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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 90 114
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -4
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 95 131 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.67% 2.31% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.60% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 82 108
10th Percentile £207 £410 £328
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +14.13%
75th Percentile £563 £536 £620
90th Percentile £625 £599 £661
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 5
10th Percentile £13.05 £28.57 £23.95
25th Percentile £13.41 - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £32.30 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% -0.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile £15.85 - -
90th Percentile £21.50 £44.81 £51.25
England median hourly rate £21.75 £43.86 £44.68
% change year-on-year -50.41% -1.84% +71.85%

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 4,721 5,038 6,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.75% 88.98% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,720 3,465 4,731
10th Percentile £255 £248 £238
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 219 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.96 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.44 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +144.19% -15.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.94 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%

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 7 June 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 7 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
Thames Valley -24 46 £470 +1.75% 46
Berkshire -26 26 £498 -5.07% 24
Hampshire +3 17 £280 -36.00% 14
Buckinghamshire +19 16 £426 -7.35% 12
Surrey +14 13 £525 +5.00% 13
Middlesex - 11 £625 -
Oxfordshire +4 4 £513 - 10
Kent - 4 £481 - 12
East Sussex - 2 £538 - 2
West Sussex -19 1 £390 -5.80% 6
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 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) SAP ERP
2 4 (4.21%) SAP IS-U
2 4 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.05%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.68%) AWS
2 8 (8.42%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (5.26%) Azure
4 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.11%) Datadog
6 2 (2.11%) NuGet
6 2 (2.11%) Veeva
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) DNS
2 2 (2.11%) DHCP
2 2 (2.11%) VSAN
3 1 (1.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Power BI
2 2 (2.11%) GIS
3 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.05%) OLAP
3 1 (1.05%) Power Query
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.16%) JIRA
General
1 31 (32.63%) Analytical Skills
1 31 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.11%) Finance
3 15 (15.79%) Marketing
4 13 (13.68%) Manufacturing
5 11 (11.58%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (10.53%) Billing
7 8 (8.42%) Retail
8 5 (5.26%) Aviation
8 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.21%) Banking
10 3 (3.16%) Electronics
10 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.16%) Legal
11 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Lead
2 16 (16.84%) Analyst
3 9 (9.47%) Senior
4 8 (8.42%) Coordinator
4 8 (8.42%) Technical Leader
5 7 (7.37%) Architect
5 7 (7.37%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Technical Coordinator
5 7 (7.37%) Technical Support
6 6 (6.32%) Tester
7 5 (5.26%) Administrator
7 5 (5.26%) DOORS Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Software Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Technical Design Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.58%) J2EE
1 11 (11.58%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.05%) HTML
3 1 (1.05%) JSON
3 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.11%) Life Science
2 2 (2.11%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.11%) PKI
2 2 (2.11%) PMI
2 2 (2.11%) Robotics
3 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.05%) NHS
3 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Windows
2 7 (7.37%) Unix
3 4 (4.21%) Linux
4 2 (2.11%) Debian
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (18.95%) ITIL
3 16 (16.84%) Agile
4 15 (15.79%) Service Delivery
5 14 (14.74%) DevOps
5 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (12.63%) Risk Management
6 12 (12.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.53%) Project Management
9 9 (9.47%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (9.47%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (9.47%) ERP
10 8 (8.42%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.37%) Budgeting
11 7 (7.37%) Systems Engineering
11 7 (7.37%) UML
11 7 (7.37%) Validation
11 7 (7.37%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) Python
2 11 (11.58%) C
2 11 (11.58%) C++
2 11 (11.58%) Java
3 4 (4.21%) SQL
4 3 (3.16%) C#
5 2 (2.11%) Bash
5 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.05%) VBA
6 1 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.05%) Degree
2 11 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.42%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (7.37%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.11%) PgMP
7 2 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.11%) VCAP
7 2 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.05%) CBAP
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.16%) PMO
2 3 (3.16%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) ITGC
3 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) Ansible
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) SAP
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.21%) OpenText
4 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.11%) VMware
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe
6 1 (1.05%) Ariba
6 1 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.05%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.05%) BT
6 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) UiPath