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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 373 365
Rank change year-on-year -42 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 160 173 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.60% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 102 169
10th Percentile £419 £342 £413
25th Percentile £461 £482 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £664 £709 £638
90th Percentile £758 £780 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £61.50 £25.90
25th Percentile £88.75 £68.44 £31.75
Median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% +110.71% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.42% +110.71% -

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 32,669 29,037 38,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.09% 88.41% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,654 17,656 25,324
10th Percentile £304 £306 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £722 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 941 1,546
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.72% -31.60% +43.91%

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 2 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 2 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 -63 147 £600 +2.13% 135
London -21 76 £608 +5.65% 54
UK excluding London -59 75 £550 -4.35% 88
Work from Home -27 55 £600 -0.08% 59
South East -2 25 £600 +2.13% 34
North of England -37 18 £500 -15.79% 23
Midlands -46 17 £505 -8.18% 22
North West -28 10 £588 +11.90% 13
West Midlands -43 10 £550 -4.35% 19
East Midlands -21 7 £483 +20.63% 3
Scotland +10 5 £475 +5.56% 2
East of England -29 5 £600 -14.29% 5
Yorkshire -50 5 £613 -9.26% 7
North East -8 3 £450 -32.08% 4
South West -13 3 - - 3
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 10 (6.25%) Confluence
2 6 (3.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.63%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (9.38%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (7.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (2.50%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.25%) Maximo
5 2 (1.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.63%) Bankmaster
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.63%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.63%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.00%) AWS
2 13 (8.13%) Azure
3 11 (6.88%) GCP
4 7 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (4.38%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.38%) SaaS
5 6 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.88%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.25%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.25%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.25%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) Power BI
2 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.25%) Metadata
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.25%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.63%) Big Data
4 1 (0.63%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.63%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.63%) Tableau
4 1 (0.63%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (7.50%) JIRA
2 5 (3.13%) Git
3 3 (1.88%) JMeter
3 3 (1.88%) Locust
3 3 (1.88%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (47.50%) Finance
2 72 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.88%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.00%) Legal
6 6 (3.75%) Marketing
6 6 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Retail
7 5 (3.13%) Banking
7 5 (3.13%) Law
8 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.88%) Billing
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.88%) Local Government
10 2 (1.25%) Advertising
10 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 29 (18.13%) Project Manager
2 22 (13.75%) Analyst
3 21 (13.13%) Consultant
4 16 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 16 (10.00%) Senior
5 14 (8.75%) Architect
6 13 (8.13%) Senior Manager
7 10 (6.25%) Change Manager
8 9 (5.63%) Lead
8 9 (5.63%) Programme Manager
8 9 (5.63%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
9 8 (5.00%) Report Manager
10 7 (4.38%) Functional Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) SAP Manager
11 6 (3.75%) Oracle Functional Consultant
12 5 (3.13%) IT Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Scrum Master
13 4 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (2.50%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.88%) LangChain
2 3 (1.88%) LangGraph
2 3 (1.88%) pytest
3 2 (1.25%) Playwright
3 2 (1.25%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.63%) ADO
4 1 (0.63%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.63%) gRPC
4 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.63%) JAAS
4 1 (0.63%) JSSE
4 1 (0.63%) Kafka
4 1 (0.63%) MACH
4 1 (0.63%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) RESTful
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.88%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.25%) Life Science
4 2 (1.25%) SCADA
4 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.63%) IPTV
5 1 (0.63%) New Media
5 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Linux
1 5 (3.13%) Windows
2 4 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.75%) Agile
2 45 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (25.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 34 (21.25%) Change Management
5 33 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (20.00%) Project Management
7 31 (19.38%) ERP
8 26 (16.25%) Roadmaps
9 21 (13.13%) PRINCE2
10 20 (12.50%) Business Strategy
10 20 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.50%) Project Delivery
11 18 (11.25%) CRM
12 16 (10.00%) Waterfall
13 14 (8.75%) Migration
13 14 (8.75%) Scrum
14 13 (8.13%) AI
15 12 (7.50%) Business Analysis
15 12 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
15 12 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.00%) Python
2 4 (2.50%) Bash
2 4 (2.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.50%) SQL
3 2 (1.25%) Java
3 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.63%) Cypher
4 1 (0.63%) Scala
4 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (8.75%) Degree
2 13 (8.13%) PMI Certification
2 13 (8.13%) PMP
2 13 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.25%) ACCA
5 2 (1.25%) APMG
5 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.25%) CIMA
5 2 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 2 (1.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CISM
6 1 (0.63%) CISSP
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) QA
2 7 (4.38%) PMO
3 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.88%) SLA
6 2 (1.25%) ITGC
6 2 (1.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
7 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.50%) Docker
1 4 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.00%) Terraform
2 4 (2.50%) Consul
2 4 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.50%) Packer
2 4 (2.50%) SCCM
3 2 (1.25%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 28 (17.50%) SAP
2 23 (14.38%) Oracle
3 19 (11.88%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.63%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.50%) Citrix
6 4 (2.50%) Google
6 4 (2.50%) VMware
7 2 (1.25%) Adobe
7 2 (1.25%) Ariba
7 2 (1.25%) Sage
8 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.63%) BT
8 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.63%) Epicor
8 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.63%) Remedy
8 1 (0.63%) Siemens
8 1 (0.63%) WSO2