Business Transformation Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Transformation over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Business Transformation UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	358	311	341
Rank change year-on-year	-47	+30
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation	276	391	344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.59%	0.73%	0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.69%	0.87%	0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	178	275	268
Median daily rate	£475	£475	£500
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	-5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£312	£350	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£675	£733	£713
UK excluding London median daily rate	£438	£450	£465
% change year-on-year	-2.77%	-3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	4
Median hourly rate	£21.25	-	£38.72
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.38	-	£38.43
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£23.13	-	£39.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£21.25	-	£38.72

Business Transformation is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39769	44877	44538
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.43%	83.33%	80.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	99202	112242	99576
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£305	£284	£274
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3122	2959	3052
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+16.07%	+1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.50	£11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£54.00	£50.78	£51.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Transformation as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Business Transformation.

Contractor daily rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Business Transformation over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Transformation.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Top 11 Contract 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-61	247	£480	+0.52%	79
UK excluding London	+5	168	£438	-2.77%	46
London	-61	96	£530	-3.63%	39
South East	+24	47	£493	+10.67%	3
North of England	+31	45	£390	-8.23%	15
Midlands	-10	32	£450	-14.28%	12
Scotland	+41	14	£400	-24.24%	4
South West	-2	12	£410	-3.52%	3
East of England	+3	9	£403	-32.91%	6
Wales	+5	7	£375	+7.14%	3
Northern Ireland	-	2	£620	-

Business Transformation
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Business Transformation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Business Transformation.

1	170 (32.32%)	Finance
2	137 (26.05%)	Stakeholder Management
3	126 (23.95%)	Project Management
4	121 (23.00%)	Agile Software Development
5	91 (17.30%)	Change Management
6	64 (12.17%)	Analytical Skills
7	60 (11.41%)	SAP
8	53 (10.08%)	Telecoms
9	52 (9.89%)	Banking
10	50 (9.51%)	PRINCE2
10	50 (9.51%)	ERP
11	46 (8.75%)	Target Operating Model
12	45 (8.56%)	Migration
13	41 (7.79%)	Microsoft
13	41 (7.79%)	Business Analysis

13	41 (7.79%)	Security Cleared
14	39 (7.41%)	Oracle
15	37 (7.03%)	Retail
16	36 (6.84%)	Programme Management
17	34 (6.46%)	CRM
18	33 (6.27%)	Stakeholder Engagement
19	32 (6.08%)	SC Cleared
19	32 (6.08%)	Analytics
20	30 (5.70%)	ITIL
21	26 (4.94%)	TOGAF
22	25 (4.75%)	SDLC
23	24 (4.56%)	Scrum
24	23 (4.37%)	Business Intelligence
24	23 (4.37%)	Degree
24	23 (4.37%)	DevOps

Business Transformation
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	12 (2.28%)	SharePoint
2	4 (0.76%)	OpenStack
2	4 (0.76%)	Skype for Business
3	3 (0.57%)	CloudStack
4	2 (0.38%)	CMS
4	2 (0.38%)	Drupal
4	2 (0.38%)	Kentico
4	2 (0.38%)	MS Exchange
4	2 (0.38%)	SAS
5	1 (0.19%)	CICS
5	1 (0.19%)	Confluence
5	1 (0.19%)	MQSeries
5	1 (0.19%)	Oracle SOA Suite
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP EP
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP Portal
5	1 (0.19%)	SharePoint 2010
5	1 (0.19%)	SharePoint 2013
5	1 (0.19%)	Tomcat
5	1 (0.19%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	15 (2.85%)	Microsoft Excel
1	15 (2.85%)	Microsoft Office
2	10 (1.90%)	Microsoft Project
3	8 (1.52%)	MS Visio
4	7 (1.33%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.19%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	21 (3.99%)	Dynamics CRM
2	7 (1.33%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	6 (1.14%)	SAP S/4HANA
4	5 (0.95%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	4 (0.76%)	Dynamics AX
5	4 (0.76%)	Oracle EBS
5	4 (0.76%)	Oracle ERP
5	4 (0.76%)	Primavera
5	4 (0.76%)	SAP CRM
6	3 (0.57%)	Dynamics NAV
6	3 (0.57%)	ION MarketView
6	3 (0.57%)	SAP ERP
6	3 (0.57%)	SAP FI
7	2 (0.38%)	JDE EnterpriseOne
7	2 (0.38%)	Magento
7	2 (0.38%)	Oracle Applications
7	2 (0.38%)	Pega PRPC
8	1 (0.19%)	SAP SD
8	1 (0.19%)	SAP SM
8	1 (0.19%)	SAP WM

Cloud Services
1	21 (3.99%)	Microsoft Azure
2	11 (2.09%)	SaaS
3	9 (1.71%)	Amazon AWS
4	7 (1.33%)	Office 365
5	6 (1.14%)	Dynamics 365
5	6 (1.14%)	PaaS
6	4 (0.76%)	Cloud Computing
7	3 (0.57%)	IaaS
7	3 (0.57%)	SuccessFactors
8	1 (0.19%)	Adobe Analytics
8	1 (0.19%)	Akamai
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon EC2
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon ELB
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon S3
8	1 (0.19%)	CloudFront
8	1 (0.19%)	FinancialForce.com
8	1 (0.19%)	Route 53
8	1 (0.19%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
8	1 (0.19%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
8	1 (0.19%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	7 (1.33%)	Intranet
2	6 (1.14%)	Firewall
3	5 (0.95%)	NetScaler
3	5 (0.95%)	WAN
4	4 (0.76%)	Cisco Nexus
4	4 (0.76%)	LAN
4	4 (0.76%)	Skype
5	3 (0.57%)	BGP
5	3 (0.57%)	Cisco ASA
5	3 (0.57%)	EIGRP
5	3 (0.57%)	Internet
5	3 (0.57%)	OSPF
5	3 (0.57%)	Wireless
6	2 (0.38%)	CTI
6	2 (0.38%)	DNS
6	2 (0.38%)	HTTP
6	2 (0.38%)	SMS
6	2 (0.38%)	SSL
6	2 (0.38%)	TCP/IP
6	2 (0.38%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	16 (3.04%)	Data Warehouse
2	11 (2.09%)	SQL Server
3	6 (1.14%)	Power BI
3	6 (1.14%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	5 (0.95%)	Big Data
5	4 (0.76%)	BusinessObjects
5	4 (0.76%)	DB2
6	3 (0.57%)	OLAP
6	3 (0.57%)	Oracle Reports
6	3 (0.57%)	QlikView
6	3 (0.57%)	SAP Data Services
6	3 (0.57%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	2 (0.38%)	DataStage
7	2 (0.38%)	Enterprise Data Warehouse
7	2 (0.38%)	MySQL
7	2 (0.38%)	Oracle Database
7	2 (0.38%)	QualityStage
7	2 (0.38%)	SAP BW
8	1 (0.19%)	GIS
8	1 (0.19%)	SQLPlus

Development Applications
1	6 (1.14%)	JIRA
2	3 (0.57%)	Git (software)
2	3 (0.57%)	Visual Studio
3	2 (0.38%)	Jenkins
4	1 (0.19%)	HP UFT
4	1 (0.19%)	JDeveloper
4	1 (0.19%)	Oracle Forms
4	1 (0.19%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4	1 (0.19%)	Subversion
4	1 (0.19%)	Team Foundation Server
4	1 (0.19%)	Toad
4	1 (0.19%)	Visual Composer
4	1 (0.19%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	170 (32.32%)	Finance
2	53 (10.08%)	Telecoms
3	52 (9.89%)	Banking
4	37 (7.03%)	Retail
5	21 (3.99%)	Marketing
6	16 (3.04%)	Back Office
7	11 (2.09%)	Manufacturing
8	8 (1.52%)	French Language
8	8 (1.52%)	Front Office
8	8 (1.52%)	Legal
9	7 (1.33%)	Electronics
10	6 (1.14%)	Local Government
11	4 (0.76%)	Retail Banking
12	3 (0.57%)	Advertising
12	3 (0.57%)	Billing
12	3 (0.57%)	Corporate Banking
12	3 (0.57%)	Financial Institution
12	3 (0.57%)	Publishing
13	2 (0.38%)	Automotive
13	2 (0.38%)	Investment Banking

Job Titles
1	121 (23.00%)	Project Manager
2	112 (21.29%)	Analyst
3	78 (14.83%)	Business Analyst
4	73 (13.88%)	Architect
5	47 (8.94%)	Change Manager
6	37 (7.03%)	Transformation Manager
7	28 (5.32%)	Solutions Architect
8	27 (5.13%)	Consultant
9	26 (4.94%)	Business Manager
10	22 (4.18%)	Business Transformation Manager
11	21 (3.99%)	Business Architect
11	21 (3.99%)	Senior Manager
12	20 (3.80%)	Programme Manager
13	19 (3.61%)	Business Change Manager
13	19 (3.61%)	IT Manager
13	19 (3.61%)	Transformation Project Manager
14	15 (2.85%)	Business Project Manager
14	15 (2.85%)	Business Transformation Project Manager
14	15 (2.85%)	Developer
14	15 (2.85%)	Senior Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	10 (1.90%)	Middleware
2	6 (1.14%)	.NET
2	6 (1.14%)	Oracle Fusion
3	4 (0.76%)	XML
4	3 (0.57%)	JNI
4	3 (0.57%)	REST
4	3 (0.57%)	Web Services
5	2 (0.38%)	ASP.NET
5	2 (0.38%)	Entity Framework
5	2 (0.38%)	Rendezvous
5	2 (0.38%)	RESTful
5	2 (0.38%)	SOAP
5	2 (0.38%)	Velocity
6	1 (0.19%)	.NET Framework
6	1 (0.19%)	CSS
6	1 (0.19%)	HTML
6	1 (0.19%)	JSON
6	1 (0.19%)	Node.js
6	1 (0.19%)	SAML
6	1 (0.19%)	Web Dynpro

Miscellaneous
1	64 (12.17%)	Analytical Skills
2	20 (3.80%)	Management Information System
3	11 (2.09%)	User Experience
4	10 (1.90%)	Data Centre
5	9 (1.71%)	Virtual Team
6	8 (1.52%)	Data Structures
7	7 (1.33%)	FMCG
8	5 (0.95%)	Driving Licence
8	5 (0.95%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
8	5 (0.95%)	Greenfield Project
8	5 (0.95%)	Social Media
9	4 (0.76%)	Hybrid Cloud
9	4 (0.76%)	PMI
10	3 (0.57%)	e-Learning
10	3 (0.57%)	Enterprise Software
10	3 (0.57%)	Equities
10	3 (0.57%)	Fixed Income
10	3 (0.57%)	iPad
10	3 (0.57%)	Mobile App
10	3 (0.57%)	Mobile Banking

Operating Systems
1	8 (1.52%)	Windows
2	7 (1.33%)	Linux
3	2 (0.38%)	AIX
3	2 (0.38%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3	2 (0.38%)	Unix
4	1 (0.19%)	CentOS
4	1 (0.19%)	Windows 10
4	1 (0.19%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	137 (26.05%)	Stakeholder Management
2	126 (23.95%)	Project Management
3	121 (23.00%)	Agile Software Development
4	91 (17.30%)	Change Management
5	50 (9.51%)	ERP
5	50 (9.51%)	PRINCE2
6	46 (8.75%)	Target Operating Model
7	45 (8.56%)	Migration
8	41 (7.79%)	Business Analysis
9	36 (6.84%)	Programme Management
10	34 (6.46%)	CRM
11	33 (6.27%)	Stakeholder Engagement
12	32 (6.08%)	Analytics
13	30 (5.70%)	ITIL
14	26 (4.94%)	TOGAF
15	25 (4.75%)	SDLC
16	24 (4.56%)	Scrum
17	23 (4.37%)	Business Intelligence
17	23 (4.37%)	DevOps
17	23 (4.37%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	16 (3.04%)	SQL
2	9 (1.71%)	C
2	9 (1.71%)	Java
3	8 (1.52%)	C#
4	3 (0.57%)	C++
5	2 (0.38%)	JavaScript
5	2 (0.38%)	PowerShell
5	2 (0.38%)	Python
5	2 (0.38%)	T-SQL
5	2 (0.38%)	VBA
6	1 (0.19%)	Apex Code
6	1 (0.19%)	COBOL
6	1 (0.19%)	Go
6	1 (0.19%)	Perl
6	1 (0.19%)	PHP
6	1 (0.19%)	PL/SQL
6	1 (0.19%)	R
6	1 (0.19%)	VB

Qualifications
1	41 (7.79%)	Security Cleared
2	32 (6.08%)	SC Cleared
3	23 (4.37%)	Degree
4	11 (2.09%)	PMI Certification
4	11 (2.09%)	PMP
5	8 (1.52%)	DV Cleared
5	8 (1.52%)	PRINCE2 Certification
6	7 (1.33%)	Cisco Certification
6	7 (1.33%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
7	6 (1.14%)	Chartered Engineer
8	5 (0.95%)	CCNP
9	4 (0.76%)	CCIE
9	4 (0.76%)	ITIL Certification
9	4 (0.76%)	Six Sigma Green Belt
10	3 (0.57%)	BPSS Clearance
10	3 (0.57%)	CIPD
10	3 (0.57%)	Six Sigma Black Belt
11	2 (0.38%)	JNCIS
11	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Certification
11	2 (0.38%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	19 (3.61%)	PMO
2	12 (2.28%)	QA
3	7 (1.33%)	SLA
4	6 (1.14%)	EFQM
5	5 (0.95%)	Data Quality
5	5 (0.95%)	PCI DSS
6	4 (0.76%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	2 (0.38%)	MiFID
8	1 (0.19%)	COSO
8	1 (0.19%)	Dodd-Frank
8	1 (0.19%)	EMIR
8	1 (0.19%)	FATCA
8	1 (0.19%)	GAMP
8	1 (0.19%)	GCP
8	1 (0.19%)	GMP
8	1 (0.19%)	GxP
8	1 (0.19%)	IFRS
8	1 (0.19%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8	1 (0.19%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	6 (1.14%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	2 (0.38%)	Active Directory
2	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft App-V
2	2 (0.38%)	XenApp
3	1 (0.19%)	Docker
3	1 (0.19%)	Hyper-V
3	1 (0.19%)	KVM
3	1 (0.19%)	Virtual Desktop
3	1 (0.19%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	3 (0.57%)	FortiGate
2	2 (0.38%)	Ansible
2	2 (0.38%)	Puppet
3	1 (0.19%)	AirWatch
3	1 (0.19%)	Cisco CUCM
3	1 (0.19%)	Grafana
3	1 (0.19%)	HP Quality Center
3	1 (0.19%)	Kubernetes
3	1 (0.19%)	logstash
3	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft Intune
3	1 (0.19%)	Opscode Chef
3	1 (0.19%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	60 (11.41%)	SAP
2	41 (7.79%)	Microsoft
3	39 (7.41%)	Oracle
4	11 (2.09%)	Cisco
5	7 (1.33%)	VMware
6	6 (1.14%)	IBM
7	5 (0.95%)	Avaya
7	5 (0.95%)	Salesforce.com
8	4 (0.76%)	JD Edwards
8	4 (0.76%)	MicroStrategy
8	4 (0.76%)	TIBCO
9	3 (0.57%)	Citrix
9	3 (0.57%)	Genesys
9	3 (0.57%)	Google
9	3 (0.57%)	HP
9	3 (0.57%)	ION Trading
9	3 (0.57%)	Pega
9	3 (0.57%)	Progress
9	3 (0.57%)	Red Hat
9	3 (0.57%)	ServiceNow