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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 373 389
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 164 180 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 104 150
10th Percentile £425 £332 £413
25th Percentile £450 £482 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.59% -0.45%
75th Percentile £671 £720 £638
90th Percentile £775 £785 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £42.15 - £23.10
25th Percentile £45.38 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £54.51 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.68% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £77.26 £29.07 -
90th Percentile £88.65 £31.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.51 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +94.68% -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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 6 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
England -35 148 £575 -6.12% 136
London -11 77 £600 - 46
UK excluding London -51 75 £525 -14.29% 102
Work from Home -30 53 £600 -0.08% 68
South East +13 26 £600 -5.96% 37
Midlands -38 16 £500 -9.09% 27
North of England -49 16 £488 -15.22% 29
North West -23 10 £450 -11.98% 16
West Midlands -26 9 £500 -23.08% 17
East Midlands -16 7 £483 +20.63% 10
Scotland +5 6 £475 +2.70% 1
East of England -18 6 £475 -32.14% 3
Yorkshire -36 5 £613 -9.26% 10
South West -13 3 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 2
North East -5 1 £500 -24.53% 4

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 8 (4.88%) Confluence
2 5 (3.05%) nginx
3 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.27%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (6.10%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (4.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.83%) SAP ERP
6 2 (1.22%) Maximo
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.61%) Bankmaster
7 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.61%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.61%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.61%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.15%) AWS
2 13 (7.93%) Azure
3 11 (6.71%) GCP
4 8 (4.88%) SaaS
5 7 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.66%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (3.05%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.83%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.83%) OCI
9 3 (1.83%) PaaS
9 3 (1.83%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.22%) IaaS
10 2 (1.22%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.22%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.44%) Power BI
2 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.22%) Metadata
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.22%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.61%) Big Data
4 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.61%) GIS
4 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.61%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.61%) Tableau
4 1 (0.61%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (7.32%) JIRA
2 5 (3.05%) Git
3 3 (1.83%) JMeter
3 3 (1.83%) Locust
3 3 (1.83%) Selenium
4 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (47.56%) Finance
2 71 (43.29%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.37%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (4.27%) Marketing
5 7 (4.27%) Retail
6 6 (3.66%) Banking
6 6 (3.66%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.05%) Legal
7 5 (3.05%) Local Government
7 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.83%) Billing
9 3 (1.83%) Law
10 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (19.51%) Project Manager
2 26 (15.85%) Analyst
3 18 (10.98%) Business Analyst
3 18 (10.98%) Senior
4 17 (10.37%) Consultant
5 15 (9.15%) Senior Manager
6 11 (6.71%) Lead
6 11 (6.71%) Report Manager
6 11 (6.71%) Senior Project Manager
7 10 (6.10%) Architect
7 10 (6.10%) Programme Manager
8 8 (4.88%) Change Manager
8 8 (4.88%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (3.66%) SAP Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Developer
10 5 (3.05%) Functional Consultant
10 5 (3.05%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Scrum Master
10 5 (3.05%) Test Analyst
11 4 (2.44%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.83%) LangChain
2 3 (1.83%) LangGraph
2 3 (1.83%) pytest
3 2 (1.22%) Playwright
3 2 (1.22%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.61%) ADO
4 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.61%) gRPC
4 1 (0.61%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.61%) Kafka
4 1 (0.61%) MACH
4 1 (0.61%) REST
4 1 (0.61%) RESTful
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.83%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.22%) Life Science
5 2 (1.22%) PMI
5 2 (1.22%) SCADA
5 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.61%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.61%) IPTV
6 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Linux
1 5 (3.05%) Windows
2 4 (2.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.93%) Agile
2 48 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (23.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 30 (18.29%) Change Management
5 29 (17.68%) ERP
6 28 (17.07%) Project Management
6 28 (17.07%) Roadmaps
7 27 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (15.24%) PRINCE2
8 25 (15.24%) Project Delivery
9 22 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (12.80%) Waterfall
11 17 (10.37%) Business Strategy
11 17 (10.37%) Migration
12 16 (9.76%) CRM
13 15 (9.15%) Scrum
14 13 (7.93%) AI
14 13 (7.93%) Business Analysis
14 13 (7.93%) User Stories
15 11 (6.71%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.10%) Python
2 8 (4.88%) SQL
3 4 (2.44%) Bash
3 4 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.61%) Cypher
5 1 (0.61%) Java
5 1 (0.61%) Scala
5 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.37%) PMI Certification
2 16 (9.76%) Degree
2 16 (9.76%) PMP
3 14 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.93%) ACCA
4 13 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.83%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.83%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 3 (1.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 2 (1.22%) CIMA
7 2 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.61%) APMG
8 1 (0.61%) APMP
8 1 (0.61%) CISM
8 1 (0.61%) CISSP
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.66%) PMO
3 5 (3.05%) GDPR
4 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.83%) SLA
5 2 (1.22%) ITGC
6 1 (0.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.44%) Docker
1 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.88%) Terraform
2 4 (2.44%) Consul
2 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.44%) Packer
2 4 (2.44%) SCCM
3 2 (1.22%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 25 (15.24%) Oracle
1 25 (15.24%) SAP
2 17 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.37%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.05%) Ariba
3 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.44%) Citrix
4 4 (2.44%) Google
4 4 (2.44%) VMware
5 2 (1.22%) Adobe
5 2 (1.22%) Databricks
5 2 (1.22%) IFS
5 2 (1.22%) Remedy
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.61%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.61%) Concur
6 1 (0.61%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.61%) UiPath
6 1 (0.61%) Workday