BPEL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BPEL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 338 387
Rank change year-on-year -52 +49 +58
Contract jobs citing BPEL 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.014% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.016% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £624 -
25th Percentile £363 £633 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £656 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -
75th Percentile £388 £670 -
90th Percentile - £673 -
UK median daily rate £385 £560 -
% change year-on-year -31.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

BPEL 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,350 12,206 16,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.21% 87.88% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,394 7,131 10,850
10th Percentile £221 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,673 686 1,285
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -30.74% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £73.75 £76.81
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

BPEL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BPEL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

BPEL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BPEL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BPEL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BPEL

BPEL
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BPEL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BPEL

BPEL
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 BPEL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Wales - 5 £375 -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
BPEL
UK

BPEL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (83.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Consultant
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) SOA Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) BPM Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) IT Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Middleware Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) OAuth
1 6 (100.00%) OAuth2
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (83.33%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) SOAP
2 5 (83.33%) Swagger
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) XSD
3 2 (33.33%) Middleware
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (16.67%) OpenID
4 1 (16.67%) SAML
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) SOA
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
2 5 (83.33%) API Management
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Thought Leadership
2 5 (83.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft