Process Improvement Contracts in the North of England

Process Improvement
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 60 128 155
Rank change year-on-year +68 +27 -2
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 119 57 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.61% 1.20% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 1.39% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 41 49
10th Percentile £226 £363 £306
25th Percentile £336 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £599 £618 £640
England median daily rate £524 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.95% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 1
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.92 -
25th Percentile £26.88 £28.59 £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% - -4.88%
75th Percentile £32.01 £43.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
England median hourly rate £29.15 £25.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year +16.60% -43.09% -2.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +66 96 £475 -10.29% 273
Yorkshire +9 19 £518 +0.10% 191
North East 0 4 £558 +13.03% 61
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.36%) Skype for Business
3 3 (2.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (5.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.84%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.84%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.84%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.84%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.84%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.84%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
2 7 (5.88%) AWS
3 5 (4.20%) GitHub
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.68%) Azure
4 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.68%) SaaS
4 2 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.84%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Skype
2 3 (2.52%) Firewall
3 2 (1.68%) SSL
4 1 (0.84%) BGP
4 1 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.84%) DMZ
4 1 (0.84%) DNS
4 1 (0.84%) DWDM
4 1 (0.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.84%) IPsec
4 1 (0.84%) L2TP
4 1 (0.84%) MPLS
4 1 (0.84%) Network Security
4 1 (0.84%) OSPF
4 1 (0.84%) SNA
4 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.84%) VPN
4 1 (0.84%) WAN
4 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) SAP HANA
2 8 (6.72%) Power BI
3 6 (5.04%) Tableau
4 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.68%) QlikView
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.84%) MySQL
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) JIRA
2 6 (5.04%) GitLab
3 5 (4.20%) Selenium
4 4 (3.36%) Git
4 4 (3.36%) JMeter
4 4 (3.36%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.76%) Finance
4 6 (5.04%) Banking
4 6 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.04%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.52%) Legal
7 3 (2.52%) Marketing
7 3 (2.52%) Retail
8 2 (1.68%) Automotive
8 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.84%) Aviation
9 1 (0.84%) Military
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (27.73%) Analyst
2 23 (19.33%) Administrator
3 22 (18.49%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 14 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 14 (11.76%) Developer
5 12 (10.08%) SAP Developer
6 9 (7.56%) ABAP Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
8 6 (5.04%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Service Management Analyst
9 5 (4.20%) Tester
10 4 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Consultant
10 4 (3.36%) Lead
10 4 (3.36%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) BAPI
1 9 (7.56%) Web Services
2 4 (3.36%) Node.js
3 3 (2.52%) CSS
3 3 (2.52%) HTML
3 3 (2.52%) HTML5
3 3 (2.52%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (2.52%) SAPUI5
3 3 (2.52%) XML
4 1 (0.84%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.84%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.84%) Middleware
4 1 (0.84%) React
4 1 (0.84%) REST
4 1 (0.84%) Spring
4 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.84%) Symfony
4 1 (0.84%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (4.20%) Security Posture
2 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.52%) Operational Technology
2 3 (2.52%) PMI
3 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.84%) CMDB
4 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.84%) NHS
4 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.84%) Unix
1 1 (0.84%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.34%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (22.69%) Budget Management
3 24 (20.17%) Agile
4 22 (18.49%) Change Management
4 22 (18.49%) Cloud Security
5 19 (15.97%) DevOps
6 18 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (11.76%) Project Management
9 13 (10.92%) ITIL
9 13 (10.92%) Performance Metrics
10 11 (9.24%) Business Analysis
11 10 (8.40%) Migration
11 10 (8.40%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (7.56%) CI/CD
12 9 (7.56%) Decision-Making
12 9 (7.56%) OO
12 9 (7.56%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (7.56%) Validation
13 8 (6.72%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.61%) SQL
2 9 (7.56%) ABAP
3 3 (2.52%) Java
3 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.52%) Python
4 2 (1.68%) Bash
4 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.84%) JCL
5 1 (0.84%) Perl
5 1 (0.84%) PHP
5 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.84%) REXX
Qualifications
1 25 (21.01%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (15.13%) Degree
3 14 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.04%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.36%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.52%) PMP
8 2 (1.68%) CBAP
8 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.68%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.68%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.84%) CCIE
9 1 (0.84%) CCNP
9 1 (0.84%) CIPD
9 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.84%) MBA
9 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) GDPR
1 4 (3.36%) SLA
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) PSD2
4 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.68%) Docker
3 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) Control-M
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
2 1 (0.84%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 24 (20.17%) SAP
2 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.52%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.68%) IBM
5 2 (1.68%) Infoblox
5 2 (1.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.84%) Ariba
6 1 (0.84%) Arista
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco
6 1 (0.84%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.84%) McAfee
6 1 (0.84%) Workday