Business Transformation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Business Transformation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Business Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 5 18 26
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.88% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £558 £480 £406
25th Percentile £569 £525 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £638
90th Percentile £663 £730 £782
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £29.88
25th Percentile £88.75 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £92.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +230.36% -41.05% -
75th Percentile £96.25 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £36.94 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -20.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,875 2,047 2,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.50% 84.52% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 1,230 1,877
10th Percentile £220 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 153 288
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.52 £19.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.24% +27.14%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Transformation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Business Transformation job vacancy trend in the South West

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Transformation

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Transformation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Transformation

Business Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Gloucestershire -11 2 £650 - 5
Somerset - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £550 - 1
Dorset - 1 - - 1
Business Transformation
England

Business Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (20.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) CRM Manager
2 1 (20.00%) CRM Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Graph Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Post-Merger Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Cypher
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Scala
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft