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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 101 169
Rank change year-on-year -25 +68 +13
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 879 653 531
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.61% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.85% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 396 349
10th Percentile £294 £293 £281
25th Percentile £400 £379 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £618
90th Percentile £675 £753 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £487 £506
% change year-on-year +2.74% -3.87% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 39
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.45 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -31.89%
75th Percentile £49.38 £39.87 £35.50
90th Percentile £74.74 £73.50 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £30.50 £24.26
% change year-on-year -17.21% +25.75% -24.91%

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 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -20 377 £501 -4.67% 159
South East -11 139 £500 - 142
North of England -67 124 £443 -1.50% 93
Midlands -25 113 £419 -7.56% 79
West Midlands -43 71 £500 -4.03% 42
Yorkshire -22 63 £500 -1.23% 38
South West +6 54 £450 +2.86% 54
North West -75 53 £435 -3.33% 44
East of England +5 49 £450 +20.00% 43
East Midlands +1 42 £398 +12.61% 37
North East -29 9 £363 -31.60% 12
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 51 (5.80%) Confluence
2 15 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.25%) CMS
4 9 (1.02%) CICS
4 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Moodle
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 95 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.96%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.34%) Simulink
7 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.71%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.80%) iTrent
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.68%) Magento
5 6 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.46%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 86 (9.78%) Power Platform
2 66 (7.51%) Azure
3 32 (3.64%) AWS
4 29 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (2.39%) SaaS
6 20 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.28%) GitHub
7 19 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 15 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.14%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.02%) GCP
13 8 (0.91%) Lucidchart
14 6 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
15 5 (0.57%) Azure AKS
15 5 (0.57%) Google Workspace
16 4 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.05%) Firewall
2 8 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.68%) DNS
3 6 (0.68%) WAN
3 6 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.57%) FTP
4 5 (0.57%) VPN
5 4 (0.46%) Internet
5 4 (0.46%) MPLS
5 4 (0.46%) Network Security
5 4 (0.46%) SSL
5 4 (0.46%) Wireless
6 3 (0.34%) BGP
6 3 (0.34%) DHCP
6 3 (0.34%) DMZ
6 3 (0.34%) IPsec
6 3 (0.34%) LAN
6 3 (0.34%) VSAN
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.08%) Power BI
2 13 (1.48%) Relational Database
2 13 (1.48%) Tableau
3 11 (1.25%) Metadata
4 9 (1.02%) DataStage
5 8 (0.91%) MySQL
6 7 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.23%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.23%) Big Data
9 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.23%) GIS
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.11%) Power Query
10 1 (0.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 102 (11.60%) JIRA
2 19 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.37%) Git
4 8 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.57%) MLflow
6 4 (0.46%) GitLab
6 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.34%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.34%) JUnit
7 3 (0.34%) Postman
7 3 (0.34%) Selenium
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Gatling
8 2 (0.23%) JMeter
8 2 (0.23%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.23%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 354 (40.27%) Finance
2 342 (38.91%) Social Skills
3 278 (31.63%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 70 (7.96%) Banking
6 45 (5.12%) Legal
7 42 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (3.98%) Retail
9 34 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.28%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.05%) Local Government
14 15 (1.71%) Billing
15 14 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.59%) Marketing
16 13 (1.48%) Back Office
16 13 (1.48%) Front Office
17 12 (1.37%) General Ledger
18 11 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 273 (31.06%) Analyst
2 153 (17.41%) Business Analyst
3 86 (9.78%) Senior
4 81 (9.22%) Lead
5 62 (7.05%) Consultant
6 39 (4.44%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
8 35 (3.98%) Accountant
9 28 (3.19%) Data Analyst
10 25 (2.84%) Architect
11 21 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (2.28%) Project Officer
13 19 (2.16%) Developer
13 19 (2.16%) Management Accountant
14 18 (2.05%) Process Analyst
15 17 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
16 16 (1.82%) Security Analyst
16 16 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (1.71%) Administrator
17 15 (1.71%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.71%) Middleware
2 13 (1.48%) REST
3 10 (1.14%) .NET
4 9 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
5 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (0.80%) Spring Boot
6 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.57%) Flash
7 5 (0.57%) HTML
7 5 (0.57%) Kafka
7 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.46%) JSON
8 4 (0.46%) Node.js
8 4 (0.46%) Playwright
8 4 (0.46%) SOAP
8 4 (0.46%) STL
8 4 (0.46%) YAML
9 3 (0.34%) NumPy
9 3 (0.34%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.37%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.93%) CMDB
8 13 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.25%) Operational Technology
10 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.14%) Derivative
12 9 (1.02%) BYOD
12 9 (1.02%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.02%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.02%) VSAM
13 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.23%) Windows
2 36 (4.10%) Linux
3 22 (2.50%) Unix
4 10 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.02%) AIX
5 9 (1.02%) Solaris
6 8 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (27.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 225 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 151 (17.18%) Agile
5 141 (16.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 134 (15.24%) Decision-Making
7 110 (12.51%) Change Management
8 96 (10.92%) ERP
9 93 (10.58%) Workshop Facilitation
10 91 (10.35%) Validation
11 90 (10.24%) User Acceptance Testing
12 89 (10.13%) Project Management
13 85 (9.67%) Business Analysis
14 84 (9.56%) Requirements Gathering
15 83 (9.44%) Migration
16 82 (9.33%) DevOps
17 78 (8.87%) AI
18 76 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
19 70 (7.96%) Data Analysis
20 65 (7.39%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 98 (11.15%) SQL
2 57 (6.48%) Python
3 30 (3.41%) Java
4 21 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.37%) Perl
5 12 (1.37%) VBA
6 9 (1.02%) COBOL
7 8 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.46%) Bash
8 4 (0.46%) MATLAB
8 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.46%) R
8 4 (0.46%) Rust
9 3 (0.34%) ABAP
9 3 (0.34%) ActionScript
9 3 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
9 3 (0.34%) C#
9 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.34%) Go
9 3 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 92 (10.47%) Degree
3 89 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.28%) ACCA
5 60 (6.83%) CIMA
6 20 (2.28%) PMP
7 18 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.68%) CBAP
13 6 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.68%) CISSP
13 6 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.57%) CISM
14 5 (0.57%) IIBA
14 5 (0.57%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.03%) QA
3 43 (4.89%) GDPR
4 37 (4.21%) PMO
5 30 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.93%) SLA
7 16 (1.82%) IFRS
8 14 (1.59%) NIST
8 14 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.14%) GAAP
10 9 (1.02%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.57%) Basel III
12 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.46%) COBIT
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.34%) GRC
13 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.34%) PSD2
13 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 27 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.25%) Docker
3 7 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) vSphere
5 5 (0.57%) GPFS
5 5 (0.57%) NFS
5 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.46%) IAG
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.16%) Ansible
2 16 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.14%) Terraform
5 6 (0.68%) Grafana
5 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.46%) Kiali
7 3 (0.34%) WSUS
8 2 (0.23%) Control-M
8 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.23%) vRealize
9 1 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.11%) Argo
9 1 (0.11%) Autotask
9 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 87 (9.90%) SAP
2 82 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 64 (7.28%) Oracle
4 57 (6.48%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.50%) Workday
7 18 (2.05%) IFS
8 16 (1.82%) VMware
9 15 (1.71%) IBM
9 15 (1.71%) Splunk
10 13 (1.48%) Google
11 10 (1.14%) Cisco
12 9 (1.02%) Okta
13 8 (0.91%) Apple
13 8 (0.91%) Sonatype
14 6 (0.68%) Databricks
14 6 (0.68%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.68%) NEC
14 6 (0.68%) Sage
15 5 (0.57%) Autodesk