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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 378 415
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 188 187 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.57% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 100 173
10th Percentile £425 £409 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +1.77%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £713
90th Percentile £799 £782 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £606
% change year-on-year -9.09% -9.28% +15.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £13.00 - £24.87
25th Percentile £23.44 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -53.33% -
75th Percentile £64.76 - £70.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £30.57 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -56.92% -

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 29,370 32,658 44,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.62% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,234 20,154 30,464
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 1,475 1,557
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +6.17% +76.09%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Top 17 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 15 September 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 +16 172 £550 -4.35% 236
London +15 91 £588 +2.17% 142
UK excluding London +12 86 £500 -9.09% 167
Work from Home +15 61 £550 -8.33% 155
South East +45 30 £498 -21.96% 94
Midlands -14 15 £500 -16.67% 24
North of England -18 15 £463 -15.91% 14
South West +19 12 £550 +10.00% 7
North West -10 11 £475 -7.09% 9
East of England +4 8 £675 +12.50% 6
West Midlands -17 8 £500 -16.67% 13
East Midlands +3 7 £490 +22.50% 11
Scotland -5 4 - - 12
Yorkshire -15 3 £370 -45.19% 2
North East -3 1 £650 -27.53% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £475 - 5

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 5 (2.66%) SAS
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.72%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (10.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.13%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.06%) Endur
5 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.53%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.53%) SAP PP-PI
6 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.45%) AWS
2 12 (6.38%) Azure
3 10 (5.32%) GCP
4 6 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.66%) SaaS
5 5 (2.66%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.13%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.60%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.60%) OCI
8 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.06%) IaaS
8 2 (1.06%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.06%) PaaS
8 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.06%) Big Data
3 2 (1.06%) Power BI
3 2 (1.06%) Tableau
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.53%) GIS
4 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.53%) Metadata
4 1 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.53%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.53%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 6 (3.19%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) JMeter
2 3 (1.60%) Locust
2 3 (1.60%) Selenium
General
1 82 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 80 (42.55%) Finance
3 28 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.11%) Marketing
5 18 (9.57%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (8.51%) Banking
7 13 (6.91%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.32%) Retail
9 9 (4.79%) Legal
9 9 (4.79%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.19%) Back Office
11 5 (2.66%) Local Government
11 5 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.60%) Billing
12 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (17.02%) Analyst
1 32 (17.02%) Project Manager
2 24 (12.77%) Business Analyst
2 24 (12.77%) Senior
3 22 (11.70%) Consultant
4 16 (8.51%) Architect
5 15 (7.98%) Lead
5 15 (7.98%) Senior Manager
6 12 (6.38%) Change Manager
6 12 (6.38%) Programme Manager
7 11 (5.85%) Report Manager
8 10 (5.32%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (5.32%) Senior Project Manager
9 7 (3.72%) Programme Director
9 7 (3.72%) Security Consultant
10 5 (2.66%) Integration Manager
11 4 (2.13%) Business Consultant
11 4 (2.13%) Chief Architect
11 4 (2.13%) Data Manager
11 4 (2.13%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.13%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.60%) pytest
4 2 (1.06%) CSS
4 2 (1.06%) HTML
4 2 (1.06%) LangChain
4 2 (1.06%) Playwright
4 2 (1.06%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.53%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.53%) Kafka
5 1 (0.53%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.53%) MACH
5 1 (0.53%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.53%) Pandas
5 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.19%) FMCG
1 6 (3.19%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
2 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.06%) e-Learning
3 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.06%) PMI
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.53%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.66%) Windows
2 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (26.60%) Agile
3 40 (21.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 35 (18.62%) Change Management
5 34 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.36%) Migration
6 27 (14.36%) Project Management
7 26 (13.83%) Roadmaps
8 22 (11.70%) CRM
8 22 (11.70%) ERP
9 21 (11.17%) Analytics
9 21 (11.17%) PRINCE2
10 20 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.64%) Project Delivery
11 19 (10.11%) Business Strategy
12 17 (9.04%) Waterfall
13 16 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
14 14 (7.45%) Workshop Facilitation
15 13 (6.91%) Decision-Making
15 13 (6.91%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.45%) SQL
2 9 (4.79%) Python
3 4 (2.13%) R
4 3 (1.60%) Bash
4 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.53%) Cypher
6 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (11.17%) PMP
2 20 (10.64%) Degree
2 20 (10.64%) PMI Certification
3 16 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.91%) ACCA
5 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.60%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 3 (1.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 2 (1.06%) CBAP
8 2 (1.06%) CIMA
9 1 (0.53%) APMP
9 1 (0.53%) IIBA
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.72%) PMO
1 7 (3.72%) QA
2 5 (2.66%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) FINRA
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.60%) SCCM
2 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (17.02%) SAP
2 29 (15.43%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.64%) Salesforce
4 16 (8.51%) Oracle
5 8 (4.26%) Adobe
6 6 (3.19%) Google
7 4 (2.13%) Databricks
7 4 (2.13%) Teradata
8 3 (1.60%) Ariba
8 3 (1.60%) Citrix
8 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.60%) VMware
9 2 (1.06%) IFS
9 2 (1.06%) Remedy
10 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.53%) Murex
10 1 (0.53%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.53%) Sparx
10 1 (0.53%) UiPath
10 1 (0.53%) Veeam