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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 102 163
Rank change year-on-year -28 +61 +39
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 847 646 527
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.63% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.88% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 390 343
10th Percentile £289 £285 £302
25th Percentile £391 £381 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £585 £600 £615
90th Percentile £671 £764 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £513
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 35 41
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.22 £26.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -49.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.63 £36.00
90th Percentile £75.07 £73.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £33.11 £24.26
% change year-on-year -24.27% +36.51% -43.83%

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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -20 360 £500 -4.76% 219
South East -26 139 £500 - 144
North of England -68 122 £442 -4.38% 104
Midlands -32 107 £413 -13.16% 86
West Midlands -38 69 £488 -7.05% 50
Yorkshire -19 66 £472 -5.70% 43
South West +11 52 £450 +2.86% 60
East of England +8 48 £450 -10.00% 53
North West -69 46 £435 -3.33% 51
East Midlands -4 39 £392 +24.29% 36
North East -25 11 £364 -32.01% 11
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 49 (5.79%) Confluence
2 18 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.18%) CMS
4 9 (1.06%) CICS
5 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.35%) Moodle
8 2 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.19%) MS Visio
4 25 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.42%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.83%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.71%) Magento
6 5 (0.59%) iTrent
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.47%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.47%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.24%) Endur
9 2 (0.24%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.24%) Primavera
9 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 81 (9.56%) Power Platform
2 64 (7.56%) Azure
3 36 (4.25%) AWS
4 25 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.60%) SaaS
6 21 (2.48%) GitHub
7 16 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 15 (1.77%) GCP
8 15 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
9 13 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 12 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.06%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.94%) Lucidchart
13 7 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (0.59%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.47%) Miro
15 4 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.36%) Firewall
2 9 (1.06%) DNS
2 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.71%) VPN
4 5 (0.59%) FTP
4 5 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.47%) DHCP
5 4 (0.47%) WAN
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) MPLS
6 3 (0.35%) SSL
6 3 (0.35%) VSAN
6 3 (0.35%) Wireless
7 2 (0.24%) BGP
7 2 (0.24%) DMZ
7 2 (0.24%) IPsec
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) Network Security
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.03%) Power BI
2 13 (1.53%) Relational Database
3 11 (1.30%) Metadata
3 11 (1.30%) MySQL
3 11 (1.30%) Tableau
4 9 (1.06%) DataStage
5 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.71%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.47%) Power Query
9 3 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.24%) Ataccama
10 2 (0.24%) Big Data
10 2 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 102 (12.04%) JIRA
2 25 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.65%) Git
4 8 (0.94%) GitLab
4 8 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.83%) Postman
5 7 (0.83%) Selenium
6 6 (0.71%) Jaeger
7 5 (0.59%) MLflow
8 4 (0.47%) JUnit
8 4 (0.47%) TestRail
9 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.35%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) Gatling
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
General
1 334 (39.43%) Finance
2 329 (38.84%) Social Skills
3 269 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 70 (8.26%) Banking
6 42 (4.96%) Legal
7 39 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (4.13%) Retail
9 34 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.77%) Local Government
13 14 (1.65%) Law
14 13 (1.53%) Billing
14 13 (1.53%) Marketing
15 12 (1.42%) Front Office
15 12 (1.42%) General Ledger
15 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 263 (31.05%) Analyst
2 146 (17.24%) Business Analyst
3 86 (10.15%) Senior
4 79 (9.33%) Lead
5 59 (6.97%) Consultant
6 36 (4.25%) Project Manager
6 36 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
7 34 (4.01%) Accountant
8 23 (2.72%) Data Analyst
9 20 (2.36%) Developer
9 20 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
9 20 (2.36%) Project Officer
10 19 (2.24%) Architect
10 19 (2.24%) Management Accountant
11 17 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
11 17 (2.01%) Process Analyst
12 16 (1.89%) Senior Business Analyst
13 15 (1.77%) Designer
13 15 (1.77%) Security Analyst
13 15 (1.77%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.13%) Middleware
2 16 (1.89%) REST
3 12 (1.42%) .NET
4 10 (1.18%) Kafka
5 9 (1.06%) Spring Boot
6 8 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (0.83%) HTML
8 6 (0.71%) Playwright
9 5 (0.59%) Flash
9 5 (0.59%) JSON
9 5 (0.59%) Node.js
9 5 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.59%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.59%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.59%) SOAP
10 4 (0.47%) LDAP
10 4 (0.47%) OpenID
10 4 (0.47%) YAML
11 3 (0.35%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 31 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.89%) CMDB
7 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.30%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.18%) Derivative
11 9 (1.06%) BYOD
11 9 (1.06%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.06%) VSAM
12 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.83%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.55%) Windows
2 39 (4.60%) Linux
3 25 (2.95%) Unix
4 9 (1.06%) AIX
4 9 (1.06%) Solaris
5 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.94%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.83%) Android
6 7 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.59%) 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%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (25.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
3 184 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 155 (18.30%) Agile
5 139 (16.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 137 (16.17%) Decision-Making
7 104 (12.28%) Change Management
8 94 (11.10%) Project Management
9 87 (10.27%) ERP
9 87 (10.27%) User Acceptance Testing
9 87 (10.27%) Workshop Facilitation
10 79 (9.33%) Business Analysis
10 79 (9.33%) DevOps
11 76 (8.97%) AI
11 76 (8.97%) Migration
11 76 (8.97%) Validation
12 74 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
13 70 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
14 64 (7.56%) Project Delivery
15 60 (7.08%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 102 (12.04%) SQL
2 60 (7.08%) Python
3 38 (4.49%) Java
4 22 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.42%) Perl
6 10 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.06%) COBOL
7 9 (1.06%) VBA
8 6 (0.71%) Bash
8 6 (0.71%) Go
8 6 (0.71%) Rust
9 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.47%) R
11 3 (0.35%) ABAP
11 3 (0.35%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.35%) C#
11 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 92 (10.86%) Degree
3 84 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 63 (7.44%) ACCA
5 60 (7.08%) CIMA
6 20 (2.36%) PMP
7 18 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 8 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.83%) CISSP
13 6 (0.71%) CBAP
13 6 (0.71%) CISM
13 6 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.59%) IIBA
14 5 (0.59%) MBA
14 5 (0.59%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.85%) QA
3 42 (4.96%) PMO
4 41 (4.84%) GDPR
5 30 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.24%) SLA
7 15 (1.77%) IFRS
7 15 (1.77%) NIST
7 15 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.06%) GAAP
9 7 (0.83%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.59%) Basel III
11 4 (0.47%) COBIT
11 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.35%) PSD2
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 24 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.77%) Docker
3 7 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.71%) vSphere
5 5 (0.59%) GPFS
5 5 (0.59%) NFS
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) 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
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.24%) Ansible
2 18 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.30%) Grafana
4 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.18%) Terraform
5 8 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.71%) Kiali
6 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.35%) WSUS
8 2 (0.24%) Control-M
8 2 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.24%) vRealize
9 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Autotask
9 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 83 (9.80%) SAP
2 74 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 66 (7.79%) Oracle
4 56 (6.61%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.72%) Workday
7 18 (2.13%) IFS
7 18 (2.13%) Splunk
8 16 (1.89%) VMware
9 15 (1.77%) IBM
10 11 (1.30%) Google
11 9 (1.06%) Okta
12 8 (0.94%) Cisco
12 8 (0.94%) Sonatype
13 7 (0.83%) NEC
13 7 (0.83%) Sage
14 6 (0.71%) Apple
14 6 (0.71%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.59%) Databricks