Business Transformation Contracts

Business Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Transformation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 415 409
Rank change year-on-year +86 -6 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 278 327 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.54% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 227 375
10th Percentile £410 £425 £408
25th Percentile £475 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £775 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -5.36% +12.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile £35.58 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Transformation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Transformation.

Daily rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Transformation.

Hourly rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
England +72 251 £550 -8.33% 112
UK excluding London +44 133 £530 -5.36% 54
London +81 117 £550 -21.43% 54
Work from Home +47 69 £550 -8.33% 33
North of England +46 45 £525 -12.50% 13
Midlands +45 35 £600 +8.11% 14
West Midlands +38 31 £600 +9.09% 9
East of England +32 31 £525 +5.00% 3
North West +40 28 £525 -12.50% 8
South West +21 21 £710 +20.85% 8
South East -23 15 £563 -2.17% 10
Yorkshire +10 13 £600 -4.00% 4
Scotland +44 7 £263 -44.74% 4
North East +24 3 £897 +70.85% 1
East Midlands +12 3 £530 -5.36% 5
Wales - 2 £775 - 2

Business Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.72%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (22.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.16%) SAP GTS
4 5 (1.80%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.08%) Primavera
5 3 (1.08%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.72%) Maximo
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.72%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.72%) Softmar
6 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.36%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.36%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.36%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.35%) Azure
2 13 (4.68%) AWS
3 11 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (3.96%) AWS Step Functions
3 11 (3.96%) Serverless
4 10 (3.60%) Amazon MSK
5 9 (3.24%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.16%) GCP
7 6 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.44%) PaaS
8 4 (1.44%) SaaS
9 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.08%) Yammer
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.72%) dbt
10 2 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.96%) LAN
1 11 (3.96%) WAN
2 8 (2.88%) DHCP
2 8 (2.88%) DNS
2 8 (2.88%) MPLS
2 8 (2.88%) SAN
2 8 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.72%) Firewall
3 2 (0.72%) Intranet
3 2 (0.72%) Network Security
3 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.72%) WLAN
4 1 (0.36%) 3G
4 1 (0.36%) 4G
4 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.36%) PBX
4 1 (0.36%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (3.60%) DynamoDB
2 10 (3.60%) Parquet
3 6 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.08%) Power BI
4 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.72%) Metadata
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.36%) Big Data
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.36%) Impala
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.36%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.36%) Sqoop
6 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.44%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 136 (48.92%) Social Skills
2 87 (31.29%) Finance
3 30 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 21 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.83%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.40%) Marketing
7 13 (4.68%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.96%) Aerospace
8 11 (3.96%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.52%) Retail
10 7 (2.52%) Social Housing
11 6 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.16%) Legal
12 5 (1.80%) Banking
12 5 (1.80%) French Language
12 5 (1.80%) German Language
12 5 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (14.75%) Analyst
1 41 (14.75%) Consultant
2 35 (12.59%) Architect
2 35 (12.59%) Lead
3 32 (11.51%) Project Manager
4 26 (9.35%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 25 (8.99%) Functional Consultant
6 23 (8.27%) Business Analyst
6 23 (8.27%) Senior
7 17 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (5.76%) Developer
9 14 (5.04%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.32%) Business Manager
11 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Developer
12 9 (3.24%) Business Transformation Manager
12 9 (3.24%) Communications Manager
12 9 (3.24%) Programme Manager
13 8 (2.88%) Internal Communications Manager
13 8 (2.88%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.04%) JSON
2 10 (3.60%) Apache Avro
3 6 (2.16%) HTML
4 4 (1.44%) .NET
4 4 (1.44%) CSS
4 4 (1.44%) Middleware
4 4 (1.44%) Web Services
4 4 (1.44%) XML
5 3 (1.08%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.72%) Flash
6 2 (0.72%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.72%) REST
6 2 (0.72%) SOAP
6 2 (0.72%) YAML
7 1 (0.36%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.36%) ADO
7 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.95%) Life Science
2 14 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.96%) FMCG
4 8 (2.88%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.88%) Clustering
4 8 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.80%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.80%) IoT
7 5 (1.80%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.08%) Social Media
9 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.72%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (0.72%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.24%) Windows
2 8 (2.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (19.78%) Agile
3 48 (17.27%) Project Management
4 37 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (12.95%) Change Management
6 29 (10.43%) ERP
7 28 (10.07%) Migration
7 28 (10.07%) Roadmaps
8 24 (8.63%) Business Analysis
8 24 (8.63%) Data Migration
9 23 (8.27%) Data Ingestion
9 23 (8.27%) IT Strategy
10 18 (6.47%) PRINCE2
10 18 (6.47%) Risk Management
10 18 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (6.47%) Workshop Facilitation
11 17 (6.12%) Business Strategy
11 17 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (6.12%) CRM
11 17 (6.12%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.12%) Python
1 17 (6.12%) SQL
2 10 (3.60%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.80%) C#
5 4 (1.44%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) Bicep
7 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (14.03%) Degree
2 27 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.08%) PMP
6 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.72%) CISM
6 2 (0.72%) CISSP
6 2 (0.72%) ISACA
6 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) MBA
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.60%) SLA
2 9 (3.24%) PMO
3 7 (2.52%) QA
4 6 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.72%) COBIT
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.72%) IASME
7 1 (0.36%) GAAP
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.88%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (2.88%) Nagios
1 8 (2.88%) NetBackup
1 8 (2.88%) SCCM
2 4 (1.44%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 79 (28.42%) SAP
2 34 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.79%) Ariba
4 9 (3.24%) Oracle
5 8 (2.88%) Hitachi
5 8 (2.88%) NetApp
5 8 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.88%) VMware
6 6 (2.16%) Google
6 6 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.08%) Workday
8 2 (0.72%) IBM
8 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.72%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.72%) Sparx
9 1 (0.36%) Dell
9 1 (0.36%) HP
9 1 (0.36%) NEC
9 1 (0.36%) Sage
9 1 (0.36%) Wrike