Business Process Improvement Contracts

Business Process Improvement (BPI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Process Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Process Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 634 762
Rank change year-on-year +69 +128 -72
Contract jobs citing Business Process Improvement 19 63 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 50 60
10th Percentile £511 £423 £363
25th Percentile £562 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £575
90th Percentile £715 £688 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £563 £478
% change year-on-year +6.67% +17.80% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.86 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -32.00% -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £64.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Process Improvement 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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +49 19 £600 - 17
London +63 15 £600 -7.69% 6
UK excluding London +5 4 £600 +6.67% 13
South West +1 4 £600 - 1
Work from Home +89 2 £667 +18.58% 9

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 (15.79%) govService
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
2 1 (5.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.26%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Local Government
2 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Back Office
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Business Analyst
3 7 (36.84%) Senior
4 6 (31.58%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (31.58%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Consultant
5 3 (15.79%) Head of Customer Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Head of Digital
6 2 (10.53%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) SAP Business Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Treasury Business Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Customer Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) Process Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) SAP Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.26%) SAP PI
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) FMCG
2 1 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Business Analysis
3 6 (31.58%) CRM
3 6 (31.58%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (26.32%) Change Management
4 5 (26.32%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) User Stories
5 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (15.79%) Business Case
6 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
6 3 (15.79%) Digital Customer Experience
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Identification
6 3 (15.79%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) CyberSource
2 1 (5.26%) Marketo
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Pardot
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow