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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 99 145
Rank change year-on-year -19 +46 -49
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 90 125 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 2.11% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.36% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 84 81
10th Percentile £205 £333 £350
25th Percentile £400 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £600
90th Percentile £563 £669 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +17.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile - £26.70 £35.38
25th Percentile £13.05 £27.64 £39.69
Median hourly rate £15.85 £30.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.57% -36.36% +72.73%
75th Percentile - £31.79 £55.94
90th Percentile £21.50 £32.09 £60.63
England median hourly rate £25.00 £44.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -43.18% -2.22% +87.50%

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 4,789 5,300 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.41% 89.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,670 4,753
10th Percentile £231 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £617 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 217 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.23 £16.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.47 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £73.10 £62.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 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 19 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 -24 39 £465 -8.15% 38
Berkshire -33 20 £488 -13.33% 22
Hampshire +20 17 £210 -53.33% 16
Surrey +6 16 £525 +14.13% 18
Buckinghamshire +20 15 £431 -6.26% 7
West Sussex -5 11 £412 -0.48% 7
Oxfordshire +7 4 £494 -38.28% 10
Kent +5 4 £481 - 13
East Sussex +8 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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (2.22%) Sketch
5 1 (1.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (6.67%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.11%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (3.33%) AWS
2 3 (3.33%) Azure
2 3 (3.33%) Datadog
3 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.22%) Figma
3 2 (2.22%) NuGet
3 2 (2.22%) Veeva
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle CX
4 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.11%) SaaS
4 1 (1.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) DHCP
2 2 (2.22%) VSAN
3 1 (1.11%) 5G
3 1 (1.11%) MPLS
3 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.11%) GIS
1 1 (1.11%) Power BI
1 1 (1.11%) Power Query
1 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Finance
3 14 (15.56%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Marketing
5 12 (13.33%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.00%) Retail
7 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
8 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.33%) Electronics
10 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.33%) Legal
11 2 (2.22%) Billing
11 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.11%) Aviation
12 1 (1.11%) Banking
12 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (15.56%) Analyst
2 11 (12.22%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) ABAP Developer
3 10 (11.11%) Developer
3 10 (11.11%) SAP Developer
4 9 (10.00%) Coordinator
4 9 (10.00%) Lead
5 8 (8.89%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Technical Coordinator
6 7 (7.78%) Technical Support
7 6 (6.67%) DOORS Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Software Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Tester
8 5 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) Web Dynpro
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
3 1 (1.11%) HTML
3 1 (1.11%) JSON
3 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.22%) Graphic Design
2 2 (2.22%) Life Science
2 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.22%) PKI
2 2 (2.22%) PMI
2 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.22%) Robotics
3 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.11%) EMV
3 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Unix
3 5 (5.56%) Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.11%) Agile
3 20 (22.22%) ITIL
4 18 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (16.67%) Project Management
5 15 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (15.56%) Service Delivery
7 13 (14.44%) Risk Management
8 12 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (12.22%) ERP
9 11 (12.22%) Migration
10 10 (11.11%) Budgeting
10 10 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
10 10 (11.11%) Data Migration
10 10 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (11.11%) Validation
11 8 (8.89%) Systems Engineering
11 8 (8.89%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) ABAP
2 3 (3.33%) Bash
2 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.22%) C#
3 2 (2.22%) SQL
4 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.11%) Python
4 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (26.67%) Degree
2 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (8.89%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.22%) PgMP
8 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.22%) VCAP
8 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) PCI DSS
1 8 (8.89%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) PMO
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.11%) ITGC
3 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Ansible
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) SAP
2 13 (14.44%) Adobe
3 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) BT
6 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.11%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Workday