Business Transformation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 263 280
Rank change year-on-year -53 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 75 83 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.60% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.69% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 48 93
10th Percentile £405 £435 £400
25th Percentile £454 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +13.10% -
75th Percentile £624 £702 £638
90th Percentile £648 £750 £755
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £61.50 £25.90
25th Percentile £88.75 £68.44 £31.75
Median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% +110.71% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.42% +110.71% -

All Process & 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 15,291 12,110 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.17% 87.95% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,354 7,075 10,854
10th Percentile £222 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,670 680 1,286
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.16 £73.75 £76.77
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Business Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Transformation

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 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK excluding London

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Transformation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Transformation

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 12 January 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
South East -2 25 £600 +2.13% 33
North of England -44 19 £488 -24.27% 14
Midlands -56 16 £505 -8.18% 18
North West -25 11 £475 -13.64% 8
West Midlands -42 9 £550 -4.35% 15
East Midlands -21 7 £483 +20.63% 3
Scotland +6 5 £475 +5.56% 2
East of England -30 5 £600 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire -39 5 £613 -9.26% 4
North East -8 3 £450 -32.08% 3
South West -21 3 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 -
Business Transformation
UK

Business Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (16.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 12 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (4.00%) SAP ERP
5 2 (2.67%) Maximo
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (1.33%) NetSuite
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.33%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.33%) SAP CRM
6 1 (1.33%) SAP FI
6 1 (1.33%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.00%) Azure
2 6 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (8.00%) GCP
3 4 (5.33%) AWS
3 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.00%) SaaS
5 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.33%) PaaS
6 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.33%) Data Hub
2 1 (1.33%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.33%) Metadata
2 1 (1.33%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.33%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 41 (54.67%) Finance
2 34 (45.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.33%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Legal
7 3 (4.00%) Local Government
7 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Billing
9 1 (1.33%) Law
9 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Project Manager
2 13 (17.33%) Consultant
3 10 (13.33%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) Programme Manager
4 8 (10.67%) Senior Manager
5 7 (9.33%) Business Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) Functional Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Change Manager
6 6 (8.00%) Lead
6 6 (8.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Programme Director
8 3 (4.00%) Business Change Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Finance Project Manager
8 3 (4.00%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (1.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.33%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.67%) SCADA
2 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Mac OS
1 4 (5.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) ERP
2 21 (28.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 19 (25.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (24.00%) Change Management
4 18 (24.00%) Project Management
5 13 (17.33%) Migration
5 13 (17.33%) Roadmaps
6 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.33%) Data Migration
9 9 (12.00%) Project Delivery
10 8 (10.67%) Agile
10 8 (10.67%) Business Strategy
10 8 (10.67%) CRM
10 8 (10.67%) Data Protection
10 8 (10.67%) Inventory Management
10 8 (10.67%) PRINCE2
11 7 (9.33%) Requirements Analysis
12 6 (8.00%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.33%) Bash
1 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.67%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Cypher
3 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.33%) Scala
3 1 (1.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) PMI Certification
2 4 (5.33%) PMP
2 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) APMG
5 1 (1.33%) ACCA
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) CIMA
5 1 (1.33%) CISM
5 1 (1.33%) CISSP
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) GDPR
1 5 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.00%) PMO
3 1 (1.33%) ITGC
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (5.33%) SCCM
2 2 (2.67%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 19 (25.33%) Oracle
2 16 (21.33%) SAP
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.33%) Citrix
5 4 (5.33%) VMware
6 3 (4.00%) Sage
7 2 (2.67%) Ariba
7 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.33%) BT
8 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.33%) Concur
8 1 (1.33%) Epicor
8 1 (1.33%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (1.33%) Siemens
8 1 (1.33%) Workday