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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 102 157
Rank change year-on-year -11 +55 -8
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 1,056 711 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 2.56% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.82% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £263 £325
25th Percentile £404 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 41 27
10th Percentile £13.42 £16.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.04 £15.21
Median hourly rate £23.69 £30.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -0.40% +0.40%
75th Percentile £55.05 £35.50 £35.75
90th Percentile £73.43 £53.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.16 £30.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -19.47% +2.35% -2.30%

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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -6 487 £525 +5.00% 836
South East -19 158 £500 -4.76% 307
North of England -52 152 £474 -0.21% 244
Midlands -15 131 £450 +0.56% 139
North West -64 81 £500 +5.82% 133
West Midlands -31 73 £500 +5.26% 77
Yorkshire -11 64 £451 -7.49% 79
East Midlands +13 58 £425 +70.00% 62
South West -3 57 £456 +7.18% 135
East of England +8 55 £450 +15.02% 96
North East -35 8 £400 -12.81% 36
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 55 (5.21%) Confluence
2 32 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.23%) CMS
4 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.28%) Moodle
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.28%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
7 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.095%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.095%) Appian
8 1 (0.095%) CICS
8 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.095%) MTS
8 1 (0.095%) nginx
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.095%) SAS
8 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.095%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 121 (11.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.47%) ProjectWise
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.38%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.38%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.38%) Revit
9 3 (0.28%) Simulink
10 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.095%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.89%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.14%) iTrent
4 11 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.66%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.57%) Magento
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 4 (0.38%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.38%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.28%) Loan IQ
12 3 (0.28%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 116 (10.98%) Power Platform
2 100 (9.47%) Azure
3 48 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (3.79%) AWS
4 40 (3.79%) SaaS
5 35 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (2.46%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.27%) Power Automate
9 22 (2.08%) PowerApps
10 20 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
11 19 (1.80%) GitHub
12 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.95%) Datadog
15 9 (0.85%) Intacct
16 8 (0.76%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.76%) Lucidchart
16 8 (0.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.23%) Firewall
3 11 (1.04%) DNS
4 10 (0.95%) VPN
5 9 (0.85%) WAN
5 9 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.66%) LAN
7 5 (0.47%) Network Security
7 5 (0.47%) SSL
8 4 (0.38%) DHCP
8 4 (0.38%) MPLS
8 4 (0.38%) Wireless
9 3 (0.28%) BGP
9 3 (0.28%) DMZ
9 3 (0.28%) Internet
9 3 (0.28%) IPsec
9 3 (0.28%) VSAN
10 2 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.19%) Multicast
10 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (8.90%) Power BI
2 21 (1.99%) Tableau
3 12 (1.14%) Metadata
4 11 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (0.66%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.57%) Power Query
9 5 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.38%) MySQL
10 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.28%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.19%) Ataccama
12 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.19%) Big Data
12 2 (0.19%) Looker
12 2 (0.19%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 94 (8.90%) JIRA
2 13 (1.23%) Git
3 9 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.47%) Postman
5 5 (0.47%) Selenium
6 4 (0.38%) JMeter
6 4 (0.38%) JUnit
6 4 (0.38%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.28%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.28%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.19%) Appium
8 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.19%) GitLab
8 2 (0.19%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.19%) MLflow
8 2 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 442 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 439 (41.57%) Finance
3 315 (29.83%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.94%) Banking
5 70 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.83%) Retail
8 50 (4.73%) Manufacturing
9 49 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
10 47 (4.45%) Legal
11 41 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.80%) General Ledger
14 19 (1.80%) Marketing
15 18 (1.70%) Local Government
15 18 (1.70%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.61%) Front Office
17 16 (1.52%) Investment Banking
18 14 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 335 (31.72%) Analyst
2 200 (18.94%) Business Analyst
3 107 (10.13%) Senior
4 102 (9.66%) Lead
5 93 (8.81%) Consultant
6 49 (4.64%) Senior Analyst
7 47 (4.45%) Project Manager
8 40 (3.79%) Accountant
9 31 (2.94%) Data Analyst
10 30 (2.84%) Senior Business Analyst
11 28 (2.65%) Financial Analyst
12 27 (2.56%) Developer
13 26 (2.46%) Process Analyst
14 25 (2.37%) Administrator
15 22 (2.08%) Architect
16 21 (1.99%) Support Engineer
16 21 (1.99%) Transformation Manager
17 20 (1.89%) Senior Manager
18 19 (1.80%) IT Manager
19 18 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (2.08%) REST
3 16 (1.52%) Terraform
4 15 (1.42%) .NET
5 13 (1.23%) SOAP
6 11 (1.04%) Middleware
7 9 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (0.76%) HTML
8 8 (0.76%) SAP PI
9 6 (0.57%) IDoc
9 6 (0.57%) JSON
9 6 (0.57%) OAuth
9 6 (0.57%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.47%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.47%) JDBC
10 5 (0.47%) React
10 5 (0.47%) STL
10 5 (0.47%) Web Services
11 4 (0.38%) LDAP
11 4 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 55 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 55 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.37%) CMDB
6 21 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.23%) Operational Technology
11 12 (1.14%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.04%) FMCG
12 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 49 (4.64%) Windows
2 27 (2.56%) Linux
3 17 (1.61%) Unix
4 13 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) Android
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.095%) AIX
11 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.095%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.095%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (36.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 286 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
3 244 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 225 (21.31%) Agile
5 203 (19.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 171 (16.19%) Workshop Facilitation
7 162 (15.34%) User Acceptance Testing
8 159 (15.06%) ERP
9 158 (14.96%) Decision-Making
10 147 (13.92%) Change Management
10 147 (13.92%) Requirements Gathering
11 139 (13.16%) Validation
12 137 (12.97%) Migration
13 136 (12.88%) AI
14 135 (12.78%) Business Analysis
15 115 (10.89%) User Stories
16 110 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
17 104 (9.85%) Project Delivery
18 101 (9.56%) Data Analysis
19 99 (9.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (10.70%) SQL
2 67 (6.34%) Python
3 34 (3.22%) Java
4 23 (2.18%) PowerShell
5 22 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.61%) VBA
7 9 (0.85%) ABAP
7 9 (0.85%) Bash
8 8 (0.76%) C#
9 7 (0.66%) Perl
10 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.57%) Korn
10 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.38%) R
12 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.28%) Go
13 3 (0.28%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 119 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 115 (10.89%) Degree
4 65 (6.16%) ACCA
5 62 (5.87%) CIMA
6 22 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.99%) PMP
8 19 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 13 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.04%) CBAP
14 10 (0.95%) IIBA
15 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.76%) ISEB
17 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
18 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
19 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
19 5 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.06%) QA
3 48 (4.55%) PMO
4 43 (4.07%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.61%) SLA
7 16 (1.52%) GRC
8 13 (1.23%) IFRS
8 13 (1.23%) NIST
8 13 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (1.04%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.95%) GAAP
11 4 (0.38%) COBIT
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.28%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.19%) Basel III
13 2 (0.19%) ITGC
13 2 (0.19%) SEPA
14 1 (0.095%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.52%) IAG
3 9 (0.85%) Docker
4 8 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.19%) GPFS
8 2 (0.19%) NFS
8 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.095%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.095%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.095%) Postfix
9 1 (0.095%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.80%) Ansible
3 18 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.66%) SCCM
5 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.47%) Control-M
7 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.28%) WSUS
8 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.19%) Istio
8 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.19%) vRealize
9 1 (0.095%) Argo
9 1 (0.095%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.095%) Nessus
9 1 (0.095%) Puppet
9 1 (0.095%) SCOM
9 1 (0.095%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.095%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 165 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 125 (11.84%) SAP
3 97 (9.19%) Oracle
4 79 (7.48%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.80%) Workday
7 16 (1.52%) IFS
8 13 (1.23%) IBM
8 13 (1.23%) Splunk
9 11 (1.04%) Sage
9 11 (1.04%) VMware
10 10 (0.95%) Adobe
10 10 (0.95%) Cisco
10 10 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.95%) Nexthink
11 9 (0.85%) Apple
11 9 (0.85%) Google
12 7 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.66%) Autodesk
12 7 (0.66%) Okta