Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Process Improvement
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 36 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 9 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.79% 2.23% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.65% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £202 £210 £350
25th Percentile £238 £291 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £513 £547
90th Percentile £665 £535 £596
East of England median daily rate £435 £450 £483
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.74% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.34 - -
Median hourly rate £14.87 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.53% - -
75th Percentile £15.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £33.22
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.36% +0.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 465 453 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 92.45% 84.36% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 166 371
10th Percentile £195 £240 £273
25th Percentile £400 £314 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £444 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -19.32% +2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £699 £644 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 113 158
10th Percentile £16.45 £15.10 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.40 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £65.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £28.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.11% +42.10% -4.76%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Process Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Hertfordshire

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Process Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Watford +4 3 £450 - 11
Welwyn Garden City +2 2 £275 - 1
Hatfield -13 2 £650 +44.44% 1
Stevenage -5 1 £193 - 12
Process Improvement
East of England

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support
1 2 (22.22%) Programme Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Support
1 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) QA Manager
2 1 (11.11%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Android
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 3 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) ITSM
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Cribl.io
3 1 (11.11%) Snow