Process Improvement Contracts in the North of England

Process Improvement
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 132 159
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 54 77 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 1.39% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.54% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 57 60
10th Percentile £363 £325 £247
25th Percentile £461 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £530 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +12.77% +6.58%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £589
90th Percentile £615 £665 £660
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £15.92 - -
25th Percentile £28.59 £41.25 £22.40
Median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year - -4.88% +92.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £43.75 £44.69
90th Percentile - - £55.51
England median hourly rate £22.00 £43.86 £38.59
% change year-on-year -49.84% +13.66% +48.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the North of England

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +9 30 £525 -5.94% 74
Yorkshire +3 21 £500 -4.71% 39
North East +13 3 £533 -18.08% 30
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) AWS
2 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.41%) Azure
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Power BI
2 6 (11.11%) Flink
3 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
4 1 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.85%) QlikView
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) JIRA
3 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.70%) Postman
4 2 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (1.85%) GoCD
5 1 (1.85%) JUnit
5 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
4 4 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
5 2 (3.70%) Marketing
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Automotive
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Analyst
2 7 (12.96%) Developer
2 7 (12.96%) Python Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Business Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Sourcing Manager
3 5 (9.26%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) IT Support
4 3 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Lead
4 3 (5.56%) QA Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Senior
4 3 (5.56%) Test Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Programme Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Project Assistant
5 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) FastAPI
2 6 (11.11%) Flask
3 2 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) React
4 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.85%) Jest
4 1 (1.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Life Science
2 4 (7.41%) NHS
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
1 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
1 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (31.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (29.63%) Project Management
4 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.81%) Agile
5 8 (14.81%) Data Modelling
5 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.96%) Analytics
6 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (12.96%) DevOps
6 7 (12.96%) Prototyping
6 7 (12.96%) TDD
7 6 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
7 6 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 6 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (11.11%) Scrum
7 6 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) SQL
2 12 (22.22%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.41%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.85%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) PHP
5 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.70%) PMP
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CBAP
4 1 (1.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) GAMP
1 5 (9.26%) GxP
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) PMO
2 2 (3.70%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Ansible
2 4 (7.41%) Puppet
3 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Intel
4 1 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk