BPMN Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BPMN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 353 400
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 +37
Contract jobs citing BPMN 31 18 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 16
10th Percentile £424 £401 £356
25th Percentile £450 £411 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +13.40%
75th Percentile £550 £546 £659
90th Percentile £560 £609 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.76
25th Percentile £30.00 - £51.43
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £34.00 - £75.31
90th Percentile - - £78.13
UK median hourly rate £32.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -17.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

BPMN 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 13,994 14,624 18,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.18% 83.41% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,400 8,272 12,490
10th Percentile £225 £240 £260
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,529 1,089 1,294
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +73.47%
75th Percentile £40.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%

BPMN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

BPMN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BPMN
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

BPMN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPMN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPMN in the UK excluding London

BPMN
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

BPMN
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 BPMN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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 +31 15 £550 +15.79% 3
North of England -23 9 £463 +2.78% 4
North West -11 7 £464 -2.42% 2
East of England +12 6 £475 -9.52% 1
Yorkshire -19 2 £463 +32.14%
South West - 2 £475 - 12
East Midlands -10 1 £420 - 3
Midlands -17 1 £420 -22.94% 6
BPMN
UK

BPMN
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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
2 6 (19.35%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MS Visio
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (12.90%) Lucidchart
3 3 (9.68%) Slack
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DWDM
1 1 (3.23%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.23%) Power BI
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Retail
4 6 (19.35%) Finance
5 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.23%) Automotive
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Analyst
2 17 (54.84%) Business Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Process Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Business Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Business Process Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) HR Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) HR Business Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.68%) React
1 3 (9.68%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) XML
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.68%) Smart Meter
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) FMCG
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Agile
2 11 (35.48%) Workshop Facilitation
3 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (29.03%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (25.81%) User Stories
5 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
5 7 (22.58%) Scrum
5 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (22.58%) Workflow
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) UML
6 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (16.13%) Business Analysis
7 5 (16.13%) Kanban
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
7 5 (16.13%) Process Management
7 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Dell
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Juniper
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.23%) Nokia
3 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.23%) Retek
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Veritas
3 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media