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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 100 166
Rank change year-on-year -21 +66 +47
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 862 627 522
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 2.57% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.82% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 383 331
10th Percentile £263 £307 £331
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% -0.19% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £650 £756 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 29 35
10th Percentile - £19.78 £13.37
25th Percentile £13.33 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £25.28 £29.23 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +30.84% -49.15%
75th Percentile £47.75 £60.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £74.91 £75.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £32.96 £25.00
% change year-on-year -29.58% +31.84% -43.09%

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 34,370 22,228 32,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.91% 91.19% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,972 14,556 21,057
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,137 921 2,257
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.70 £12.97
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -21 350 £500 -9.09% 187
South East -22 139 £500 -4.35% 123
North of England -45 136 £447 -10.60% 86
Midlands -30 103 £402 -15.37% 73
Yorkshire +7 81 £500 -3.38% 32
West Midlands -33 68 £425 -18.89% 43
South West +3 62 £500 +2.56% 40
East of England +1 54 £450 -10.00% 35
North West -79 42 £430 -9.47% 50
East Midlands -14 36 £372 +6.29% 30
North East -9 14 £363 -34.98% 4
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 56 (6.50%) Confluence
2 20 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.04%) CICS
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.58%) CMS
6 4 (0.46%) Moodle
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 103 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.60%) MS Visio
4 28 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.39%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.81%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (0.81%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.58%) iTrent
4 5 (0.58%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.58%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.46%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.35%) Shopify
7 2 (0.23%) Endur
7 2 (0.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 87 (10.09%) Power Platform
2 59 (6.84%) Azure
3 33 (3.83%) AWS
3 33 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (3.25%) SaaS
5 21 (2.44%) GitHub
6 18 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.86%) GCP
8 14 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.16%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.04%) Google Workspace
11 8 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (0.93%) Lucidchart
11 8 (0.93%) Power Automate
12 7 (0.81%) Miro
13 6 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.58%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.58%) OCI
15 4 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.90%) Firewall
2 11 (1.28%) DNS
3 7 (0.81%) VPN
4 5 (0.58%) DHCP
4 5 (0.58%) FTP
5 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) VSAN
7 2 (0.23%) SSL
7 2 (0.23%) 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%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.12%) WebEx
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.28%) Power BI
2 17 (1.97%) Relational Database
3 15 (1.74%) MySQL
4 12 (1.39%) Tableau
5 10 (1.16%) Metadata
6 9 (1.04%) DataStage
6 9 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.58%) Power Query
10 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.35%) Big Data
12 2 (0.23%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.23%) ImageNet
13 1 (0.12%) Looker
Development Applications
1 116 (13.46%) JIRA
2 37 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.86%) Git
4 9 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.93%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.93%) Postman
6 6 (0.70%) Selenium
7 4 (0.46%) JUnit
7 4 (0.46%) MLflow
7 4 (0.46%) TestRail
8 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.35%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
10 1 (0.12%) WinAutomation
General
1 366 (42.46%) Social Skills
2 321 (37.24%) Finance
3 263 (30.51%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.93%) Banking
5 74 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
8 33 (3.83%) Legal
9 30 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.25%) Retail
11 24 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 22 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.09%) Marketing
14 17 (1.97%) Billing
15 14 (1.62%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.62%) General Ledger
16 13 (1.51%) Local Government
16 13 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.51%) Retail Banking
17 12 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 269 (31.21%) Analyst
2 165 (19.14%) Business Analyst
3 99 (11.48%) Senior
4 69 (8.00%) Lead
5 63 (7.31%) Consultant
6 42 (4.87%) Senior Analyst
7 37 (4.29%) Project Manager
8 35 (4.06%) Accountant
9 26 (3.02%) Financial Analyst
9 26 (3.02%) Senior Business Analyst
10 22 (2.55%) Data Analyst
11 21 (2.44%) Process Analyst
12 20 (2.32%) Project Officer
13 19 (2.20%) Developer
13 19 (2.20%) IT Support
14 18 (2.09%) Management Accountant
14 18 (2.09%) Technical Support
15 17 (1.97%) Finance Manager
15 17 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
16 15 (1.74%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.32%) Middleware
2 17 (1.97%) REST
3 12 (1.39%) Kafka
3 12 (1.39%) Node.js
3 12 (1.39%) Playwright
4 11 (1.28%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (1.16%) SOAP
6 9 (1.04%) GraphQL
7 8 (0.93%) HTML
7 8 (0.93%) Vitest
8 7 (0.81%) .NET
8 7 (0.81%) Web Services
8 7 (0.81%) XML
8 7 (0.81%) YAML
9 5 (0.58%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.46%) OpenID
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.50%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 31 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.09%) CMDB
8 16 (1.86%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.16%) Derivative
11 10 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.16%) PMI
12 9 (1.04%) BYOD
12 9 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.57%) Windows
2 46 (5.34%) Linux
3 31 (3.60%) Unix
4 9 (1.04%) AIX
4 9 (1.04%) Solaris
5 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) VMS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.46%) Android
7 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (21.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 183 (21.23%) Agile
4 175 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 157 (18.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 142 (16.47%) Decision-Making
7 108 (12.53%) Project Management
8 107 (12.41%) Change Management
9 100 (11.60%) Workshop Facilitation
10 91 (10.56%) DevOps
11 90 (10.44%) Business Analysis
12 87 (10.09%) AI
12 87 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
13 86 (9.98%) Migration
14 78 (9.05%) ERP
15 75 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
16 74 (8.58%) Requirements Gathering
17 68 (7.89%) Coaching
18 64 (7.42%) Mentoring
19 63 (7.31%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 99 (11.48%) SQL
2 60 (6.96%) Python
3 43 (4.99%) Java
4 24 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.97%) Perl
6 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.04%) COBOL
8 8 (0.93%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.93%) Rust
8 8 (0.93%) VBA
9 7 (0.81%) ABAP
10 6 (0.70%) Bash
10 6 (0.70%) Go
11 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.46%) C#
12 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.46%) PHP
12 4 (0.46%) R
13 3 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.23%) Degree
3 89 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 50 (5.80%) ACCA
5 49 (5.68%) CIMA
6 26 (3.02%) PMP
7 24 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 21 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.74%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (0.93%) MBA
13 7 (0.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 5 (0.58%) CISM
14 5 (0.58%) CISSP
14 5 (0.58%) IIBA
14 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.00%) QA
2 55 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.99%) GDPR
4 32 (3.71%) PMO
5 29 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.44%) SLA
7 12 (1.39%) NIST
8 11 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.93%) Basel III
11 7 (0.81%) IFRS
12 4 (0.46%) COBIT
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.35%) PSD2
14 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 28 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.02%) Docker
3 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.46%) GPFS
5 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.46%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) NFS
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.23%) IAG
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.78%) Ansible
3 13 (1.51%) Grafana
4 12 (1.39%) Terraform
5 10 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.93%) Kiali
7 7 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.35%) WSUS
11 2 (0.23%) Control-M
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) Argo
12 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 80 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.82%) SAP
3 53 (6.15%) Oracle
4 49 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.48%) Workday
6 21 (2.44%) Splunk
7 17 (1.97%) Google
8 16 (1.86%) IFS
9 14 (1.62%) IBM
10 13 (1.51%) VMware
11 8 (0.93%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.93%) Sonatype
12 7 (0.81%) Anaplan
12 7 (0.81%) NEC
13 6 (0.70%) Adobe
13 6 (0.70%) Databricks
13 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.70%) Okta
14 5 (0.58%) Atlassian