Process Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 159 163 131
Rank change year-on-year +4 -32 +8
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 274 358 605
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.55% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.73% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 241 411
10th Percentile £277 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.46%
75th Percentile £569 £565 £556
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -0.95% +2.44% +15.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 14
10th Percentile £13.05 £26.08 £15.89
25th Percentile £14.50 £31.90 £18.16
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +1.54% +35.42%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.58 £44.69
90th Percentile £57.35 £60.00 £57.46
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East -16 89 £488 +5.98% 131
North of England +22 56 £517 -6.00% 135
Midlands -28 49 £489 -9.15% 115
West Midlands -24 35 £425 -21.00% 79
North West +15 33 £513 -8.18% 72
Scotland +42 30 £513 +7.33% 29
South West +21 30 £500 -13.04% 58
Yorkshire +10 20 £500 -5.61% 41
East of England +19 18 £550 +10.00% 61
East Midlands +16 11 £506 -6.77% 36
Northern Ireland - 6 £435 - 5
North East +15 3 £533 - 25
Wales +15 2 £200 -66.67% 22
Process Improvement
UK

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (2.19%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.46%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 34 (12.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP MII
2 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.36%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.36%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.36%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.36%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.20%) Power Platform
2 14 (5.11%) AWS
3 11 (4.01%) Azure
4 10 (3.65%) SuccessFactors
5 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.09%) Datadog
7 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.73%) NuGet
8 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.73%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.73%) Veeva
9 1 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.36%) OCI
9 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.36%) SaaS
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) DNS
2 3 (1.09%) Internet
3 2 (0.73%) DHCP
3 2 (0.73%) VSAN
3 2 (0.73%) Wireless
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) MPLS
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.20%) Power BI
2 14 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (4.74%) MySQL
4 6 (2.19%) Flink
5 4 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.73%) Tableau
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.36%) GIS
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) OLAP
8 1 (0.36%) QlikView
8 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (6.57%) Git
2 9 (3.28%) JIRA
3 8 (2.92%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.73%) Postman
6 2 (0.73%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) GoCD
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.36%) Finance
3 53 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (14.96%) Manufacturing
5 19 (6.93%) Marketing
6 18 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (6.57%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.47%) Banking
8 13 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.74%) Retail
9 11 (4.01%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (3.28%) Billing
12 8 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.19%) Legal
14 4 (1.46%) Electronics
14 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.46%) Local Government
15 3 (1.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (20.80%) Analyst
2 34 (12.41%) Business Analyst
3 26 (9.49%) Lead
4 23 (8.39%) Senior
5 19 (6.93%) Developer
6 16 (5.84%) Consultant
7 13 (4.74%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.65%) Coordinator
9 9 (3.28%) Data Analyst
9 9 (3.28%) Technical Support
10 8 (2.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (2.92%) Support Engineer
10 8 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Administrator
11 7 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (2.55%) Python Developer
11 7 (2.55%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.55%) Technical Coordinator
12 6 (2.19%) DOORS Engineer
12 6 (2.19%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.65%) FastAPI
2 6 (2.19%) Flask
3 4 (1.46%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.09%) .NET
4 3 (1.09%) J2EE
4 3 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.09%) Web Dynpro
5 2 (0.73%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.36%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.36%) HTML
6 1 (0.36%) Jest
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.36%) Node.js
6 1 (0.36%) React
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.36%) SAP MI
6 1 (0.36%) Spring
6 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.20%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.01%) Life Science
3 9 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.82%) NHS
5 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.73%) FMCG
6 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.73%) PKI
6 2 (0.73%) PMI
6 2 (0.73%) Robotics
6 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.36%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.36%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.20%) Windows
2 8 (2.92%) Unix
3 5 (1.82%) Linux
4 3 (1.09%) Debian
4 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (21.90%) Agile
3 50 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (17.15%) Project Management
5 42 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (12.04%) Analytics
7 30 (10.95%) ITIL
8 28 (10.22%) Test Strategy
9 27 (9.85%) ERP
10 26 (9.49%) Requirements Gathering
11 24 (8.76%) Risk Management
12 23 (8.39%) Change Management
12 23 (8.39%) Collaborative Working
13 22 (8.03%) Data Analytics
14 20 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (7.30%) Decision-Making
15 19 (6.93%) Scrum
15 19 (6.93%) Service Delivery
16 18 (6.57%) Business Analysis
17 17 (6.20%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.03%) SQL
2 21 (7.66%) Python
3 8 (2.92%) Java
4 7 (2.55%) Shell Script
5 5 (1.82%) C++
5 5 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.09%) ABAP
6 3 (1.09%) Bash
6 3 (1.09%) C
6 3 (1.09%) C#
6 3 (1.09%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) PHP
7 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.36%) VBA
7 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (17.15%) Degree
2 33 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.01%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.28%) ACCA
5 9 (3.28%) CIMA
5 9 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.46%) PMP
8 3 (1.09%) AAT
8 3 (1.09%) PgMP
8 3 (1.09%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CISSP
9 2 (0.73%) Dell Certification
9 2 (0.73%) PhD
9 2 (0.73%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.73%) VCAP
9 2 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.47%) QA
2 12 (4.38%) PMO
3 8 (2.92%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.55%) GAMP
4 7 (2.55%) GxP
4 7 (2.55%) SLA
5 4 (1.46%) GDPR
6 2 (0.73%) GMP
6 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.36%) ITGC
7 1 (0.36%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (4.01%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
2 7 (2.55%) vSphere
3 4 (1.46%) Firmware
4 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.38%) Grafana
1 12 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.28%) Ansible
3 4 (1.46%) Puppet
3 4 (1.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.39%) SAP
3 12 (4.38%) Denodo
3 12 (4.38%) Talend
4 9 (3.28%) Oracle
5 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.55%) Dell
6 7 (2.55%) VMware
7 5 (1.82%) Cisco
8 4 (1.46%) Adobe
8 4 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.09%) OpenText
9 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.09%) Workday
10 2 (0.73%) Facebook
10 2 (0.73%) FIS
10 2 (0.73%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.73%) HP
10 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) Sun