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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 75 83
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +43
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 33 13 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.28% 1.09% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 1.25% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 18
10th Percentile £233 £363 £255
25th Percentile £313 £378 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -6.50% +18.14%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £638
90th Percentile £674 £613 -
North West median daily rate £475 £534 £509
% change year-on-year -11.05% +5.01% +18.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.50 £15.92 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.17 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year +116.45% -7.39% -
75th Percentile £35.50 £16.42 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.17 £17.50
% change year-on-year +77.80% -7.60% -71.53%

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 894 1,037 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 86.71% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 655 1,182
10th Percentile £300 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.98 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.00 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £34.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.53% -2.26% +60.70%

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 12 August 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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Bolton - 4 - - 9
Process Improvement
North West

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 4 (12.12%) Resin
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (12.12%) PTC Creo
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) SAP EWM
2 1 (3.03%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Asana
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) Postman
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (3.03%) Italian Language
7 1 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Legal
7 1 (3.03%) Local Government
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Change Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) ITIL Change Manager
3 3 (9.09%) ITIL Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Commercial Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Report Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Sales Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (3.03%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Process Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Support
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.03%) Node.js
1 1 (3.03%) React
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) Spring
1 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.03%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) 3D Printing
2 1 (3.03%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) ITIL
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) ITSM
4 7 (21.21%) Change Management
4 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) API Testing
6 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
6 5 (15.15%) Release Management
6 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
7 4 (12.12%) CAD
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.12%) Prototyping
7 4 (12.12%) Rapid Prototyping
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (9.09%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) Java
1 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.03%) PHP
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CIPD
4 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.03%) PMP
4 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) SLA
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) CyberArk