Process Improvement Contracts

Process Improvement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 176 213
Rank change year-on-year +70 +37 -12
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 722 603 747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 1.38% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 1.60% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 371 502
10th Percentile £303 £325 £355
25th Percentile £402 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +3.96%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £600
90th Percentile £738 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.74% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 42 18
10th Percentile £19.38 £13.13 £23.96
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.87 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.81 £26.75 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% -39.11% -2.38%
75th Percentile £65.62 £43.75 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.38 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +27.06% -31.43% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +66 613 £525 - 1,301
UK excluding London +82 370 £479 -1.74% 646
London +43 279 £550 - 702
Work from Home +56 224 £500 -4.76% 578
North of England +73 120 £500 -3.29% 207
North West +63 97 £475 -10.29% 120
South East +43 89 £524 +10.32% 153
Midlands +36 57 £485 -0.77% 94
Scotland +18 48 £441 -2.00% 31
West Midlands +28 42 £524 +23.29% 63
South West +46 32 £488 -1.02% 69
Yorkshire +16 20 £518 +3.45% 68
East of England +32 16 £500 -9.09% 67
East Midlands +15 15 £391 -22.69% 31
Northern Ireland -5 8 £316 -27.30% 10
North East +1 5 £558 +13.03% 20
Wales +4 1 £306 +53.00% 30

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (4.16%) Confluence
2 11 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.11%) Apache
6 5 (0.69%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.55%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.77%) MS Visio
4 15 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.11%) Trello
6 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.14%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 34 (4.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.83%) Endur
3 6 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.55%) SAP ECC
4 4 (0.55%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.55%) SAP Retail
4 4 (0.55%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.55%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.42%) Actimize
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Finacle
6 2 (0.28%) Movex
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 81 (11.22%) Azure
2 69 (9.56%) AWS
3 60 (8.31%) Power Platform
4 28 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 19 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 11 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (1.39%) GitHub
7 10 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (1.11%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.11%) OCI
8 8 (1.11%) SaaS
9 7 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.83%) GCP
10 6 (0.83%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.80%) Firewall
2 12 (1.66%) SSL
3 9 (1.25%) WAN
4 8 (1.11%) VPN
5 7 (0.97%) BGP
5 7 (0.97%) HTTPS
5 7 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.97%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.83%) DNS
6 6 (0.83%) Network Security
6 6 (0.83%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.83%) Wireless
7 5 (0.69%) OSPF
7 5 (0.69%) SSH
8 4 (0.55%) Internet
8 4 (0.55%) IPsec
8 4 (0.55%) LAN
8 4 (0.55%) MPLS
8 4 (0.55%) Skype
9 3 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.09%) Power BI
2 21 (2.91%) Tableau
3 15 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.94%) SAP HANA
5 13 (1.80%) Big Data
6 12 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.83%) MySQL
8 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.55%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.55%) DB2
10 4 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.42%) MS Access
11 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (8.17%) JIRA
2 19 (2.63%) Git
3 17 (2.35%) GitLab
4 13 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.39%) Selenium
6 6 (0.83%) JMeter
7 5 (0.69%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.55%) JUnit
8 4 (0.55%) Subversion
9 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.28%) Gradle
9 2 (0.28%) MSTest
9 2 (0.28%) NUnit
9 2 (0.28%) Postman
9 2 (0.28%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.28%) Toad
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 328 (45.43%) Social Skills
2 230 (31.86%) Finance
3 178 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.48%) Banking
6 32 (4.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 30 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (4.02%) Manufacturing
9 26 (3.60%) Legal
10 24 (3.32%) Telecoms
11 23 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.77%) Marketing
13 18 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (2.08%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.94%) Retail
17 11 (1.52%) Back Office
17 11 (1.52%) Front Office
17 11 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 209 (28.95%) Analyst
2 122 (16.90%) Business Analyst
3 56 (7.76%) Senior
4 55 (7.62%) Developer
5 52 (7.20%) Lead
6 42 (5.82%) Consultant
7 41 (5.68%) Project Manager
8 35 (4.85%) Administrator
9 32 (4.43%) Architect
10 25 (3.46%) Data Analyst
11 23 (3.19%) Technical Analyst
12 22 (3.05%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
13 19 (2.63%) Java Developer
14 18 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.08%) SAP Consultant
16 14 (1.94%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (1.94%) SAP Developer
17 13 (1.80%) Process Analyst
18 11 (1.52%) ABAP Developer
18 11 (1.52%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.32%) Spring
2 23 (3.19%) Spring Boot
3 20 (2.77%) REST
4 17 (2.35%) Web Services
5 14 (1.94%) JSON
6 12 (1.66%) React
7 11 (1.52%) BAPI
8 10 (1.39%) XML
9 8 (1.11%) .NET
9 8 (1.11%) CSS
9 8 (1.11%) HTML
9 8 (1.11%) SOAP
10 7 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.83%) Middleware
12 5 (0.69%) PySpark
12 5 (0.69%) WebSphere MQ
13 4 (0.55%) AWS CDK
13 4 (0.55%) Kafka
13 4 (0.55%) Node.js
13 4 (0.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.16%) Management Information System
2 29 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 16 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 14 (1.94%) CMDB
5 13 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 10 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 10 (1.39%) PMI
7 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.11%) Derivative
8 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.83%) CSOC
9 6 (0.83%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.69%) LIMS
11 4 (0.55%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.88%) Linux
2 27 (3.74%) Windows
3 18 (2.49%) Unix
4 7 (0.97%) Android
5 5 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.55%) CentOS
6 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.28%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.28%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (25.62%) Agile
3 145 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (14.27%) Project Management
5 97 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 85 (11.77%) Change Management
7 82 (11.36%) DevOps
8 75 (10.39%) Project Delivery
9 69 (9.56%) Data Analysis
10 64 (8.86%) Decision-Making
11 62 (8.59%) CI/CD
12 58 (8.03%) Business Analysis
13 57 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (7.62%) ITIL
15 47 (6.51%) Analytics
15 47 (6.51%) Roadmaps
16 46 (6.37%) Risk Management
17 44 (6.09%) ERP
18 40 (5.54%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.13%) SQL
2 49 (6.79%) Java
3 48 (6.65%) Python
4 15 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 14 (1.94%) ABAP
6 12 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.11%) C#
7 8 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.97%) R
9 6 (0.83%) Bash
10 5 (0.69%) ActionScript
10 5 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
10 5 (0.69%) VBA
11 4 (0.55%) PHP
11 4 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.55%) REXX
11 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.42%) C
12 3 (0.42%) Perl
13 2 (0.28%) JCL
Qualifications
1 102 (14.13%) Degree
2 96 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 62 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 28 (3.88%) PMP
7 25 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.25%) CBAP
10 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.11%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.83%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.83%) GIAC
13 5 (0.69%) CISSP
14 4 (0.55%) ACCA
14 4 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.55%) IIBA
14 4 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.85%) QA
2 32 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.63%) SLA
4 16 (2.22%) PMO
4 16 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.80%) GDPR
6 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.83%) GRC
6 6 (0.83%) MiFID
7 5 (0.69%) EMIR
8 3 (0.42%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) COBIT
9 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.94%) Docker
3 6 (0.83%) RACF
4 5 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.55%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.28%) Firmware
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (5.54%) Terraform
2 16 (2.22%) Ansible
3 15 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.69%) Grafana
5 4 (0.55%) Puppet
5 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.42%) Opsview
6 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.42%) SCCM
7 2 (0.28%) OPNET
7 2 (0.28%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.28%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.14%) Control-M
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) linkerd
8 1 (0.14%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (14.40%) SAP
2 100 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.82%) ServiceNow
4 38 (5.26%) Oracle
5 33 (4.57%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.63%) IBM
7 12 (1.66%) Cisco
8 11 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 11 (1.52%) Workday
9 10 (1.39%) Ariba
9 10 (1.39%) VMware
10 9 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.25%) Splunk
11 8 (1.11%) Apple
12 7 (0.97%) Google
13 5 (0.69%) Adobe
13 5 (0.69%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.69%) IBM Sterling
13 5 (0.69%) Murex
13 5 (0.69%) Red Hat