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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 358 345
Rank change year-on-year -77 -13 +55
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 156 170 272
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.61% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 102 173
10th Percentile £416 £331 £400
25th Percentile £502 £477 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £705 £638
90th Percentile £763 £786 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 16
10th Percentile £73.90 £61.50 £22.33
25th Percentile £76.38 £68.44 £31.83
Median hourly rate £83.50 £73.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.22% +84.38% -
75th Percentile £91.38 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £94.30 - £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £73.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.22% +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 34,652 27,713 38,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.46% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,939 16,970 25,283
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,087 853 2,111
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +9.38%

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 12 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

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 12 February 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 -96 138 £600 +4.35% 99
UK excluding London -62 85 £600 +9.09% 79
Work from Home -14 67 £600 +9.09% 48
London -49 55 £650 +13.04% 48
North of England -55 27 £488 -11.36% 18
South East -20 23 £600 -2.04% 39
North West -14 20 £463 -15.91% 8
Midlands -60 20 £588 +6.82% 14
West Midlands -51 15 £625 +8.70% 7
East of England -31 7 £600 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -27 5 £470 +4.44% 7
Scotland +11 4 £475 +28.38%
Yorkshire -58 4 £625 -9.09% 7
North East -17 3 £450 -21.74% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £425 -
South West -26 2 - - 8

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 15 (9.62%) Confluence
2 6 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.49%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (16.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (9.62%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (3.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (1.28%) Maximo
7 2 (1.28%) NetSuite
7 2 (1.28%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.64%) Bankmaster
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.64%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.64%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.64%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.90%) AWS
2 12 (7.69%) Azure
3 10 (6.41%) GCP
4 7 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (3.21%) SaaS
6 4 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.28%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.28%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.28%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.28%) Serverless
7 2 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Firewall
1 1 (0.64%) FTP
1 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) Power BI
2 3 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.28%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.28%) Metadata
3 2 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.28%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.64%) Big Data
4 1 (0.64%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.64%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.64%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.62%) JIRA
2 5 (3.21%) Git
3 2 (1.28%) JMeter
3 2 (1.28%) Locust
3 2 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.64%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (44.87%) Finance
2 68 (43.59%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.41%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (5.77%) Law
6 9 (5.77%) Legal
7 6 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.85%) Retail
8 4 (2.56%) Banking
9 3 (1.92%) Local Government
9 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Advertising
10 2 (1.28%) French Language
10 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.28%) Marketing
10 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (20.51%) Project Manager
2 30 (19.23%) Consultant
3 16 (10.26%) Analyst
4 15 (9.62%) Transformation Consultant
5 14 (8.97%) Architect
6 13 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 12 (7.69%) Change Manager
7 12 (7.69%) Senior
8 11 (7.05%) IT Manager
9 10 (6.41%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (6.41%) Senior Manager
10 9 (5.77%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (5.77%) Lead
10 9 (5.77%) Programme Manager
10 9 (5.77%) Transformation Manager
11 8 (5.13%) Finance Manager
11 8 (5.13%) Finance Project Manager
12 7 (4.49%) Functional Consultant
12 7 (4.49%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.92%) LangChain
2 3 (1.92%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.28%) pytest
3 2 (1.28%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.64%) ADO
4 1 (0.64%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.64%) gRPC
4 1 (0.64%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.64%) JAAS
4 1 (0.64%) JSSE
4 1 (0.64%) Kafka
4 1 (0.64%) Playwright
4 1 (0.64%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.64%) REST
4 1 (0.64%) RESTful
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.64%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.56%) SCADA
5 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Life Science
6 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.64%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.85%) Windows
2 5 (3.21%) Linux
3 4 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 44 (28.21%) Change Management
2 44 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (26.92%) ERP
3 42 (26.92%) Project Management
4 38 (24.36%) Agile
5 37 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (19.87%) Roadmaps
7 25 (16.03%) Migration
8 23 (14.74%) AI
9 22 (14.10%) Data Migration
9 22 (14.10%) Workshop Facilitation
10 19 (12.18%) Validation
11 18 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (11.54%) PRINCE2
11 18 (11.54%) Project Delivery
12 16 (10.26%) Scrum
13 15 (9.62%) Business Strategy
14 12 (7.69%) CRM
15 11 (7.05%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.85%) Python
2 4 (2.56%) Bash
2 4 (2.56%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.92%) SQL
4 2 (1.28%) Java
4 2 (1.28%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.28%) Korn
5 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.77%) PMI Certification
3 9 (5.77%) PMP
4 7 (4.49%) Degree
5 4 (2.56%) APMG
6 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.64%) ACCA
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.64%) CISM
7 1 (0.64%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.21%) GDPR
1 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.56%) PMO
3 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.92%) NCSC
4 2 (1.28%) ITGC
4 2 (1.28%) NIST
4 2 (1.28%) QA
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.56%) Docker
1 4 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.13%) Terraform
2 5 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.56%) Consul
3 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.56%) Packer
3 4 (2.56%) SCCM
4 2 (1.28%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 38 (24.36%) SAP
2 25 (16.03%) Oracle
3 16 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.41%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.13%) Sage
6 4 (2.56%) Citrix
6 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.56%) VMware
7 3 (1.92%) Workday
8 2 (1.28%) Ariba
8 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.28%) Google
9 1 (0.64%) Adobe
9 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.64%) BT
9 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.64%) Databricks
9 1 (0.64%) Epicor
9 1 (0.64%) Siemens
9 1 (0.64%) WSO2