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

 6 months to
19 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 101 157
Rank change year-on-year -10 +56 -6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,036 714 508
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.27% 2.59% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.85% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 434 334
10th Percentile £313 £279 £338
25th Percentile £402 £363 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £691 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £517
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 44 28
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.50 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £25.61 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.69 £30.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £53.17 £35.75 £35.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.58 £30.00 £25.88
% change year-on-year -18.07% +15.93% -13.74%

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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 0 470 £525 +5.00% 585
South East -27 157 £500 - 263
North of England -57 151 £487 -0.10% 171
Midlands -16 129 £450 - 116
North West -67 79 £500 +5.26% 93
West Midlands -45 74 £500 +5.26% 69
Yorkshire -11 65 £476 -4.90% 60
South West -1 59 £456 +7.18% 101
East Midlands +7 55 £413 +65.00% 47
East of England +5 53 £450 -0.83% 92
North East -34 8 £400 -25.23% 22
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 53 (5.12%) Confluence
2 29 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.16%) CMS
4 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.29%) CICS
6 3 (0.29%) Moodle
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.29%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.19%) Apache
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.097%) Appian
8 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.097%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.097%) MTS
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.097%) SAS
8 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.097%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 114 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (2.99%) MS Visio
4 25 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.39%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.39%) ProjectWise
7 4 (0.39%) Revit
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.29%) Simulink
9 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.83%) NetSuite
3 15 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.16%) iTrent
5 10 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.68%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.58%) Magento
10 5 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.48%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 4 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.39%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.39%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.29%) SAP EWM
12 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
12 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (11.00%) Power Platform
2 94 (9.07%) Azure
3 44 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (3.96%) AWS
5 36 (3.47%) SaaS
6 30 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (2.61%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.03%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.93%) SuccessFactors
12 19 (1.83%) GitHub
13 12 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.87%) Datadog
15 9 (0.87%) Lucidchart
16 8 (0.77%) GCP
16 8 (0.77%) Intacct
16 8 (0.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.25%) Firewall
3 10 (0.97%) WAN
4 9 (0.87%) DNS
4 9 (0.87%) VPN
4 9 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.68%) LAN
6 5 (0.48%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) SSL
7 4 (0.39%) MPLS
7 4 (0.39%) Wireless
8 3 (0.29%) BGP
8 3 (0.29%) DHCP
8 3 (0.29%) DMZ
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) IPsec
8 3 (0.29%) VSAN
9 2 (0.19%) OSPF
9 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (9.07%) Power BI
2 17 (1.64%) Tableau
3 13 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.16%) Metadata
5 8 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
5 8 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.58%) Power Query
7 6 (0.58%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.39%) MySQL
9 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.29%) DataStage
10 3 (0.29%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.19%) Big Data
11 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.19%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (8.98%) JIRA
2 12 (1.16%) Git
3 11 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.58%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.48%) Postman
5 5 (0.48%) Selenium
6 4 (0.39%) JMeter
6 4 (0.39%) JUnit
6 4 (0.39%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.19%) Appium
8 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.19%) GitLab
8 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.19%) MLflow
8 2 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 432 (41.70%) Finance
2 430 (41.51%) Social Skills
3 314 (30.31%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (9.94%) Banking
5 72 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 51 (4.92%) Retail
8 47 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (4.44%) Legal
10 40 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.83%) Marketing
13 18 (1.74%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.64%) Local Government
15 16 (1.54%) Front Office
15 16 (1.54%) General Ledger
16 15 (1.45%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 328 (31.66%) Analyst
2 197 (19.02%) Business Analyst
3 103 (9.94%) Senior
4 100 (9.65%) Lead
5 90 (8.69%) Consultant
6 48 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
7 43 (4.15%) Project Manager
8 41 (3.96%) Accountant
9 32 (3.09%) Data Analyst
10 29 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
11 27 (2.61%) Developer
12 26 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
13 24 (2.32%) Administrator
14 23 (2.22%) Architect
14 23 (2.22%) Process Analyst
15 21 (2.03%) Transformation Manager
16 20 (1.93%) Senior Manager
16 20 (1.93%) Support Engineer
17 19 (1.83%) Finance Manager
17 19 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.93%) REST
3 16 (1.54%) .NET
4 12 (1.16%) Middleware
4 12 (1.16%) SOAP
5 9 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (0.87%) SAP PI
6 8 (0.77%) HTML
7 6 (0.58%) IDoc
7 6 (0.58%) JSON
8 5 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.48%) JDBC
8 5 (0.48%) React
8 5 (0.48%) STL
8 5 (0.48%) Web Services
9 4 (0.39%) Kafka
9 4 (0.39%) Node.js
9 4 (0.39%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.39%) XML
9 4 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.72%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 52 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.32%) CMDB
7 21 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 18 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.45%) Operational Technology
11 14 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.16%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.06%) FMCG
14 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.97%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 8 (0.77%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.25%) Windows
2 26 (2.51%) Linux
3 19 (1.83%) Unix
4 13 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.58%) Android
6 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.29%) AIX
8 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.29%) Solaris
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.097%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (34.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 273 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
3 231 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 215 (20.75%) Agile
5 190 (18.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 163 (15.73%) Workshop Facilitation
7 156 (15.06%) Decision-Making
8 155 (14.96%) User Acceptance Testing
9 153 (14.77%) ERP
10 143 (13.80%) Change Management
11 138 (13.32%) Requirements Gathering
12 137 (13.22%) Validation
13 134 (12.93%) AI
14 132 (12.74%) Business Analysis
15 131 (12.64%) Migration
16 108 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
17 105 (10.14%) User Stories
18 99 (9.56%) Data Analysis
19 93 (8.98%) Project Delivery
20 92 (8.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (10.71%) SQL
2 65 (6.27%) Python
3 36 (3.47%) Java
4 21 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 19 (1.83%) PowerShell
6 18 (1.74%) VBA
7 9 (0.87%) ABAP
7 9 (0.87%) C#
8 8 (0.77%) Bash
9 7 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.68%) Perl
10 6 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.48%) Korn
11 5 (0.48%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.48%) R
12 3 (0.29%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.29%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.29%) C++
12 3 (0.29%) COBOL
12 3 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 147 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 117 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.75%) Degree
4 65 (6.27%) ACCA
5 62 (5.98%) CIMA
6 22 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.93%) PMP
8 18 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 13 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.06%) CBAP
11 11 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (0.87%) IIBA
13 8 (0.77%) ISEB
13 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.39%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.78%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.08%) QA
3 46 (4.44%) PMO
4 44 (4.25%) GDPR
5 25 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.45%) SLA
7 14 (1.35%) NIST
8 13 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.16%) IFRS
10 11 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (1.06%) GRC
11 9 (0.87%) GAAP
12 5 (0.48%) COBIT
13 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
14 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.19%) Basel III
15 2 (0.19%) SEPA
16 1 (0.097%) IEC 62304
16 1 (0.097%) ITGC
System Software
1 30 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.45%) IAG
3 8 (0.77%) Docker
4 7 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.58%) vSphere
6 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) GPFS
9 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.93%) Ansible
3 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.35%) Terraform
5 6 (0.58%) SCCM
5 6 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.48%) Control-M
7 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.29%) WSUS
8 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.19%) vRealize
9 1 (0.097%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.097%) Argo
9 1 (0.097%) Autotask
9 1 (0.097%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.097%) Istio
9 1 (0.097%) Puppet
9 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 123 (11.87%) SAP
3 91 (8.78%) Oracle
4 74 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.93%) Workday
7 18 (1.74%) IFS
8 15 (1.45%) IBM
9 14 (1.35%) Splunk
10 12 (1.16%) Google
10 12 (1.16%) VMware
11 10 (0.97%) Cisco
11 10 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 10 (0.97%) Sage
12 9 (0.87%) Adobe
12 9 (0.87%) Apple
12 9 (0.87%) Nexthink
12 9 (0.87%) Okta
13 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.58%) Alteryx
1,209 Process Improvement jobs in England