Process Improvement Contracts

Process Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 214 204
Rank change year-on-year +39 -10 -12
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 601 747 1,284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.25% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.39% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 504 854
10th Percentile £325 £355 £340
25th Percentile £413 £445 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.94% +18.60%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £591
90th Percentile £715 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.75% +1.01% +18.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 29
10th Percentile £13.13 £23.96 £16.50
25th Percentile £15.87 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £26.75 £43.93 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.11% -2.38% +87.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.31 £55.90
90th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% +1.54% +35.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
England +53 516 £525 - 692
UK excluding London +8 278 £486 -2.75% 488
London +75 258 £550 - 234
Work from Home +34 194 £525 +4.48% 286
South East -6 89 £475 +3.26% 111
North of England +26 58 £517 -1.52% 128
Midlands -42 43 £489 -9.32% 97
Scotland +42 39 £450 -7.22% 29
North West +20 35 £530 -3.73% 83
South West +35 31 £493 -10.45% 56
West Midlands -35 30 £425 -21.30% 67
Yorkshire +7 19 £500 +0.05% 30
East of England +19 17 £550 +34.15% 64
East Midlands +15 10 £506 -3.67% 30
Northern Ireland - 5 £435 - 8
North East +22 4 £493 - 18
Wales +11 2 £200 -66.67% 18

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 12 (2.00%) Confluence
1 12 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.33%) Apache
2 8 (1.33%) MTS
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.67%) SAS
5 3 (0.50%) govService
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 56 (9.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (3.00%) MS Visio
5 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.33%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.66%) Endur
3 8 (1.33%) Aligne
3 8 (1.33%) EuroRunner
3 8 (1.33%) SAP ERP
3 8 (1.33%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 4 (0.67%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle ASCP
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle SCM
5 3 (0.50%) SAP MII
5 3 (0.50%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.33%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.33%) Workfront
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 42 (6.99%) Power Platform
2 38 (6.32%) Azure
3 27 (4.49%) AWS
4 15 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.16%) SaaS
6 11 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
7 9 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (1.50%) OCI
7 9 (1.50%) Slack
8 7 (1.16%) GitHub
9 6 (1.00%) GCP
10 5 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.83%) Lucidchart
10 5 (0.83%) NuGet
10 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.83%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.83%) Veeva
11 4 (0.67%) Azure API Management
11 4 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.50%) Firewall
2 7 (1.16%) DNS
3 4 (0.67%) DHCP
3 4 (0.67%) Internet
3 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.67%) SSH
3 4 (0.67%) Telnet
3 4 (0.67%) Wireless
4 3 (0.50%) Broadband
4 3 (0.50%) DMZ
4 3 (0.50%) Intranet
4 3 (0.50%) VPN
5 2 (0.33%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.33%) MPLS
5 2 (0.33%) Network Security
5 2 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.66%) Power BI
2 11 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.66%) MySQL
4 8 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.16%) Metadata
5 7 (1.16%) Tableau
6 6 (1.00%) Flink
7 4 (0.67%) GIS
8 3 (0.50%) Big Data
8 3 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.33%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.17%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 32 (5.32%) JIRA
2 18 (3.00%) Git
3 8 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.67%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.67%) Postman
5 4 (0.67%) Selenium
6 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) GoCD
8 1 (0.17%) Toad
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 253 (42.10%) Social Skills
2 181 (30.12%) Finance
3 122 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.48%) Presentation Skills
5 54 (8.99%) Manufacturing
6 53 (8.82%) Public Sector
7 37 (6.16%) Banking
8 30 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (4.66%) Marketing
10 26 (4.33%) Legal
11 23 (3.83%) Retail
12 19 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 15 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.83%) Billing
15 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.16%) Advertising
16 7 (1.16%) French Language
16 7 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 150 (24.96%) Analyst
2 98 (16.31%) Business Analyst
3 62 (10.32%) Consultant
4 47 (7.82%) Lead
5 43 (7.15%) Senior
6 30 (4.99%) Project Manager
7 29 (4.83%) Developer
8 24 (3.99%) Data Analyst
9 16 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (2.50%) Coordinator
11 14 (2.33%) Change Manager
11 14 (2.33%) Financial Analyst
11 14 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (2.33%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.16%) Architect
12 13 (2.16%) Functional Consultant
12 13 (2.16%) Service Manager
13 11 (1.83%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (1.83%) IT Manager
13 11 (1.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.66%) Web Dynpro
2 7 (1.16%) .NET
3 6 (1.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (1.00%) Flask
4 5 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (0.67%) REST
6 3 (0.50%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.50%) Middleware
6 3 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.50%) SOAP
6 3 (0.50%) YAML
7 2 (0.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.33%) HTML
7 2 (0.33%) JSON
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.33%) Playwright
7 2 (0.33%) React
7 2 (0.33%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.33%) WebdriverIO
7 2 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.99%) Management Information System
2 17 (2.83%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.00%) Life Science
4 12 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 10 (1.66%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.50%) Solar Panel
7 8 (1.33%) Market Risk
7 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.83%) FMCG
9 5 (0.83%) NHS
9 5 (0.83%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.83%) Wiki
10 4 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.67%) State Machine
11 3 (0.50%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.49%) Windows
2 13 (2.16%) Linux
3 10 (1.66%) Unix
4 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.50%) Debian
5 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
2 135 (22.46%) Agile
3 127 (21.13%) Project Management
4 94 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 82 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (10.65%) Change Management
7 62 (10.32%) ITIL
8 57 (9.48%) Project Delivery
9 55 (9.15%) Data Analysis
10 53 (8.82%) Scrum
11 52 (8.65%) Risk Management
12 49 (8.15%) Analytics
13 47 (7.82%) Business Analysis
14 46 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (7.65%) ERP
15 44 (7.32%) Decision-Making
15 44 (7.32%) Migration
15 44 (7.32%) Requirements Gathering
15 44 (7.32%) Test Strategy
16 39 (6.49%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 54 (8.99%) SQL
2 35 (5.82%) Python
3 11 (1.83%) ABAP
3 11 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 10 (1.66%) C#
4 10 (1.66%) Java
4 10 (1.66%) PowerShell
5 8 (1.33%) Bash
6 6 (1.00%) Bicep
6 6 (1.00%) Go
7 3 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.50%) R
7 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.50%) VB
8 2 (0.33%) C
8 2 (0.33%) C++
8 2 (0.33%) Ruby
8 2 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (16.47%) Degree
2 88 (14.64%) Security Cleared
3 78 (12.98%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.33%) ACCA
7 13 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.83%) PMP
8 11 (1.83%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 10 (1.66%) CIMA
10 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.33%) SAP Certification
10 8 (1.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 5 (0.83%) CISSP
12 4 (0.67%) CISM
12 4 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.66%) QA
2 21 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.49%) PMO
3 17 (2.83%) SLA
4 11 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.66%) GxP
6 8 (1.33%) GDPR
7 7 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.16%) GAMP
8 5 (0.83%) GRC
8 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.50%) CDISC
9 3 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.33%) GMP
10 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.33%) NIST
10 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.66%) VMware NSX
2 10 (1.66%) vSphere
3 9 (1.50%) Docker
4 6 (1.00%) Firmware
5 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.33%) XenApp
7 1 (0.17%) HDFS
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (1.83%) Grafana
2 8 (1.33%) Ansible
3 7 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.16%) Terraform
4 4 (0.67%) Puppet
5 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.33%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.33%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Consul
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) MOM
7 1 (0.17%) SCOM
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 76 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.82%) SAP
3 28 (4.66%) Oracle
4 19 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.50%) Workday
6 14 (2.33%) Adobe
7 13 (2.16%) VMware
8 10 (1.66%) Cisco
9 9 (1.50%) Denodo
9 9 (1.50%) Talend
10 8 (1.33%) Dell
10 8 (1.33%) Google
10 8 (1.33%) Yardi
11 6 (1.00%) Splunk
12 4 (0.67%) Ariba
12 4 (0.67%) HP
12 4 (0.67%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) Remedy
13 3 (0.50%) Red Hat