Process Improvement Contracts in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 74 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -24 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 35 86 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.85% 3.79% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 4.30% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 61 128
10th Percentile £357 £325 £363
25th Percentile £358 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £516
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +4.26% +27.41%
75th Percentile £605 £540 £540
90th Percentile £680 £598 £616
England median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.17 £43.86 £44.69
% change year-on-year -49.45% -1.86% +71.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,583 2,001 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.71% 88.19% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,364 2,356
10th Percentile £275 £263 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 67
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +3.09%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.10
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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

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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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

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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 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
Shropshire -10 11 £358 -33.70% 6
Warwickshire +11 8 £525 - 13
Birmingham -8 7 £500 +13.31% 15
Staffordshire +9 2 £588 +17.50% 9
Worcestershire +8 2 £590 +177.65% 4
Coventry +12 1 - - 11
Wolverhampton +5 1 £475 -20.83% 6
Solihull -19 1 - - 3
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 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP BPC
1 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.86%) SAP GRC
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.86%) Azure
1 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
1 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
1 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
1 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Internet
1 2 (5.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 11 (31.43%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Git
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) German Language
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Analyst
2 4 (11.43%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Vendor Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Change Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Data Scientist
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Research Scientist
5 1 (2.86%) SAP GRC Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Senior SAP Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Service Security Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.86%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) FMCG
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) NHS
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Analytics
2 13 (37.14%) Data Analytics
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 11 (31.43%) Configuration Management
4 11 (31.43%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (31.43%) Dashboard Development
4 11 (31.43%) Data Extraction
4 11 (31.43%) ETL
4 11 (31.43%) Scrum
4 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
4 11 (31.43%) Test Strategy
5 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.57%) Change Management
8 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.71%) Contract Negotiation
9 2 (5.71%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) MATLAB
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) C++
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Dell Certification
3 2 (5.71%) PhD
4 1 (2.86%) ACCA
4 1 (2.86%) APMG
4 1 (2.86%) CIMA
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) GRC
2 1 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Denodo
1 11 (31.43%) Talend
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Dell
3 2 (5.71%) Fujitsu
3 2 (5.71%) HP
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Sun
4 1 (2.86%) Concur
4 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.86%) Sage
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow