Business Transformation Contract Job Trends

Business Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Business Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 377 399
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 169 184 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.59% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 99 167
10th Percentile £425 £450 £417
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £689 £703 £669
90th Percentile £775 £782 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £13.00 - £23.65
25th Percentile £18.22 - £29.88
Median hourly rate £36.94 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £53.70 - £70.00
90th Percentile £77.26 £30.57 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.94 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -20.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,170 31,428 41,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.15% 86.05% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,492 18,903 27,760
10th Percentile £294 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,014 1,111 1,579
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.00 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.50% -21.35% +51.85%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Business Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Top 16 Contract Job 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 5 November 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
England -14 157 £575 -6.12% 345
London +3 82 £600 -3.03% 145
UK excluding London -35 76 £523 -5.00% 260
Work from Home -30 55 £581 -3.17% 181
South East +16 28 £600 -5.96% 148
Midlands -22 17 £500 -9.09% 34
North of England -43 14 £475 -13.64% 41
North West -26 10 £463 -9.54% 22
West Midlands -21 9 £500 -9.09% 22
East Midlands -11 8 £475 +46.15% 12
East of England -17 7 £350 -46.15% 11
South West -4 5 £600 -4.00% 18
Scotland 0 4 - - 6
Yorkshire -31 3 £498 -26.30% 11
North East - 1 £500 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £475 - 2

Business Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (4.14%) Confluence
2 5 (2.96%) nginx
3 3 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.92%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (4.73%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (4.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (2.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.18%) SAP ERP
6 2 (1.18%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.59%) Bankmaster
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.59%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.59%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.06%) AWS
2 10 (5.92%) Azure
3 9 (5.33%) GCP
4 7 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.55%) SaaS
5 6 (3.55%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (2.37%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.78%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.78%) OCI
7 3 (1.78%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.18%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.18%) PaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.78%) Metadata
2 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.18%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.18%) Power BI
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.59%) Big Data
3 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.59%) GIS
3 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.59%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.59%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.59%) Tableau
3 1 (0.59%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 10 (5.92%) JIRA
2 5 (2.96%) Git
3 3 (1.78%) JMeter
3 3 (1.78%) Locust
3 3 (1.78%) Selenium
General
1 72 (42.60%) Finance
2 69 (40.83%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.47%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.92%) Banking
6 10 (5.92%) Marketing
7 9 (5.33%) Retail
8 7 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.14%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.96%) Legal
10 4 (2.37%) Local Government
10 4 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.78%) Back Office
12 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.18%) Billing
12 2 (1.18%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 27 (15.98%) Analyst
2 26 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 20 (11.83%) Business Analyst
4 18 (10.65%) Consultant
5 17 (10.06%) Lead
6 16 (9.47%) Senior
7 13 (7.69%) Senior Manager
8 11 (6.51%) Report Manager
9 10 (5.92%) Architect
9 10 (5.92%) Programme Manager
10 9 (5.33%) Change Manager
10 9 (5.33%) Senior Project Manager
11 7 (4.14%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.14%) Programme Director
12 5 (2.96%) Scrum Master
13 4 (2.37%) Chief Architect
13 4 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.37%) Developer
13 4 (2.37%) SAP Consultant
13 4 (2.37%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.78%) LangChain
2 3 (1.78%) pytest
3 2 (1.18%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.18%) Playwright
3 2 (1.18%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.59%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.59%) MACH
4 1 (0.59%) RESTful
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.78%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.78%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.18%) Life Science
5 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.18%) PMI
5 2 (1.18%) SCADA
5 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.55%) Windows
2 5 (2.96%) Linux
3 4 (2.37%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (26.63%) Agile
3 36 (21.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 32 (18.93%) Roadmaps
5 29 (17.16%) Change Management
6 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (14.20%) ERP
8 23 (13.61%) Migration
8 23 (13.61%) Project Management
9 20 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.24%) PRINCE2
10 19 (11.24%) Waterfall
11 18 (10.65%) Project Delivery
12 17 (10.06%) Business Strategy
12 17 (10.06%) CRM
13 13 (7.69%) Analytics
13 13 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
14 12 (7.10%) AI
15 11 (6.51%) Business Analysis
15 11 (6.51%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.33%) Python
2 7 (4.14%) SQL
3 4 (2.37%) Bash
3 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.59%) Cypher
5 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (9.47%) PMI Certification
1 16 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.88%) Degree
2 15 (8.88%) PMP
3 13 (7.69%) ACCA
3 13 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.78%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.78%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 3 (1.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (1.18%) CIMA
6 2 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.59%) APMG
7 1 (0.59%) APMP
7 1 (0.59%) CBAP
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) QA
2 6 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.96%) GDPR
3 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.96%) PMO
4 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.78%) SLA
5 2 (1.18%) ITGC
6 1 (0.59%) FINRA
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.37%) Docker
1 4 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Terraform
2 4 (2.37%) Consul
2 4 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.37%) Packer
2 4 (2.37%) SCCM
3 2 (1.18%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 24 (14.20%) Oracle
1 24 (14.20%) SAP
2 21 (12.43%) Salesforce
3 19 (11.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.96%) Google
5 4 (2.37%) Ariba
5 4 (2.37%) Citrix
5 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.37%) VMware
6 3 (1.78%) Adobe
6 3 (1.78%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) IFS
7 2 (1.18%) Remedy
8 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.59%) Calypso
8 1 (0.59%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.59%) Murex
8 1 (0.59%) Sparx
8 1 (0.59%) UiPath
386 Business Transformation jobs Nationwide