Process Improvement Contracts in England

Process Improvement
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 200 187
Rank change year-on-year +27 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 505 638 1,101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.39% 1.32% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.46% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 434 733
10th Percentile £325 £371 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% +14.44%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -0.95% +2.44% +15.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 27
10th Percentile £13.61 £24.66 £17.49
25th Percentile £14.84 £32.30 £24.33
Median hourly rate £22.17 £43.86 £44.69
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% -1.86% +71.88%
75th Percentile £36.38 £55.33 £61.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £68.85
UK median hourly rate £24.63 £43.86 £44.68
% change year-on-year -43.85% -1.84% +71.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Process Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in England

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +58 247 £550 - 255
South East -16 89 £488 +5.98% 132
North of England +22 56 £517 -6.00% 133
Midlands -28 49 £489 -9.15% 115
West Midlands -24 35 £425 -21.00% 79
North West +15 33 £513 -8.18% 69
South West +21 30 £500 -13.04% 58
Yorkshire +10 20 £500 -5.61% 42
East of England +19 18 £550 +10.00% 61
East Midlands +16 11 £506 -6.77% 36
North East +15 3 £533 - 25
Process Improvement
UK

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.98%) Confluence
3 8 (1.58%) Apache
3 8 (1.58%) MTS
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.59%) govService
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 46 (9.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.37%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.98%) Endur
3 8 (1.58%) Aligne
3 8 (1.58%) EuroRunner
3 8 (1.58%) SAP ERP
3 8 (1.58%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.59%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.40%) Workfront
7 1 (0.20%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (7.33%) Power Platform
2 33 (6.53%) Azure
3 28 (5.54%) AWS
4 13 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.98%) Slack
5 10 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (1.58%) SaaS
7 6 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.99%) Google Workspace
8 5 (0.99%) Lucidchart
9 4 (0.79%) GCP
9 4 (0.79%) GitHub
9 4 (0.79%) IBM Blueworks
9 4 (0.79%) NuGet
9 4 (0.79%) Zapier
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.59%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.39%) DNS
2 6 (1.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.79%) DHCP
3 4 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.79%) SSH
3 4 (0.79%) Telnet
3 4 (0.79%) Wireless
4 3 (0.59%) Internet
4 3 (0.59%) Intranet
5 2 (0.40%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.40%) MPLS
5 2 (0.40%) Network Security
5 2 (0.40%) VSAN
6 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.33%) Power BI
2 15 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (2.77%) MySQL
4 8 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.39%) Metadata
5 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.39%) Tableau
6 6 (1.19%) Flink
7 5 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.59%) Big Data
9 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.59%) GIS
10 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (5.15%) Git
2 25 (4.95%) JIRA
3 8 (1.58%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.79%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.79%) Selenium
6 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.40%) Postman
7 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) GoCD
8 1 (0.20%) JUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Toad
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 148 (29.31%) Finance
3 109 (21.58%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.10%) Presentation Skills
5 45 (8.91%) Manufacturing
6 44 (8.71%) Public Sector
7 33 (6.53%) Banking
8 28 (5.54%) Marketing
9 24 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (4.55%) Retail
11 21 (4.16%) Legal
12 14 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.39%) Advertising
16 7 (1.39%) Billing
17 6 (1.19%) Law
17 6 (1.19%) Local Government
18 5 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 129 (25.54%) Analyst
2 85 (16.83%) Business Analyst
3 44 (8.71%) Lead
4 38 (7.52%) Senior
5 36 (7.13%) Consultant
6 20 (3.96%) Developer
7 19 (3.76%) Project Manager
8 18 (3.56%) Data Analyst
9 16 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (2.97%) Change Manager
11 14 (2.77%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (2.77%) Service Manager
12 11 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (1.98%) Architect
13 10 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
13 10 (1.98%) Senior Manager
14 9 (1.78%) Administrator
14 9 (1.78%) Coordinator
14 9 (1.78%) Support Engineer
14 9 (1.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.57%) FastAPI
2 9 (1.78%) Spring Boot
3 8 (1.58%) .NET
4 6 (1.19%) Flask
4 6 (1.19%) J2EE
5 5 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.59%) Web Dynpro
7 2 (0.40%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.40%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.40%) HTML
7 2 (0.40%) JSON
7 2 (0.40%) React
7 2 (0.40%) REST
7 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.40%) SOAP
7 2 (0.40%) XML
7 2 (0.40%) YAML
8 1 (0.20%) Akka
8 1 (0.20%) Kafka
8 1 (0.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 20 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.38%) Life Science
3 12 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (1.78%) Solar Panel
5 8 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.58%) Market Risk
6 7 (1.39%) FMCG
6 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.99%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.79%) NHS
9 4 (0.79%) State Machine
9 4 (0.79%) Wiki
10 3 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.59%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.55%) Windows
2 9 (1.78%) Linux
3 8 (1.58%) Unix
4 6 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.59%) Debian
5 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (24.16%) Agile
2 117 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (19.80%) Project Management
4 78 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 78 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (10.50%) ITIL
6 51 (10.10%) Project Delivery
7 50 (9.90%) Change Management
8 48 (9.50%) Data Analysis
9 47 (9.31%) Analytics
10 45 (8.91%) Requirements Gathering
10 45 (8.91%) Scrum
11 41 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
11 41 (8.12%) DevOps
12 40 (7.92%) Test Strategy
13 39 (7.72%) Risk Management
14 35 (6.93%) Business Analysis
14 35 (6.93%) ERP
14 35 (6.93%) Impact Assessments
15 33 (6.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.31%) SQL
2 46 (9.11%) Python
3 19 (3.76%) Java
4 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 11 (2.18%) Bash
7 8 (1.58%) C
7 8 (1.58%) C++
8 7 (1.39%) C#
8 7 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.19%) Go
10 4 (0.79%) Bicep
10 4 (0.79%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (0.59%) ABAP
11 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.40%) Ruby
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) Scala
13 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (15.64%) Degree
2 76 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 70 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.98%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.98%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 9 (1.78%) ACCA
8 9 (1.78%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 8 (1.58%) PMP
10 7 (1.39%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.79%) CIMA
11 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.59%) AAT
12 3 (0.59%) CBAP
12 3 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.14%) QA
2 15 (2.97%) SLA
3 14 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.57%) PMO
5 12 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.39%) GAMP
6 7 (1.39%) GxP
7 5 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.99%) GDPR
7 5 (0.99%) GRC
8 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.40%) GMP
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.20%) ITGC
11 1 (0.20%) NIST
11 1 (0.20%) PMBOK
11 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (3.17%) Docker
2 10 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.99%) vSphere
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) XenApp
6 1 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.97%) Ansible
3 13 (2.57%) Grafana
4 11 (2.18%) Terraform
5 9 (1.78%) Puppet
6 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) SCOM
7 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.92%) SAP
3 16 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.77%) Oracle
5 13 (2.57%) Denodo
5 13 (2.57%) Talend
6 12 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.18%) Workday
8 8 (1.58%) Yardi
9 7 (1.39%) Google
9 7 (1.39%) VMware
10 5 (0.99%) Adobe
10 5 (0.99%) Cisco
10 5 (0.99%) Splunk
11 4 (0.79%) Okta
12 3 (0.59%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.59%) Dell
12 3 (0.59%) Marketo
12 3 (0.59%) Pardot
12 3 (0.59%) Red Hat