Process Improvement Contracts in the South East

Process Improvement
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 108 134
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -28
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 89 122 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 2.09% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.34% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 79 81
10th Percentile £205 £330 £350
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £556 £573 £600
90th Percentile £563 £675 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +16.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.32 -
25th Percentile £13.05 £29.19 -
Median hourly rate £15.85 £32.30 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.93% -0.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile - - £48.13
90th Percentile £21.50 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £43.93 £45.00
% change year-on-year -43.09% -2.38% +80.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the South East

Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Process Improvement in the South East

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Process Improvement in the South East

Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Process Improvement in the South East

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley -28 38 £470 -1.05% 37
Berkshire -32 18 £506 -7.95% 21
Hampshire +15 17 £210 -42.07% 18
Surrey +7 16 £525 +16.99% 12
Buckinghamshire +17 15 £431 -5.28% 7
West Sussex -1 11 £412 -0.48% 4
Oxfordshire +3 5 £500 -37.50% 10
Kent +3 4 £481 - 15
East Sussex +9 3 £538 +13.16% 3
Process Improvement
England

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (3.37%) Confluence
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.12%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (1.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.11%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (3.37%) AWS
2 3 (3.37%) Azure
2 3 (3.37%) Datadog
3 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.25%) Figma
3 2 (2.25%) NuGet
3 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.25%) Veeva
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.12%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) DHCP
2 2 (2.25%) VSAN
3 1 (1.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.12%) GIS
2 1 (1.12%) OLAP
2 1 (1.12%) Power Query
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
General
1 35 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 14 (15.73%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (14.61%) Manufacturing
4 13 (14.61%) Marketing
5 10 (11.24%) Retail
6 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.37%) Electronics
9 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.37%) Legal
10 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.12%) Aviation
11 1 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (14.61%) Analyst
2 11 (12.36%) Developer
2 11 (12.36%) Senior
3 10 (11.24%) ABAP Developer
3 10 (11.24%) Lead
3 10 (11.24%) SAP Developer
4 9 (10.11%) Coordinator
5 8 (8.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Technical Coordinator
6 7 (7.87%) Technical Support
7 6 (6.74%) DOORS Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Software Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Tester
8 5 (5.62%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.49%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) Web Dynpro
2 2 (2.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.12%) HTML
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
2 2 (2.25%) Life Science
2 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.25%) PKI
2 2 (2.25%) PMI
2 2 (2.25%) Robotics
3 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Windows
2 8 (8.99%) Unix
3 5 (5.62%) Linux
4 3 (3.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (32.58%) Agile
3 20 (22.47%) ITIL
4 18 (20.22%) Test Strategy
5 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (15.73%) Service Delivery
7 13 (14.61%) Project Management
7 13 (14.61%) Risk Management
8 12 (13.48%) Migration
8 12 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (12.36%) ERP
10 10 (11.24%) Budgeting
10 10 (11.24%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (11.24%) Customer Requirements
10 10 (11.24%) Data Migration
10 10 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (10.11%) Validation
12 8 (8.99%) Customer Engagement
12 8 (8.99%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) ABAP
2 3 (3.37%) Bash
2 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.25%) C#
3 2 (2.25%) SQL
4 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.12%) VBA
4 1 (1.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (24.72%) Degree
2 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.11%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (8.99%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.25%) PgMP
8 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.25%) VCAP
8 2 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) PCI DSS
2 6 (6.74%) QA
3 5 (5.62%) PMO
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.12%) ITGC
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.25%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Ansible
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (20.22%) SAP
2 13 (14.61%) Adobe
3 8 (8.99%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) BT
6 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Workday