Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Process Improvement
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -70 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 3 23 18
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.45% 15.97% 13.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 17.04% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 15
10th Percentile £270 £313 £338
25th Percentile £281 £395 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £487 £358
Median % change year-on-year -38.44% +36.13% -33.70%
75th Percentile - £527 -
90th Percentile - £537 £359
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £498 £370
% change year-on-year +0.40% +34.59% -31.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 135 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.39% 93.75% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 93 57
10th Percentile £350 £309 £200
25th Percentile £412 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £358
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +28.49% -33.46%
75th Percentile £525 £537 £500
90th Percentile £625 £547 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 8
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +141.36% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.75 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. 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
Telford -71 3 £300 -38.44% 4
Process Improvement
West Midlands

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Testing
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Management
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) PMO