Business Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in the South West

Business Process Improvement (BPI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Business Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 113 147
Rank change year-on-year -30 +34 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Process Improvement 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.26% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £623 £591
25th Percentile £325 £638 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £375 £709 £618
90th Percentile - £722 £627
England median daily rate £400 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -23.08% -13.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,656 1,511 2,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.77% 90.70% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,443 938 1,676
10th Percentile £325 £224 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 154 342
10th Percentile £16.56 £18.13 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.60 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.84 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -2.12% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.07 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

Business Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Business Process Improvement job vacancy trend in the South West

Business Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Business Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Business Process Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Wiltshire - 1 £350 - 2
Business Process Improvement
England

Business Process Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Production Planning
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL