Process Improvement Contracts in the North West

Process Improvement
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 36 102 126
Rank change year-on-year +66 +24 -10
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 96 35 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.88% 1.27% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 1.47% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 21
10th Percentile £239 £374 £413
25th Percentile £315 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -3.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £590
90th Percentile £584 £654 £638
England median daily rate £524 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.95% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 1
10th Percentile £19.18 £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% - -19.92%
75th Percentile £30.63 £43.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £31.18 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the North West

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the North West

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North West

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the North West

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North West

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +9 28 £402 -24.72% 33
Manchester +30 24 £325 -35.00% 86
Lancashire +22 23 - - 40
Merseyside +10 7 £400 -20.00% 8
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.17%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.04%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.04%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.29%) AWS
2 5 (5.21%) GitHub
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.08%) Azure
4 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.08%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.08%) SaaS
4 2 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.04%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) Skype
2 3 (3.13%) Firewall
3 2 (2.08%) SSL
4 1 (1.04%) BGP
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.04%) DMZ
4 1 (1.04%) DNS
4 1 (1.04%) DWDM
4 1 (1.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.04%) IPsec
4 1 (1.04%) L2TP
4 1 (1.04%) MPLS
4 1 (1.04%) Multicast
4 1 (1.04%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) OSPF
4 1 (1.04%) VPN
4 1 (1.04%) WAN
4 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) SAP HANA
2 5 (5.21%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.13%) Power BI
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) MySQL
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) GitLab
2 5 (5.21%) JIRA
3 4 (4.17%) Git
3 4 (4.17%) JMeter
3 4 (4.17%) LoadRunner
3 4 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Banking
4 6 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.21%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
6 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.08%) Automotive
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
7 2 (2.08%) Local Government
7 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.04%) Billing
8 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Military
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Analyst
2 23 (23.96%) Administrator
3 22 (22.92%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 14 (14.58%) Developer
5 12 (12.50%) SAP Developer
6 11 (11.46%) Business Analyst
7 9 (9.38%) ABAP Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Service Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Service Management Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Senior
10 4 (4.17%) Software Tester
10 4 (4.17%) Tester
11 3 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) BAPI
1 9 (9.38%) Web Services
2 4 (4.17%) Node.js
3 3 (3.13%) CSS
3 3 (3.13%) HTML
3 3 (3.13%) HTML5
3 3 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (3.13%) SAPUI5
3 3 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.04%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.04%) Middleware
4 1 (1.04%) React
4 1 (1.04%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) Spring
4 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.04%) Symfony
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Security Posture
2 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.04%) CMDB
4 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (26.04%) Budget Management
3 22 (22.92%) Cloud Security
4 17 (17.71%) Agile
4 17 (17.71%) DevOps
5 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (13.54%) Change Management
7 11 (11.46%) ITIL
7 11 (11.46%) Performance Metrics
8 9 (9.38%) OO
8 9 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (9.38%) Project Management
8 9 (9.38%) Validation
9 8 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (7.29%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (7.29%) Business Analysis
10 7 (7.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) SQL
2 9 (9.38%) ABAP
3 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.13%) Python
4 2 (2.08%) Bash
4 2 (2.08%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.04%) Perl
5 1 (1.04%) PHP
5 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.46%) Degree
5 4 (4.17%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.13%) PMP
7 2 (2.08%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.04%) CBAP
8 1 (1.04%) CCIE
8 1 (1.04%) CCNP
8 1 (1.04%) CIPD
8 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) SLA
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) PSD2
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.83%) SAP
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.04%) Arista
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco
6 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) McAfee
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk