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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 517 554
Rank change year-on-year +44 +37 +84
Contract jobs citing BPMN 78 56 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 37 49
10th Percentile £363 £363 £430
25th Percentile £409 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £710 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.76
25th Percentile £30.00 - £51.43
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £72.10
75th Percentile £34.00 - £80.50
90th Percentile - - £81.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 - £72.10
% change year-on-year - - -4.50%

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 29,873 33,197 46,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.47% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,595 21,230 31,887
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,718 1,827 1,499
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.35 £18.60
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.92 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

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 15 August 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 13 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 15 August 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 +49 70 £475 -17.39% 65
London +30 36 £488 -18.75% 28
UK excluding London +3 34 £475 -5.00% 42
Work from Home +21 22 £450 -26.23% 31
South East +38 14 £550 +15.79% 7
North of England -17 14 £427 -14.60% 15
North West -8 8 £427 -14.60% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 6
East of England - 3 £475 - 1
South West +32 1 £475 -34.48% 8
East Midlands -3 1 £420 +12.00% 2
Scotland -8 1 £525 +16.67% 1
Midlands -15 1 £420 -4.00% 5

BPMN
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 17 (21.79%) Confluence
2 9 (11.54%) Camunda
3 2 (2.56%) CMS
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) Smallworld
Applications
1 22 (28.21%) MS Visio
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.10%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) AWS
3 9 (11.54%) Lucidchart
3 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.97%) Miro
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) IBM Blueworks
7 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.56%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Slack
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.28%) GCP
8 1 (1.28%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) DHCP
1 2 (2.56%) DNS
1 2 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.28%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Power BI
2 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Tableau
3 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.28%) DTS
5 1 (1.28%) GIS
5 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 24 (30.77%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 38 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.49%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Finance
4 10 (12.82%) Banking
5 8 (10.26%) Retail
6 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Back Office
10 1 (1.28%) Automotive
10 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.28%) Front Office
10 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Publishing
10 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (69.23%) Analyst
2 50 (64.10%) Business Analyst
3 12 (15.38%) Architect
4 6 (7.69%) Business Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Consultant
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Business Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Telecoms Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Telecoms Business Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Process Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.85%) Business Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Business Process Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Business Process Architect
7 3 (3.85%) Project Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Business Manager
8 2 (2.56%) Business Process Consultant
8 2 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) React
2 4 (5.13%) REST
2 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.13%) XML
3 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.85%) Spring
4 2 (2.56%) .NET
4 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.56%) JPA
4 2 (2.56%) Kafka
4 2 (2.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.28%) CSS
5 1 (1.28%) Drools
5 1 (1.28%) jBPM
5 1 (1.28%) LDAP
5 1 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.28%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Spring WebFlux
5 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.56%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.56%) PKI
5 2 (2.56%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.28%) PMI
6 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
1 2 (2.56%) Windows
1 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.72%) Agile
2 24 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 24 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
3 22 (28.21%) User Stories
4 21 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (26.92%) Scrum
4 21 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (26.92%) Workshop Facilitation
5 17 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (20.51%) UML
7 14 (17.95%) Kanban
7 14 (17.95%) Roadmaps
7 14 (17.95%) Workflow
8 13 (16.67%) Business Process Modelling
8 13 (16.67%) Process Improvement
8 13 (16.67%) Use Case
9 12 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (12.82%) Migration
10 10 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.82%) SQL
2 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.69%) Python
4 5 (6.41%) Java
5 2 (2.56%) C#
5 2 (2.56%) VB
6 1 (1.28%) Korn
6 1 (1.28%) Magik
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) CBAP
2 3 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.56%) IIBA
3 2 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) CSPO
4 1 (1.28%) ISEB
4 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.28%) VCAP
4 1 (1.28%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) GRC
2 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.28%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.28%) EMIR
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) MiFID
4 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.56%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (2.56%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) Oracle
3 6 (7.69%) SAP
4 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.85%) Dell
5 3 (3.85%) VMware
6 2 (2.56%) Cisco
6 2 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
6 2 (2.56%) Veritas
7 1 (1.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.28%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.28%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.28%) FNZ
7 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.28%) Sparx
7 1 (1.28%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.28%) Workday