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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 368 401
Rank change year-on-year -32 +33 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 175 189 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.59% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 106 159
10th Percentile £425 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £490 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +10.23% -
75th Percentile £688 £720 £650
90th Percentile £775 £794 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £619 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £23.10
25th Percentile £18.22 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £36.94 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £53.70 - -
90th Percentile £77.26 £30.57 £65.00
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 32,181 31,778 41,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.57% 86.49% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,153 19,119 27,753
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 1,159 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% -22.89% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -26.97% +44.76%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -37 160 £588 -4.08% 252
UK excluding London -40 83 £550 -11.11% 144
London -8 80 £600 - 116
Work from Home -34 56 £590 -1.67% 122
South East +18 29 £600 -5.88% 48
Midlands -36 18 £500 -9.09% 29
North of England -38 16 £500 -15.79% 35
North West -23 10 £463 -9.54% 22
West Midlands -25 10 £500 -23.08% 19
East Midlands -12 8 £475 +18.75% 10
East of England -18 8 £475 -32.14% 9
Scotland 0 5 - - 6
South West -14 5 £600 -4.00% 14
Yorkshire -40 5 £613 -9.26% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 2
North East -5 1 £500 -33.33% 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 (4.57%) Confluence
2 5 (2.86%) nginx
3 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.57%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (6.86%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (6.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (5.71%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (2.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (1.14%) Maximo
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (1.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.57%) Bankmaster
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.57%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.14%) AWS
2 12 (6.86%) Azure
3 10 (5.71%) GCP
4 8 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.57%) SaaS
5 7 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.43%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.71%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.71%) OCI
9 3 (1.71%) PaaS
9 3 (1.71%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.71%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) FTP
1 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.71%) Metadata
1 3 (1.71%) Power BI
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.57%) Big Data
3 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.57%) GIS
3 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.57%) Tableau
3 1 (0.57%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 11 (6.29%) JIRA
2 5 (2.86%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) JMeter
3 3 (1.71%) Locust
3 3 (1.71%) Selenium
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (44.00%) Finance
2 76 (43.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.71%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (5.14%) Banking
7 8 (4.57%) Retail
8 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.00%) Marketing
9 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.86%) Legal
9 5 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.29%) Local Government
10 4 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.14%) Back Office
11 2 (1.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Project Manager
2 28 (16.00%) Analyst
3 20 (11.43%) Business Analyst
4 19 (10.86%) Senior
5 18 (10.29%) Consultant
6 15 (8.57%) Senior Manager
7 13 (7.43%) Lead
8 12 (6.86%) Architect
9 11 (6.29%) Programme Manager
9 11 (6.29%) Report Manager
9 11 (6.29%) Senior Project Manager
10 8 (4.57%) Change Manager
10 8 (4.57%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.00%) Programme Director
12 5 (2.86%) Developer
12 5 (2.86%) Functional Consultant
12 5 (2.86%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.86%) SAP Manager
12 5 (2.86%) Scrum Master
13 4 (2.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.71%) LangChain
2 3 (1.71%) pytest
3 2 (1.14%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.14%) Playwright
3 2 (1.14%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.57%) ADO
4 1 (0.57%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.57%) Kafka
4 1 (0.57%) MACH
4 1 (0.57%) RESTful
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.71%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.14%) Life Science
5 2 (1.14%) PMI
5 2 (1.14%) SCADA
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.57%) IPTV
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Windows
2 5 (2.86%) Linux
3 4 (2.29%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.29%) Agile
2 48 (27.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 32 (18.29%) Roadmaps
5 29 (16.57%) ERP
5 29 (16.57%) Project Management
6 28 (16.00%) Change Management
6 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.71%) PRINCE2
8 23 (13.14%) Project Delivery
9 22 (12.57%) Migration
10 21 (12.00%) Waterfall
11 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.71%) Business Strategy
13 16 (9.14%) CRM
14 15 (8.57%) Scrum
15 14 (8.00%) Enterprise Architecture
16 13 (7.43%) Business Analysis
17 12 (6.86%) Budget Management
17 12 (6.86%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.14%) Python
2 8 (4.57%) SQL
3 4 (2.29%) Bash
3 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.57%) Cypher
5 1 (0.57%) Java
5 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.71%) PMI Certification
1 17 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.14%) Degree
2 16 (9.14%) PMP
3 14 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.43%) ACCA
5 5 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.71%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.71%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 3 (1.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 2 (1.14%) CIMA
7 2 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.57%) APMG
8 1 (0.57%) APMP
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.00%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.43%) PMO
3 5 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.71%) SLA
5 2 (1.14%) ITGC
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.29%) Docker
1 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Terraform
2 4 (2.29%) Consul
2 4 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.29%) Packer
2 4 (2.29%) SCCM
3 2 (1.14%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 28 (16.00%) Oracle
2 24 (13.71%) SAP
3 19 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.86%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.86%) Ariba
5 4 (2.29%) Citrix
5 4 (2.29%) Google
5 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.29%) VMware
6 2 (1.14%) Adobe
6 2 (1.14%) Databricks
6 2 (1.14%) IFS
6 2 (1.14%) Remedy
7 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.57%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.57%) Sparx
7 1 (0.57%) UiPath
7 1 (0.57%) Workday