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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 97 165
Rank change year-on-year -26 +68 +3
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 962 712 523
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 2.60% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.87% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 431 349
10th Percentile £313 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +1.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £624
90th Percentile £680 £725 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 43 31
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.89
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +20.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £51.06 £35.99 £35.50
90th Percentile £75.40 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.25 £24.63
% change year-on-year -15.70% +22.83% -22.80%

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 38,365 24,818 30,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 90.70% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,915 19,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,336 1,933
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%
75th Percentile £69.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -21 422 £513 +2.50% 242
South East -7 156 £500 +2.56% 154
North of England -51 141 £469 -2.55% 107
Midlands -29 117 £430 -3.80% 91
West Midlands -46 73 £500 +0.40% 53
North West -60 73 £462 +2.67% 62
Yorkshire -22 60 £525 +3.70% 37
South West -2 57 £456 +7.18% 65
East of England +7 49 £450 -10.00% 62
East Midlands +4 44 £408 +63.00% 38
North East -29 9 £375 -29.25% 9
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 (5.20%) Confluence
2 21 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.25%) CMS
4 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.94%) CICS
6 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.31%) Moodle
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.31%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) 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
Applications
1 93 (9.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.31%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.10%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.10%) Revit
9 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.87%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.14%) iTrent
5 10 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.62%) Magento
7 6 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.62%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.52%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.52%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.42%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.42%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.31%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 100 (10.40%) Power Platform
2 83 (8.63%) Azure
3 40 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.74%) AWS
5 26 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (2.60%) SaaS
7 23 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 22 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.08%) GitHub
9 20 (2.08%) PowerApps
10 18 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
11 15 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.94%) Lucidchart
13 8 (0.83%) GCP
13 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (0.62%) Datadog
15 6 (0.62%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.77%) Firewall
2 10 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.94%) WAN
4 6 (0.62%) LAN
4 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.52%) DNS
5 5 (0.52%) Network Security
5 5 (0.52%) VPN
6 4 (0.42%) MPLS
6 4 (0.42%) SSL
6 4 (0.42%) Wireless
7 3 (0.31%) BGP
7 3 (0.31%) DMZ
7 3 (0.31%) FTP
7 3 (0.31%) Internet
7 3 (0.31%) IPsec
7 3 (0.31%) VSAN
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.32%) Power BI
2 14 (1.46%) Tableau
3 11 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.14%) Metadata
4 9 (0.94%) DataStage
5 8 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.52%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.42%) Power Query
10 3 (0.31%) MySQL
10 3 (0.31%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.21%) Big Data
11 2 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.21%) GIS
11 2 (0.21%) Parquet
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (9.98%) JIRA
2 15 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.25%) Git
4 5 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.42%) JUnit
5 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.31%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.31%) MLflow
6 3 (0.31%) Selenium
6 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.21%) GitLab
7 2 (0.21%) Postman
7 2 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.21%) TestRail
8 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.10%) Gradle
8 1 (0.10%) Hudson
8 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
General
1 399 (41.48%) Finance
2 380 (39.50%) Social Skills
3 288 (29.94%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.63%) Banking
5 81 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 48 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (4.68%) Legal
8 42 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (4.26%) Retail
10 40 (4.16%) Manufacturing
11 33 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.18%) Local Government
13 17 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.56%) General Ledger
16 14 (1.46%) Billing
16 14 (1.46%) Front Office
16 14 (1.46%) Marketing
17 13 (1.35%) Back Office
18 12 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 306 (31.81%) Analyst
2 183 (19.02%) Business Analyst
3 100 (10.40%) Senior
4 89 (9.25%) Lead
5 86 (8.94%) Consultant
6 43 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
7 41 (4.26%) Project Manager
8 38 (3.95%) Accountant
9 32 (3.33%) Data Analyst
10 26 (2.70%) Financial Analyst
11 24 (2.49%) Developer
11 24 (2.49%) Senior Business Analyst
12 23 (2.39%) Process Analyst
13 22 (2.29%) Architect
14 19 (1.98%) Administrator
14 19 (1.98%) Designer
14 19 (1.98%) Management Accountant
15 18 (1.87%) IT Manager
15 18 (1.87%) Senior Manager
15 18 (1.87%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.98%) REST
2 16 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (1.46%) Middleware
4 12 (1.25%) .NET
5 9 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.94%) SAP PI
5 9 (0.94%) SOAP
6 6 (0.62%) IDoc
6 6 (0.62%) JSON
7 5 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.52%) HTML
7 5 (0.52%) JDBC
7 5 (0.52%) React
7 5 (0.52%) STL
8 4 (0.42%) Node.js
8 4 (0.42%) Playwright
8 4 (0.42%) RESTful
8 4 (0.42%) YAML
9 3 (0.31%) OAuth
9 3 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.38%) Onboarding
2 46 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.60%) CMDB
5 25 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.25%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.94%) BYOD
12 9 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.94%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.16%) Windows
2 26 (2.70%) Linux
3 22 (2.29%) Unix
4 12 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.94%) AIX
6 9 (0.94%) Solaris
7 5 (0.52%) Android
7 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (30.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 246 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
3 207 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 191 (19.85%) Agile
5 173 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 143 (14.86%) Decision-Making
7 128 (13.31%) User Acceptance Testing
7 128 (13.31%) Workshop Facilitation
8 123 (12.79%) Validation
9 122 (12.68%) ERP
10 121 (12.58%) Change Management
11 116 (12.06%) Migration
12 113 (11.75%) Business Analysis
12 113 (11.75%) Requirements Gathering
13 102 (10.60%) AI
14 88 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
14 88 (9.15%) Project Management
15 86 (8.94%) DevOps
16 81 (8.42%) User Stories
17 79 (8.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 97 (10.08%) SQL
2 57 (5.93%) Python
3 29 (3.01%) Java
4 17 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.56%) VBA
6 11 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.94%) ABAP
7 9 (0.94%) COBOL
8 7 (0.73%) Bash
8 7 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.73%) Perl
9 5 (0.52%) C#
9 5 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.42%) Korn
10 4 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.42%) R
11 3 (0.31%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.31%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.31%) Go
12 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 103 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.84%) Degree
4 62 (6.44%) ACCA
5 59 (6.13%) CIMA
6 20 (2.08%) PMP
7 19 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.87%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.04%) CBAP
14 9 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.73%) IIBA
15 7 (0.73%) ISEB
16 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.42%) CCNP
17 4 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.24%) QA
3 43 (4.47%) GDPR
4 39 (4.05%) PMO
5 28 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.46%) IFRS
6 14 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.25%) NIST
7 12 (1.25%) SLA
8 10 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.94%) GAAP
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 3 (0.31%) Basel III
11 3 (0.31%) COBIT
11 3 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.25%) IAG
3 9 (0.94%) Docker
4 8 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.62%) vSphere
6 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) GPFS
8 3 (0.31%) NFS
8 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (2.08%) Ansible
2 19 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.14%) Terraform
5 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.31%) SCCM
6 3 (0.31%) WSUS
7 2 (0.21%) Control-M
7 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.21%) vRealize
8 1 (0.10%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Autotask
8 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (11.75%) SAP
2 111 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 79 (8.21%) Oracle
4 69 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.08%) Workday
7 18 (1.87%) IFS
8 17 (1.77%) IBM
8 17 (1.77%) VMware
9 15 (1.56%) Splunk
10 11 (1.14%) Google
11 10 (1.04%) Cisco
12 9 (0.94%) Apple
12 9 (0.94%) Okta
12 9 (0.94%) Sage
13 8 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.73%) Adobe
14 7 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.62%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.62%) Nexthink