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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 86 109
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 93 133 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.65% 2.35% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.63% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 83 107
10th Percentile £205 £410 £325
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -12.38% +15.13%
75th Percentile £563 £534 £622
90th Percentile £625 £599 £665
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 5
10th Percentile - £28.57 £23.95
25th Percentile £13.05 - -
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 £20.37 £44.81 £51.25
England median hourly rate £22.00 £43.86 £38.59
% change year-on-year -49.84% +13.66% +48.42%

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 4,684 5,048 6,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.95% 89.05% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,709 3,470 4,714
10th Percentile £260 £250 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 221 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +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 2 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 2 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 -14 45 £470 +1.75% 46
Berkshire -32 24 £500 -4.76% 24
Buckinghamshire +20 16 £426 -7.35% 11
Hampshire +4 16 £245 -44.00% 17
Surrey +15 14 £525 +5.00% 11
Middlesex - 9 £625 - 1
Oxfordshire +4 5 £500 - 11
Kent +9 4 £481 - 31
East Sussex +6 2 £538 +13.16% 2
West Sussex -15 2 £401 -3.14% 2
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 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) SAP ERP
2 4 (4.30%) SAP IS-U
2 4 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (1.08%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.83%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (5.38%) Azure
4 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.15%) Datadog
5 2 (2.15%) NuGet
5 2 (2.15%) Veeva
6 1 (1.08%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.15%) DHCP
2 2 (2.15%) VSAN
3 1 (1.08%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.08%) GIS
2 1 (1.08%) OLAP
2 1 (1.08%) Power Query
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (22.58%) Finance
4 15 (16.13%) Marketing
5 13 (13.98%) Manufacturing
6 11 (11.83%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (9.68%) Billing
7 9 (9.68%) Retail
8 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.30%) Aviation
9 4 (4.30%) Banking
10 3 (3.23%) Electronics
10 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.15%) Legal
11 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.28%) Lead
2 15 (16.13%) Analyst
3 10 (10.75%) Senior
4 8 (8.60%) Coordinator
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Technical Coordinator
5 7 (7.53%) Technical Leader
5 7 (7.53%) Technical Support
6 6 (6.45%) Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Tester
7 5 (5.38%) DOORS Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Software Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) J2EE
1 9 (9.68%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.08%) HTML
3 1 (1.08%) JSON
3 1 (1.08%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.15%) Life Science
2 2 (2.15%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.15%) PKI
2 2 (2.15%) PMI
2 2 (2.15%) Robotics
3 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.75%) Windows
2 7 (7.53%) Unix
3 4 (4.30%) Linux
4 2 (2.15%) Debian
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (19.35%) Agile
2 18 (19.35%) ITIL
3 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (15.05%) Service Delivery
5 13 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (12.90%) DevOps
6 12 (12.90%) Project Management
6 12 (12.90%) Risk Management
6 12 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (10.75%) ERP
9 9 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (9.68%) Customer Requirements
10 8 (8.60%) Logistics
10 8 (8.60%) Test Strategy
10 8 (8.60%) Waterfall
11 7 (7.53%) Customer Engagement
11 7 (7.53%) Requirements Analysis
11 7 (7.53%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.75%) Python
2 9 (9.68%) C
2 9 (9.68%) C++
2 9 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (3.23%) SQL
4 2 (2.15%) Bash
4 2 (2.15%) C#
4 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.08%) ABAP
5 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.08%) VBA
5 1 (1.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.51%) Degree
2 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.60%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (7.53%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.15%) PgMP
7 2 (2.15%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.15%) VCAP
7 2 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.30%) PMO
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) ITGC
3 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.68%) Terraform
2 3 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (11.83%) SAP
2 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.30%) OpenText
4 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.15%) Adobe
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.15%) VMware
6 1 (1.08%) BT
6 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce