Process Improvement Job Trends in the East Midlands

Process Improvement
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 75
Rank change year-on-year -16 +33 +36
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 132 67 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.12% 4.54% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 5.10% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 89 48 42
10th Percentile £27,700 £25,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £41,250 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -15.38% -0.51%
75th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £65,500 £65,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Process Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,069 1,314 3,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 72.62% 89.02% 80.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,815 892 2,479
10th Percentile £27,550 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Process Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Process Improvement
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Process Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the East Midlands

Process Improvement
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire -23 42 £47,500 +11.11% 3
Nottinghamshire +13 35 £33,250 -31.79% 7
Derbyshire -7 21 £55,000 +44.74% 5
Lincolnshire -10 21 £32,500 -11.56% 1
Northamptonshire -15 14 £47,500 +18.75% 14
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.76%) CMS
1 1 (0.76%) Confluence
1 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (11.36%) iTrent
2 4 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.52%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.76%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.76%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (15.15%) AWS
3 15 (11.36%) Serverless
4 11 (8.33%) GitHub
4 11 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.58%) Azure
5 10 (7.58%) Firebase
5 10 (7.58%) Stripe
5 10 (7.58%) TestFlight
6 5 (3.79%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (3.79%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (3.79%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.79%) Smartsheet
7 4 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.30%) SD-WAN
1 7 (5.30%) WAN
2 5 (3.79%) DHCP
2 5 (3.79%) DNS
2 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.03%) VPN
3 4 (3.03%) Wireless
4 3 (2.27%) LAN
4 3 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.76%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.82%) Power BI
2 5 (3.79%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.79%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.03%) Tableau
4 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.52%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) Power Query
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Crashlytics
1 10 (7.58%) XCTest
2 2 (1.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.76%) LabVIEW
General
1 60 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.76%) Finance
3 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.64%) Banking
5 16 (12.12%) Law
6 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.79%) Marketing
7 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.27%) Electronics
8 3 (2.27%) Games
8 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.27%) Retail
9 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (23.48%) Analyst
2 20 (15.15%) Administrator
3 15 (11.36%) IT Support
3 15 (11.36%) Systems Administrator
4 13 (9.85%) Senior
5 10 (7.58%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.58%) Junior
5 10 (7.58%) Mobile Engineer
6 9 (6.82%) Junior Analyst
6 9 (6.82%) Support Analyst
7 8 (6.06%) IT Manager
8 6 (4.55%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) Process Analyst
8 6 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) IT Technician
9 5 (3.79%) Lead
9 5 (3.79%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
9 5 (3.79%) Oracle Payroll Support
9 5 (3.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) SwiftUI
1 10 (7.58%) UIKit
2 7 (5.30%) React
3 5 (3.79%) Node.js
4 4 (3.03%) .NET
5 3 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.27%) REST
6 2 (1.52%) WPF
7 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.76%) JSON
7 1 (0.76%) Middleware
7 1 (0.76%) Next.js
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (7.58%) Driving Licence
2 10 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.27%) Smartphone
5 2 (1.52%) CSOC
5 2 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.52%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.76%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Windows
2 10 (7.58%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (19.70%) Analytics
3 22 (16.67%) ERP
3 22 (16.67%) Information Security
3 22 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 21 (15.91%) Due Diligence
5 18 (13.64%) Business Continuity
5 18 (13.64%) Business Continuity Management
5 18 (13.64%) Operations Management
5 18 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
5 18 (13.64%) Risk Management
5 18 (13.64%) Supply Chain Management
6 17 (12.88%) ITIL
7 16 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (11.36%) Agile
8 15 (11.36%) Re-Platforming
9 13 (9.85%) CRM
9 13 (9.85%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.85%) Project Management
10 12 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.12%) SQL
2 10 (7.58%) Kotlin
2 10 (7.58%) Swift
3 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.03%) C#
5 2 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (13.64%) CISA
1 18 (13.64%) CISSP
1 18 (13.64%) CRISC
2 15 (11.36%) CIPD
3 6 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.03%) PMP
5 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.27%) MBA
6 2 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.39%) GDPR
2 18 (13.64%) NIST
2 18 (13.64%) PCI DSS
3 10 (7.58%) SLA
4 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.27%) QA
6 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (9.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Autotask
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.76%) MOM
Vendors
1 25 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) Amplitude
2 10 (7.58%) Braze
3 9 (6.82%) Oracle
4 7 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.55%) SAP
6 5 (3.79%) Epicor
6 5 (3.79%) JD Edwards
7 3 (2.27%) HubSpot
7 3 (2.27%) QAD
7 3 (2.27%) VMware
8 1 (0.76%) Adobe
8 1 (0.76%) Databricks
8 1 (0.76%) iManage