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

 6 months to
3 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 100 169
Rank change year-on-year -29 +69 +10
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 889 680 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.61% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.86% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 411 353
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £400 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £756 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £517
% change year-on-year +2.92% -6.03% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 36
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.65 £14.18
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £15.85
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £22.17
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +35.32% -31.36%
75th Percentile £49.69 £36.48 £35.25
90th Percentile £75.40 £72.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £30.50 £24.63
% change year-on-year -16.39% +23.85% -23.75%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -15 386 £510 -2.86% 294
South East -10 144 £500 - 140
North of England -68 127 £450 -5.26% 130
Midlands -31 107 £425 -5.56% 90
West Midlands -51 67 £500 +0.40% 52
Yorkshire -27 61 £513 +3.80% 52
North West -72 58 £436 -3.11% 65
South West +11 54 £438 - 60
East of England +9 49 £450 +2.86% 47
East Midlands +1 40 £403 +27.78% 38
North East -31 9 £363 -31.60% 13
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 47 (5.29%) Confluence
2 16 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.24%) CMS
3 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.01%) CICS
5 5 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Moodle
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) 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
1 100 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (3.15%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.34%) Simulink
8 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.80%) NetSuite
3 10 (1.12%) iTrent
4 9 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.67%) Magento
6 6 (0.67%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.56%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.56%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.45%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.22%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 89 (10.01%) Power Platform
2 72 (8.10%) Azure
3 35 (3.94%) AWS
4 30 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (2.70%) SaaS
6 22 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (2.47%) GitHub
7 21 (2.36%) Entra ID
8 17 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.57%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.12%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.01%) GCP
12 8 (0.90%) Lucidchart
13 7 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (0.56%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.56%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.91%) Firewall
2 9 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.90%) WAN
4 6 (0.67%) DNS
4 6 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.56%) LAN
6 4 (0.45%) FTP
6 4 (0.45%) Internet
6 4 (0.45%) MPLS
6 4 (0.45%) Network Security
6 4 (0.45%) SSL
6 4 (0.45%) VPN
6 4 (0.45%) Wireless
7 3 (0.34%) BGP
7 3 (0.34%) DHCP
7 3 (0.34%) DMZ
7 3 (0.34%) IPsec
7 3 (0.34%) VSAN
8 2 (0.22%) Multicast
8 2 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.21%) Power BI
2 12 (1.35%) Relational Database
2 12 (1.35%) Tableau
3 11 (1.24%) Metadata
4 9 (1.01%) DataStage
5 7 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.79%) MySQL
5 7 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.22%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.22%) Big Data
9 2 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.22%) GIS
9 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 96 (10.80%) JIRA
2 19 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.57%) Git
4 8 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.56%) MLflow
6 4 (0.45%) GitLab
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 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.22%) Gatling
8 2 (0.22%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.22%) JMeter
8 2 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.22%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
General
1 362 (40.72%) Finance
2 347 (39.03%) Social Skills
3 282 (31.72%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 71 (7.99%) Banking
6 45 (5.06%) Legal
7 42 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (4.05%) Retail
9 34 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (3.71%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.02%) Local Government
11 18 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.80%) Billing
13 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.57%) Marketing
15 13 (1.46%) Back Office
15 13 (1.46%) Front Office
16 12 (1.35%) General Ledger
17 11 (1.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 276 (31.05%) Analyst
2 161 (18.11%) Business Analyst
3 85 (9.56%) Senior
4 80 (9.00%) Lead
5 71 (7.99%) Consultant
6 37 (4.16%) Project Manager
7 35 (3.94%) Accountant
7 35 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
8 30 (3.37%) Data Analyst
9 23 (2.59%) Architect
10 22 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
11 19 (2.14%) Developer
11 19 (2.14%) Management Accountant
11 19 (2.14%) Process Analyst
12 18 (2.02%) Project Officer
13 17 (1.91%) Administrator
13 17 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (1.80%) Security Analyst
14 16 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.80%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.80%) REST
2 13 (1.46%) Middleware
3 10 (1.12%) .NET
4 9 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.67%) SOAP
7 5 (0.56%) HTML
7 5 (0.56%) scikit-learn
7 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.45%) JSON
8 4 (0.45%) Node.js
8 4 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (0.45%) Playwright
8 4 (0.45%) React
8 4 (0.45%) STL
8 4 (0.45%) YAML
9 3 (0.34%) EDI
9 3 (0.34%) Spring
9 3 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.14%) CMDB
8 15 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 11 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.24%) Derivative
11 11 (1.24%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.01%) BYOD
13 9 (1.01%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.29%) Windows
2 33 (3.71%) Linux
3 22 (2.47%) Unix
4 12 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.01%) AIX
5 9 (1.01%) Solaris
5 9 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.45%) Android
7 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (28.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 232 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 156 (17.55%) Agile
5 149 (16.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 137 (15.41%) Decision-Making
7 103 (11.59%) Validation
8 102 (11.47%) Change Management
9 99 (11.14%) ERP
9 99 (11.14%) Workshop Facilitation
10 96 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
11 91 (10.24%) Migration
12 90 (10.12%) Business Analysis
13 88 (9.90%) Requirements Gathering
14 86 (9.67%) DevOps
15 85 (9.56%) AI
16 78 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
16 78 (8.77%) Project Management
17 69 (7.76%) Data Analysis
18 68 (7.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 98 (11.02%) SQL
2 58 (6.52%) Python
3 31 (3.49%) Java
4 20 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.57%) VBA
6 11 (1.24%) Perl
6 11 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.01%) COBOL
8 7 (0.79%) Bash
9 5 (0.56%) ABAP
10 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.45%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.45%) R
11 3 (0.34%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.34%) C#
11 3 (0.34%) Go
11 3 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 124 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 93 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 87 (9.79%) Degree
4 63 (7.09%) ACCA
5 59 (6.64%) CIMA
6 16 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.80%) PMP
7 15 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (1.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 9 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.79%) CBAP
13 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.56%) IIBA
15 4 (0.45%) CCNP
15 4 (0.45%) CISSP
15 4 (0.45%) ISEB
15 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.74%) QA
3 45 (5.06%) GDPR
4 37 (4.16%) PMO
5 29 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.80%) IFRS
6 16 (1.80%) SLA
7 15 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.35%) NIST
9 10 (1.12%) GAAP
10 9 (1.01%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.45%) COBIT
12 4 (0.45%) GRC
13 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.22%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.11%) PERC
15 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.24%) Docker
3 8 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.79%) IAG
5 6 (0.67%) vSphere
6 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.34%) GPFS
8 3 (0.34%) NFS
8 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (2.59%) Ansible
2 19 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.35%) Terraform
5 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.45%) Grafana
6 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.34%) WSUS
8 2 (0.22%) Control-M
8 2 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.22%) Kiali
8 2 (0.22%) 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%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 96 (10.80%) SAP
2 90 (10.12%) Microsoft
3 68 (7.65%) Oracle
4 60 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.59%) Workday
7 18 (2.02%) IFS
8 17 (1.91%) VMware
9 14 (1.57%) Splunk
10 13 (1.46%) Google
10 13 (1.46%) IBM
11 10 (1.12%) Apple
11 10 (1.12%) Cisco
12 9 (1.01%) Okta
13 8 (0.90%) Sonatype
14 7 (0.79%) Databricks
15 6 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.67%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.67%) NEC
15 6 (0.67%) Sage
715 Process Improvement jobs in England