Digital Transformation Programme Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Digital Transformation Programmes/Projects
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Digital Transformation Programme skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.90% 2.76% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 3.09% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £200
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +156.25% -
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Digital Transformation Programme 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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 194 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.23% 89.40% 72.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 98 54
10th Percentile £243 £259 £146
25th Percentile £363 £325 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £394
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +19.37% -4.55%
75th Percentile £640 £575 £547
90th Percentile £694 £621 £621
UK median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 20
10th Percentile - £12.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £14.78
Median hourly rate £29.13 £17.30 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year +68.35% -26.66% +69.59%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £26.10
90th Percentile £44.50 - £40.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

Digital Transformation Programme
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Transformation Programme relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Digital Transformation Programme job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Digital Transformation Programme
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Digital Transformation Programme.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Digital Transformation Programme

Digital Transformation Programme
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim +4 2 £550 +7.32% 9
Digital Transformation Programme
UK

Digital Transformation Programme
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISMS
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft