Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Process Improvement
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 61 94
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 +59
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 152 104 96
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.16% 2.94% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.38% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 47 57
10th Percentile £303 £250 £360
25th Percentile £372 £353 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £718
England median daily rate £475 £538 £517
% change year-on-year -11.63% +3.97% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £17.75 £14.61 £16.57
25th Percentile £27.88 £15.90 £17.14
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +58.96% -
75th Percentile £49.63 £29.23 £17.68
90th Percentile £77.15 £33.89 £30.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year -31.93% +8.53% -

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 4,241 3,078 4,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.17% 86.88% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,817 1,756 2,729
10th Percentile £220 £263 £293
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 149 203
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £15.54
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.50 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% -8.49% +33.56%
75th Percentile £54.38 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.64 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in the North of England

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Process Improvement

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 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Process Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Process Improvement

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 26 December 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 26 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
North West -15 79 £500 +11.11% 170
Yorkshire -4 61 £469 -24.78% 134
North East -5 12 £369 -35.87% 32
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.26%) Confluence
3 3 (1.97%) Resin
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 24 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.97%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (18.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.45%) AWS
2 19 (12.50%) Azure
3 17 (11.18%) GitHub
4 15 (9.87%) GCP
5 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.63%) OCI
10 3 (1.97%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.97%) SaaS
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.32%) Miro
11 2 (1.32%) Serverless
12 1 (0.66%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.66%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) Firewall
2 3 (1.97%) DNS
2 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.66%) DWDM
3 1 (0.66%) LAN
3 1 (0.66%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) Data Lake
2 9 (5.92%) Power BI
2 9 (5.92%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.32%) MySQL
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (15.13%) JIRA
2 19 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 17 (11.18%) GitLab
4 12 (7.89%) Postman
5 5 (3.29%) Jaeger
5 5 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.63%) Git
7 3 (1.97%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.97%) Selenium
7 3 (1.97%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.32%) TestRail
9 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.66%) InstallShield
9 1 (0.66%) JUnit
9 1 (0.66%) Maven
9 1 (0.66%) MSI
9 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 53 (34.87%) Finance
3 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.53%) Banking
4 15 (9.87%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.63%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.32%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) French Language
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (29.61%) Analyst
2 24 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 14 (9.21%) Consultant
4 12 (7.89%) SAP Consultant
5 11 (7.24%) Administrator
6 10 (6.58%) ABAP Consultant
6 10 (6.58%) Senior
7 8 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Lead
8 7 (4.61%) Development Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Help Desk Analyst
8 7 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.61%) Senior Business Analyst
8 7 (4.61%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (3.95%) Change Manager
9 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) ITIL Change Manager
9 6 (3.95%) ITIL Manager
9 6 (3.95%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.24%) BAPI
2 10 (6.58%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (6.58%) Web Services
3 9 (5.92%) Kafka
4 5 (3.29%) Middleware
4 5 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (3.29%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.63%) REST
6 3 (1.97%) LDAP
6 3 (1.97%) OpenID
6 3 (1.97%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.32%) .NET
8 1 (0.66%) FHIR
8 1 (0.66%) IDoc
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.66%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.95%) NHS
4 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.63%) LIMS
6 3 (1.97%) 3D Printing
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.97%) Synthetic Data
7 2 (1.32%) PMI
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.66%) FMCG
8 1 (0.66%) Replication
8 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.37%) Agile
1 34 (22.37%) DevOps
2 32 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (19.08%) CI/CD
5 27 (17.76%) Six Sigma
6 25 (16.45%) Workshop Facilitation
7 24 (15.79%) Lean Six Sigma
7 24 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (14.47%) Roadmaps
9 20 (13.16%) Coaching
10 17 (11.18%) ITIL
11 16 (10.53%) Change Management
12 15 (9.87%) Business Process Mapping
12 15 (9.87%) Cloud Security
13 14 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (9.21%) ERP
13 14 (9.21%) ITSM
13 14 (9.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.16%) SQL
2 12 (7.89%) Java
3 11 (7.24%) ABAP
3 11 (7.24%) Python
4 5 (3.29%) Rust
4 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.97%) Bash
6 3 (1.97%) Go
6 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.32%) PHP
7 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.16%) Degree
2 20 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 8 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.97%) GCIA
6 3 (1.97%) GCIH
6 3 (1.97%) GIAC
6 3 (1.97%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.97%) SSCP
7 2 (1.32%) CISM
7 2 (1.32%) CISSP
7 2 (1.32%) MBA
7 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.32%) PMP
7 2 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.21%) QA
2 10 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.92%) SLA
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.97%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.32%) Basel III
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) HL7
6 1 (0.66%) PMO
6 1 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (9.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 16 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.55%) Ansible
3 10 (6.58%) Grafana
3 10 (6.58%) Terraform
4 7 (4.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.29%) Kiali
6 1 (0.66%) Argo
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (19.74%) SAP
2 13 (8.55%) ServiceNow
3 12 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.58%) Adobe
4 10 (6.58%) Workday
5 8 (5.26%) Splunk
6 6 (3.95%) Oracle
7 4 (2.63%) Google
7 4 (2.63%) Sonatype
8 3 (1.97%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.32%) Thycotic
10 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.66%) Ariba
10 1 (0.66%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.66%) Concur
10 1 (0.66%) IBM
10 1 (0.66%) NGA Human Resources
10 1 (0.66%) Planview