Digital Transformation Contracts in the North of England

Digital Transformation
England > North of England

The median Digital Transformation daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 - 215
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Transformation 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% - 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% - 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £454
25th Percentile - - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.27%
75th Percentile - - £663
90th Percentile - - £685
England median daily rate £537 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.50% +6.67% +2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Digital Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Digital Transformation in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation in the North of England

Digital Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation in the North of England

Digital 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 Digital 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 - 2 £500 - 17
Digital Transformation
England

Digital Transformation Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Digital Transformation contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Digital Transformation in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation

Digital Transformation Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes