Process Improvement Contracts in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Process Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Process Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 56 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 -16 -7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 45 75 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.20% 3.39% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 3.87% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 136
10th Percentile £352 £300 £400
25th Percentile £358 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +2.86% +22.66%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £550
90th Percentile £683 £602 £628
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +14.29%
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 £22.00 £43.18 £38.59
% change year-on-year -49.05% +11.89% +44.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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

Process Improvement
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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the West Midlands

Process Improvement
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 12 June 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 -12 17 £358 -33.70% 4
Warwickshire +4 13 £400 -22.33% 5
Birmingham -11 7 £500 +9.59% 16
Staffordshire +7 2 £588 +17.50% 10
Coventry +10 1 - - 7
Wolverhampton +6 1 £475 -20.83% 4
Solihull -13 1 - - 6
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 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) SAP BPC
1 2 (4.44%) SAP ERP
1 2 (4.44%) SAP GRC
1 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.67%) OneDrive
2 2 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.22%) Azure
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Internet
1 2 (4.44%) Wireless
2 1 (2.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (37.78%) Amazon Redshift
1 17 (37.78%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) SAP BW
2 2 (4.44%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (40.00%) Git
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Law
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) German Language
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (8.89%) Consultant
2 4 (8.89%) Lead
3 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (6.67%) Change Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) ERP Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) IT Manager
4 2 (4.44%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) SAP GRC Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) SAP Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Senior ERP Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Senior Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) SailPoint
1 2 (4.44%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.22%) FMCG
1 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.22%) NHS
1 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Analytics
2 19 (42.22%) Data Analytics
2 19 (42.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 18 (40.00%) Agile
4 17 (37.78%) Configuration Management
4 17 (37.78%) Continuous Integration
4 17 (37.78%) Dashboard Development
4 17 (37.78%) Data Extraction
4 17 (37.78%) ETL
4 17 (37.78%) Scrum
4 17 (37.78%) Software Engineering
4 17 (37.78%) Test Strategy
5 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.33%) Change Management
7 5 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (8.89%) ERP
8 4 (8.89%) Programme Management
9 3 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) APMG
3 3 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 2 (4.44%) Dell Certification
5 1 (2.22%) ACCA
5 1 (2.22%) CIMA
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) GRC
2 2 (4.44%) PMO
2 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Denodo
1 17 (37.78%) Talend
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Concur
4 2 (4.44%) Dell
4 2 (4.44%) Fujitsu
4 2 (4.44%) HP
4 2 (4.44%) Sun
5 1 (2.22%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.22%) Sage
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow