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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 104 166
Rank change year-on-year -25 +62 +41
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 822 639 504
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 2.63% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.88% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 391 327
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £381 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £650 £756 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 38
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.84 £13.61
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £14.84
Median hourly rate £25.08 £31.02 £22.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +39.92% -49.45%
75th Percentile £42.50 £58.44 £36.38
90th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £33.40 £24.63
% change year-on-year -30.51% +35.62% -43.85%

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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -33 325 £500 -7.41% 193
South East -29 136 £500 -4.58% 118
North of England -62 128 £442 -11.55% 95
Midlands -20 107 £419 -11.84% 76
Yorkshire -1 79 £468 -9.13% 41
West Midlands -27 73 £463 -11.74% 42
South West +5 56 £450 -14.29% 46
East of England +7 50 £450 -10.00% 39
North West -88 39 £436 -8.32% 47
East Midlands -13 35 £352 +17.33% 33
North East -14 11 £364 -34.75% 7
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 48 (5.84%) Confluence
2 20 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.09%) CICS
3 9 (1.09%) CMS
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.49%) Moodle
7 2 (0.24%) Apache
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 100 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.28%) MS Visio
4 25 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 24 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.85%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.61%) iTrent
5 5 (0.61%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.49%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.24%) Endur
8 2 (0.24%) Global One
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (10.22%) Power Platform
2 57 (6.93%) Azure
3 33 (4.01%) AWS
4 29 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (2.92%) SaaS
6 20 (2.43%) GitHub
7 15 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.82%) GCP
8 13 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.22%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.09%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 7 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.85%) Google Workspace
12 7 (0.85%) Lucidchart
13 5 (0.61%) Azure AKS
13 5 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.61%) Miro
14 4 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.68%) Firewall
2 9 (1.09%) DNS
3 6 (0.73%) VPN
4 5 (0.61%) FTP
4 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.49%) DHCP
6 3 (0.36%) VSAN
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) BGP
8 1 (0.12%) Broadband
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.12%) MPLS
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
8 1 (0.12%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.00%) Power BI
2 16 (1.95%) Relational Database
3 14 (1.70%) MySQL
4 12 (1.46%) Metadata
5 10 (1.22%) Tableau
6 9 (1.09%) DataStage
7 8 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.85%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.61%) Power Query
10 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.36%) Big Data
12 2 (0.24%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.24%) ImageNet
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 104 (12.65%) JIRA
2 31 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.82%) Git
4 9 (1.09%) GitLab
5 8 (0.97%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.85%) Postman
6 7 (0.85%) Selenium
7 4 (0.49%) JUnit
7 4 (0.49%) MLflow
7 4 (0.49%) TestRail
8 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) Gatling
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
General
1 326 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 319 (38.81%) Finance
3 248 (30.17%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (9.12%) Banking
5 66 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (3.77%) Legal
8 29 (3.53%) Retail
9 28 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.43%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.07%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.95%) Marketing
14 15 (1.82%) Billing
14 15 (1.82%) General Ledger
15 13 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.46%) Local Government
16 12 (1.46%) Retail Banking
17 11 (1.34%) Law
18 9 (1.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 256 (31.14%) Analyst
2 146 (17.76%) Business Analyst
3 92 (11.19%) Senior
4 71 (8.64%) Lead
5 54 (6.57%) Consultant
6 39 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
7 35 (4.26%) Project Manager
8 34 (4.14%) Accountant
9 24 (2.92%) Financial Analyst
10 22 (2.68%) Data Analyst
10 22 (2.68%) Project Officer
11 21 (2.55%) Senior Business Analyst
12 19 (2.31%) Management Accountant
12 19 (2.31%) Process Analyst
13 17 (2.07%) Developer
13 17 (2.07%) Support Analyst
14 16 (1.95%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (1.95%) IT Support
14 16 (1.95%) Technical Support
15 14 (1.70%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.43%) Middleware
2 16 (1.95%) REST
3 12 (1.46%) Kafka
4 11 (1.34%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (1.09%) .NET
6 9 (1.09%) Playwright
7 8 (0.97%) HTML
7 8 (0.97%) Node.js
8 6 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (0.73%) YAML
9 5 (0.61%) Flash
9 5 (0.61%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.61%) SOAP
10 4 (0.49%) CSS
10 4 (0.49%) LDAP
10 4 (0.49%) OpenID
10 4 (0.49%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.49%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.49%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.96%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 29 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.19%) CMDB
8 14 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.22%) Derivative
12 9 (1.09%) BYOD
12 9 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.09%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.09%) PMI
12 9 (1.09%) VSAM
13 8 (0.97%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.72%) Linux
2 43 (5.23%) Windows
3 30 (3.65%) Unix
4 9 (1.09%) AIX
4 9 (1.09%) Solaris
5 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.73%) Android
6 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.36%) VMS
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (21.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 170 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 163 (19.83%) Agile
5 143 (17.40%) Decision-Making
6 138 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 104 (12.65%) Project Management
8 99 (12.04%) Change Management
9 88 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
10 84 (10.22%) DevOps
11 83 (10.10%) Migration
12 82 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
13 81 (9.85%) AI
14 79 (9.61%) Business Analysis
15 77 (9.37%) ERP
16 76 (9.25%) User Acceptance Testing
17 63 (7.66%) Requirements Gathering
18 60 (7.30%) Validation
19 59 (7.18%) Mentoring
20 58 (7.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 99 (12.04%) SQL
2 58 (7.06%) Python
3 43 (5.23%) Java
4 25 (3.04%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.95%) Perl
6 9 (1.09%) COBOL
7 8 (0.97%) Rust
7 8 (0.97%) VBA
8 7 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.73%) Bash
9 6 (0.73%) Go
9 6 (0.73%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.49%) C#
11 4 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.49%) PHP
11 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.49%) R
12 3 (0.36%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 112 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.38%) Degree
3 82 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 54 (6.57%) ACCA
5 53 (6.45%) CIMA
6 23 (2.80%) PMP
7 21 (2.55%) PMI Certification
8 20 (2.43%) Master's Degree
9 18 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.82%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.85%) MBA
14 7 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 5 (0.61%) CBAP
15 5 (0.61%) CISM
15 5 (0.61%) CISSP
15 5 (0.61%) IIBA
16 4 (0.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.66%) QA
2 56 (6.81%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.99%) GDPR
4 32 (3.89%) PMO
5 27 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (2.43%) SLA
7 12 (1.46%) NIST
8 11 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.85%) Basel III
10 7 (0.85%) IFRS
11 5 (0.61%) COBIT
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.36%) PSD2
14 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.24%) PERC
15 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (2.43%) Docker
2 19 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.73%) GPFS
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 5 (0.61%) NFS
5 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) Xen
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (2.80%) Ansible
1 23 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.58%) Grafana
3 11 (1.34%) Terraform
4 10 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.97%) Kiali
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.36%) WSUS
9 2 (0.24%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.24%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Autotask
10 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 71 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.27%) SAP
3 56 (6.81%) Oracle
4 52 (6.33%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.53%) Workday
6 26 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.55%) Splunk
8 18 (2.19%) IFS
9 16 (1.95%) IBM
9 16 (1.95%) VMware
10 15 (1.82%) Google
11 8 (0.97%) Sonatype
12 7 (0.85%) Cisco
12 7 (0.85%) NEC
13 6 (0.73%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.73%) Okta
14 5 (0.61%) Adobe
14 5 (0.61%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.61%) Databricks
14 5 (0.61%) Murex