Process Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Process Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 151 153 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 -23 +13
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 301 359 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.41% 1.58% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.78% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 235 425
10th Percentile £235 £350 £319
25th Percentile £375 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% +17.41%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -1.95% +1.94% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 17
10th Percentile £13.05 £24.88 £16.15
25th Percentile £14.50 £29.02 £16.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% -0.62% +35.42%
75th Percentile £38.88 £54.86 £45.20
90th Percentile £52.25 £60.00 £64.05
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
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 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
South East -17 95 £500 +8.70% 120
Midlands -8 61 £425 -21.30% 85
North of England +1 56 £517 -2.45% 118
West Midlands -10 45 £400 -25.93% 58
South West +10 33 £500 -13.04% 48
North West +16 32 £530 -3.73% 65
Scotland +49 28 £475 - 30
East of England +22 24 £550 +7.32% 58
Yorkshire -5 21 £500 -5.17% 41
East Midlands +7 13 £525 -6.25% 27
Northern Ireland - 8 £399 - 7
North East +10 3 £533 -18.08% 16
Wales +16 2 £200 -63.64% 16
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 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) Apache
4 4 (1.33%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 39 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.33%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.33%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.33%) SAP IS-U
4 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.00%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.66%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.66%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.66%) Shopify
6 1 (0.33%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.33%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 21 (6.98%) AWS
2 19 (6.31%) Power Platform
3 12 (3.99%) Azure
4 10 (3.32%) SuccessFactors
5 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.66%) Datadog
8 2 (0.66%) NuGet
8 2 (0.66%) Stripe
8 2 (0.66%) Veeva
9 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.33%) GCP
9 1 (0.33%) OCI
9 1 (0.33%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.33%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.33%) SaaS
9 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) DNS
2 3 (1.00%) Internet
3 2 (0.66%) DHCP
3 2 (0.66%) Firewall
3 2 (0.66%) VSAN
3 2 (0.66%) Wireless
4 1 (0.33%) Intranet
4 1 (0.33%) MPLS
4 1 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (6.31%) MySQL
2 19 (6.31%) Power BI
3 5 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.66%) Flink
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.00%) Tableau
5 2 (0.66%) GIS
5 2 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.66%) QlikView
5 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.66%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.66%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.33%) OLAP
6 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.97%) Git
2 9 (2.99%) JIRA
3 7 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) Postman
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) GoCD
7 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.33%) JUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 72 (23.92%) Finance
3 67 (22.26%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.62%) Manufacturing
5 19 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.98%) Marketing
7 16 (5.32%) Billing
7 16 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.98%) Banking
9 13 (4.32%) Retail
10 12 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (3.32%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.99%) Aviation
14 6 (1.99%) Local Government
15 5 (1.66%) Legal
16 4 (1.33%) Electronics
16 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 62 (20.60%) Analyst
2 34 (11.30%) Business Analyst
3 31 (10.30%) Lead
4 25 (8.31%) Senior
5 22 (7.31%) Consultant
6 18 (5.98%) Developer
7 12 (3.99%) Architect
7 12 (3.99%) Project Manager
8 11 (3.65%) Coordinator
8 11 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.99%) Technical Support
10 8 (2.66%) Administrator
10 8 (2.66%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.66%) Support Engineer
10 8 (2.66%) Technical Leader
10 8 (2.66%) Tester
11 7 (2.33%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (2.33%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (2.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.99%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.65%) J2EE
3 9 (2.99%) FastAPI
4 5 (1.66%) Flask
5 3 (1.00%) .NET
5 3 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.00%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.66%) Kafka
6 2 (0.66%) Node.js
6 2 (0.66%) React
6 2 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.33%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.33%) HTML
7 1 (0.33%) Jest
7 1 (0.33%) Micronaut
7 1 (0.33%) Middleware
7 1 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.33%) React Native
7 1 (0.33%) SAP MI
7 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.65%) Life Science
3 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.33%) NHS
5 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.00%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.00%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.66%) FMCG
6 2 (0.66%) PKI
6 2 (0.66%) PMI
6 2 (0.66%) Robotics
7 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.33%) Replication
7 1 (0.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.98%) Windows
2 7 (2.33%) Unix
3 5 (1.66%) Linux
4 3 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.66%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (21.26%) Agile
3 50 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 49 (16.28%) Project Management
5 43 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (13.29%) Analytics
7 34 (11.30%) Requirements Gathering
8 31 (10.30%) Test Strategy
9 30 (9.97%) ITIL
10 28 (9.30%) Change Management
10 28 (9.30%) ERP
11 27 (8.97%) Data Analytics
11 27 (8.97%) DevOps
12 25 (8.31%) Scrum
13 24 (7.97%) Risk Management
14 23 (7.64%) Configuration Management
14 23 (7.64%) Data Extraction
15 22 (7.31%) Collaborative Working
15 22 (7.31%) ETL
16 21 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.30%) Python
2 24 (7.97%) SQL
3 16 (5.32%) Java
4 13 (4.32%) C
5 11 (3.65%) C++
6 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.99%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.33%) C#
8 3 (1.00%) Bash
9 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.33%) PHP
10 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.33%) VBA
10 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (15.61%) Degree
2 37 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.32%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.99%) ACCA
5 9 (2.99%) CIMA
5 9 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.66%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.66%) PMP
9 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.33%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (1.00%) AAT
10 3 (1.00%) APMG
10 3 (1.00%) CISSP
10 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.00%) PgMP
11 2 (0.66%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.66%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.65%) PMO
2 13 (4.32%) QA
3 9 (2.99%) GxP
4 7 (2.33%) GAMP
4 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.33%) SLA
5 5 (1.66%) GDPR
6 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.66%) GMP
7 2 (0.66%) GRC
7 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.66%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) COBIT
8 1 (0.33%) ITGC
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) PMBOK
System Software
1 11 (3.65%) Docker
2 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.33%) VMware NSX
2 7 (2.33%) vSphere
3 4 (1.33%) Firmware
4 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (5.98%) Grafana
2 13 (4.32%) Terraform
3 12 (3.99%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.99%) Ansible
5 5 (1.66%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.33%) Kiali
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.30%) SAP
3 18 (5.98%) Denodo
3 18 (5.98%) Talend
4 10 (3.32%) Oracle
5 8 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.33%) Dell
6 7 (2.33%) VMware
7 5 (1.66%) Cisco
7 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.33%) OpenText
9 2 (0.66%) Concur
9 2 (0.66%) Facebook
9 2 (0.66%) FIS
9 2 (0.66%) Fujitsu
9 2 (0.66%) HP
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Splunk
9 2 (0.66%) Sun
9 2 (0.66%) Workday