Process Management Contracts

Process Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Process Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Process Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 489 569
Rank change year-on-year +49 +80 +66
Contract jobs citing Process Management 80 93 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 58 100
10th Percentile £284 £255 £350
25th Percentile £413 £319 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £573 £603 £575
90th Percentile £678 £925 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 7
10th Percentile £24.15 £12.53 £15.53
25th Percentile £32.63 £15.52 £17.92
Median hourly rate £47.00 £24.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +91.84% +30.67% -27.88%
75th Percentile £61.13 £26.98 £22.50
90th Percentile £69.45 - £29.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £21.75 £18.75
% change year-on-year +116.09% +16.00% -14.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Process Management 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Process Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Management in the UK

Process Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Process Management in the UK

Process Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Management in the UK

Process Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Management in the UK

Process Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Management in the UK

Process Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Process Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +55 66 £458 -12.81% 127
UK excluding London +53 46 £450 -14.29% 52
London +38 31 £466 -10.48% 90
Work from Home +29 26 £475 +9.95% 59
South West +51 10 £525 -0.94% 5
Midlands +25 9 £500 - 4
West Midlands +17 9 £500 - 2
North of England +12 9 £375 -34.64% 15
South East +44 7 £383 -27.14% 20
North West +19 7 £225 -55.56% 11
Scotland +2 7 - - 5
East of England +30 2 £450 -35.71% 4
Yorkshire +2 2 £596 +32.50% 4
Wales - 1 £450 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Process Management
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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.75%) Documentum
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) Camunda
3 1 (1.25%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.25%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.50%) Actimize
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.25%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) Endur
3 1 (1.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.75%) AWS
2 3 (3.75%) OCI
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.50%) Azure
3 2 (2.50%) Serverless
4 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) LAN
1 4 (5.00%) WAN
2 2 (2.50%) ADSL
2 2 (2.50%) Internet
2 2 (2.50%) MPLS
2 2 (2.50%) SDH
3 1 (1.25%) BGP
3 1 (1.25%) DSL
3 1 (1.25%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) IPsec
3 1 (1.25%) OSPF
3 1 (1.25%) PPP
3 1 (1.25%) RIP
3 1 (1.25%) SNMP
3 1 (1.25%) TACACS
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) VoIP
3 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.50%) Metadata
3 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) JMeter
2 2 (2.50%) JUnit
2 2 (2.50%) Mockito
3 1 (1.25%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 44 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (38.75%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Marketing
5 7 (8.75%) Telecoms
6 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.25%) Automotive
8 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.75%) Electronics
9 3 (3.75%) Law
9 3 (3.75%) Legal
9 3 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.50%) Local Government
10 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.50%) Publishing
10 2 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Analyst
2 11 (13.75%) Business Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (7.50%) Business Architect
4 6 (7.50%) Business Manager
4 6 (7.50%) Consultant
4 6 (7.50%) Senior
5 4 (5.00%) Operations Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Programme Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Business Operations Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Coordinator
6 3 (3.75%) Data Architect
6 3 (3.75%) Documentum Specialist
6 3 (3.75%) Lead
6 3 (3.75%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) REST
1 3 (3.75%) Web Services
2 2 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Camel
2 2 (2.50%) Hibernate
2 2 (2.50%) HTML
2 2 (2.50%) jQuery
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) Spring
2 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.50%) WireMock
2 2 (2.50%) XML
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) Java RMI
3 1 (1.25%) JAX-RS
3 1 (1.25%) JAX-WS
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) MIDP
3 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.50%) IoT
3 5 (6.25%) CMDB
3 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.25%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.75%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.50%) SCADA
7 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.25%) FMCG
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) AIX
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (32.50%) Project Management
3 22 (27.50%) Agile
4 21 (26.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (21.25%) Change Management
7 15 (18.75%) Decision-Making
8 14 (17.50%) Business Analysis
9 13 (16.25%) Analytical Thinking
9 13 (16.25%) Process Improvement
9 13 (16.25%) Risk Management
10 12 (15.00%) PRINCE2
11 11 (13.75%) Data Analysis
11 11 (13.75%) ITIL
12 10 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (11.25%) Programme Management
13 9 (11.25%) Waterfall
14 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (10.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.00%) Java
2 3 (3.75%) Python
3 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.50%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) Degree
2 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.75%) PMP
7 2 (2.50%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.50%) HNC
7 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.50%) RIBA
8 1 (1.25%) APMG
8 1 (1.25%) CCIP
8 1 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) IIBA
8 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.25%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (1.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) PMO
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Kibana
1 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) SAP
2 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) Cisco
4 4 (5.00%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) Adobe
5 3 (3.75%) Nokia
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle
5 3 (3.75%) Siebel
6 2 (2.50%) Ariba
6 2 (2.50%) Autodesk
6 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.50%) Pega
6 2 (2.50%) Remedy
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Splunk
6 2 (2.50%) Wrike
7 1 (1.25%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.25%) Zscaler