BPMN Contracts

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring BPMN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BPMN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 484 597
Rank change year-on-year +35 +113 +19
Contract jobs citing BPMN 71 98 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 68 75
10th Percentile £375 £338 £418
25th Percentile £413 £467 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £703 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.42
Median hourly rate - - £76.71
75th Percentile - - £81.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.71
% change year-on-year - - +1.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

BPMN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BPMN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BPMN in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BPMN.

Daily rate trend for BPMN in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPMN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPMN in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BPMN.

Hourly rate trend for BPMN in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +37 65 £550 - 42
London +46 41 £550 +4.76% 21
UK excluding London +35 27 £475 -13.64% 24
Work from Home +17 17 £550 -9.84% 22
South East +54 12 £590 +12.38% 10
North of England +16 6 £400 -34.43% 8
Yorkshire +12 5 £400 -37.01% 3
Midlands +15 4 - - 4
West Midlands +14 4 - - 1
Scotland +13 4 £475 - 1
East of England +23 1 £375 -28.40% 1
North West +10 1 £358 -35.50% 5

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (39.44%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Camunda
2 3 (4.23%) SAS
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) Appian
4 1 (1.41%) CMS
4 1 (1.41%) Smallworld
Applications
1 29 (40.85%) MS Visio
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.41%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.27%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) Azure
4 5 (7.04%) Lucidchart
5 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.23%) Collibra
6 3 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.82%) Slack
8 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.41%) Miro
8 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Network Security
2 3 (4.23%) HTTP
3 2 (2.82%) DHCP
3 2 (2.82%) DNS
3 2 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) GPON
4 1 (1.41%) Intranet
4 1 (1.41%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Power BI
2 7 (9.86%) Tableau
3 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.63%) Metadata
5 3 (4.23%) Data Mining
5 3 (4.23%) QlikView
6 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.41%) GIS
7 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (38.03%) JIRA
2 7 (9.86%) ERwin
2 7 (9.86%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.82%) Git
4 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 27 (38.03%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (25.35%) Finance
4 11 (15.49%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Legal
8 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.82%) Back Office
9 2 (2.82%) Front Office
10 1 (1.41%) Automotive
10 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.41%) French Language
10 1 (1.41%) German Language
10 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.41%) Local Government
10 1 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (1.41%) Military
10 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (66.20%) Analyst
2 42 (59.15%) Business Analyst
3 12 (16.90%) Architect
4 6 (8.45%) Data Modeller
5 5 (7.04%) Banking Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Financial Business Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Process Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Senior
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 2 (2.82%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) REST
1 4 (5.63%) SOAP
2 3 (4.23%) EDI
2 3 (4.23%) IDoc
2 3 (4.23%) J2EE
2 3 (4.23%) JDBC
2 3 (4.23%) XML
2 3 (4.23%) XSLT
3 2 (2.82%) .NET
3 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.82%) LDAP
3 2 (2.82%) React
3 2 (2.82%) RESTful
3 2 (2.82%) Spring
3 2 (2.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.41%) HTML
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (9.86%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.82%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) PMI
6 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
1 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Agile
2 30 (42.25%) Business Analysis
3 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (32.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (28.17%) Requirements Gathering
5 18 (25.35%) User Stories
6 15 (21.13%) UML
6 15 (21.13%) Workshop Facilitation
7 14 (19.72%) Data Modelling
7 14 (19.72%) Waterfall
8 13 (18.31%) Analytics
9 12 (16.90%) Data Management
10 11 (15.49%) Scrum
10 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (15.49%) Use Case
11 10 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (14.08%) Business Process Modelling
12 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis
12 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
12 9 (12.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) Java
3 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.23%) ABAP
4 3 (4.23%) Groovy
5 2 (2.82%) C#
5 2 (2.82%) VB
6 1 (1.41%) COBOL
6 1 (1.41%) Magik
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) CBAP
3 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) CISA
4 4 (5.63%) CISSP
4 4 (5.63%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) IIBA
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) CSPO
7 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (1.41%) VCAP
7 1 (1.41%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) GDPR
2 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.63%) NIST
2 4 (5.63%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.82%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (2.82%) EMIR
4 2 (2.82%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (2.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (2.82%) MiFID
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.82%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.27%) Sparx
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle
4 4 (5.63%) IBM
4 4 (5.63%) SAP
5 3 (4.23%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.23%) Dell
5 3 (4.23%) Informatica
5 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.23%) VMware
6 2 (2.82%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco
6 2 (2.82%) Databricks
6 2 (2.82%) NEC
6 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.82%) Veritas
7 1 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.41%) FNZ