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.36%) Kafka
9 4 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 97 (8.85%) Onboarding
2 61 (5.57%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.82%) CMDB
7 19 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.09%) FMCG
10 12 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.09%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.00%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.91%) Operational Technology
13 9 (0.82%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.02%) Windows
2 25 (2.28%) Linux
3 18 (1.64%) Unix
4 13 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.55%) Android
7 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.091%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (41.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 317 (28.92%) Problem-Solving
3 258 (23.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 232 (21.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 222 (20.26%) Agile
6 185 (16.88%) Workshop Facilitation
7 178 (16.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 168 (15.33%) Decision-Making
8 168 (15.33%) ERP
9 167 (15.24%) Requirements Gathering
10 160 (14.60%) Business Analysis
11 159 (14.51%) Change Management
11 159 (14.51%) Migration
12 156 (14.23%) Validation
13 134 (12.23%) AI
14 126 (11.50%) User Stories
15 124 (11.31%) Project Delivery
16 109 (9.95%) Data Analysis
17 107 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
18 105 (9.58%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 109 (9.95%) SQL
2 54 (4.93%) Python
3 29 (2.65%) Java
4 27 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.46%) VBA
7 9 (0.82%) Bash
8 8 (0.73%) ABAP
9 7 (0.64%) C#
9 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.55%) Korn
11 5 (0.46%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.46%) Perl
11 5 (0.46%) R
12 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.27%) Bicep
13 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.18%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 149 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 113 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.85%) Degree
4 52 (4.74%) ACCA
5 49 (4.47%) CIMA
6 27 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.37%) PMP
8 22 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 14 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.00%) CBAP
14 9 (0.82%) IIBA
15 8 (0.73%) ISEB
15 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
18 4 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (9.95%) Data Quality
2 62 (5.66%) QA
3 52 (4.74%) PMO
4 34 (3.10%) GDPR
5 20 (1.82%) GRC
5 20 (1.82%) SLA
6 13 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.19%) IFRS
7 12 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.91%) GAAP
9 10 (0.91%) NIST
10 6 (0.55%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.36%) COBIT
12 3 (0.27%) SEPA
12 3 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.18%) Basel III
13 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 34 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.37%) IAG
3 8 (0.73%) Docker
4 4 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.18%) GPFS
6 2 (0.18%) NFS
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.091%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.091%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.091%) Postfix
7 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.091%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (1.64%) Ansible
4 10 (0.91%) SCCM
5 7 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.36%) Control-M
7 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 2 (0.18%) Istio
8 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.18%) vRealize
9 1 (0.091%) Argo
9 1 (0.091%) Autotask
9 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.091%) Nessus
9 1 (0.091%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.091%) Puppet
9 1 (0.091%) SCOM
9 1 (0.091%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.091%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 211 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 148 (13.50%) SAP
3 106 (9.67%) Oracle
4 79 (7.21%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.01%) Workday
7 19 (1.73%) IBM
8 14 (1.28%) Sage
8 14 (1.28%) Splunk
9 11 (1.00%) IFS
10 10 (0.91%) Cisco
10 10 (0.91%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.91%) JD Edwards
10 10 (0.91%) Nexthink
11 9 (0.82%) Autodesk
12 8 (0.73%) Adobe
12 8 (0.73%) Apple
12 8 (0.73%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.64%) Zscaler