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

 6 months to
3 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 99 170
Rank change year-on-year -23 +71 -13
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 991 713 492
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 2.57% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 2.83% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 431 326
10th Percentile £313 £283 £319
25th Percentile £405 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £589 £600 £618
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 45 25
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £14.11
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49.69 £35.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £74.58 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £24.26
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.69% -19.15%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -3 442 £520 +4.00% 377
South East -20 156 £500 - 197
North of England -57 141 £469 -3.79% 144
Midlands -23 124 £440 -1.57% 108
West Midlands -42 78 £500 +5.26% 74
North West -63 75 £467 +0.97% 81
Yorkshire -24 59 £500 -2.91% 53
South West +4 58 £456 +7.18% 64
East of England +15 54 £450 -10.00% 67
East Midlands 0 46 £408 +63.00% 34
North East -33 8 £400 -24.53% 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 47 (4.74%) Confluence
2 22 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.21%) CMS
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.61%) CICS
6 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.30%) Moodle
7 3 (0.30%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 99 (9.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.30%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.30%) ProjectWise
7 3 (0.30%) Revit
7 3 (0.30%) Simulink
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.82%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.21%) iTrent
5 10 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.61%) Magento
8 6 (0.61%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
10 4 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.40%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.40%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (10.39%) Power Platform
2 86 (8.68%) Azure
3 39 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (3.73%) AWS
5 27 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (2.72%) SaaS
6 23 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (2.32%) Entra ID
7 20 (2.02%) PowerApps
7 20 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
8 17 (1.72%) Power Automate
9 16 (1.61%) GitHub
10 9 (0.91%) Lucidchart
10 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (0.81%) GCP
12 7 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.61%) Intacct
13 6 (0.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.51%) Firewall
2 11 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.01%) WAN
4 7 (0.71%) LAN
5 6 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.50%) DNS
6 5 (0.50%) Network Security
6 5 (0.50%) SSL
6 5 (0.50%) VPN
7 4 (0.40%) MPLS
7 4 (0.40%) Wireless
8 3 (0.30%) BGP
8 3 (0.30%) DMZ
8 3 (0.30%) FTP
8 3 (0.30%) Internet
8 3 (0.30%) IPsec
8 3 (0.30%) VSAN
9 2 (0.20%) DHCP
9 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.38%) Power BI
2 15 (1.51%) Tableau
3 12 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.11%) Metadata
5 8 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.61%) DataStage
7 6 (0.61%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.40%) MySQL
9 4 (0.40%) Power Query
10 3 (0.30%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.20%) Big Data
11 2 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.20%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.20%) Parquet
11 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (8.98%) JIRA
2 12 (1.21%) Git
3 11 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.40%) JUnit
4 4 (0.40%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.30%) IntelliJ
5 3 (0.30%) MLflow
5 3 (0.30%) Selenium
5 3 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.20%) GitLab
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.20%) TestRail
7 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.10%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.10%) JMeter
7 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.10%) Subversion
General
1 409 (41.27%) Finance
2 391 (39.46%) Social Skills
3 299 (30.17%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (8.88%) Banking
5 79 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 49 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (4.64%) Manufacturing
7 46 (4.64%) Retail
8 45 (4.54%) Legal
9 39 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.02%) Local Government
12 17 (1.72%) Marketing
13 15 (1.51%) Front Office
13 15 (1.51%) General Ledger
13 15 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.31%) Billing
16 12 (1.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 317 (31.99%) Analyst
2 189 (19.07%) Business Analyst
3 102 (10.29%) Senior
4 91 (9.18%) Lead
5 89 (8.98%) Consultant
6 47 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
7 41 (4.14%) Accountant
8 40 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 32 (3.23%) Data Analyst
10 28 (2.83%) Senior Business Analyst
11 26 (2.62%) Financial Analyst
12 25 (2.52%) Developer
13 24 (2.42%) Process Analyst
14 22 (2.22%) Administrator
14 22 (2.22%) Architect
15 19 (1.92%) Management Accountant
16 18 (1.82%) IT Manager
16 18 (1.82%) Systems Analyst
17 17 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
17 17 (1.72%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.92%) REST
3 13 (1.31%) .NET
4 11 (1.11%) Middleware
5 9 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.91%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.91%) SOAP
6 6 (0.61%) IDoc
6 6 (0.61%) JSON
7 5 (0.50%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.50%) HTML
7 5 (0.50%) JDBC
7 5 (0.50%) React
7 5 (0.50%) STL
8 4 (0.40%) Node.js
8 4 (0.40%) Playwright
8 4 (0.40%) RESTful
8 4 (0.40%) YAML
9 3 (0.30%) OpenID
9 3 (0.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.37%) Onboarding
2 50 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 50 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (2.22%) CMDB
4 22 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.41%) Operational Technology
8 13 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.21%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.21%) Reinsurance
10 11 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.01%) FMCG
11 10 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.81%) Derivative
13 8 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.04%) Windows
2 23 (2.32%) Linux
3 20 (2.02%) Unix
4 12 (1.21%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.61%) AIX
6 6 (0.61%) Android
6 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.61%) Solaris
7 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 251 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
3 214 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 194 (19.58%) Agile
5 184 (18.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 150 (15.14%) Decision-Making
7 139 (14.03%) User Acceptance Testing
8 138 (13.93%) Workshop Facilitation
9 134 (13.52%) ERP
10 132 (13.32%) Change Management
11 126 (12.71%) Validation
12 121 (12.21%) Business Analysis
12 121 (12.21%) Requirements Gathering
13 120 (12.11%) Migration
14 110 (11.10%) AI
15 92 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
16 90 (9.08%) User Stories
17 87 (8.78%) Project Management
18 84 (8.48%) DevOps
19 83 (8.38%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 104 (10.49%) SQL
2 57 (5.75%) Python
3 29 (2.93%) Java
4 17 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.51%) VBA
6 14 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.91%) ABAP
8 7 (0.71%) Bash
8 7 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.71%) Perl
9 6 (0.61%) C#
9 6 (0.61%) COBOL
10 5 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.50%) R
11 4 (0.40%) Korn
11 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.30%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.30%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.30%) Go
13 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 142 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 109 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.78%) Degree
4 62 (6.26%) ACCA
5 59 (5.95%) CIMA
6 21 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.92%) PMP
8 17 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.91%) CBAP
13 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.61%) IIBA
13 6 (0.61%) ISEB
13 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.40%) CCNP
14 4 (0.40%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.05%) QA
3 42 (4.24%) GDPR
4 39 (3.94%) PMO
5 25 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.41%) SLA
7 13 (1.31%) NIST
7 13 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.21%) IFRS
9 10 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.01%) GRC
10 9 (0.91%) GAAP
11 4 (0.40%) COBIT
12 3 (0.30%) Basel III
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.30%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.21%) IAG
3 9 (0.91%) Docker
4 7 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.61%) vSphere
6 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.30%) GPFS
8 3 (0.30%) NFS
8 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (2.02%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.61%) Ansible
3 15 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.31%) Terraform
5 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) SCCM
7 3 (0.30%) WSUS
8 2 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.10%) Argo
9 1 (0.10%) Autotask
9 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 116 (11.71%) SAP
3 84 (8.48%) Oracle
4 71 (7.16%) ServiceNow
5 38 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.22%) Workday
7 18 (1.82%) IFS
8 14 (1.41%) IBM
8 14 (1.41%) VMware
9 12 (1.21%) Google
9 12 (1.21%) Splunk
10 10 (1.01%) Cisco
11 9 (0.91%) Apple
11 9 (0.91%) Okta
12 8 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.81%) Sage
13 7 (0.71%) Adobe
13 7 (0.71%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.61%) Databricks
14 6 (0.61%) ForgeRock
877 Process Improvement jobs in England