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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 110 148
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 +23
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 792 652 624
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 2.31% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.60% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 374 387
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £353 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £517
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +2.51% -1.52%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £620
90th Percentile £667 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 27 34
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.04 £13.08
25th Percentile £14.34 £28.12 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +8.53% -
75th Percentile £40.65 £65.62 £49.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £56.82
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% +6.06% +2.33%

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 27,925 25,046 32,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.53% 88.69% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,779 15,429 21,914
10th Percentile £302 £311 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,785 824 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +19 347 £500 -12.09% 286
North of England -19 149 £500 - 342
South East -16 98 £410 -18.00% 407
Midlands -17 93 £425 -5.56% 298
North West -15 77 £500 +11.11% 172
West Midlands -9 63 £463 -18.36% 171
Yorkshire -11 60 £470 -24.62% 139
South West -13 49 £500 -6.98% 167
East of England -1 45 £469 +32.79% 227
East Midlands -9 31 £345 -3.09% 114
North East -2 12 £369 -35.87% 31
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 41 (5.18%) Confluence
2 25 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.51%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) Resin
6 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Moodle
7 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 110 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (4.80%) MS Visio
4 37 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.38%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.25%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.13%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (6.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (1.14%) SAP HCM
3 8 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.88%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.51%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.51%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.38%) Endur
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 81 (10.23%) Power Platform
2 61 (7.70%) Azure
3 51 (6.44%) AWS
4 42 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (4.92%) SaaS
6 23 (2.90%) GitHub
7 22 (2.78%) GCP
8 19 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (1.64%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
13 9 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.14%) Miro
14 8 (1.01%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.01%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.01%) Lucidchart
15 6 (0.76%) OCI
15 6 (0.76%) PaaS
16 5 (0.63%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.53%) Firewall
2 12 (1.52%) DNS
3 8 (1.01%) VPN
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
4 6 (0.76%) Internet
5 5 (0.63%) DHCP
5 5 (0.63%) Network Security
5 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.51%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.25%) DWDM
8 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.25%) SSH
8 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.13%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.34%) Power BI
2 21 (2.65%) MySQL
3 19 (2.40%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.52%) Tableau
5 11 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 11 (1.39%) SAP HANA
5 11 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.76%) Power Query
9 5 (0.63%) Metadata
10 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.38%) Big Data
11 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.38%) Looker
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.25%) ImageNet
Development Applications
1 82 (10.35%) JIRA
2 46 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.53%) GitLab
4 18 (2.27%) Postman
5 9 (1.14%) Git
6 8 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.76%) Appium
8 5 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (0.63%) Jaeger
8 5 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (0.63%) XCUITest
9 4 (0.51%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.51%) Selenium
10 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
12 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
General
1 375 (47.35%) Social Skills
2 265 (33.46%) Finance
3 175 (22.10%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.21%) Banking
5 54 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.91%) Telecoms
9 29 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 26 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.78%) Legal
11 22 (2.78%) Marketing
12 19 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 19 (2.40%) Retail
13 17 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 16 (2.02%) Billing
15 14 (1.77%) Law
16 13 (1.64%) General Ledger
17 9 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 257 (32.45%) Analyst
2 131 (16.54%) Business Analyst
3 82 (10.35%) Senior
4 69 (8.71%) Consultant
5 54 (6.82%) Lead
6 35 (4.42%) Project Manager
7 30 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
8 27 (3.41%) Data Analyst
8 27 (3.41%) Process Analyst
8 27 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
9 25 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
10 23 (2.90%) Technical Support
11 22 (2.78%) Administrator
11 22 (2.78%) Senior Business Analyst
12 21 (2.65%) Accountant
13 19 (2.40%) IT Support
14 17 (2.15%) Developer
14 17 (2.15%) Senior Consultant
15 16 (2.02%) Change Manager
16 15 (1.89%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.78%) Web Services
2 19 (2.40%) Playwright
3 18 (2.27%) GraphQL
3 18 (2.27%) Node.js
3 18 (2.27%) Vitest
4 14 (1.77%) SAP Fiori
5 11 (1.39%) BAPI
5 11 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (1.26%) Kafka
6 10 (1.26%) SOAP
6 10 (1.26%) XML
6 10 (1.26%) YAML
7 9 (1.14%) REST
8 7 (0.88%) .NET
8 7 (0.88%) Middleware
9 6 (0.76%) HTML
9 6 (0.76%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.82%) Onboarding
2 23 (2.90%) Cloud Native
2 23 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 11 (1.39%) Replication
9 10 (1.26%) CMDB
9 10 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.01%) NHS
12 7 (0.88%) Derivative
12 7 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.88%) PMI
13 6 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.82%) Windows
2 35 (4.42%) Linux
3 27 (3.41%) Unix
4 13 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.14%) Android
6 8 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.88%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (22.73%) Agile
3 160 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 152 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 134 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 99 (12.50%) Change Management
7 97 (12.25%) Project Management
7 97 (12.25%) Workshop Facilitation
8 94 (11.87%) Decision-Making
9 89 (11.24%) DevOps
10 77 (9.72%) Business Analysis
11 72 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
12 71 (8.96%) Project Delivery
13 70 (8.84%) Roadmaps
14 69 (8.71%) ITIL
15 64 (8.08%) Data Analysis
16 63 (7.95%) Coaching
17 62 (7.83%) CI/CD
17 62 (7.83%) Six Sigma
18 57 (7.20%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 101 (12.75%) SQL
2 59 (7.45%) Python
3 32 (4.04%) Java
4 29 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.53%) Perl
7 18 (2.27%) ABAP
8 14 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.88%) Bash
11 7 (0.88%) C#
12 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.63%) Rust
12 5 (0.63%) Swift
13 4 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.51%) PHP
13 4 (0.51%) VBA
14 3 (0.38%) Go
14 3 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 119 (15.03%) Degree
2 93 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 72 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.78%) PMI Certification
6 21 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.65%) PMP
7 15 (1.89%) ACCA
8 14 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (1.39%) CIMA
10 9 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.88%) MBA
13 6 (0.76%) CISSP
13 6 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.63%) CISM
14 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
15 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.45%) QA
2 47 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.55%) PMO
4 24 (3.03%) GDPR
5 20 (2.53%) SLA
6 12 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.76%) NIST
10 5 (0.63%) Basel III
10 5 (0.63%) IFRS
10 5 (0.63%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.51%) GAAP
11 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.38%) GRC
12 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.25%) MiFID
13 2 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 34 (4.29%) Docker
2 27 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) GPFS
5 2 (0.25%) Xen
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) NFS
6 1 (0.13%) Postfix
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.16%) Ansible
3 19 (2.40%) Terraform
4 12 (1.52%) Grafana
5 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.63%) Kiali
9 4 (0.51%) QRadar
10 3 (0.38%) SCCM
11 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) Argo
12 1 (0.13%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Nessus
12 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 83 (10.48%) SAP
3 60 (7.58%) Oracle
4 50 (6.31%) ServiceNow
5 22 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.65%) Splunk
7 20 (2.53%) Google
8 19 (2.40%) Workday
9 17 (2.15%) Adobe
10 9 (1.14%) Alteryx
11 8 (1.01%) Anaplan
12 7 (0.88%) Ariba
12 7 (0.88%) Sonatype
13 6 (0.76%) Planview
14 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.63%) Computacenter
14 5 (0.63%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.51%) Databricks
15 4 (0.51%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.51%) MuleSoft