Business Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in the South East

Business Process Improvement (BPI)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Business Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 158 195
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 +34
Contract jobs citing Business Process Improvement 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% 0.18% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.20% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile - - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Business 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,660 2,963 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.01% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,403 1,830 2,833
10th Percentile £230 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.35% +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 112 259
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.37 £17.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £54.38 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Business Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Process Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Business Process Improvement job vacancy trend in the South East

Business Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Process Improvement

Business Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Process Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Process Improvement

Business 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 Business Process Improvement within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Berkshire -4 1 - - 1
Thames Valley -10 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £300 -
Business Process Improvement
England

Business Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Propensity Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) SAP