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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 363 340
Rank change year-on-year -80 -23 +43
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 152 173 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.62% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 101 174
10th Percentile £425 £328 £408
25th Percentile £495 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +8.24% -7.61%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £638
90th Percentile £745 £775 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.26% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £61.50 £22.33
25th Percentile £88.75 £68.44 £25.49
Median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% +84.38% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.42% +84.38% -

All Process & 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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 29 January 2026.

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
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 29 January 2026. 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 -97 136 £600 +4.35% 83
UK excluding London -67 79 £600 +4.26% 64
Work from Home -23 63 £600 +9.09% 51
London -40 60 £625 +8.70% 35
South East -18 23 £600 +2.13% 35
North of England -55 23 £488 -13.33% 9
Midlands -65 18 £550 - 11
North West -15 16 £463 -15.91% 7
West Midlands -38 13 £625 +8.70% 5
Scotland +6 5 £475 +11.76% 1
East of England -22 5 £600 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -30 5 £470 +17.50% 6
Yorkshire -52 4 £625 -9.09%
North East -17 3 £450 -21.74% 2
South West -19 3 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 -

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 14 (9.21%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.66%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (13.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (9.87%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (7.89%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (3.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.97%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (1.32%) Maximo
8 2 (1.32%) NetSuite
8 2 (1.32%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.66%) Bankmaster
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.66%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.66%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.66%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.84%) AWS
2 12 (7.89%) Azure
2 12 (7.89%) GCP
3 7 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.95%) SaaS
5 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.32%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.32%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.32%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.32%) Serverless
8 2 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) Firewall
1 1 (0.66%) FTP
1 1 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Power BI
2 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.32%) Metadata
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.32%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.66%) Big Data
4 1 (0.66%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.66%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.66%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.66%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.66%) Tableau
4 1 (0.66%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) JIRA
2 5 (3.29%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) JMeter
3 2 (1.32%) Locust
3 2 (1.32%) Selenium
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (46.05%) Social Skills
2 66 (43.42%) Finance
3 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Law
6 8 (5.26%) Legal
7 6 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.29%) Retail
9 4 (2.63%) Banking
9 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Local Government
10 3 (1.97%) Marketing
11 2 (1.32%) Advertising
11 2 (1.32%) French Language
11 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.66%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 26 (17.11%) Consultant
3 18 (11.84%) Analyst
4 15 (9.87%) Senior
5 14 (9.21%) Architect
5 14 (9.21%) Business Analyst
6 12 (7.89%) Senior Manager
7 11 (7.24%) Change Manager
7 11 (7.24%) Transformation Consultant
8 10 (6.58%) IT Manager
9 9 (5.92%) IT Project Manager
9 9 (5.92%) Lead
10 8 (5.26%) Programme Manager
10 8 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
10 8 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
11 7 (4.61%) Functional Consultant
11 7 (4.61%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.61%) Transformation Manager
12 6 (3.95%) Finance Manager
12 6 (3.95%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.97%) LangChain
2 3 (1.97%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.32%) pytest
3 2 (1.32%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.66%) ADO
4 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.66%) gRPC
4 1 (0.66%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.66%) JAAS
4 1 (0.66%) JSSE
4 1 (0.66%) Kafka
4 1 (0.66%) Playwright
4 1 (0.66%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.66%) REST
4 1 (0.66%) RESTful
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.66%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.95%) AI Agents
2 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.63%) SCADA
4 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.97%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Life Science
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.66%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.66%) IPTV
6 1 (0.66%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Linux
1 5 (3.29%) Windows
2 4 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (27.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 41 (26.97%) Change Management
4 39 (25.66%) Agile
4 39 (25.66%) Project Management
5 38 (25.00%) ERP
6 33 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (18.42%) Roadmaps
8 20 (13.16%) Migration
9 19 (12.50%) AI
10 18 (11.84%) Business Strategy
10 18 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.84%) Data Migration
10 18 (11.84%) PRINCE2
11 17 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 16 (10.53%) Project Delivery
13 15 (9.87%) Scrum
13 15 (9.87%) Validation
14 13 (8.55%) CRM
15 11 (7.24%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.61%) Python
2 4 (2.63%) Bash
2 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.63%) SQL
3 2 (1.32%) Java
3 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.32%) Korn
4 1 (0.66%) Cypher
4 1 (0.66%) Scala
4 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.58%) PMP
4 8 (5.26%) Degree
5 4 (2.63%) APMG
6 2 (1.32%) ACCA
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.29%) GDPR
1 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.63%) QA
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.97%) NCSC
3 3 (1.97%) PMO
4 2 (1.32%) ITGC
4 2 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.63%) Docker
1 4 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.26%) Terraform
2 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.63%) Consul
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.63%) Packer
3 4 (2.63%) SCCM
4 2 (1.32%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 34 (22.37%) SAP
2 24 (15.79%) Oracle
3 15 (9.87%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.24%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.95%) Sage
6 4 (2.63%) Citrix
6 4 (2.63%) Google
6 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.97%) Workday
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe
8 2 (1.32%) Ariba
9 1 (0.66%) BT
9 1 (0.66%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.66%) Databricks
9 1 (0.66%) Epicor
9 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.66%) Siemens
9 1 (0.66%) Sparx
9 1 (0.66%) Tagetik