Business Process Improvement Contracts

Business Process Improvement (BPI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Process Improvement over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 634 777
Rank change year-on-year +73 +143 -113
Contract jobs citing Business Process Improvement 18 60 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.10% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 47 61
10th Percentile £511 £430 £363
25th Percentile £562 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £575
90th Percentile £715 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £580 £478
% change year-on-year +3.45% +21.47% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% - -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Process Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Business Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Process Improvement in the UK

Business Process Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Process Improvement.

Daily rate trend for Business Process Improvement in the UK

Business Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Process Improvement over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Process Improvement in the UK

Business Process Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Process Improvement.

Hourly rate trend for Business Process Improvement in the UK

Business Process Improvement
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Process Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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 +75 18 £600 - 24
London +79 14 £600 -7.69% 8
UK excluding London +33 4 £600 +3.45% 16
South West +8 4 £600 - 4
Work from Home +90 2 £667 +16.00% 16

Business Process Improvement
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 3 (16.67%) govService
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) SAP PP
2 1 (5.56%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Analyst
1 9 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Senior
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Head of Customer Experience
4 3 (16.67%) Head of Digital
5 2 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) SAP Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Treasury Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Business Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) SAP QM Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.56%) SAP PI
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) CRM
4 5 (27.78%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (27.78%) User Stories
5 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 4 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Matrix Management
6 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 3 (16.67%) Service Design
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
6 3 (16.67%) Use Case
6 3 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) CyberSource
2 1 (5.56%) Marketo
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Pardot
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow