Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Process Improvement
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 41 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.52% 1.14% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.40% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £324 - £520
25th Percentile £355 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £200 £550
Median % change year-on-year +106.25% -63.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £463 - £575
90th Percentile £489 - £590
Wales median daily rate £413 £200 £550
% change year-on-year +106.25% -63.64% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 286 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.02% 81.71% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 148 267
10th Percentile £191 £161 £193
25th Percentile £283 £210 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -9.52%
75th Percentile £489 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 40 24
10th Percentile - £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -42.39% -4.60% +32.91%
75th Percentile £20.75 £47.81 £49.06
90th Percentile - £53.88 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.16% -2.46% +37.17%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in South Wales

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in South Wales

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Process Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Cardiff +3 2 £397 +98.38% 9
Newport - 1 £413 -
Bridgend - 1 - -
Process Improvement
Wales

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Asana
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Case
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) PMO