Digital Transformation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Transformation daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 337 378
Rank change year-on-year -43 +41 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Transformation 12 15 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile £407 £400 £410
25th Percentile £466 £497 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year +13.09% +3.56% +11.00%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £595
90th Percentile £706 £894 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £595
% change year-on-year - +0.84% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £27.60 £30.73 -
25th Percentile £31.33 £31.82 -
Median hourly rate £42.56 £33.64 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +26.50% -62.39% +179.50%
75th Percentile £58.78 £35.46 -
90th Percentile £65.51 £36.55 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.09 £73.47
% change year-on-year +82.78% -59.04% +129.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,483 13,723 18,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 92.39% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,121 8,182 11,804
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £371 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,659 774 1,222
10th Percentile £13.88 £15.26 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.24 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.45
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%

Digital Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Transformation' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Digital Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Transformation job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Transformation job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Digital Transformation job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Digital Transformation job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Digital Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Digital Transformation in the UK excluding London

Digital 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 Digital Transformation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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 -47 5 £650 +74.50% 3
South West -1 4 - - 2
Yorkshire -34 4 £650 -
Midlands -44 2 £425 -38.18%
Wales -2 1 - -
East Midlands -16 1 - -
West Midlands -26 1 £425 -48.48%
North West -29 1 £402 +7.92% 2
Digital Transformation
UK

Digital Transformation Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, Digital Transformation contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Digital Transformation in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (41.67%) Line Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 2 (16.67%) JAX-RS
5 2 (16.67%) Kafka
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Mockito
5 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) AI
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Azure
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Change Control
6 1 (8.33%) Change Management

Digital Transformation Skill Set
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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (16.67%) JAX-RS
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (41.67%) Line Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 1 (8.33%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Google Apps Script
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Google