Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Process Improvement
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.48% 1.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 1.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £165 - -
25th Percentile £213 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £299 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.61% - -
75th Percentile £386 £475 -
90th Percentile £436 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 67 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 85.07% 74.44% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 91
10th Percentile £140 £331 £325
25th Percentile £200 £365 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -20.00% +5.51%
75th Percentile £434 £494 £569
90th Percentile £575 £550 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £37.60 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £49.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +255.65% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £23.93 -
90th Percentile - £39.13 £37.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.58% +66.81%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in Staffordshire

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Stafford - 1 - - 1
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £463 -
Uttoxeter - 1 £135 -
Process Improvement
West Midlands

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Environmental Health
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COSHH
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 14001
1 1 (33.33%) NEBOSH
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft