Digital Transformation Programme Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation Programmes/Projects
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Transformation Programme skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Transformation Programme over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 246 209
Rank change year-on-year +32 -37 -7
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 157 131 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 0.72% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.86% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 96 141
10th Percentile £413 £375 £285
25th Percentile £449 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £610 £590
90th Percentile £725 £681 £613
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £28.26 - £35.91
25th Percentile £44.82 - £37.28
Median hourly rate £70.16 - £39.55
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £70.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £30.09 £39.55
% change year-on-year +79.46% -23.92% -16.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,697 15,217 19,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.29% 83.12% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 9,130 13,018
10th Percentile £240 £250 £261
25th Percentile £369 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,357 1,546 1,190
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.85 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.87 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%

Digital Transformation Programme
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation Programme
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation Programme
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation Programme
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation Programme
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation Programme
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 Digital Transformation Programme within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 of England -2 49 £500 - 68
South East +29 41 £600 -4.00% 49
Yorkshire +1 28 £500 -4.31% 22
Midlands -7 20 £468 +0.54% 28
West Midlands -6 15 £525 +16.67% 12
South West +34 12 £510 +13.33% 21
North East +12 12 £479 - 6
Scotland -33 10 £475 +4.11% 17
Wales +15 9 £463 - 10
North West -21 9 £525 +5.00% 41
East of England +15 6 £650 +40.54% 11
Northern Ireland - 6 £513 - 2
East Midlands -3 5 £363 -23.08% 15
Channel Islands - 4 £725 -
Digital Transformation Programme
UK

Digital Transformation Programme
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 5 (3.18%) Confluence
1 5 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.55%) Anypoint
2 4 (2.55%) Mule
3 1 (0.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.64%) nginx
3 1 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.91%) UserZoom
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.64%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (2.55%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.55%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.27%) Sage CRM
5 1 (0.64%) Magento
5 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.64%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.92%) Azure
2 12 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (7.01%) AWS
4 8 (5.10%) GCP
4 8 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.18%) GitHub
7 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.55%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.55%) SaaS
8 3 (1.91%) Datadog
8 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.91%) IaaS
8 3 (1.91%) Miro
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.27%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.27%) PaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.73%) Firewall
2 5 (3.18%) Network Security
3 3 (1.91%) VPN
3 3 (1.91%) WAN
4 2 (1.27%) BGP
4 2 (1.27%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.27%) OSPF
4 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.27%) SNMP
5 1 (0.64%) LAN
5 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.55%) Power BI
2 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.27%) Looker
3 2 (1.27%) Metadata
4 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.64%) Big Data
4 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.64%) GIS
4 1 (0.64%) MySQL
4 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.64%) Redis
4 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.01%) JIRA
2 8 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.55%) Git
4 3 (1.91%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.64%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.64%) JMeter
5 1 (0.64%) JUnit
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Mocha
5 1 (0.64%) Mockito
5 1 (0.64%) Postman
5 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.64%) TestNG
5 1 (0.64%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.29%) Finance
3 32 (20.38%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.73%) Banking
7 8 (5.10%) French Language
7 8 (5.10%) Local Government
8 7 (4.46%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.82%) Marketing
10 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.55%) Legal
11 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.91%) Retail
13 2 (1.27%) Law
13 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (17.83%) Architect
2 20 (12.74%) Project Manager
3 18 (11.46%) Developer
4 17 (10.83%) Analyst
5 15 (9.55%) Lead
6 11 (7.01%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.01%) Programme Manager
7 9 (5.73%) Consultant
8 8 (5.10%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (5.10%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (5.10%) Senior
9 6 (3.82%) Network Architect
9 6 (3.82%) Product Manager
10 5 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.55%) Cisco Architect
11 4 (2.55%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.55%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.55%) SAP MM Consultant
11 4 (2.55%) SAP SD Consultant
11 4 (2.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) SOAP
2 6 (3.82%) JSON
2 6 (3.82%) Middleware
2 6 (3.82%) RESTful
3 5 (3.18%) .NET
3 5 (3.18%) HTML
3 5 (3.18%) Node.js
3 5 (3.18%) OpenAPI
3 5 (3.18%) Swagger
3 5 (3.18%) XML
4 4 (2.55%) CSS
4 4 (2.55%) Kafka
4 4 (2.55%) Keycloak
4 4 (2.55%) RAML
5 3 (1.91%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.91%) REST
6 2 (1.27%) JMS
6 2 (1.27%) OAuth
6 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.37%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.82%) NHS
4 6 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.55%) Life Science
5 4 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) AIX
2 1 (0.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.58%) Agile
2 39 (24.84%) Migration
3 32 (20.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 32 (20.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (15.92%) Change Management
5 22 (14.01%) CI/CD
5 22 (14.01%) Roadmaps
6 19 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (11.46%) Decision-Making
7 18 (11.46%) DevOps
8 17 (10.83%) Project Management
9 15 (9.55%) Risk Management
10 14 (8.92%) Microservices
10 14 (8.92%) Project Delivery
11 13 (8.28%) Data Migration
11 13 (8.28%) Scrum
11 13 (8.28%) User Experience
12 12 (7.64%) ERP
13 11 (7.01%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.55%) SQL
2 9 (5.73%) Python
3 8 (5.10%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.18%) Java
5 4 (2.55%) Bash
5 4 (2.55%) DataWeave
6 3 (1.91%) C#
7 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.64%) COBOL
8 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) Scala
8 1 (0.64%) VB
8 1 (0.64%) VB6
Qualifications
1 35 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.28%) Degree
4 11 (7.01%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.27%) APMG
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CCNP
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) CSPO
6 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.64%) PMP
7 1 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) GDPR
2 8 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.46%) QA
4 6 (3.82%) PMO
5 5 (3.18%) NCSC
6 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.64%) NIST
8 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.73%) Terraform
2 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.82%) Ansible
4 4 (2.55%) Argo
4 4 (2.55%) Grafana
4 4 (2.55%) Istio
5 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.65%) SAP
3 11 (7.01%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.46%) Cisco
4 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.82%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.55%) Google
6 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.55%) VMware
7 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.91%) Oracle
7 3 (1.91%) Splunk
8 2 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) Sage
8 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.27%) Workday
9 1 (0.64%) Citrix
9 1 (0.64%) Dell
9 1 (0.64%) HP
9 1 (0.64%) JD Edwards
400 Digital Transformation Programme jobs Nationwide