Process Improvement Contracts in Scotland

Process Improvement
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 70 91 133
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 -9
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 48 38 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.95% 1.71% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 1.94% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 19
10th Percentile £280 £261 £355
25th Percentile £368 £372 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £453 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -6.60% +4.86%
75th Percentile £482 £538 £544
90th Percentile £528 £541 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £26.75 £43.93
% change year-on-year +22.65% -39.11% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in Scotland

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in Scotland

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Scotland

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in Scotland

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +23 43 £441 -3.29% 11
Edinburgh -7 4 £513 +22.32% 15
Process Improvement
UK

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Finacle
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) AWS
2 6 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) OCI
5 1 (2.08%) PaaS
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) FTP
1 1 (2.08%) SNA
1 1 (2.08%) SSL
1 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
1 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) Mockito
4 1 (2.08%) MSTest
4 1 (2.08%) NUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Postman
4 1 (2.08%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
4 1 (2.08%) Toad
General
1 25 (52.08%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (18.75%) Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Back Office
5 4 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.17%) Front Office
7 2 (4.17%) Private Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 10 (20.83%) Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Administrator
4 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.25%) React Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Junior
6 2 (4.17%) Junior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Business Change Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Business Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Change Analyst
7 1 (2.08%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) Spring
2 16 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.25%) React
4 2 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (2.08%) .NET
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.08%) J2EE
5 1 (2.08%) JMS
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.08%) Kafka
5 1 (2.08%) Middleware
5 1 (2.08%) OAuth
5 1 (2.08%) OpenID
5 1 (2.08%) Playwright
5 1 (2.08%) SAML
5 1 (2.08%) SOAP
5 1 (2.08%) Spring Batch
5 1 (2.08%) Visualforce
5 1 (2.08%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.25%) PMI
2 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.17%) Derivative
2 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) CMDB
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Project Delivery
2 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (18.75%) Agile
5 7 (14.58%) Change Management
5 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
5 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Project Management
8 4 (8.33%) Customer Experience
8 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (8.33%) Information Security
8 4 (8.33%) ITIL
8 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.33%) User Experience
9 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) Java
2 3 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.08%) C#
3 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) JCL
3 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) REXX
3 1 (2.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.08%) ACCA
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) CISA
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) SLA
2 2 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) RACF
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.08%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle
1 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) Avaloq
4 2 (4.17%) Temenos
5 1 (2.08%) Apple
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.08%) Okta
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) Talend