Business Transformation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 282 302
Rank change year-on-year +54 +20 +36
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 107 121 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.59% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.69% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 75 116
10th Percentile £365 £456 £394
25th Percentile £472 £495 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £700 £659 £650
90th Percentile £717 £788 £719
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 2
10th Percentile £50.00 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £59.63 £35.58 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -42.86% -
75th Percentile £74.38 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -42.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Transformation in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +50 26 £605 +20.88% 72
North of England +11 23 £538 +2.38% 31
East of England +40 19 £700 +30.23% 3
Midlands -6 18 £550 -6.38% 31
South West +35 16 £500 -29.58% 13
North West +15 12 £525 - 20
West Midlands -8 9 £575 -4.17% 17
East Midlands +15 7 £500 -5.66% 11
North East +3 7 £575 -35.89% 3
Yorkshire +2 4 £370 -38.33% 9
Scotland +9 3 £370 +40.95% 11
Wales +7 2 £385 -50.32% 3
Business Transformation
UK

Business Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (6.54%) SAS
2 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (23.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (3.74%) SAP ERP
2 4 (3.74%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.80%) SAP GRC
3 3 (2.80%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.87%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.93%) Maximo
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.93%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.93%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.93%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.54%) Adobe Analytics
2 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.87%) Azure
5 2 (1.87%) SaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.93%) OCI
6 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.80%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.93%) OLAP
4 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) JIRA
General
1 66 (61.68%) Social Skills
2 42 (39.25%) Finance
3 18 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Banking
5 10 (9.35%) Marketing
6 8 (7.48%) Manufacturing
7 7 (6.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (5.61%) Automotive
8 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.74%) Legal
10 4 (3.74%) Retail
11 3 (2.80%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.80%) Back Office
11 3 (2.80%) Local Government
11 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.87%) Billing
12 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.93%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (19.63%) Consultant
2 16 (14.95%) Analyst
2 16 (14.95%) Project Manager
3 14 (13.08%) Business Analyst
3 14 (13.08%) SAP Consultant
4 12 (11.21%) Senior
5 11 (10.28%) Functional Consultant
5 11 (10.28%) Lead
6 10 (9.35%) Architect
7 9 (8.41%) Programme Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Analytics Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Data Analytics Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Data Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Insight Manager
8 7 (6.54%) SAP Security Consultant
8 7 (6.54%) Security Consultant
8 7 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.54%) Strategy Manager
9 6 (5.61%) Network Architect
9 6 (5.61%) Network Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.93%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.93%) Pandas
2 1 (0.93%) SAPUI5
2 1 (0.93%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Life Science
2 5 (4.67%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (4.67%) IoT
2 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.93%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.93%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (24.30%) Agile
3 18 (16.82%) ERP
3 18 (16.82%) Project Management
4 16 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (14.02%) Analytics
5 15 (14.02%) Change Management
6 14 (13.08%) Migration
7 13 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.35%) ETL
8 10 (9.35%) Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (9.35%) Record to Report
9 9 (8.41%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (8.41%) Decision-Making
9 9 (8.41%) Digital Strategy
9 9 (8.41%) Visualisation
10 8 (7.48%) CRM
10 8 (7.48%) PRINCE2
10 8 (7.48%) Risk Management
11 7 (6.54%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.35%) SQL
2 7 (6.54%) R
3 2 (1.87%) ABAP
4 1 (0.93%) C#
4 1 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.35%) Degree
4 8 (7.48%) PMP
5 7 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.67%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.87%) IIBA
9 1 (0.93%) CBAP
9 1 (0.93%) CCNP
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CISSP
9 1 (0.93%) MCSA
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) PMO
1 8 (7.48%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) GRC
3 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
Vendors
1 41 (38.32%) SAP
2 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.54%) Adobe
3 7 (6.54%) Salesforce
3 7 (6.54%) Teradata
4 4 (3.74%) Ariba
4 4 (3.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Cognos
5 1 (0.93%) Veeam