BPCS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SSA BPCS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BPCS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BPCS over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 - 436
Rank change year-on-year - - +86
Contract jobs citing BPCS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.009%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.11% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £172
25th Percentile - - £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £206
75th Percentile - - £239
90th Percentile - - £246
UK median daily rate - - £225
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.31 - £50.00

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

BPCS falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 912 1,173 1,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.02% 5.63% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 727 910
10th Percentile £362 £304 £336
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.10% +2.14%
75th Percentile £634 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £722
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 98 36
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.71 £32.08
25th Percentile £46.48 £21.63 £48.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.16 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.39% -23.50% +123.17%
75th Percentile £82.50 £56.49 £66.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £61.60 £76.88
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £40.16 £49.00
% change year-on-year +49.39% -18.04% +40.00%

BPCS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BPCS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BPCS in the UK excluding London

BPCS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPCS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BPCS in the UK excluding London

BPCS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPCS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BPCS in the UK excluding London

BPCS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BPCS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East - 1 - - 18
BPCS
UK

BPCS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ariba
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PeopleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP