Process Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 169 133
Rank change year-on-year +7 -36 +8
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 265 355 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 1.51% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.69% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 244 400
10th Percentile £278 £350 £320
25th Percentile £396 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £563 £559 £556
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +17.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 14
10th Percentile £13.05 £24.11 £15.89
25th Percentile £14.34 £31.50 £18.16
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +1.54% +35.42%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £59.05 £66.90 £57.46
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £43.93 £44.69
% change year-on-year -43.09% -1.69% +71.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Process Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
South East -17 84 £488 +5.98% 118
North of England +11 52 £517 -1.52% 124
Midlands -23 49 £476 -11.48% 94
West Midlands -31 35 £400 -25.65% 63
North West +21 33 £500 -9.09% 74
Scotland +46 32 £500 +3.63% 27
South West +26 31 £500 -9.09% 64
East of England +14 16 £575 +15.00% 59
Yorkshire +7 16 £517 +3.40% 32
East Midlands +21 11 £506 -6.77% 31
Northern Ireland - 5 £435 - 7
North East +17 3 £533 - 22
Wales +15 2 £200 -66.67% 19
Process Improvement
UK

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (2.26%) Apache
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.51%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 35 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (2.64%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.13%) SAP MII
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.66%) Power Platform
2 10 (3.77%) AWS
2 10 (3.77%) SuccessFactors
3 9 (3.40%) Azure
4 6 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.13%) Datadog
6 3 (1.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.75%) NuGet
7 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.75%) Veeva
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.38%) OCI
8 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.38%) SaaS
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) DNS
2 3 (1.13%) Internet
3 2 (0.75%) DHCP
3 2 (0.75%) VSAN
3 2 (0.75%) Wireless
4 1 (0.38%) Broadband
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) MPLS
4 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.66%) Power BI
2 14 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (4.91%) MySQL
4 6 (2.26%) Flink
5 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.38%) GIS
8 1 (0.38%) OLAP
8 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.38%) QlikView
8 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.28%) Git
2 8 (3.02%) JIRA
2 8 (3.02%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.75%) Postman
4 2 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) GoCD
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (36.98%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.15%) Finance
3 51 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (15.47%) Manufacturing
5 20 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.17%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (6.79%) Marketing
8 14 (5.28%) Banking
8 14 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.53%) Retail
10 11 (4.15%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (3.02%) Billing
13 8 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (2.26%) Legal
15 4 (1.51%) Electronics
15 4 (1.51%) French Language
15 4 (1.51%) German Language
15 4 (1.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (21.89%) Analyst
2 35 (13.21%) Business Analyst
3 24 (9.06%) Senior
4 23 (8.68%) Lead
5 17 (6.42%) Developer
6 15 (5.66%) Consultant
7 14 (5.28%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.77%) Coordinator
9 9 (3.40%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.02%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.02%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (2.64%) Administrator
11 7 (2.64%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (2.64%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.64%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.64%) Technical Coordinator
12 6 (2.26%) Finance Business Analyst
12 6 (2.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.26%) FastAPI
1 6 (2.26%) Flask
2 4 (1.51%) Web Dynpro
3 3 (1.13%) .NET
3 3 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.38%) HTML
5 1 (0.38%) Jest
5 1 (0.38%) JSON
5 1 (0.38%) Node.js
5 1 (0.38%) React
5 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.38%) SAP MI
5 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.17%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.15%) Life Science
3 8 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.89%) NHS
5 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.75%) PKI
6 2 (0.75%) PMI
6 2 (0.75%) Robotics
6 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.38%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.38%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.79%) Windows
2 8 (3.02%) Unix
3 5 (1.89%) Linux
4 3 (1.13%) Debian
4 3 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (22.64%) Agile
3 47 (17.74%) Project Management
4 45 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (12.08%) Analytics
6 31 (11.70%) ITIL
7 29 (10.94%) Test Strategy
8 28 (10.57%) ERP
9 26 (9.81%) Requirements Gathering
9 26 (9.81%) Risk Management
10 25 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (8.68%) Change Management
11 23 (8.68%) Data Analytics
12 20 (7.55%) Scrum
12 20 (7.55%) Service Delivery
13 19 (7.17%) Decision-Making
14 18 (6.79%) Business Case
14 18 (6.79%) Migration
14 18 (6.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.92%) SQL
2 13 (4.91%) Python
3 4 (1.51%) ABAP
4 3 (1.13%) Bash
4 3 (1.13%) Java
4 3 (1.13%) MATLAB
4 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.75%) C#
5 2 (0.75%) C++
6 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.38%) PHP
6 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.38%) VBA
6 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (18.49%) Degree
2 34 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.40%) ACCA
5 9 (3.40%) CIMA
5 9 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.26%) PMP
7 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.13%) AAT
8 3 (1.13%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CISSP
9 2 (0.75%) Dell Certification
9 2 (0.75%) PgMP
9 2 (0.75%) PhD
9 2 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.75%) VCAP
9 2 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.04%) QA
2 12 (4.53%) PMO
3 8 (3.02%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.64%) GAMP
4 7 (2.64%) GxP
4 7 (2.64%) SLA
5 4 (1.51%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) GMP
6 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) NIST
6 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) COREP
7 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.38%) FINREP
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.38%) ITGC
7 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (2.64%) Active Directory
1 7 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (2.64%) VMware NSX
1 7 (2.64%) vSphere
2 6 (2.26%) Docker
3 4 (1.51%) Firmware
4 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.53%) Grafana
2 6 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.06%) SAP
3 12 (4.53%) Denodo
3 12 (4.53%) Talend
4 10 (3.77%) Oracle
5 7 (2.64%) Dell
5 7 (2.64%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.64%) VMware
6 5 (1.89%) Adobe
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco
6 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.13%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.13%) Workday
8 2 (0.75%) Facebook
8 2 (0.75%) FIS
8 2 (0.75%) Fujitsu
8 2 (0.75%) HP
8 2 (0.75%) OpenText
8 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Sun