Process Improvement Contracts in Manchester

Process Improvement
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Process Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Process Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 85 101
Rank change year-on-year +30 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 24 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.59% 0.73% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 0.83% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 12
10th Percentile £225 £338 £505
25th Percentile £250 £413 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -13.04% +25.68%
75th Percentile £476 £561 £602
90th Percentile £513 £573 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.29% -3.73% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £15.90 £16.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.35% - -19.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in Manchester

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in Manchester

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Manchester

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in Manchester

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) SAP EWM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) SaaS
1 2 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (4.17%) Asana
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JMeter
1 4 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 4 (16.67%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Local Government
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Software Tester
2 4 (16.67%) Tester
3 3 (12.50%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Commercial Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Report Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Sales Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) Node.js
1 1 (4.17%) React
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.17%) Symfony
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Change Management
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) System Testing
3 6 (25.00%) Validation
4 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Data Validation
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) ITIL
5 4 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) SAP Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CIPD
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
4 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft