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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 111 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,115 695 623
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.49% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.74% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 426 362
10th Percentile £313 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -6.52% +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £683 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.21% -9.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 39 31
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.46 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.79 £21.02 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.61 £30.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% -0.40% -2.05%
75th Percentile £49.81 £40.33 £46.25
90th Percentile £70.05 £59.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £30.25 £29.31
% change year-on-year -28.20% +3.21% -6.95%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +5 528 £525 +6.06% 1,100
North of England -46 161 £470 -6.00% 321
South East -15 159 £500 -4.76% 408
Midlands +2 149 £450 +8.30% 225
North West -40 87 £467 -6.70% 161
West Midlands -23 85 £500 +5.26% 137
Yorkshire -9 68 £466 -5.62% 126
East Midlands +17 64 £425 +70.00% 88
South West -11 53 £500 +48.15% 140
East of England -18 47 £472 +8.51% 146
North East -38 7 £488 +6.27% 37
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 (4.93%) Confluence
2 35 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.27%) Moodle
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 1 (0.090%) Apache
6 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.090%) CICS
6 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.090%) MTS
6 1 (0.090%) nginx
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.090%) SAS
6 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 135 (12.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.05%) MS Visio
4 26 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.63%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.54%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.54%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.54%) Revit
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Simulink
10 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.090%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 41 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.70%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (1.08%) iTrent
6 10 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.63%) Magento
9 6 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.54%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 4 (0.36%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 129 (11.57%) Power Platform
2 100 (8.97%) Azure
3 57 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (3.59%) SaaS
5 37 (3.32%) AWS
5 37 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 26 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 25 (2.24%) PowerApps
8 24 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
10 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 17 (1.52%) GitHub
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (0.99%) Intacct
13 10 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (0.90%) Datadog
14 9 (0.81%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.72%) Lucidchart
16 7 (0.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.35%) Firewall
3 11 (0.99%) WAN
4 10 (0.90%) DNS
4 10 (0.90%) VPN
4 10 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.81%) LAN
6 8 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.45%) MPLS
7 5 (0.45%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) BGP
8 4 (0.36%) SSL
9 3 (0.27%) Broadband
9 3 (0.27%) DHCP
9 3 (0.27%) DMZ
9 3 (0.27%) DWDM
9 3 (0.27%) Internet
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
10 2 (0.18%) L2TP
10 2 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (8.79%) Power BI
2 21 (1.88%) Tableau
3 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.81%) Metadata
4 9 (0.81%) Power Query
4 9 (0.81%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.36%) MySQL
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
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 (8.07%) JIRA
2 10 (0.90%) Git
3 8 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) JMeter
4 5 (0.45%) 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%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) Appium
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) JUnit
7 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.090%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.090%) JDeveloper
8 1 (0.090%) Visual Studio
General
1 492 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 464 (41.61%) Finance
3 334 (29.96%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (10.04%) Banking
5 85 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 68 (6.10%) Manufacturing
7 62 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (4.66%) Retail
9 50 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (4.22%) Legal
11 46 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (2.42%) Marketing
13 24 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (2.06%) Billing
14 23 (2.06%) General Ledger
14 23 (2.06%) Local Government
15 22 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.70%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.52%) Front Office
18 16 (1.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 342 (30.67%) Analyst
2 208 (18.65%) Business Analyst
3 106 (9.51%) Lead
4 104 (9.33%) Senior
5 92 (8.25%) Consultant
6 53 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 38 (3.41%) Accountant
9 35 (3.14%) Senior Business Analyst
10 33 (2.96%) Data Analyst
11 30 (2.69%) Developer
12 27 (2.42%) Financial Analyst
13 26 (2.33%) Process Analyst
14 25 (2.24%) Architect
15 23 (2.06%) Support Engineer
16 22 (1.97%) Administrator
17 19 (1.70%) SAP Consultant
17 19 (1.70%) Senior Manager
17 19 (1.70%) Systems Accountant
17 19 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.79%) REST
3 14 (1.26%) Terraform
4 13 (1.17%) .NET
4 13 (1.17%) Middleware
4 13 (1.17%) SOAP
5 9 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (0.72%) SAP PI
7 6 (0.54%) HTML
7 6 (0.54%) LDAP
7 6 (0.54%) OAuth
7 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
7 6 (0.54%) Web Services
8 5 (0.45%) IDoc
8 5 (0.45%) JDBC
8 5 (0.45%) JSON
8 5 (0.45%) React
9 4 (0.36%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.36%) OpenID
9 4 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.34%) Onboarding
2 63 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (2.06%) CMDB
7 20 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 20 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.08%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.08%) Reinsurance
11 11 (0.99%) FMCG
11 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.84%) Windows
2 26 (2.33%) Linux
3 19 (1.70%) Unix
4 13 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.54%) Android
6 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.090%) AIX
10 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.090%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.090%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (39.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 316 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
3 266 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 229 (20.54%) Agile
4 229 (20.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 181 (16.23%) Workshop Facilitation
6 177 (15.87%) User Acceptance Testing
7 172 (15.43%) ERP
8 170 (15.25%) Decision-Making
9 164 (14.71%) Change Management
10 163 (14.62%) Requirements Gathering
11 156 (13.99%) Business Analysis
12 154 (13.81%) Migration
12 154 (13.81%) Validation
13 137 (12.29%) AI
14 121 (10.85%) Project Delivery
15 120 (10.76%) User Stories
16 114 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
17 113 (10.13%) Data Analysis
18 103 (9.24%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (10.40%) SQL
2 65 (5.83%) Python
3 30 (2.69%) Java
4 25 (2.24%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.52%) VBA
7 9 (0.81%) Bash
8 8 (0.72%) ABAP
9 7 (0.63%) C#
9 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.54%) Korn
10 6 (0.54%) Perl
10 6 (0.54%) R
11 5 (0.45%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.45%) 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
1 151 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 117 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.13%) Degree
4 59 (5.29%) ACCA
5 56 (5.02%) CIMA
6 28 (2.51%) PMP
7 25 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 23 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 15 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.90%) CBAP
14 8 (0.72%) IIBA
14 8 (0.72%) ISEB
14 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.96%) Data Quality
2 64 (5.74%) QA
3 51 (4.57%) PMO
4 35 (3.14%) GDPR
5 20 (1.79%) GRC
5 20 (1.79%) SLA
6 17 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.35%) IFRS
8 12 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.99%) NIST
10 10 (0.90%) GAAP
11 6 (0.54%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.36%) COBIT
13 3 (0.27%) SEPA
13 3 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.18%) Basel III
14 2 (0.18%) ITGC
15 1 (0.090%) UCITS
System Software
1 32 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.35%) IAG
3 8 (0.72%) Docker
4 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.18%) GPFS
7 2 (0.18%) NFS
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.090%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.090%) Postfix
8 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.090%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.70%) Ansible
4 10 (0.90%) SCCM
5 6 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) Argo
9 1 (0.090%) Autotask
9 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.090%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.090%) Nessus
9 1 (0.090%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.090%) SCOM
9 1 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 207 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 138 (12.38%) SAP
3 107 (9.60%) Oracle
4 78 (7.00%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.88%) Workday
7 19 (1.70%) IBM
8 15 (1.35%) Splunk
9 14 (1.26%) IFS
10 13 (1.17%) Sage
11 10 (0.90%) Cisco
11 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 10 (0.90%) JD Edwards
11 10 (0.90%) Nexthink
12 9 (0.81%) Apple
12 9 (0.81%) Autodesk
13 8 (0.72%) Adobe
13 8 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.72%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.63%) VMware