Business Transformation Contracts in the North of England

Business Transformation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Business Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Transformation 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 143 156 183
Rank change year-on-year +13 +27 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 23 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.71% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 27
10th Percentile £354 £477 £398
25th Percentile £472 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £644
90th Percentile £698 £955 £710
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - -
75th Percentile £64.69 - -
90th Percentile £67.88 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -42.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Business Transformation 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 in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Business Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Transformation in the North of England

Business Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Transformation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Transformation in the North of England

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Transformation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the North of England

Business Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Transformation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Transformation in the North of England

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the North of England

Business Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Transformation within the North of England region 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
North West +17 12 £525 - 50
North East +4 7 £575 -35.89% 7
Yorkshire -1 4 £370 -38.33% 33
Business Transformation
England

Business Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.35%) SAP MM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP PP
2 1 (4.35%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
1 1 (4.35%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 3 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.35%) Billing
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Local Government
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Project Manager
2 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Business IT Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) IT Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) IT Business Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.70%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.70%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Matplotlib
1 1 (4.35%) Pandas
1 1 (4.35%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (4.35%) SAPUI5
1 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (43.48%) Change Management
3 9 (39.13%) Project Management
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
5 6 (26.09%) PRINCE2
5 6 (26.09%) User Stories
6 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (21.74%) Programme Management
6 5 (21.74%) Project Planning
7 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
7 4 (17.39%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
7 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.04%) Demand Forecasting
8 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Quality Management
8 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (13.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) ABAP
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) PMP
2 3 (13.04%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CBAP
4 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Ariba
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam