Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in South London

Process Improvement
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 12 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.82% 0.52% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 0.60% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £570 - -
25th Percentile £581 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.61%
75th Percentile £600 - £537
90th Percentile - - £694
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.25
25th Percentile - - £38.11
Median hourly rate - - £52.02
75th Percentile - - £66.95
90th Percentile - - £70.28
London median hourly rate £36.48 £31.31 £31.50
% change year-on-year +16.51% -0.60% -31.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 168 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.64% 87.96% 83.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 113 198
10th Percentile £213 £286 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £567 £600
90th Percentile £719 £768 £678
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 16
10th Percentile - - £14.44
25th Percentile - £17.25 £22.41
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.91% +19.20%
75th Percentile £16.38 £71.88 £55.20
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -8.57% -12.31% +6.44%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in South London

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Process Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 September 2025. 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
Croydon - 5 £581 -
Bromley -6 4 £600 - 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 - -
Process Improvement
London

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Route 53
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
1 5 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (16.67%) DMZ
3 2 (16.67%) DWDM
3 2 (16.67%) Internet
3 2 (16.67%) IPsec
3 2 (16.67%) L2TP
3 2 (16.67%) MPLS
3 2 (16.67%) Multicast
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) OSPF
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Games
4 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Radio Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) RF Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) RF Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Support Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Support Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Change Management
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) People Management
4 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) Product Management
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) DFS Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Dovecot
2 1 (8.33%) Postfix
2 1 (8.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Arista
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (16.67%) McAfee
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Agilent
3 1 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (8.33%) Keysight
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow