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

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 116 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,116 686 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.49% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.74% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 420 354
10th Percentile £313 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% +3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £683 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.01% -7.54% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 30
10th Percentile £14.22 £16.45 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.51 £15.92
Median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £29.31
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% +2.35% -4.68%
75th Percentile £50.00 £36.24 £36.13
90th Percentile £70.93 £50.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £30.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -27.60% +5.26% -9.52%

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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £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 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +6 528 £525 +5.00% 1,151
North of England -48 161 £475 -5.10% 319
South East -10 159 £500 -4.76% 401
Midlands 0 146 £450 +1.12% 238
North West -41 87 £467 -6.70% 162
West Midlands -23 82 £500 +5.26% 138
Yorkshire -12 67 £475 -5.00% 123
East Midlands +14 64 £425 +70.00% 100
South West -8 53 £456 +34.96% 150
East of England -9 51 £472 +15.83% 140
North East -36 8 £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 34 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.25%) CMS
4 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.27%) Moodle
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 1 (0.090%) Apache
7 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.090%) Appian
7 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.090%) CICS
7 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.090%) nginx
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.090%) SAS
7 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 135 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.96%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.63%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.54%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
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 39 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.79%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (1.08%) iTrent
6 11 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.63%) Magento
10 6 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.54%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
11 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 4 (0.36%) SAP Business One
12 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.27%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 126 (11.29%) Power Platform
2 99 (8.87%) Azure
3 55 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (3.85%) SaaS
5 38 (3.41%) AWS
6 37 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 25 (2.24%) Power Automate
9 23 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.06%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
11 18 (1.61%) GitHub
11 18 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (0.90%) Datadog
13 10 (0.90%) Intacct
14 9 (0.81%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.72%) OCI
16 7 (0.63%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.34%) Firewall
3 11 (0.99%) DNS
3 11 (0.99%) WAN
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%) SSL
7 5 (0.45%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) BGP
8 4 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.27%) Broadband
9 3 (0.27%) DMZ
9 3 (0.27%) DWDM
9 3 (0.27%) Internet
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
10 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (8.78%) Power BI
2 22 (1.97%) Tableau
3 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.90%) Metadata
4 10 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (0.81%) Power Query
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 (8.06%) JIRA
2 12 (1.08%) Git
3 9 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) JMeter
4 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.45%) SonarQube
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%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.27%) JUnit
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) Appium
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.090%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 486 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 468 (41.94%) Finance
3 332 (29.75%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (10.22%) Banking
5 82 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 66 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 62 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
9 51 (4.57%) Retail
10 48 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (4.30%) Legal
11 26 (2.33%) Marketing
12 24 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (2.06%) General Ledger
13 23 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.97%) Local Government
15 21 (1.88%) Billing
16 20 (1.79%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.52%) Front Office
17 17 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 343 (30.73%) Analyst
2 203 (18.19%) Business Analyst
3 106 (9.50%) Senior
4 105 (9.41%) Lead
5 94 (8.42%) Consultant
6 53 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.58%) Accountant
9 35 (3.14%) Senior Business Analyst
10 34 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 30 (2.69%) Developer
12 27 (2.42%) Financial Analyst
12 27 (2.42%) Process Analyst
13 25 (2.24%) Architect
14 23 (2.06%) Support Engineer
15 22 (1.97%) Administrator
16 19 (1.70%) SAP Consultant
16 19 (1.70%) Senior Manager
16 19 (1.70%) Systems Accountant
16 19 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.88%) REST
3 15 (1.34%) Terraform
4 14 (1.25%) .NET
5 13 (1.16%) Middleware
5 13 (1.16%) SOAP
6 9 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (0.72%) SAP PI
8 6 (0.54%) HTML
8 6 (0.54%) JSON
8 6 (0.54%) LDAP
8 6 (0.54%) OAuth
8 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.54%) Web Services
9 5 (0.45%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.45%) IDoc
9 5 (0.45%) JDBC
9 5 (0.45%) React
10 4 (0.36%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.24%) Onboarding
2 62 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 62 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.06%) CMDB
6 21 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 20 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.08%) Reinsurance
13 11 (0.99%) FMCG
13 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.72%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.75%) Windows
2 27 (2.42%) Linux
3 19 (1.70%) Unix
4 13 (1.16%) 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%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.27%) VMS
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
1 435 (38.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 313 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (24.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 230 (20.61%) Agile
5 228 (20.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 181 (16.22%) Workshop Facilitation
7 172 (15.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 171 (15.32%) ERP
9 168 (15.05%) Decision-Making
10 163 (14.61%) Change Management
11 159 (14.25%) Requirements Gathering
12 152 (13.62%) Validation
13 150 (13.44%) Business Analysis
14 149 (13.35%) Migration
15 138 (12.37%) AI
16 118 (10.57%) User Stories
17 117 (10.48%) Project Delivery
18 114 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
19 111 (9.95%) Data Analysis
20 103 (9.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (10.57%) SQL
2 68 (6.09%) Python
3 31 (2.78%) Java
4 25 (2.24%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.61%) 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 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 118 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 114 (10.22%) Degree
4 61 (5.47%) ACCA
5 58 (5.20%) CIMA
6 28 (2.51%) PMP
7 25 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 23 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 19 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 13 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.90%) CBAP
13 9 (0.81%) IIBA
14 8 (0.72%) ISEB
14 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 64 (5.73%) QA
3 51 (4.57%) PMO
4 36 (3.23%) GDPR
5 20 (1.79%) GRC
5 20 (1.79%) SLA
6 18 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.34%) 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%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 33 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.43%) 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
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) GPFS
7 2 (0.18%) NFS
7 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.090%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.090%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.090%) Postfix
8 1 (0.090%) Squid
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
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%) Nessus
9 1 (0.090%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.090%) Puppet
9 1 (0.090%) SCOM
9 1 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 199 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 137 (12.28%) SAP
3 109 (9.77%) Oracle
4 80 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.79%) Workday
7 18 (1.61%) IBM
8 15 (1.34%) IFS
8 15 (1.34%) Splunk
9 12 (1.08%) Sage
10 11 (0.99%) Cisco
11 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
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
13 8 (0.72%) JD Edwards
13 8 (0.72%) VMware
2,421 Process Improvement jobs in England