Process Improvement Contracts in England

Process Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 173 200 181
Rank change year-on-year +27 -19 +19
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 526 629 1,130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.40% 1.34% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.49% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 425 753
10th Percentile £302 £353 £350
25th Percentile £407 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +14.29%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -1.95% +1.94% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 28
10th Percentile £13.86 £20.80 £16.75
25th Percentile £14.50 £29.02 £21.43
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.18 £38.59
Median % change year-on-year -49.05% +11.89% +44.26%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.85 £62.98
90th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.26 £43.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year -43.83% +32.86% +21.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
London +52 241 £538 -2.27% 205
South East -17 95 £500 +8.70% 120
Midlands -8 61 £425 -21.30% 85
North of England +1 56 £517 -2.45% 117
West Midlands -10 45 £400 -25.93% 58
South West +10 33 £500 -13.04% 47
North West +16 32 £530 -3.73% 64
East of England +22 24 £550 +7.32% 58
Yorkshire -5 21 £500 -5.17% 41
East Midlands +7 13 £525 -6.25% 27
North East +10 3 £533 -18.08% 16
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 18 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.90%) Confluence
3 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.33%) Apache
5 6 (1.14%) MTS
6 3 (0.57%) CMS
6 3 (0.57%) govService
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 51 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (3.04%) MS Visio
5 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.71%) Endur
3 8 (1.52%) Workday HCM
4 7 (1.33%) Aligne
4 7 (1.33%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.14%) EuroRunner
6 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.76%) SAP IS-U
7 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.57%) SAP MII
7 3 (0.57%) Workfront
8 2 (0.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.38%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.38%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.38%) Shopify
8 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 39 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 35 (6.65%) AWS
2 35 (6.65%) Azure
3 12 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.90%) Slack
4 10 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
5 9 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.33%) SaaS
7 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.95%) GCP
7 5 (0.95%) Lucidchart
8 4 (0.76%) GitHub
8 4 (0.76%) Google Workspace
8 4 (0.76%) IBM Blueworks
8 4 (0.76%) NuGet
8 4 (0.76%) OneDrive
8 4 (0.76%) Zapier
9 3 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.57%) Datadog
9 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.33%) Firewall
2 6 (1.14%) DNS
3 4 (0.76%) DHCP
3 4 (0.76%) Intranet
3 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.76%) SSH
3 4 (0.76%) Telnet
3 4 (0.76%) Wireless
4 3 (0.57%) Internet
5 2 (0.38%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) VoIP
5 2 (0.38%) VSAN
6 1 (0.19%) MPLS
6 1 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.41%) Power BI
2 23 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.18%) MySQL
4 9 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.71%) Tableau
5 8 (1.52%) Metadata
6 6 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.95%) Flink
7 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.76%) GIS
8 4 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.57%) Big Data
9 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.57%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.38%) QlikView
10 2 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 33 (6.27%) Git
2 26 (4.94%) JIRA
3 8 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.76%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.76%) Selenium
6 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) GoCD
8 1 (0.19%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Toad
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 200 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 150 (28.52%) Finance
3 126 (23.95%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
5 45 (8.56%) Manufacturing
6 44 (8.37%) Public Sector
7 33 (6.27%) Banking
8 28 (5.32%) Marketing
9 24 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (4.37%) Retail
11 19 (3.61%) Legal
12 16 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.66%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.28%) Billing
15 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.33%) Advertising
16 7 (1.33%) Aviation
16 7 (1.33%) Law
16 7 (1.33%) Local Government
17 5 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 134 (25.48%) Analyst
2 84 (15.97%) Business Analyst
3 49 (9.32%) Lead
4 42 (7.98%) Senior
5 38 (7.22%) Consultant
6 19 (3.61%) Developer
7 18 (3.42%) Architect
7 18 (3.42%) Project Manager
7 18 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
8 17 (3.23%) Data Analyst
9 16 (3.04%) Senior Business Analyst
10 13 (2.47%) Change Manager
10 13 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.28%) Service Manager
12 11 (2.09%) Tester
13 10 (1.90%) Administrator
13 10 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (1.90%) Senior Manager
14 9 (1.71%) Coordinator
14 9 (1.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.04%) Spring Boot
2 14 (2.66%) J2EE
3 12 (2.28%) FastAPI
4 8 (1.52%) .NET
5 5 (0.95%) Flask
5 5 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.57%) React
6 3 (0.57%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.38%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.38%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.38%) HTML
7 2 (0.38%) JSON
7 2 (0.38%) Kafka
7 2 (0.38%) Middleware
7 2 (0.38%) Node.js
7 2 (0.38%) REST
7 2 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.38%) SOAP
7 2 (0.38%) XML
7 2 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 19 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.28%) Life Science
4 11 (2.09%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.52%) Solar Panel
6 7 (1.33%) FMCG
6 7 (1.33%) Market Risk
6 7 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.14%) NHS
8 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
8 5 (0.95%) Wiki
9 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.76%) State Machine
10 3 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.57%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.18%) Windows
2 9 (1.71%) Linux
3 7 (1.33%) Unix
4 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.38%) Debian
6 2 (0.38%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (23.95%) Agile
2 124 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (19.58%) Project Management
4 79 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (10.84%) Analytics
7 54 (10.27%) Change Management
7 54 (10.27%) Requirements Gathering
8 52 (9.89%) Scrum
9 51 (9.70%) DevOps
9 51 (9.70%) ITIL
10 50 (9.51%) Project Delivery
11 48 (9.13%) Data Analysis
12 43 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (8.17%) Test Strategy
13 39 (7.41%) Risk Management
14 38 (7.22%) Business Analysis
15 36 (6.84%) Data Analytics
15 36 (6.84%) Decision-Making
16 35 (6.65%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 55 (10.46%) Python
2 49 (9.32%) SQL
3 26 (4.94%) Java
4 18 (3.42%) C
4 18 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.66%) C++
6 12 (2.28%) Bash
7 11 (2.09%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.52%) C#
8 8 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.14%) Go
10 4 (0.76%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (0.57%) Bicep
12 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.38%) Ruby
12 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.19%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 81 (15.40%) Degree
2 78 (14.83%) Security Cleared
3 72 (13.69%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.66%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 11 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.09%) PMP
8 10 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.71%) ACCA
9 9 (1.71%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 8 (1.52%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.95%) CBAP
11 5 (0.95%) CIMA
11 5 (0.95%) CISSP
11 5 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.76%) CISM
12 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.94%) QA
2 16 (3.04%) PMO
3 15 (2.85%) SLA
4 14 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.71%) GxP
7 7 (1.33%) GAMP
8 6 (1.14%) GDPR
9 5 (0.95%) GRC
10 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.38%) GMP
13 1 (0.19%) COBIT
13 1 (0.19%) GAAP
13 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.19%) ITGC
13 1 (0.19%) NCSC
13 1 (0.19%) PMBOK
System Software
1 15 (2.85%) Docker
2 12 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.95%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.95%) vSphere
5 2 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) XenApp
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (3.99%) Grafana
2 20 (3.80%) Terraform
3 16 (3.04%) Ansible
3 16 (3.04%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.71%) Puppet
5 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.19%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.19%) Kiali
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) SCOM
6 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 64 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.17%) SAP
3 21 (3.99%) Denodo
3 21 (3.99%) Talend
4 16 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.85%) Oracle
6 14 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.90%) Workday
8 8 (1.52%) Splunk
8 8 (1.52%) Yardi
9 7 (1.33%) VMware
10 6 (1.14%) Google
11 5 (0.95%) Cisco
12 4 (0.76%) Okta
12 4 (0.76%) OpenText
13 3 (0.57%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.57%) Dell
13 3 (0.57%) Marketo
13 3 (0.57%) Pardot
13 3 (0.57%) Remedy