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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 103 174
Rank change year-on-year -14 +71 +34
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 855 635 504
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.11% 2.62% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 2.87% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 390 322
10th Percentile £275 £310 £325
25th Percentile £378 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £522 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -0.14% -0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £650 £764 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 35
10th Percentile - £19.84 £13.37
25th Percentile £13.33 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £25.08 £31.02 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +38.85% -49.15%
75th Percentile £45.75 £58.44 £36.88
90th Percentile £74.58 £75.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £22.46 £33.11 £25.00
% change year-on-year -32.16% +32.44% -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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -17 343 £500 -9.09% 170
South East -25 138 £500 -4.31% 116
North of England -52 134 £438 -12.50% 83
Midlands -25 108 £425 -11.46% 70
Yorkshire +10 82 £488 -5.80% 32
West Midlands -28 72 £438 -16.51% 42
South West -5 63 £500 +2.56% 41
East of England +5 52 £450 -10.00% 35
North West -87 40 £430 -6.52% 47
East Midlands -8 37 £372 +6.29% 28
North East -7 13 £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 53 (6.20%) Confluence
2 20 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.05%) CICS
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.82%) CMS
6 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.47%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 102 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.39%) MS Visio
4 28 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (1.40%) 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 24 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.82%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.58%) iTrent
5 5 (0.58%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.47%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.23%) Endur
8 2 (0.23%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 91 (10.64%) Power Platform
2 63 (7.37%) Azure
3 34 (3.98%) AWS
4 30 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (3.04%) SaaS
6 21 (2.46%) GitHub
7 18 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.87%) GCP
9 13 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 11 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
11 10 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.05%) Google Workspace
13 8 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.94%) Lucidchart
14 7 (0.82%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.70%) Miro
16 5 (0.58%) Azure AKS
17 4 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.92%) Firewall
2 12 (1.40%) DNS
3 8 (0.94%) VPN
4 6 (0.70%) DHCP
5 5 (0.58%) FTP
5 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) VSAN
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
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 ISE
8 1 (0.12%) MPLS
8 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.12%) WebEx
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (9.47%) Power BI
2 16 (1.87%) Relational Database
3 14 (1.64%) MySQL
4 12 (1.40%) Tableau
5 11 (1.29%) Metadata
6 9 (1.05%) DataStage
6 9 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.58%) Power Query
10 4 (0.47%) 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
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 112 (13.10%) JIRA
2 35 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.87%) Git
4 9 (1.05%) GitLab
4 9 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.94%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.94%) Postman
6 6 (0.70%) Selenium
7 4 (0.47%) JUnit
7 4 (0.47%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) 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
1 350 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 323 (37.78%) Finance
3 262 (30.64%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.89%) Banking
5 72 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (3.86%) Legal
8 30 (3.51%) Retail
9 29 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.57%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.99%) Marketing
13 16 (1.87%) Billing
14 14 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.64%) General Ledger
15 13 (1.52%) Local Government
15 13 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.52%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 269 (31.46%) Analyst
2 162 (18.95%) Business Analyst
3 98 (11.46%) Senior
4 71 (8.30%) Lead
5 57 (6.67%) Consultant
6 43 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
7 37 (4.33%) Project Manager
8 35 (4.09%) Accountant
9 26 (3.04%) Financial Analyst
10 25 (2.92%) Senior Business Analyst
11 22 (2.57%) Data Analyst
12 21 (2.46%) Process Analyst
12 21 (2.46%) Project Officer
13 19 (2.22%) Management Accountant
14 18 (2.11%) Developer
15 17 (1.99%) Finance Manager
15 17 (1.99%) IT Support
15 17 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
15 17 (1.99%) Technical Support
16 16 (1.87%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.34%) Middleware
2 17 (1.99%) REST
3 12 (1.40%) Kafka
4 11 (1.29%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.17%) Node.js
5 10 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (1.17%) Playwright
6 9 (1.05%) .NET
7 8 (0.94%) HTML
8 7 (0.82%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
9 6 (0.70%) SOAP
9 6 (0.70%) Vitest
9 6 (0.70%) YAML
10 5 (0.58%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.47%) CSS
11 4 (0.47%) Flash
11 4 (0.47%) LDAP
11 4 (0.47%) OpenID
11 4 (0.47%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.55%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 29 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.11%) CMDB
8 16 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.64%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.40%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.17%) Derivative
13 10 (1.17%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.17%) PMI
14 9 (1.05%) BYOD
14 9 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.38%) Linux
2 43 (5.03%) Windows
3 30 (3.51%) Unix
4 9 (1.05%) AIX
4 9 (1.05%) Solaris
5 7 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) VMS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.58%) Android
7 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
2 186 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 180 (21.05%) Agile
4 176 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 152 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 142 (16.61%) Decision-Making
7 109 (12.75%) Project Management
8 105 (12.28%) Change Management
9 93 (10.88%) Workshop Facilitation
10 91 (10.64%) Business Analysis
10 91 (10.64%) DevOps
11 89 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
12 88 (10.29%) AI
13 87 (10.18%) Migration
14 78 (9.12%) ERP
14 78 (9.12%) User Acceptance Testing
15 71 (8.30%) Requirements Gathering
16 64 (7.49%) Mentoring
17 63 (7.37%) Coaching
18 61 (7.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (11.58%) SQL
2 59 (6.90%) Python
3 42 (4.91%) Java
4 25 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.87%) Perl
6 9 (1.05%) COBOL
6 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.94%) Rust
7 8 (0.94%) VBA
8 6 (0.70%) Bash
8 6 (0.70%) Go
9 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.47%) C#
10 4 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.47%) PHP
10 4 (0.47%) R
11 3 (0.35%) ABAP
11 3 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.22%) Degree
3 87 (10.18%) SC Cleared
4 52 (6.08%) ACCA
5 51 (5.96%) CIMA
6 26 (3.04%) PMP
7 24 (2.81%) PMI Certification
8 21 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.94%) MBA
14 7 (0.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 5 (0.58%) CISM
15 5 (0.58%) CISSP
15 5 (0.58%) IIBA
15 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.47%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.95%) QA
2 54 (6.32%) Data Quality
3 45 (5.26%) GDPR
4 32 (3.74%) PMO
5 30 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (2.34%) SLA
7 13 (1.52%) NIST
8 11 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.94%) Basel III
10 7 (0.82%) IFRS
11 5 (0.58%) COBIT
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.47%) 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 24 (2.81%) Active Directory
1 24 (2.81%) Docker
2 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.58%) GPFS
3 5 (0.58%) vSphere
4 4 (0.47%) NFS
4 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.23%) IAG
5 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.23%) Xen
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.81%) Ansible
3 13 (1.52%) Grafana
4 12 (1.40%) Terraform
5 10 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.94%) Kiali
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.35%) WSUS
9 2 (0.23%) Control-M
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
10 1 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 78 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.42%) SAP
3 53 (6.20%) Oracle
4 50 (5.85%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.39%) Workday
6 28 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.46%) Splunk
8 17 (1.99%) Google
8 17 (1.99%) IFS
9 15 (1.75%) IBM
9 15 (1.75%) VMware
10 8 (0.94%) Sonatype
11 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.82%) NEC
12 6 (0.70%) Anaplan
12 6 (0.70%) Cisco
12 6 (0.70%) Databricks
12 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.70%) Okta
13 5 (0.58%) Atlassian