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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 210 199
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 575 724 1,297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.27% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.41% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 483 852
10th Percentile £321 £375 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% +2.44% +17.21%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £593
90th Percentile £697 £700 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 18 29
10th Percentile £13.29 £23.96 £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 £56.31 £60.63
90th Percentile £58.58 £60.00 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £32.65 £32.50
% change year-on-year -35.68% +0.46% +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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +31 503 £523 -0.48% 657
UK excluding London +6 271 £500 - 470
London +64 248 £550 - 215
Work from Home +37 187 £525 +2.44% 286
South East -17 87 £488 +5.76% 111
North of England +22 58 £509 -3.60% 125
Midlands -18 47 £478 -11.25% 98
North West +20 35 £525 -4.55% 75
West Midlands -20 33 £413 -23.33% 64
Scotland +36 30 £513 +7.33% 29
South West +21 29 £493 -10.45% 54
Yorkshire +7 20 £479 -8.71% 32
East of England +18 18 £550 +10.00% 54
East Midlands +12 11 £506 -6.77% 34
Northern Ireland - 6 £435 - 4
North East +13 3 £533 - 22
Wales +13 2 £200 -66.67% 18

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 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.09%) 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 54 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.96%) MS Visio
5 15 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.74%) Endur
3 9 (1.57%) SAP ERP
4 8 (1.39%) Aligne
4 8 (1.39%) EuroRunner
4 8 (1.39%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.70%) 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%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.35%) Workfront
8 1 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 44 (7.65%) Power Platform
2 35 (6.09%) Azure
3 30 (5.22%) AWS
4 15 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
6 10 (1.74%) Slack
7 9 (1.57%) SaaS
8 7 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.04%) OCI
10 5 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.87%) GCP
10 5 (0.87%) Google Workspace
10 5 (0.87%) Lucidchart
10 5 (0.87%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.87%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.87%) Veeva
11 4 (0.70%) GitHub
11 4 (0.70%) IBM Blueworks
11 4 (0.70%) NuGet
11 4 (0.70%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.22%) DNS
2 6 (1.04%) Firewall
3 4 (0.70%) DHCP
3 4 (0.70%) Internet
3 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.70%) SSH
3 4 (0.70%) Telnet
3 4 (0.70%) 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%) Broadband
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.30%) Power BI
2 15 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (2.43%) MySQL
4 9 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.22%) Metadata
5 7 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.22%) Tableau
6 6 (1.04%) Flink
7 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.52%) Big Data
9 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.52%) GIS
10 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (4.87%) JIRA
2 25 (4.35%) Git
3 8 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.87%) Selenium
6 4 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.70%) 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%) Toad
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 225 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 171 (29.74%) Finance
3 122 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.74%) Presentation Skills
5 52 (9.04%) Manufacturing
6 47 (8.17%) Public Sector
7 44 (7.65%) Banking
8 28 (4.87%) Marketing
9 27 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (4.17%) Legal
10 24 (4.17%) Retail
11 17 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (2.43%) Telecoms
13 13 (2.26%) Billing
14 9 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.39%) German Language
16 7 (1.22%) Advertising
16 7 (1.22%) French Language
16 7 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 150 (26.09%) Analyst
2 101 (17.57%) Business Analyst
3 50 (8.70%) Consultant
4 49 (8.52%) Lead
5 42 (7.30%) Senior
6 25 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 24 (4.17%) Developer
8 21 (3.65%) Data Analyst
9 17 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (2.61%) Change Manager
10 15 (2.61%) Financial Analyst
10 15 (2.61%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (2.43%) Service Manager
12 13 (2.26%) Architect
13 12 (2.09%) Senior Manager
14 11 (1.91%) Coordinator
14 11 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (1.74%) Tester
16 9 (1.57%) IT Manager
16 9 (1.57%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.09%) FastAPI
2 9 (1.57%) 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%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.17%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.26%) Management Information System
2 19 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (2.26%) Life Science
4 12 (2.09%) Renewable Energy
5 9 (1.57%) Solar Panel
6 8 (1.39%) Market Risk
6 8 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.22%) FMCG
8 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.87%) NHS
8 5 (0.87%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.70%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.70%) State Machine
9 4 (0.70%) Wiki
10 3 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.17%) 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
1 136 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (22.26%) Agile
3 114 (19.83%) Project Management
4 89 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 84 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (10.09%) Project Delivery
7 57 (9.91%) Change Management
8 56 (9.74%) ITIL
9 54 (9.39%) Data Analysis
10 50 (8.70%) Analytics
10 50 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
11 47 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
11 47 (8.17%) Scrum
12 46 (8.00%) Risk Management
13 44 (7.65%) ERP
14 43 (7.48%) Business Analysis
14 43 (7.48%) Decision-Making
15 41 (7.13%) DevOps
15 41 (7.13%) Test Strategy
16 37 (6.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 52 (9.04%) SQL
2 46 (8.00%) Python
3 19 (3.30%) Java
4 16 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.91%) Bash
5 11 (1.91%) Shell Script
6 10 (1.74%) C#
7 9 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.39%) C
8 8 (1.39%) C++
9 6 (1.04%) Go
10 4 (0.70%) ABAP
10 4 (0.70%) Bicep
10 4 (0.70%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (0.52%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.52%) R
11 3 (0.52%) VB
12 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (16.52%) Degree
2 81 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 74 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.43%) ACCA
7 12 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 9 (1.57%) CIMA
10 9 (1.57%) PMP
10 9 (1.57%) SAP Certification
10 9 (1.57%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 5 (0.87%) CISSP
12 4 (0.70%) CISM
12 4 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.52%) AAT
13 3 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.61%) QA
2 19 (3.30%) PMO
3 16 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.78%) SLA
4 12 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.91%) GxP
6 7 (1.22%) GAMP
6 7 (1.22%) GDPR
7 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.87%) GRC
8 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.52%) CDISC
9 3 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.35%) GMP
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.35%) NIST
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (2.61%) Docker
2 12 (2.09%) 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 14 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.26%) Ansible
2 13 (2.26%) Grafana
3 10 (1.74%) Terraform
4 8 (1.39%) Puppet
5 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.17%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) SCOM
6 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.35%) SAP
3 25 (4.35%) Oracle
4 15 (2.61%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.61%) Workday
5 14 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.26%) Denodo
6 13 (2.26%) Talend
7 12 (2.09%) 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
12 4 (0.70%) Ariba
12 4 (0.70%) Okta
12 4 (0.70%) Remedy
12 4 (0.70%) Splunk
13 3 (0.52%) Marketo
13 3 (0.52%) Pardot