Process Improvement Contracts with Work from Home Options

Process Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 170 197 198
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 187 292 623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.27% 1.22% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.36% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 200 456
10th Percentile £357 £361 £350
25th Percentile £435 £414 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -0.78% +13.19%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £721 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -1.95% +1.94% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £15.85 £21.13 £15.71
25th Percentile £17.08 £26.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £27.19 £42.50 £20.93
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +103.06% -38.02%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.38 £40.50
90th Percentile £41.40 £60.00 £73.95
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Process Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Process Improvement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Process Improvement.

Process Improvement daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Process Improvement daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Process Improvement.

Process Improvement hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Process Improvement hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.14%) Confluence
3 3 (1.60%) SAS
4 2 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.07%) Endur
3 2 (1.07%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.07%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 2 (1.07%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.53%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.53%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.63%) Power Platform
2 13 (6.95%) AWS
3 11 (5.88%) Azure
4 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.14%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.60%) GCP
6 3 (1.60%) OCI
6 3 (1.60%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.60%) Veeva
7 2 (1.07%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.07%) Asana
7 2 (1.07%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) Slack
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.53%) Datadog
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.53%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.53%) DHCP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.56%) Power BI
2 9 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (4.28%) MySQL
4 5 (2.67%) Tableau
5 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.60%) GIS
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.07%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.53%) QlikView
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Git
2 9 (4.81%) JIRA
3 5 (2.67%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) Postman
4 2 (1.07%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.41%) Finance
3 34 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.16%) Banking
5 17 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (7.49%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.95%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.88%) Legal
9 10 (5.35%) Retail
10 8 (4.28%) Marketing
11 7 (3.74%) Billing
11 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
12 6 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (2.14%) French Language
14 4 (2.14%) Local Government
15 3 (1.60%) German Language
15 3 (1.60%) Military
15 3 (1.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (26.74%) Analyst
2 33 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 22 (11.76%) Consultant
4 18 (9.63%) Senior
5 14 (7.49%) Lead
5 14 (7.49%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.35%) Data Analyst
7 8 (4.28%) Architect
7 8 (4.28%) Developer
7 8 (4.28%) Senior Manager
8 7 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (3.74%) Functional Consultant
8 7 (3.74%) Transformation Manager
9 6 (3.21%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (3.21%) Project Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.21%) Service Design Manager
10 5 (2.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 5 (2.67%) Service Manager
10 5 (2.67%) Software Integration Engineer
10 5 (2.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.14%) J2EE
1 4 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (2.14%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.60%) HTML
3 2 (1.07%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.07%) JSON
3 2 (1.07%) REST
3 2 (1.07%) XML
4 1 (0.53%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.53%) CSS
4 1 (0.53%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.53%) HTML5
4 1 (0.53%) jQuery
4 1 (0.53%) Middleware
4 1 (0.53%) RESTful
4 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.53%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.53%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.60%) CMDB
3 3 (1.60%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.07%) FMCG
4 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.07%) NHS
4 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.07%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.53%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.53%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Windows
2 5 (2.67%) Unix
3 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.27%) Agile
2 37 (19.79%) Project Management
3 35 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (16.58%) Project Delivery
5 31 (16.58%) Scrum
6 27 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (12.30%) Change Management
7 23 (12.30%) Risk Management
8 22 (11.76%) Business Analysis
9 20 (10.70%) Analytics
9 20 (10.70%) Requirements Gathering
10 19 (10.16%) Test Strategy
11 18 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (9.63%) Data Analysis
12 16 (8.56%) ITIL
12 16 (8.56%) Migration
13 15 (8.02%) Decision-Making
13 15 (8.02%) DevOps
14 14 (7.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.63%) SQL
2 13 (6.95%) Python
3 7 (3.74%) Java
4 5 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.14%) C
5 4 (2.14%) C#
5 4 (2.14%) C++
5 4 (2.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.60%) Bicep
6 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.60%) R
6 3 (1.60%) VB
7 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.53%) ABAP
8 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (17.11%) Degree
2 23 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.28%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.67%) ACCA
5 5 (2.67%) CIMA
5 5 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.07%) PMP
7 2 (1.07%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.07%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.53%) CISA
8 1 (0.53%) CISM
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) HNC
8 1 (0.53%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.09%) QA
2 10 (5.35%) PMO
3 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.67%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) CDISC
4 3 (1.60%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (1.60%) GxP
5 2 (1.07%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) COBIT
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PMBOK
System Software
1 5 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (2.67%) VMware NSX
1 5 (2.67%) vSphere
2 4 (2.14%) Docker
3 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (4.28%) Grafana
2 7 (3.74%) Terraform
3 4 (2.14%) Ansible
3 4 (2.14%) Puppet
4 2 (1.07%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.95%) SAP
3 8 (4.28%) Denodo
3 8 (4.28%) Oracle
3 8 (4.28%) Talend
4 6 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.67%) Cisco
5 5 (2.67%) Dell
5 5 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.67%) VMware
6 3 (1.60%) Ariba
7 2 (1.07%) Adobe
7 2 (1.07%) Conga
7 2 (1.07%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.07%) ESRI
7 2 (1.07%) FIS
7 2 (1.07%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.07%) Remedy
7 2 (1.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Murex