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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 381 364
Rank change year-on-year -53 -17 +33
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 159 171 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.58% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 102 170
10th Percentile £425 £342 £413
25th Percentile £463 £482 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year - +12.15% -2.73%
75th Percentile £664 £709 £638
90th Percentile £758 £780 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £594 £525
% change year-on-year -3.16% +13.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £46.21 £25.90
25th Percentile £88.75 £61.50 £31.75
Median hourly rate £92.50 £72.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% +107.14% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.50 £72.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% +107.14% -

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 32,729 29,699 38,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.02% 88.28% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,612 18,123 25,677
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 965 1,551
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.63 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.88 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.64% -30.62% +48.33%

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 27 December 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
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 27 December 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 -53 146 £600 -1.03% 557
UK excluding London -56 75 £575 -3.16% 471
London -16 74 £608 +1.25% 115
Work from Home -23 55 £600 -0.08% 80
South East -1 26 £600 +2.13% 114
Midlands -47 17 £505 -8.18% 115
North of England -50 15 £550 -7.37% 100
West Midlands -31 10 £550 -8.33% 68
North West -18 8 £588 +11.90% 49
East Midlands -22 7 £483 +20.63% 41
East of England -29 7 £600 -14.29% 67
Scotland +8 5 £475 +5.56% 18
Yorkshire -42 5 £613 -9.26% 44
South West -7 3 - - 47
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 5
North East -8 2 £475 -28.30% 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 9 (5.66%) Confluence
2 6 (3.77%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (4.40%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.63%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (9.43%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (8.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (7.55%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (3.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (2.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (2.52%) SAP ERP
6 2 (1.26%) Maximo
6 2 (1.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.63%) Bankmaster
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.63%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.06%) AWS
2 13 (8.18%) Azure
3 11 (6.92%) GCP
4 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.40%) SaaS
6 6 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.52%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.89%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.26%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.26%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.26%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.26%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.26%) 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 4 (2.52%) Power BI
2 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.26%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.26%) Metadata
3 2 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.26%) 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 (7.55%) JIRA
2 5 (3.14%) Git
3 3 (1.89%) JMeter
3 3 (1.89%) Locust
3 3 (1.89%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (47.17%) Finance
2 69 (43.40%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.92%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (4.40%) Legal
6 6 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.77%) Marketing
6 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.77%) Retail
7 5 (3.14%) Banking
8 4 (2.52%) Law
8 4 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.89%) Billing
9 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.89%) Local Government
10 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (18.24%) Project Manager
2 22 (13.84%) Analyst
3 20 (12.58%) Consultant
4 16 (10.06%) Business Analyst
4 16 (10.06%) Senior
5 13 (8.18%) Architect
5 13 (8.18%) Senior Manager
6 10 (6.29%) Change Manager
7 9 (5.66%) Lead
7 9 (5.66%) Programme Manager
7 9 (5.66%) Senior Project Manager
8 8 (5.03%) Oracle Consultant
8 8 (5.03%) Report Manager
9 7 (4.40%) Functional Consultant
9 7 (4.40%) SAP Manager
10 6 (3.77%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 5 (3.14%) IT Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Scrum Master
12 4 (2.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.89%) LangChain
2 3 (1.89%) LangGraph
2 3 (1.89%) pytest
3 2 (1.26%) Playwright
3 2 (1.26%) 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 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.89%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.26%) Life Science
4 2 (1.26%) SCADA
4 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.26%) Web Conferencing
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%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.14%) Linux
1 5 (3.14%) Windows
2 4 (2.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.82%) Agile
2 46 (28.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (24.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 32 (20.13%) Change Management
5 31 (19.50%) ERP
6 30 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (18.24%) Project Management
8 28 (17.61%) Roadmaps
9 22 (13.84%) PRINCE2
10 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.58%) Project Delivery
11 19 (11.95%) Business Strategy
12 18 (11.32%) CRM
13 17 (10.69%) Waterfall
14 16 (10.06%) Scrum
15 15 (9.43%) Migration
16 13 (8.18%) AI
17 12 (7.55%) Business Analysis
17 12 (7.55%) User Stories
18 11 (6.92%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.03%) Python
2 6 (3.77%) SQL
3 4 (2.52%) Bash
3 4 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.26%) Java
4 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.63%) Cypher
5 1 (0.63%) Scala
5 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (9.43%) Degree
1 15 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.81%) PMI Certification
2 14 (8.81%) PMP
2 14 (8.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.29%) ACCA
4 2 (1.26%) APMG
4 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.26%) CIMA
4 2 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 2 (1.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) CISM
5 1 (0.63%) CISSP
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) QA
2 7 (4.40%) PMO
3 6 (3.77%) GDPR
3 6 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.89%) SLA
6 2 (1.26%) ITGC
6 2 (1.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
7 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.52%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.52%) Docker
1 4 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.03%) Terraform
2 4 (2.52%) Consul
2 4 (2.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.52%) Packer
2 4 (2.52%) SCCM
3 2 (1.26%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 25 (15.72%) SAP
2 23 (14.47%) Oracle
3 20 (12.58%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.69%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.52%) Citrix
6 4 (2.52%) Google
6 4 (2.52%) VMware
7 2 (1.26%) Adobe
7 2 (1.26%) Ariba
7 2 (1.26%) IFS
8 1 (0.63%) BT
8 1 (0.63%) Concur
8 1 (0.63%) Epicor
8 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) Remedy
8 1 (0.63%) Siemens
8 1 (0.63%) Sparx
8 1 (0.63%) Workday