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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 174 192
Rank change year-on-year +75 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 797 607 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.57% 1.40% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.64% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 384 513
10th Percentile £300 £275 £353
25th Percentile £364 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £519 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +1.17% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 42 24
10th Percentile £19.96 £13.92 £17.95
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.85 £22.37
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.63 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -23.75% +0.94%
75th Percentile £46.06 £37.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.33 £59.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.25 £31.15
% change year-on-year +41.18% -31.78% +13.48%

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 28,184 37,006 49,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 85.27% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,766 23,597 34,412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,384 2,548 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +67 676 £500 -4.76% 4,387
UK excluding London +55 387 £450 -10.00% 2,383
London +71 324 £525 -2.33% 2,205
Work from Home +67 251 £475 -8.39% 1,698
North of England +66 134 £475 -5.00% 640
North West +62 96 £450 -15.73% 379
Midlands +21 83 £450 +11.11% 404
South East +25 79 £500 -4.76% 622
West Midlands +22 59 £498 +32.80% 226
Scotland +23 46 £404 -14.95% 125
Yorkshire +12 35 £500 +5.26% 204
East Midlands +14 24 £315 -40.00% 174
South West +19 17 £438 -12.50% 236
East of England +14 17 £438 -20.45% 247
Northern Ireland -7 7 £313 +19.62% 59
Wales +8 4 £397 +98.38% 69
North East -1 3 £530 -0.47% 57

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 55 (6.90%) Confluence
2 24 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.75%) Apache
6 5 (0.63%) JBoss
7 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) Resin
8 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 75 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (3.51%) MS Visio
5 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.13%) Trello
7 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.38%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.38%) Sketch
7 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) MicroStation
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
9 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.13%) CATIA
9 1 (0.13%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (4.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.38%) SAP CO
2 11 (1.38%) SAP FI
2 11 (1.38%) SAP FI/CO
3 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Endur
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.50%) Actimize
5 4 (0.50%) SAP ECC
5 4 (0.50%) SAP EWM
5 4 (0.50%) SAP GRC
5 4 (0.50%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.50%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.38%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (10.29%) Azure
2 72 (9.03%) Power Platform
3 56 (7.03%) AWS
4 39 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (2.51%) PowerApps
6 18 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (2.26%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.51%) GitHub
8 11 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.38%) SaaS
9 9 (1.13%) OCI
9 9 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (1.00%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.00%) GCP
11 7 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.63%) Miro
12 5 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.01%) Firewall
2 20 (2.51%) WAN
3 16 (2.01%) DNS
4 15 (1.88%) Wireless
5 14 (1.76%) LAN
6 13 (1.63%) SSL
7 12 (1.51%) DHCP
7 12 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (1.25%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.00%) BGP
9 8 (1.00%) Network Security
9 8 (1.00%) VPN
10 7 (0.88%) HTTPS
10 7 (0.88%) PuTTY
10 7 (0.88%) WLAN
11 5 (0.63%) IPsec
11 5 (0.63%) SSH
12 4 (0.50%) BIG-IP
12 4 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.15%) Power BI
2 29 (3.64%) Tableau
3 15 (1.88%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.51%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.13%) Big Data
7 8 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.00%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.75%) MySQL
9 6 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.63%) MS Access
10 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.50%) DB2
11 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 90 (11.29%) JIRA
2 22 (2.76%) Git
3 16 (2.01%) GitLab
4 11 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.13%) Selenium
6 4 (0.50%) Postman
6 4 (0.50%) Subversion
7 3 (0.38%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.38%) ERwin
7 3 (0.38%) JMeter
7 3 (0.38%) JUnit
7 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.38%) MSTest
7 3 (0.38%) NUnit
7 3 (0.38%) Ranorex
7 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) Gradle
8 2 (0.25%) Toad
8 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 372 (46.68%) Social Skills
2 290 (36.39%) Finance
3 199 (24.97%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.53%) Banking
5 47 (5.90%) Manufacturing
6 45 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 35 (4.39%) Legal
8 31 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 26 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 25 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.76%) Retail
13 20 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (2.13%) Investment Banking
15 16 (2.01%) Law
16 15 (1.88%) Back Office
16 15 (1.88%) Marketing
17 14 (1.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 248 (31.12%) Analyst
2 141 (17.69%) Business Analyst
3 65 (8.16%) Lead
4 57 (7.15%) Senior
5 56 (7.03%) Consultant
6 48 (6.02%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.89%) Developer
8 31 (3.89%) Administrator
9 27 (3.39%) Architect
9 27 (3.39%) Data Analyst
10 23 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (2.76%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
12 20 (2.51%) Process Analyst
12 20 (2.51%) SAP Consultant
13 18 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (1.88%) Business Process Analyst
15 15 (1.88%) Support Analyst
16 14 (1.76%) Network Engineer
17 13 (1.63%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.38%) REST
2 13 (1.63%) JSON
3 11 (1.38%) Spring
3 11 (1.38%) Spring Boot
3 11 (1.38%) XML
4 10 (1.25%) Web Services
5 9 (1.13%) CSS
5 9 (1.13%) HTML
6 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
6 8 (1.00%) SOAP
7 6 (0.75%) Middleware
7 6 (0.75%) React
8 5 (0.63%) .NET
8 5 (0.63%) BAPI
9 4 (0.50%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.50%) Playwright
9 4 (0.50%) Symfony
9 4 (0.50%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (0.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.14%) Onboarding
2 28 (3.51%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.25%) PMI
10 9 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (1.13%) Derivative
11 8 (1.00%) Market Risk
12 7 (0.88%) CMDB
13 6 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.75%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.75%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.63%) CSOC
14 5 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.39%) Linux
2 26 (3.26%) Windows
3 13 (1.63%) Unix
4 10 (1.25%) Android
5 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.50%) CentOS
7 4 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.25%) zOS
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (30.74%) Problem-Solving
2 213 (26.73%) Agile
3 167 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 126 (15.81%) Project Management
5 105 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (11.67%) Change Management
7 91 (11.42%) DevOps
8 76 (9.54%) Decision-Making
9 75 (9.41%) Data Analysis
10 73 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 70 (8.78%) Project Delivery
12 68 (8.53%) ITIL
13 66 (8.28%) Analytics
14 65 (8.16%) Business Analysis
15 59 (7.40%) Business Intelligence
16 58 (7.28%) Scrum
17 56 (7.03%) CI/CD
18 53 (6.65%) Risk Management
18 53 (6.65%) Workshop Facilitation
19 48 (6.02%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 109 (13.68%) SQL
2 47 (5.90%) Python
3 41 (5.14%) Java
4 18 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 17 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.13%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.00%) Bash
7 8 (1.00%) C#
8 7 (0.88%) ABAP
9 6 (0.75%) R
9 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.63%) ActionScript
10 5 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
10 5 (0.63%) Haskell
10 5 (0.63%) VBA
11 4 (0.50%) PHP
11 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.50%) REXX
12 3 (0.38%) C
12 3 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 121 (15.18%) Degree
2 69 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 59 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 28 (3.51%) PMP
7 19 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.63%) CCNP
10 11 (1.38%) CBAP
10 11 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.00%) ACCA
12 8 (1.00%) CCNA
13 7 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.88%) CIMA
13 7 (0.88%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 5 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.65%) QA
2 35 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.76%) PMO
4 20 (2.51%) SLA
5 19 (2.38%) GDPR
6 16 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.88%) IFRS
9 7 (0.88%) MiFID
10 6 (0.75%) GRC
11 4 (0.50%) COREP
11 4 (0.50%) EMIR
12 3 (0.38%) Basel III
12 3 (0.38%) HL7
12 3 (0.38%) NIST
13 2 (0.25%) GxP
13 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.25%) NCSC
13 2 (0.25%) UCITS
System Software
1 23 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.13%) Docker
3 4 (0.50%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (3.51%) Terraform
2 22 (2.76%) Ansible
3 12 (1.51%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.75%) Grafana
4 6 (0.75%) SCCM
5 4 (0.50%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.50%) Puppet
5 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.38%) Opsview
7 2 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.25%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.13%) Control-M
8 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) linkerd
8 1 (0.13%) OPNET
Vendors
1 137 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.66%) SAP
3 49 (6.15%) Oracle
4 46 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 34 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.26%) Cisco
7 17 (2.13%) Workday
8 16 (2.01%) IBM
9 13 (1.63%) Ariba
10 11 (1.38%) Adobe
11 10 (1.25%) Apple
12 9 (1.13%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.13%) Google
12 9 (1.13%) Splunk
13 8 (1.00%) Remedy
14 7 (0.88%) Peregrine
15 6 (0.75%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.75%) HP
15 6 (0.75%) Murex
15 6 (0.75%) Red Hat