Process Improvement Contracts in Sheffield

Process Improvement
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 48 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -16 +19
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 5 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.40% 1.55% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.72% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 18
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £506 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £529 £488 £650
90th Percentile - £825 £775
South Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +8.95% -13.64% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 338 349 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.41% 90.18% 96.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 201 281
10th Percentile £232 £375 £363
25th Percentile £380 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £638 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £18.10 - £12.45
25th Percentile £18.20 £10.90 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.69 £17.38 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -15.24% +22.39%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.44 £31.38
90th Percentile - £23.75 £36.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.69 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +45.67% +20.70% -37.67%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in Sheffield

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in Sheffield

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Control-M
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware