Process Improvement Contracts

Process Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 172 205 197
Rank change year-on-year +33 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 576 739 1,315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.29% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.44% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 495 867
10th Percentile £313 £371 £337
25th Percentile £415 £449 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +2.44% +15.17%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £593
90th Percentile £695 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 29
10th Percentile £13.29 £24.66 £16.50
25th Percentile £15.51 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £24.63 £43.86 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year -43.85% -1.84% +71.85%
75th Percentile £43.75 £55.33 £60.63
90th Percentile £58.58 £60.00 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -36.36% +1.54% +35.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement.

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement.

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England +27 505 £525 - 744
UK excluding London +4 274 £500 - 537
London +58 247 £550 - 251
Work from Home +27 186 £525 - 312
South East -16 89 £488 +5.98% 134
North of England +22 56 £517 -6.00% 135
Midlands -28 49 £489 -9.15% 116
West Midlands -24 35 £425 -21.00% 79
North West +15 33 £513 -8.18% 71
Scotland +42 30 £513 +7.33% 30
South West +21 30 £500 -13.04% 56
Yorkshire +10 20 £500 -5.61% 42
East of England +19 18 £550 +10.00% 60
East Midlands +16 11 £506 -6.77% 37
Northern Ireland - 6 £435 - 5
North East +15 3 £533 - 25
Wales +15 2 £200 -66.67% 23

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.08%) Confluence
3 8 (1.39%) Apache
3 8 (1.39%) MTS
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.52%) govService
5 3 (0.52%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 53 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.95%) MS Visio
5 14 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.74%) Endur
3 9 (1.56%) SAP ERP
4 8 (1.39%) Aligne
4 8 (1.39%) EuroRunner
4 8 (1.39%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.52%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.35%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.35%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.35%) Workfront
8 1 (0.17%) Maximo
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 44 (7.64%) Power Platform
2 36 (6.25%) Azure
3 30 (5.21%) AWS
4 15 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.74%) Slack
5 10 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (1.39%) SaaS
7 7 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.04%) OCI
9 5 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.87%) GCP
9 5 (0.87%) Google Workspace
9 5 (0.87%) Lucidchart
9 5 (0.87%) Power Automate
9 5 (0.87%) PowerApps
9 5 (0.87%) Veeva
10 4 (0.69%) GitHub
10 4 (0.69%) IBM Blueworks
10 4 (0.69%) NuGet
10 4 (0.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.22%) DNS
2 6 (1.04%) Firewall
3 4 (0.69%) DHCP
3 4 (0.69%) Internet
3 4 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.69%) SSH
3 4 (0.69%) Telnet
3 4 (0.69%) Wireless
4 3 (0.52%) Intranet
5 2 (0.35%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.35%) MPLS
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) VSAN
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.29%) Power BI
2 15 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (2.43%) MySQL
4 9 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.39%) Tableau
6 7 (1.22%) Metadata
6 7 (1.22%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.04%) Flink
8 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.52%) Big Data
10 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.52%) GIS
11 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (4.86%) JIRA
2 26 (4.51%) Git
3 8 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.87%) Selenium
6 4 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.69%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.52%) Postman
8 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) GoCD
9 1 (0.17%) JUnit
9 1 (0.17%) Toad
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 224 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 170 (29.51%) Finance
3 121 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.55%) Presentation Skills
5 52 (9.03%) Manufacturing
6 47 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 43 (7.47%) Banking
8 28 (4.86%) Marketing
9 26 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (4.17%) Retail
11 23 (3.99%) Legal
12 17 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 13 (2.26%) Billing
15 9 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.22%) Advertising
16 7 (1.22%) German Language
16 7 (1.22%) Local Government
17 6 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 147 (25.52%) Analyst
2 99 (17.19%) Business Analyst
3 51 (8.85%) Consultant
4 50 (8.68%) Lead
5 42 (7.29%) Senior
6 25 (4.34%) Project Manager
7 24 (4.17%) Developer
8 21 (3.65%) Data Analyst
9 17 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (2.60%) Change Manager
10 15 (2.60%) Financial Analyst
10 15 (2.60%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (2.43%) Service Manager
12 13 (2.26%) Architect
13 12 (2.08%) Senior Manager
14 11 (1.91%) Coordinator
14 11 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (1.74%) Tester
16 9 (1.56%) IT Manager
16 9 (1.56%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.26%) FastAPI
2 9 (1.56%) Spring Boot
3 8 (1.39%) .NET
4 6 (1.04%) Flask
4 6 (1.04%) J2EE
5 5 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.52%) REST
6 3 (0.52%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.52%) Web Dynpro
7 2 (0.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.35%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.35%) HTML
7 2 (0.35%) JSON
7 2 (0.35%) Middleware
7 2 (0.35%) React
7 2 (0.35%) SOAP
7 2 (0.35%) XML
7 2 (0.35%) YAML
8 1 (0.17%) Jest
8 1 (0.17%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.90%) Management Information System
2 20 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (2.08%) Life Science
3 12 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (1.56%) Solar Panel
5 8 (1.39%) Market Risk
5 8 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.22%) FMCG
7 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 5 (0.87%) NHS
7 5 (0.87%) Operational Technology
8 4 (0.69%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.69%) State Machine
8 4 (0.69%) Wiki
9 3 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.99%) Windows
2 10 (1.74%) Linux
3 8 (1.39%) Unix
4 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.52%) Debian
5 3 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
2 129 (22.40%) Agile
3 113 (19.62%) Project Management
4 90 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 84 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (9.90%) Change Management
6 57 (9.90%) Project Delivery
7 55 (9.55%) ITIL
8 53 (9.20%) Data Analysis
9 49 (8.51%) Analytics
9 49 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
10 47 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
10 47 (8.16%) Scrum
11 46 (7.99%) Risk Management
12 44 (7.64%) ERP
13 43 (7.47%) Business Analysis
13 43 (7.47%) DevOps
14 41 (7.12%) Decision-Making
14 41 (7.12%) Test Strategy
15 36 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (9.20%) SQL
2 48 (8.33%) Python
3 20 (3.47%) Java
4 17 (2.95%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 11 (1.91%) Bash
7 10 (1.74%) C#
8 9 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.39%) C
9 8 (1.39%) C++
10 6 (1.04%) Go
11 4 (0.69%) ABAP
11 4 (0.69%) Bicep
11 4 (0.69%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.52%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.52%) R
12 3 (0.52%) VB
13 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (16.15%) Degree
2 81 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 74 (12.85%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.43%) ACCA
7 12 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 9 (1.56%) CIMA
10 9 (1.56%) PMP
10 9 (1.56%) SAP Certification
10 9 (1.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 5 (0.87%) CISSP
12 4 (0.69%) CISM
12 4 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.52%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.60%) QA
2 19 (3.30%) PMO
3 16 (2.78%) SLA
4 15 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.91%) GxP
7 7 (1.22%) GAMP
7 7 (1.22%) GDPR
8 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.87%) GRC
9 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.52%) CDISC
10 3 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
10 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.35%) GMP
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.35%) NIST
11 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (2.78%) Docker
2 12 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.74%) VMware NSX
3 10 (1.74%) vSphere
4 6 (1.04%) Firmware
5 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.35%) XenApp
7 1 (0.17%) HDFS
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.60%) Ansible
3 13 (2.26%) Grafana
4 11 (1.91%) Terraform
5 9 (1.56%) Puppet
6 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) SCOM
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.99%) SAP
3 25 (4.34%) Oracle
4 16 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.43%) Workday
6 13 (2.26%) Denodo
6 13 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.26%) Talend
7 12 (2.08%) VMware
8 10 (1.74%) Cisco
9 8 (1.39%) Dell
9 8 (1.39%) Yardi
10 7 (1.22%) Google
11 5 (0.87%) Adobe
11 5 (0.87%) Splunk
12 4 (0.69%) Ariba
12 4 (0.69%) Okta
12 4 (0.69%) Remedy
13 3 (0.52%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.52%) Red Hat
844 Process Improvement jobs Nationwide