Process Improvement Contracts in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 74 50
Rank change year-on-year +19 -24 -7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 44 35 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.17% 1.85% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 2.21% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 61
10th Percentile £285 £357 £325
25th Percentile £448 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +23.41% -21.00% +4.26%
75th Percentile £552 £605 £540
90th Percentile £638 £680 £598
England median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +1.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,236 1,583 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.05% 83.71% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 1,056 1,364
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £25.76 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Shropshire +10 23 £487 +36.13% 8
Warwickshire -1 12 £575 +9.52% 24
Birmingham +12 8 £500 - 24
Solihull +14 2 £220 - 11
Coventry +8 2 £220 - 7
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) SAP BPC
1 2 (4.55%) SAP GRC
1 2 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
2 13 (29.55%) PowerApps
3 3 (6.82%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.27%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) SAP BW
1 2 (4.55%) SAP HANA
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.27%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) GitLab
General
1 32 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Law
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Automotive
4 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Lead
2 8 (18.18%) Technical Leader
3 6 (13.64%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Programme Change Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) SAP Security Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) SCCM Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) SailPoint
1 2 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (4.55%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.27%) JSON
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.55%) e-Learning
2 2 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (47.73%) Agile
3 16 (36.36%) DevOps
4 13 (29.55%) Configuration Management
4 13 (29.55%) Test Strategy
5 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 12 (27.27%) OO
5 12 (27.27%) Problem Management
6 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (18.18%) Change Management
8 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (13.64%) Workflow
9 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (11.36%) Data Collection
9 5 (11.36%) Demand Management
9 5 (11.36%) Programme Management
10 4 (9.09%) Business Case
10 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
10 4 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) VBScript
3 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.27%) CBAP
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) GRC
2 2 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.27%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (2.27%) ISO 26262
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
3 1 (2.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Ansible
1 3 (6.82%) Opsview
1 3 (6.82%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) SCCM
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.82%) NEC
3 3 (6.82%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.55%) Concur
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk