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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 108 162
Rank change year-on-year -3 +54 +38
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 824 649 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.43% 2.49% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.77% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 364 361
10th Percentile £255 £295 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £615
90th Percentile £652 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -7.32% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 26 33
10th Percentile - £17.05 £13.61
25th Percentile £13.33 £25.88 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.50 £32.66 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -3.96% -22.60%
75th Percentile £41.75 £40.56 £46.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.62 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £32.66 £42.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% -23.16% -3.26%

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 29,739 23,407 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.77% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,003 14,473 21,878
10th Percentile £308 £310 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,861 738 1,959
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +9 352 £500 -9.09% 125
North of England -20 163 £448 -10.40% 79
Midlands -14 98 £425 -2.07% 53
South East -30 97 £400 -23.44% 138
Yorkshire -13 79 £460 -23.14% 25
North West -31 70 £465 -4.62% 48
West Midlands -22 67 £450 +1.69% 34
South West -21 54 £500 -4.76% 28
East of England -9 44 £469 +15.46% 30
East Midlands -9 32 £395 +10.96% 19
North East -7 14 £356 -38.04% 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 56 (6.80%) Confluence
2 22 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.73%) CICS
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Apache
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 110 (13.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (5.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (4.13%) MS Visio
5 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.24%) Trello
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (4.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.09%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.61%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.61%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.49%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.36%) Endur
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (10.07%) Power Platform
2 51 (6.19%) Azure
3 45 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (5.22%) AWS
5 39 (4.73%) SaaS
6 30 (3.64%) GitHub
7 18 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.94%) GCP
9 13 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.33%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.09%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.09%) Google Workspace
12 8 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.85%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.73%) Miro
15 5 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.61%) OCI
15 5 (0.61%) OpenShift
15 5 (0.61%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.52%) Firewall
2 13 (1.58%) DNS
3 9 (1.09%) VPN
4 6 (0.73%) DHCP
4 6 (0.73%) HTTP
4 6 (0.73%) Internet
5 5 (0.61%) FTP
5 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.49%) WAN
7 3 (0.36%) LAN
7 3 (0.36%) Network Security
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.24%) DWDM
8 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.24%) SSH
8 2 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.24%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.12%) 5G
9 1 (0.12%) IMAP
9 1 (0.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (9.22%) Power BI
2 21 (2.55%) MySQL
2 21 (2.55%) Relational Database
3 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.33%) SAP HANA
3 11 (1.33%) Tableau
4 7 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.73%) DataStage
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (0.73%) Power Query
6 5 (0.61%) Metadata
7 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.36%) Big Data
8 3 (0.36%) Looker
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.24%) ImageNet
Development Applications
1 104 (12.62%) JIRA
2 47 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.06%) GitLab
4 15 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (1.46%) Postman
6 11 (1.33%) Git
7 8 (0.97%) Jaeger
8 6 (0.73%) Appium
9 5 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.61%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.49%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.49%) Selenium
11 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.36%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.24%) MLflow
12 2 (0.24%) TestRail
13 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 391 (47.45%) Social Skills
2 280 (33.98%) Finance
3 209 (25.36%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.83%) Banking
5 72 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 31 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (2.91%) Legal
11 23 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.67%) Marketing
13 21 (2.55%) Billing
13 21 (2.55%) Manufacturing
14 20 (2.43%) Financial Institution
15 18 (2.18%) Retail
16 16 (1.94%) Law
17 12 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.46%) Retail Banking
18 11 (1.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 265 (32.16%) Analyst
2 154 (18.69%) Business Analyst
3 89 (10.80%) Senior
4 80 (9.71%) Consultant
5 59 (7.16%) Lead
6 38 (4.61%) Project Manager
7 35 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
8 29 (3.52%) Data Analyst
8 29 (3.52%) SAP Consultant
9 28 (3.40%) Technical Analyst
10 25 (3.03%) Senior Business Analyst
10 25 (3.03%) Technical Support
11 22 (2.67%) IT Support
12 21 (2.55%) Senior Consultant
13 18 (2.18%) Administrator
14 17 (2.06%) Developer
14 17 (2.06%) Process Analyst
14 17 (2.06%) Support Analyst
14 17 (2.06%) Technical Business Analyst
15 15 (1.82%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.91%) Web Services
2 20 (2.43%) Playwright
3 18 (2.18%) GraphQL
3 18 (2.18%) Node.js
3 18 (2.18%) Vitest
4 15 (1.82%) Middleware
5 14 (1.70%) SAP Fiori
6 12 (1.46%) Kafka
7 11 (1.33%) BAPI
7 11 (1.33%) REST
7 11 (1.33%) SOAP
8 10 (1.21%) XML
9 9 (1.09%) YAML
10 8 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (0.97%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.85%) .NET
11 7 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.85%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.73%) HTML
13 5 (0.61%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.16%) Onboarding
2 27 (3.28%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.28%) Product Ownership
2 27 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 22 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.58%) CMDB
7 13 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.58%) Replication
7 13 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.21%) PMI
10 9 (1.09%) Derivative
10 9 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.97%) NHS
12 7 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.77%) Windows
2 47 (5.70%) Linux
3 36 (4.37%) Unix
4 14 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.21%) Android
6 9 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.85%) VMS
8 6 (0.73%) AIX
8 6 (0.73%) Solaris
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
2 175 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 173 (21.00%) Agile
4 162 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 138 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (13.23%) Project Management
7 107 (12.99%) Decision-Making
8 97 (11.77%) Change Management
9 94 (11.41%) DevOps
10 92 (11.17%) Workshop Facilitation
11 85 (10.32%) Business Analysis
12 78 (9.47%) Coaching
13 76 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
14 69 (8.37%) Roadmaps
15 67 (8.13%) Data Analysis
15 67 (8.13%) Requirements Gathering
16 65 (7.89%) Migration
17 64 (7.77%) CI/CD
17 64 (7.77%) Project Delivery
18 63 (7.65%) AI
Programming Languages
1 103 (12.50%) SQL
2 54 (6.55%) Python
3 37 (4.49%) Java
4 29 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.79%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.55%) Perl
7 18 (2.18%) ABAP
8 11 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.97%) Rust
10 7 (0.85%) C#
11 6 (0.73%) Bash
11 6 (0.73%) COBOL
11 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.73%) VBA
12 5 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.61%) Swift
13 4 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.49%) PHP
13 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 114 (13.83%) Degree
2 108 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 77 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.52%) Master's Degree
5 25 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.79%) PMP
8 20 (2.43%) ACCA
9 16 (1.94%) CIMA
10 13 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.21%) MBA
14 8 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.85%) CISSP
16 6 (0.73%) CISM
16 6 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.61%) CBAP
18 4 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.28%) QA
2 51 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.88%) PMO
4 24 (2.91%) GDPR
5 18 (2.18%) SLA
6 13 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.97%) Basel III
9 8 (0.97%) IFRS
10 7 (0.85%) NIST
11 5 (0.61%) GAAP
11 5 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.36%) GRC
13 3 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (4.37%) Docker
2 32 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.49%) GPFS
4 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.36%) NFS
6 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.24%) Xen
7 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Postfix
7 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.16%) Ansible
3 15 (1.82%) Terraform
4 14 (1.70%) Grafana
5 11 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.97%) Kiali
6 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.49%) QRadar
9 3 (0.36%) SCCM
10 2 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 108 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.47%) SAP
3 50 (6.07%) Oracle
3 50 (6.07%) ServiceNow
4 28 (3.40%) Splunk
5 23 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.79%) Workday
6 18 (2.18%) Google
7 15 (1.82%) Adobe
8 14 (1.70%) Sonatype
9 12 (1.46%) IBM
10 10 (1.21%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.09%) VMware
12 8 (0.97%) Ariba
13 7 (0.85%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.85%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.61%) Cisco
14 5 (0.61%) Computacenter
14 5 (0.61%) Databricks
15 4 (0.49%) Planview