Business Process Improvement Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Process Improvement (BPI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Process Improvement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 556 522
Rank change year-on-year +43 -34 +197
Permanent jobs citing Business Process Improvement 6 14 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.038% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.043% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 23
10th Percentile £44,500 £48,050 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £71,409
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -26.48% +19.02%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £71,000 £66,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £71,409
% change year-on-year +4.00% -12.48% +20.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Process Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,358 32,735 28,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.41% 88.29% 90.60%
Number of salaries quoted 19,061 14,979 20,952
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Business Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Process Improvement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Business Process Improvement job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Business Process Improvement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Process Improvement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Process Improvement

Business Process Improvement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Process Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Process Improvement in the UK excluding London

Business Process Improvement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Process Improvement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 -
Midlands - 3 £55,000 -
South East - 2 £52,500 - 4
North West +35 1 £70,000 +7.69%
North of England +15 1 £70,000 +33.33%
Business Process Improvement
UK

Business Process Improvement
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) EDI
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Ideation Sessions
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HubSpot
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle