Process Improvement Job Trends in the Midlands

Process Improvement
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 122 32
Rank change year-on-year +38 -90 +60
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 248 128 565
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.72% 2.21% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.60% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 179 107 111
10th Percentile £30,950 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -18.10% -
75th Percentile £62,196 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,092 4,931 8,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.86% 85.12% 77.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,194 2,983 5,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Process Improvement
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the Midlands

Process Improvement
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
West Midlands +8 133 £50,000 +7.27% 72
East Midlands +43 115 £45,000 +12.50% 43
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 12 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.61%) IIS
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (6.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.02%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.61%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.21%) iTrent
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.40%) Odoo
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.40%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.69%) Azure
2 24 (9.68%) AWS
3 23 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (9.27%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.47%) Serverless
5 16 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (5.65%) GitHub
6 14 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (5.65%) SaaS
7 13 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.24%) Firebase
7 13 (5.24%) Stripe
7 13 (5.24%) TestFlight
8 11 (4.44%) Entra ID
9 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
10 8 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.65%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.82%) Firewall
3 6 (2.42%) DHCP
3 6 (2.42%) DNS
4 5 (2.02%) VPN
5 4 (1.61%) WAN
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless
7 2 (0.81%) LAN
7 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.81%) VLAN
7 2 (0.81%) VoIP
7 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.40%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.84%) Power BI
2 8 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.82%) Crystal Reports
3 7 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.21%) Metadata
4 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) GIS
6 1 (0.40%) Power Query
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.24%) Crashlytics
1 13 (5.24%) XCTest
2 5 (2.02%) JIRA
3 2 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Hudson
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) LSMW
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.40%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (46.37%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.16%) Finance
3 38 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.29%) Manufacturing
5 20 (8.06%) Law
6 14 (5.65%) Electronics
7 11 (4.44%) Legal
8 9 (3.63%) Retail
9 7 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.02%) Agriculture
12 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.61%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.61%) Marketing
13 3 (1.21%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.81%) Games
14 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 51 (20.56%) Analyst
2 29 (11.69%) Business Analyst
3 26 (10.48%) Senior
4 19 (7.66%) Head of Digital
4 19 (7.66%) Head of Technology
5 16 (6.45%) IT Manager
6 14 (5.65%) Technical Engineer
7 13 (5.24%) Developer
7 13 (5.24%) Lead
7 13 (5.24%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (5.24%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.24%) Technical Support
7 13 (5.24%) Technical Support Engineer
8 12 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (3.63%) Electronics Engineer
9 9 (3.63%) Finance Manager
10 8 (3.23%) Consultant
10 8 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.23%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (2.82%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.24%) SwiftUI
1 13 (5.24%) UIKit
2 8 (3.23%) Node.js
2 8 (3.23%) React
3 4 (1.61%) .NET
3 4 (1.61%) COM
3 4 (1.61%) DCOM
3 4 (1.61%) LDAP
3 4 (1.61%) Middleware
3 4 (1.61%) XML
4 3 (1.21%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.81%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.40%) SAP CAF
6 1 (0.40%) SOAP
6 1 (0.40%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.40%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (6.85%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.61%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.61%) IoT
8 4 (1.61%) PKI
8 4 (1.61%) SCADA
8 4 (1.61%) Smartcard
9 3 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Licensing
10 2 (0.81%) NHS
10 2 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.06%) Windows
2 13 (5.24%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.61%) Linux
4 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.81%) Solaris
5 2 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 54 (21.77%) ERP
4 52 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 39 (15.73%) Agile
7 35 (14.11%) AI
8 34 (13.71%) CRM
9 31 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 28 (11.29%) Project Delivery
11 26 (10.48%) Coaching
12 25 (10.08%) Analytics
12 25 (10.08%) Decision-Making
12 25 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
13 22 (8.87%) Business Analysis
13 22 (8.87%) Workshop Facilitation
14 21 (8.47%) Re-Platforming
14 21 (8.47%) Requirements Gathering
15 20 (8.06%) Service Delivery
15 20 (8.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.69%) SQL
2 13 (5.24%) Kotlin
2 13 (5.24%) Swift
3 8 (3.23%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.21%) PHP
4 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.21%) Rust
5 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.40%) C
6 1 (0.40%) C#
6 1 (0.40%) C++
6 1 (0.40%) Java
6 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.40%) Python
6 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (4.03%) ACCA
2 10 (4.03%) CIMA
2 10 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.42%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.21%) AAT
4 3 (1.21%) CIPD
4 3 (1.21%) CISA
4 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.81%) HNC
5 2 (0.81%) HND
5 2 (0.81%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) APMG
6 1 (0.40%) APMP
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.40%) IIBA
6 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.24%) QA
2 6 (2.42%) GRC
3 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) SLA
5 3 (1.21%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.21%) Firmware
3 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.85%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.05%) SAP
4 13 (5.24%) Amplitude
4 13 (5.24%) Braze
5 7 (2.82%) Foundry
5 7 (2.82%) IFS
5 7 (2.82%) Oracle
6 4 (1.61%) dotdigital
6 4 (1.61%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.61%) Sage
7 3 (1.21%) Aderant
7 3 (1.21%) Intapp
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco
8 2 (0.81%) Sybase
9 1 (0.40%) Adobe
9 1 (0.40%) iManage
9 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.40%) Splunk
9 1 (0.40%) Xero