BPEL Contract Job Trends

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 576 508 589
Rank change year-on-year -68 +81 +138
Contract jobs citing BPEL 12 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.025% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.028% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £478 -
25th Percentile £363 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £560 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% - -
75th Percentile £466 £656 -
90th Percentile £577 £668 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £656 -
% change year-on-year -42.86% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,966 28,176 37,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.65% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,158 17,120 25,014
10th Percentile £304 £306 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,974 895 1,590
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.59 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £43.90
% change year-on-year -21.64% -30.74% +59.64%

BPEL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BPEL job vacancy trend in the UK

BPEL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

BPEL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPEL over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BPEL in the UK

BPEL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

BPEL
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 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
UK excluding London -52 6 £375 -42.86% 1
Work from Home -8 5 £385 -21.03%
England -45 5 £510 -14.82% 1
Wales - 5 £375 -
London -7 4 £510 -8.93% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

BPEL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (83.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 6 (50.00%) WebLogic
3 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) IaaS
1 4 (33.33%) PaaS
1 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) IPsec
1 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
4 2 (16.67%) Japanese Language
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) French Language
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Consultant
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (41.67%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) SOA Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) BPM Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) IT Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Business Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) XML
2 7 (58.33%) OAuth
2 7 (58.33%) OAuth2
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (50.00%) JSON
3 6 (50.00%) Middleware
3 6 (50.00%) OpenAPI
3 6 (50.00%) REST
3 6 (50.00%) SOAP
3 6 (50.00%) Swagger
3 6 (50.00%) XSD
4 3 (25.00%) XML Messaging
5 2 (16.67%) Web Services
6 1 (8.33%) EDI
6 1 (8.33%) OpenID
6 1 (8.33%) SAML
6 1 (8.33%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) SOA
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 8 (66.67%) SDLC
4 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 7 (58.33%) Validation
5 6 (50.00%) API Design
5 6 (50.00%) API Management
5 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (33.33%) ERP
7 3 (25.00%) Attestation
7 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 3 (25.00%) ETL
7 3 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
8 2 (16.67%) Accounts Receivable
8 2 (16.67%) Analytics
8 2 (16.67%) Internal Audit
8 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Basel III
1 2 (16.67%) GAAP
1 2 (16.67%) IFRS
1 2 (16.67%) IFRS 17
1 2 (16.67%) IFRS 9
1 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Control-M
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Identity Management
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Informatica
2 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (25.00%) Workday
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow